Product Description: Modaff and DeWine's new undergraduate text, Organizational Communication: Foundations, Challenges, and Misunderstandings, offers a unique perspective on the field of internal organizational communication. The authors review the foundational material, but intersperse the discussions with excerpts from interviews conducted with over 60 leaders and workers in a variety of organizations...read more

Modaff and DeWine's new undergraduate text, Organizational Communication: Foundations, Challenges, and Misunderstandings, offers a unique perspective on the field of internal organizational communication. The authors review the foundational material, but intersperse the discussions with excerpts from interviews conducted with over 60 leaders and workers in a variety of organizations. A central feature of the text is the concept of misunderstandings, which highlights the idea that organizations are inherently problematic. This focus positions communication at the center of organizational life, and shows the reader how and why communication can serve to create and resolve misunderstandings of all types. The authors advance a model, the Communicative Organization, which allows the reader to see the significance of communication to every aspect of organizational functioning. Benefits to instructors and students include: The use of real-life problems as told by organizational leaders and workers to illustrate the material discussed in every chapter, which provides an easy mechanism for starting class discussions. Chapters on realistic recruitment and organizational socialization, which are not typically found in other introductory organizational communication textbooks. Integration of the concepts of gender and diversity throughout the text. Discussions of current applications of theories and concepts as students have or will experience them. A postscript that ties all of the material from the text together. A writing style that is student-centered yet sufficiently challenging.

Product Description: Written by a widely respected communication scholar and working consultant, The Consultant’s Craft combines theoretical savvy with practical, real-world experience to guide students as they work to improve organizations' communication practices. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: DeWine, Gibson, and Smith's new hybrid "essentials" introductory text, Exploring Human Communication includes unique coverage of important topics not usually found in basic texts: mass communication, legal communication, mediated communication and technology, and using communication principles on the job...read more