Purpose
Managerial Communication for Organizational Development offers a unique functions approach to managerial communication. Readers will be engaged by a focus on theory and application that will help managers and future managers understand the practices of management communication. Managerial Communication for Organizational Development combines ideas from industry experts, popular culture, news events, and academic articles and books written by leading scholars. It merges popular communication theories with broadly accepted management theories to provide practical solutions to managerial problems that occur across the functional areas and tiers of management. After reading Managerial Communication for Organizational Development managers will have a much better insight about how to handle a plethora of business problems confronting today’s manager.
Contents
The book includes six chapters emphasizing the essentials of managerial communications for top, middle, and frontline managers engaged in the four functional areas of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
The book is especially useful for managers and mid-career working adults enrolled in MBA programs, as there are many examples to which they can relate. The materials will also serve as guideposts for professors doing research and teaching in the managerial communications field. Professors with little or no industry experience will find the chapters’ contents replete with workplace examples. Professionals and future managers will find the contents of the book engaging and refreshing due to the real-world approach. Currently, there is a gap between academic research and business practice linking managerial problems to communications solutions. This book sheds light on particular techniques of management communication as they are used by people engaged in managing others at each level of the organization and across the various functional areas.
Managerial Communication for Organizational Development
Instructor’s Manual
PowerPoint (PPT) slides for each chapter are included, which highlight the concepts of each chapter. The PPT is accessible from Business Expert Press by request from persons who will use the book for teaching purposes. In addition, the test questions are also available from Business Expert Press. Test items include structured-response and essay items. Questions and cases assessing mental abilities at the higher levels of the cognitive domain (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation levels) are emphasized.
Reginald L. Bell, PhD
Jeanette S. Martin, EdD