Written by a premier author team, now including Angela Trethewey, Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint draws on contemporary research to provide a lively discussion of today's organizational issues (including such topics as identity, employee health, gender and cultural difference, and the work/life balance) while helping students to see how these theories and concepts are relevant in everyday life.

Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint

Business & Money

Eisenberg, Eric M.

Goodall, H. Lloyd

Management & Leadership

St Martins Pr

Politics & Social Sciences

Trethewey, Angela

Goodall, H. L.

Social Sciences

Bedford/St.Martin's

Respected scholars Eric Eisenberg, H.L. Goodall Jr., and Angela Trethewey combine decades of teaching and scholarly experience to offer students a concise and readable introduction to organizational communication theories and their practical applications. Using the metaphor of creativity (getting what you want) and constraint (following established rules) this popular textbook offers students more opportunities than ever before to practice what they learn through a variety of features within the textbook itself and on its companion Web site.

Trethwey, Angela

Organizational Communication doesn’t just cover technology's impact on organizations – it practices it, too, with our new LaunchPad Solo for Organizational Communication. This dynamic new platform brings together practice quizzes for each chapter, a huge bank of customizable quiz questions, video tools that let you pull in the latest video from YouTube and elsewhere, and a wealth of additional instructor resources.  For more information about LaunchPad Solo, visit launchpadworks.com.

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Goodall, Jr. H. L.

Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity

Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity is a provocative journey through the development of a new aesthetics of communication that rejects all fundamentalisms and embraces a contingent world-view. Author Eric M. Eisenberg both collects and reflects on over two decades of his writing to provide important personal, historical, and theoretical context.

Business Culture

Sage Publications, Inc.

Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity is a provocative journey through the development of a new aesthetics of communication that rejects all fundamentalisms and embraces a contingent world-view. Author Eric M. Eisenberg both collects and reflects on over two decades of his writing to provide important personal, historical, and theoretical context.

Respected scholars Eric Eisenberg, H.L. Goodall Jr., and Angela Trethewey continue to join the most respected and contemporary scholarship in the field with practical, hands-on application in this concise and readable introduction to organizational communication. Using the metaphor of creativity (getting what you want) and constraint (following established rules), this student-friendly textbook offers students opportunities to practice the theories and concepts they learn—including in this edition all new coverage of identity and difference in the workplace as well as social media, blogging, smartphone use, and other technological topics. The seventh edition is also available in affordable e-book formats that will fit with any budget.

Product Description 
When executives in any industry are asked about the most important skill they look for in a leader, the answer is almost always the ability to communicate effectively. Unfortunately, schools and organizations spend almost no time helping otherwise intelligent people develop as communicators. This book begins to fill that gap. With Stop Wasting Words, coauthors Sean Mahar and Eric Eisenberg give you the tools you need to communicate with your teams and ultimately improve your performance as a leader―whether you’re a low-level manager or a C-suite executive. In this book, Sean and Eric provide you with a comprehensive way of thinking about your own development as a leader focused on three major processes: • Conducting an honest self-assessment focused on your level of self-awareness; • Clarifying the choices/decisions you make regarding your communication and your relationships; and • Designing and applying a continuous improvement process for your leadership and for those you lead. Communicating is not just talking and listening; it requires complex message displays and engaging the listener followed by an assessment to check for understanding. It is not just throwing words back and forth. Without these efforts, the result could sound more like noise than meaningful dialogue. It’s about making the most out of the words you do say. It’s time to stop wasting words and learn how to truly communicate effectively. 
 About the Author 
ERIC M. EISENBERG, PHD is Professor of Communication and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida. He is an internationally recognized author, researcher, teacher, facilitator, consultant and executive coach specializing in the strategic use of communication to promote positive organizational change.\nSEAN E. MAHAR, MA is owner of Sean E. Mahar and Associates, LLC, where he’s had the opportunity to coach a variety of organizations on communication effectiveness and leadership. He is a lifelong student of human communication―holding a master’s degree in speech communication―and served as an adjunct professor for over twenty years at American International College in Springfield, MA.

Stop Wasting Words: Leading Through Conscious Communication

Mahar, Sean E.

Advantage Media Group

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Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint

Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint

Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint

LaunchPad Solo for Organizational Communication (Six Months Access)

Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity

Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity

Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint

Stop Wasting Words: Leading Through Conscious Communication