Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research
Multiple Perspectives
- Steve May - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- Dennis K. Mumby - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Key Features :
- First book on organizational communication theories aimed solely at students (to date, all other works have been for colleagues/scholars)
The consistent chapter content allows instructors and students greater opportunity to compare and contrast theories, on comparable terms.
- Book chapters are written by authors most familiar with, and committed, to research, teaching, and service from their theoretical perspective. The authors selected are prominent in their area of research and are, ultimately, best suited to explain the theories included in the book. As a result, the authors provide both a more comprehensive and a more personal understanding of their theory that will invigorate and motivate students.
- The structure of the chapters provides students with a better understanding of the historical evolution of organizational communication as a field of study. This approach allows students to recognize how each theory developed within a specific cultural context, including unique political, economic, and social conditions.
- The book includes several emerging, yet significant, theoretical perspectives (feminist theory, postmodern theory, race theory, and globalization theory) that have increasingly influenced organizational communication. In other organizational communication books, these emerging theories have been either included as sub-sets of other theories or they have been covered with less attention or detail. The structured chapter format in this book provides them ample and comparable coverage to other important theories.
Though rather old it still did the job... Need a revision that reflects some of the newer works.
I very much liked the book and especially appreciated the attention paid to critical theory, postmodern theory, and globalization theory. I would definitely use it as a supplementary text or even a main text for a more advanced course on organizational communication. I would hesitate to use it as a primary text for an introductory course on organizational communication.
