For many years, there has been a need in the social and behavioral sciences for a single volume providing a precise and careful treatment of axiomatic, causal processes, and sets-of-laws approaches to theory construction. In this volume, we have brought together applications of stochastic, path analytic, and multidimensional scaling research methodologies to advance understanding of one of the behavioral sciences' most troublesome problems: the defining of the relationship between messages, attitudes, and behaviors. Specifically, the material presented here has important implications for ongoing controversies in communication, psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology regarding the relationship of alternative methods of theory construction and mathematical modeling techniques. This volume will advance understanding of alternative conceptualizations of various message strategies, cognitive and information processing models, and their relevance to the study of behavior. Social scientists engaged in behavioral research will find this comparative and integrative approach both interesting and powerful.

Message-Attitude-Behavior Relationship: Theory, Methodology, and Application

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cushman, Donald P.

Psychology & Counseling

Academic Pr

Organizational Teamwork in High-Speed Management (Suny Series in Human Communication Processes)

This is the first book to discuss teamwork and the recent phenomena of high-speed management. It addresses the intersection of these two areas of research and organizational practice. Teamwork in the context of high-speed management has never before been treated systematically, and high-speed management as a concept or as a field of study has only been a recent phenomenon. This book addresses the intersection of these two areas of research and organizational practice. Both areas are seen as fundamental parts of the communication processes that sustain an organization’s competitive advantage in an increasingly chaotic environment. What makes this book unique is that the subject of teamwork in high-speed management is treated at three important levels: philosophical, theoretical, and practical. Issues covered include: how organizational structure affects teamwork; how teams should anchor themselves and be anchored in organizational life; and how an organization should coalign its internal and external resources with its competitive environment. Finally, the book addresses and prescribes how organizations can meet the challenge of an uncertain future using the skills of teamwork and high-speed management successfully.

Organizational Teamwork in High-Speed Management (Suny Series, Human Communication Process)

Business & Money

Chu, Yen-An

Management & Leadership

State Univ of New York Pr

This book is a practical and theoretical discussion of how to effectively communicate organizational change to management, employees, stockholders, and customers. Rapid and volatile organizational change is one of the most profound characteristics of our time. How to communicate the need for and the direction of change to stockholders, employees, customers, and management is the subject of this book.

Communicating Organizational Change: A Management Perspective (Suny Series in International Management)

This book shows how organizational frame-breaking changes can be used in order for an organization to learn from its own experience and continually improve. Winning provides a theory of how and when to use various types of teamwork in a continuous improvement program. These include self-managed, cross-functional, benchmarking, outside linking and breakthrough teams. Also discussed are team leadership, team strategy, and examples of teamwork tools and outcomes. The book teaches how to win through continuous improvement programs.

Winning: Continuous Improvement Theory in High-Performance Organizations (Suny Series in International Management)

Kozminski, Andrzej K.

Obloj, Krzysztof

This book provides a new understanding of the role communication plays in integrating, controlling, and coordinating high performance organizations.High-speed management is used to competitive advantage by some of the most successful organizations in the world―General Electric; Toyota; ASEA, Brown, and Boveri; Motorola; Intel; and Matsushita. In these very successful companies fast cycle time or high-speed management translates into two important organizational capabilities. First, it creates a high level of performance that management can build into a firm’s operating systems. More specifically, increases in effective communication are employed to eliminate bottlenecks, delays, and errors in production, cutting costs and improving quality. Second, high-speed management is an organizational strategy which continuously improves a firm’s integration, coordination, and control systems. It transforms all of a firm’s communication activities such as leadership, corporate climate, teamwork, worker and unit interfaces, process mapping, and outside linking processes into a more responsive customer adaptation system.

Communication and High-Speed Management (Suny Series in Human Communication Processes)

King, Sarah Sanderson

Communication and High-Speed Management (SUNY Seri (Human Communication Processes)

State University of New York Press

Continuously Improving an Organization's Performance: High-Speed Management (Suny Series in Management-Communication)

This practical guide for managers demonstrates when, where, and how to implement significant organizational change through teamwork.

This practical guide for managers demonstrates when, where, and how to implement significant organizational change through teamwork. This practical hands-on tool kit for managers demonstrates when, where, and how to implement significant organizational change through teamwork. The use of self-managed, cross-functional, benchmarking, and outside linking teams by high-performance firms is employed in a case study format.

Communication in Interpersonal Relationships (Suny Series, Human Communication Processes)

This book discusses communication principles, processes, and skills from four different perspectives by explaining four related propositions. First, human communication is guided by socially established rules, the knowledge of which allows interacting persons to exert influence over the outcome of their interactions. Second, self concepts are formed and sustained in our interactions with others. Third, the formation of sustained interpersonal relations depends upon the attraction resulting from reciprocal self concept support. And fourth, organizations and the cultural system provide the parameters within which self concepts and interpersonal relations are formed. The implications of these propositions are examined in chapters two through ten.The authors develop their system in terms of results. What patterns of communication―what patterns of signal exchange―increase the probability of the development of affective relationship? What patterns erode interpersonal systems or prevent them from forming? The book also examines patterns of communication within task-oriented organizations and in situations involving cultural differences.

Communication in Interpersonal Relationships (Suny Series in Human Communication Processes)

Politics & Social Sciences

Cahn, Dudley D.

Philosophy

This book discusses communication principles, processes, and skills from four different perspectives by explaining four related propositions. First, human communication is guided by socially established rules, the knowledge of which allows interacting persons to exert influence over the outcome of their interactions. Second, self concepts are formed and sustained in our interactions with others. Third, the formation of sustained interpersonal relations depends upon the attraction resulting from reciprocal self concept support. And fourth, organizations and the cultural system provide the parameters within which self concepts and interpersonal relations are formed. The implications of these propositions are examined in chapters two through ten. The authors develop their system in terms of results. What patterns of communication―what patterns of signal exchange―increase the probability of the development of affective relationship? What patterns erode interpersonal systems or prevent them from forming? The book also examines patterns of communication within task-oriented organizations and in situations involving cultural differences.

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Message-Attitude-Behavior Relationship: Theory, Methodology, and Application

Organizational Teamwork in High-Speed Management (Suny Series, Human Communication Process)

Communicating Organizational Change: A Management Perspective (Suny Series in International Management)

Winning: Continuous Improvement Theory in High-Performance Organizations (Suny Series in International Management)

Communication and High-Speed Management (Suny Series in Human Communication Processes)

Communication and High-Speed Management (SUNY Seri (Human Communication Processes)

Continuously Improving an Organization's Performance: High-Speed Management (Suny Series in Management-Communication)

Continuously Improving an Organization's Performance: High-Speed Management (Suny Series in Management-Communication)

Communication in Interpersonal Relationships (Suny Series in Human Communication Processes)

Communication in Interpersonal Relationships (Suny Series, Human Communication Processes)