Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness

5. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4129-9204-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Author, Phillip G. Clampitt (Hendrickson Professor of Business) skillfully integrates theory, research, and real-world case studies into models designed to enhance understanding of complex communication issues and guide thoughtful responses to the challenges. The book’s "Wheel of Communication Effectiveness" model illustrates the unified nature of a world-class communication system. Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness, Fifth Edition equips students, managers, and executives with the strategies and tools to address common communication problems experienced in organizations with the goal of learning how to add value to their organizations by communicating more effectively. Some of these challenges include:

- Communicating about major changes

- Spanning organizational boundaries

- Selecting the proper communication technologies

- Transforming data into knowledge

- Addressing ethical dilemmas

- Providing useful performance feedback

- Cultivating the innovative spirit

- Building a world-class communication system

NEW TO THE FIFTH EDITION

- New model for assessing, managing, and mastering traditional and developing communication technologies

- Emphasis on social media with current and relevant examples

- New research on decision-making heuristics and biases

- New “how-to” tools and exercises to demonstrate how to craft effective communication strategies and develop tactics

- "Historical Hyperlinks" feature with insights from fascinating leaders including Teddy Roosevelt, Martha Graham, Socrates, and Juliette Gordon Low to explore the communication challenges they faced and how they resolved them

Have You Ever Formulated a Response to Someone’s Idea Before the Person Finishes Speaking? Watch a video from the author now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TmiVpOlLjk

Students, visit the author's Student Study Site which features video links, web resources, eFlashcards, web quizzes, and more at www.mycmebook.net !

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clampitt, Phillip G.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmenskommunikation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. FOUNDATION
1. Understanding Communication
2. Examining Communication Approaches
3. Scrutinizing Ethical Issues
4. Imparting the Organizational Culture
II. COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES
5. Selecting and Using Communication Technologies
6. Managing Data, Information, Knowledge, and Action
7. Providing Performance Feedback
8. Communicating Across Organization Boundaries
9. Communicating About Change
10. Cultivating the Innovative Spirit
11. Building a World-Class Communication System

Über Autor(innen)

Clampitt, Phillip G.
Phillip G. Clampitt received his Ph.D. in organizational communication from the University of Kansas. He holds the Blair Endowed Chair of Communication and was previously the Hendrickson Professor of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay where he is a full professor. Dr. Clampitt is the chair of four units at UWGB: Information & Computing Science, Communication, Computer Science, and Information Science. Sage Publications recently published the sixth edition of his best-selling book, Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness 6e. He co-authored two books with Robert J. DeKoch (President/COO of the Boldt Company): Embracing Uncertainty: The Essence of Leadership and Transforming Leaders into Progress Makers.

Phil’s work on “Decision Downloading” was featured in the MIT Sloan Management Review and the Wall Street Journal. Additionally, he has published in numerous journals, including The Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Communication Management, Journal of Business Communication and Management Communication Quarterly. He has contributed chapters to numerous works including: Handbook of Communication Audits for Organisations, Communication Audits, and the International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. He also is on the editorial board of many professional journals. Over the past thirty years he has worked on communication and leadership issues with many organizations including Nokia, PepsiCo, Schneider National, The Boldt Company, Dental City, National University and the Menasha Corporation.

Phil has been a guest speaker at the U.S. Army War College where they use his books in their Strategic Leadership class. In addition to many guest-speaking opportunities in the U.S., he has also been invited to speak internationally at places such as The University of Pisa, The University of Aberdeen, The University of Ulster, as well as to numerous multi-national businesses and professional organizations.

His students have heard him ask, "So what?" so often that they started calling him “Dr. So What.” Subsequently, he developed a related website (www.drsowhat.com) that highlights his passionate commitment to critical thinking and thoughtful inquiry.

Phillip G. Clampitt (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is the Hendrickson Professor of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where he teaches in the Information Sciences program. The Wall Street Journal and MIT Sloan Management Review recently highlighted his work on "Decision Downloading" which details how companies can effectively communicate decisions to those not involved in the decision-making process. He is the author of a SAGE Publications best seller, Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness 4e (see www.imetacomm.com/cme4), co-author of the forthcoming Progress Makers: Beyond the Desire to Lead (SAGE, and co-author of Embracing Uncertainty: The Essence of Leadership. Along with being on the editorial board of numerous professional journals, his work has been published in a variety of journals including the MIT Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Business Communication, Communication World, Journal of Broadcasting, Journal of Communication Management, lvey Business Journal, and Journal of Change Management. In addition to many guest speaking opportunities in the U.S., he has also been invited to speak internationally at The University of Pisa, The University of Aberdeen, The University of Ulster, as well as to numerous multinational businesses and professional organizations. As a principal in his firm, Metacomm, he has consulted on communication issues with a variety of organizations, such as PepsiCo, Manpower, Schneider National, American Medical Security, Dean Foods, The Boldt Company, Stora Enso, The U.S. Army War College, Appleton Papers, Foremost Farms, Thilmany Paper, Dental City, and Nokia (see www.imetacomm.com).