Origins, Traditions, and Trends of Organizational Communication

Anne M. Nicotera (PhD, Ohio University) is Professor of Communication at George Mason University, USA. Her research, grounded in a constitutive perspective, focuses on intractable conflict, race and gender, and aggressive communication, with particular interest in healthcare organizations, postcolonial approaches, and anti-racism. Her research has been published in numerous communication and health-related journals, as well as in six books and numerous chapters. Her applied work focuses on designing and delivering organizational communication-based management and leadership training. She is the organizer for the biennial D.C. Health Communication (DCHC) Conference.

• PART I – ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION HISTORY 1. Organizing the Study of Organizational Communication 2. Developments in the 20th Century 3. Developments in the 21st Century 4. Postcolonial Approaches to Organizational Communication PART II – FOUNDATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY 5. Classical Management Theory 6. Human Relations Theory 7. Human Resource Management Theory PART III – TOPICS IN THEORY AND RESEARCH 8. Socialization 9. Communication Networks 10. Workplace Relationships 11. Identity and Identification 12. Power and Resistance 13. Engaging Feminist Organizational Communication Scholarship and Activism for our Times 14. Engaging Scholarship on Difference and Intersectionality in Challenging Times 15. Groups, Teams, and Decision Making 16. Organizational Conflict 17. A Communicative Approach to Leadership 18. The Structuration of Emotion 19. Technology and Organizational Communication 20. Globalization and Organizational Communication 21. Organizational Change