Workplace Communication: Promoting Workplace Wellbeing and Interpersonal Relationships in Multicultural Contexts

✍ Scribed by Joanna Crossman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Workplace Communication highlights how we can build interpersonal relationships through effective communication and why this is essential to workplace wellbeing. Well-supported by contemporary, reputable empirical studies, the book also comes with exercises and open-ended questions based on the subject matter. The book provides a comprehensive overview on creating an inclusive workplace and managing workplace diversity; covers a wide range of salient, up-to-date reputable literature on a wide range of management and business topics; contains practical, ‘road-tested’ activities to promote student reflection, experiential learning, critical thinking, research skills, and application of theory to practice and vice versa; examines how we communicate effectively to an increasingly diverse workforce. Designed for a broad audience, this book will appeal to academics and students in the fields of business management and communications. It will also be a useful reference for organisational practitioners and leaders.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contents
List of tables
Introduction to the book
Part I: Communication, principles, and concepts in workplace contexts
1 The nature and study of communication and language
2 Interpersonal communication
3 Organisational communication
4 Wellbeing in workplace contexts
Part II: Diversity, inclusion, and belonging
5 Culture and intercultural communication
6 Gender and communication
7 Intergenerational communication
8 Spiritual diversity
Part III: Communication contexts and applications
9 Negotiating and managing conflict
10 Working in groups
11 Developing others for growth
12 Ethical approaches to organisational issues, communication, and relationships
13 Dark issues
14 Emotions at work
Index