Management Communication: Communicative Ethics and Action

by Thomas Klikauer

Overview

As managerial work regimes move continuously towards post-industrialism, forms of communication change with it and work relationships are increasingly becoming communicative relationships. This book seeks to end communicative distortions by establishing a new model of communication that will set up practical and workable communication forums.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230515666
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/25/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

THOMAS KLIKAUER has completed two MAs and a PhD, as well as an appointment in the field of Industrial Relations at the University of Western Sydney. The publication of Communication, Management and Work led to more concentrated work on communication at work with distortions and communicative action as the core idea.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Communication in Management, Work and Society   Communication I: Basics and Contexts   Communication II: Signs and Meanings   Distorted Communication I: Classifications Distorted Communication II: Ideologies Distorted Communication III: Hegemonies Distorted Communication IV: Culture, Rhetoric and Meetings   Distorted Communication V: Persuasion, Attitudes and Responses   Communicative Action I: The Basics of Ideal Speech Communicative Action II: Ethics and Communication   Communicative Action III: The Two Logics of Work Relations   Communicative Action IV: The Two Logics of Communication Communicative Action V: Communicative Ethics at Work   Practical Conclusions