Communication and Management at Work

✍ Scribed by Thomas Klikauer (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Uniquely, this book positions communication inside the historic development of work and management and shows how this development has led to the instrumental use of communication, informed by the distinction between those who manage and those who are managed and directed towards the control and system integration of the workers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Communication and the World of Work....Pages 1-20
The Origins of Communication and Management at Work....Pages 21-42
Critical Rationality and Present Working Society....Pages 43-56
Understanding Communication in Today’s Working Society....Pages 57-75
Understanding Modern Relations at Work....Pages 76-96
The Management of Labour at Work....Pages 97-112
The Two Domains Defining the World of Work....Pages 113-127
Management and Instrumental Communication....Pages 128-142
Technical Domination and Engineering Ideology....Pages 143-159
Control and Communication at Work....Pages 160-182
Control and Communication Through Socialisation....Pages 183-204
Human Resource Management and the Control of Communication....Pages 205-219
Conclusion: Communication, Management and Work....Pages 220-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-327

✦ Subjects

Human Resource Management; Management