Communication and Organizational Culture : A Key to Understanding Work Experiences
Editorial Reviews Praise for Communication and Organizational Culture: "This text demonstrates aspects of organizational culture through real- world examples from the field, marrying the scholarly and the practitioner perspectives by illustrating various concepts with examples from a wide range of organizations and institutions. It repeatedly stresses the importance and role of communication in creating and maintaining organizational culture." -Sue Easton, Rollins College "This engaging and scholarly text demonstrates a commitment to enabling students to practice communicatively grounded cultural analyses and cultural change projects." -Angela Trethewey, Arizona State University Organizations are the building blocks of our society. Whether it is a company, school, church, or government institution, each type of organization contributes to our collective economic, civic, community, and social lives in some fundamental way-and each organizations has its own unique culture. Author Joann Keyton uses a variety of lenses for understanding organizational culture and integrates research findings as practical advice about managing, developing, and changing organizational culture. Throughout, the book focuses on the communication practices and processes associated with organizational culture by drawing heavily on organizational culture research conducted by communication scholars and by illuminating the communicative aspects of organizational culture research conducted by scholars in peripheral disciplines. Written in a clear, concise manner accessible for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Organizational Communication, this text helps students read organizational culture, make sense of the culture, and make informed work and employment decisions. Communication and Organizational Culture is also an excellent textbook for many courses in Business and Management, Psychology, and Sociology. Visit our Web site at www.sagepublications.com.
Book Description
Communication and Organizational Culture: A Key to Understanding Work Experiences is the first book to provide an introduction to different views on and approaches to the study of organizational culture from a communication perspective. This text introduces the basic elements of organizational culture including artifacts that emerge from the interactions of organizational members.
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About the Author
Joann Keyton (Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1987) is Professor of Communication at The University of Kansas. Specializing in group and organizational communication, her current research interests are relationship issues and collaboration in organizational teams, models of community leadership, organizational culture, and organizational responses to sexual harassment. Her research has been published in Journal of Applied Communication Research, Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Studies, Small Group Research, Southern Journal of Communication, Communication Yearbook, and numerous edited collections. She has published texts on group communication (Oxford) and research methods (McGraw-Hill), as well as an organizational communication case book (with Pam Shockley-Zalabak; Roxbury). Professor Keyton has served on the editorial boards of Communication Monographs, Communication Studies, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Small Group Research, and Southern Communication Journal; she is the editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research, volumes 31-33.
Communication and Organizational Culture : A Key to Understanding Work Experiences,Joann Keyton,Sage Publications, Inc,0761930175,Business / Economics / Finance,Business Communication - General,Communication,Communication in management,Communication in organizations,Corporate culture,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Organizational Behavior,Organizational change,Industrial or vocational training,Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication
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