1st Edition
Organizational Communication Dynamics and Higher Education
This book provides an analysis, a synthesis, and an application of over 50 years of organizational communication higher education research. What distinguishes one university from another is how members communicate with each other, and what distinguishes successful higher education organizations from others are their unique communication practices. Bringing important lessons and knowledge from the field of Communication Studies into Higher Education, this volume integrates research and theory to help improve organizational communication both across and outside the campus. Topics range from burnout and morale to student recruitment and organizational change. The volume addresses a current and pressing need at research universities, undergraduate programs, and community colleges and helps higher education scholars, researchers, and administrators confront organizational communication challenges.
Preface Chapter 1: Human Information Processing Chapter 2: Human Communication Chapter 3: Higher Education Organizations Chapter 4: Information Processing Challenges Chapter 5: Communication and Morale Chapter 6: External Communication Chapter 7: Leadership Chapter 8: Communication and Organizational Change
Biography
Philip J. Salem is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Texas State University. His publications include work on organizational communication, interpersonal communication, communication and technology, research methods, and communication theory. His most recent work relates complexity theory to human communication and to communication and organizational change, and his textbook about human communication technology is now in a third edition. He was the third person to receive the Outstanding Member Award for Contributions to the Discipline and the Association from the Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association.
