Books in the Key Themes in Organizational Communication series

The experiences of joining and leaving organizations permeate mostpeople s lives in the 21st century. This book provides aframework for increasing our understanding of those experiencesusing a mixture of specific examples, scholarly findings, andtheoretical concepts and models.

Provides and clear and engaging introduction to the key concept of organizational discourse. The text is illuminated with examples throughout. This book demonstrates the importance of studying organizational discourse by addressing classical organizational themes, objects and questions associated with organization studies.

While disagreement persists in most contemporary organizations, how employees express dissent at work and how their respective organizations respond to it vary widely. This book provides students, scholars, and practitioners with an understanding of dissent as an important aspect of workplace communication.

Communicating Emotion at Work chronicles the rich emotional experiences of employees drawn from a broad cross-section of industries and occupations. It takes a decidedly positive approach, recognizing that emotional communication is a vital and creative response to the challenges of life in complex organizations.

* An introduction to the ways organizations use rhetoric - a key topic for the field of organizational communication. * Designed as part of the Polity Organizational Communication series to be adopted on courses in conjunction with broader texts. * Written by one of the most prominent scholars in the area.

The question who am I? represents one of the key challenges of contemporary life in a globalized world. For most of us, organizations play a key role in answering that question.