Organizational Communication for Survival: Making Work, Work (3rd Edition)

Assuming a unique perspective for an organizational communication text, this handbook focuses students on how to communicate with managers and peers to survive, thrive and prosper in organizational environments. Taking a subordinate approach, this survival guide for employees centers on understanding how and why managers communicate the ways they do and how employees can adapt their own communication skills to be more effective in the organizational environment. In fifteen simple chapters, this text provides clear and concise guidelines, along with a foundation of theory and scholarship, to help students learn to become more effective communicators in today's workforce.