Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness or Lifebuoy Men LUX Women

Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness

Author: Phillip G Clampitt

"In this new edition, Clampitt helps us keep pace with the evolving landscape of management communication practice and scholarship. Indeed, this text is a treasure trove for use in and out of the classroom."

-Steven Ralston, University of Michigan, Flint

"This text is perhaps the best representative of the strategic-choice approach to organizational communication. Rather than reviewing the organizational communication studies research, this book applies research, integrates popular literature and reports of organizational members coping with actual incidents, and offers options for dealing with common managerial concerns."

-Philip Salem, Texas State University

 

How can organizations use communication as a strategic, value-adding activity? Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness, Third Edition answers this question by enabling students and managers to clearly view their own communication abilities, dilemmas, and challenges. Author Phillip G. Clampitt uses real-world cases, many from his own business experience, to analyze the most critical communication challenges facing managers today.

The Third Edition reflects a renewed emphasis on communication ethics, cross-cultural communication, and communication strategy. The book skillfully integrates theory and research to address vital communication challenges and allows readers to manage information, select appropriate communication channels, develop an effective performance feedback system, communicate organizational changes, foster interdepartmental communication, and create an innovativespirit.

New to the Third Edition:

• "By the Numbers" sidebars in each chapter highlight relevant communication and organizational facts.
• A companion Web site contains chapter outlines, exercises, and case studies. iMetacomm.com/cme3
• Tools based on conceptual models emphasize how to successfully and quickly implement principles discussed in each chapter.
• Every chapter has been updated.
• The role of dialogue in the communication process receives greater emphasis.
• New chapters have been added on communication technologies, communicating across organizational boundaries, and the link between communication assessment, strategy, and tactics.

Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness is designed for students in MBA programs as well as for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying organizational communication, management, or business communications. The book is also an excellent resource for managers, business executives, and corporate trainers.

Table of Contents:

Foreward
Preface
Introduction
Section 1: Foundation
1. How Managers Communicate
2. What Is Communication, Anyway?
3. Communicating the Corporate Culture
4. Communication Ethics
Section 2: Communication Challenges
5. Selecting and Using Communication Technologies
6. Managing Data, Information, Knowledge, and Action
7. Providing Performance Feedback
8. Communicating Across Organizational Boundaries
9. Communicating About Change
10. Cultivating the Innovative Spirit
11. What Is Communication Effectiveness?
Index
About the Author

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Lifebuoy Men, LUX Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe

Author: Timothy Burk

How do people come to need products they never even knew they wanted? How, for example, did indigenous Zimbabweans of the 1940s begin to believe that they required Lifebuoy soap? Offering a glimpse into the intimate workings of modern colonialism and global capitalism, Timothy Burke takes up these questions in Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women, a study of post-World War II commodity culture in Zimbabwe.

With particular attention to cosmetic products and the contrast between colonial and pre-colonial ideas of cleanliness, Burke examines the role played by commodity culture, changing patterns of consumption, and the spread of advertising in the making of modern Zimbabwe. His work combines history, anthropology, and political economy to show how the development of commodification in the region relates to the social history of hygiene. Within this framework, and drawing on a wide variety of historical sources, Burke explores dense interactions between commodity culture and embodied aspects of race, gender, sexuality, domesticity, health, and aesthetics in a colonial society. Rather than viewing the production of needs simply as an imposition from above, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women shows what heterogeneous and complex processes, involving the aims and histories of both colonizers and colonized, produced these changes in Zimbabwean society.

Integrating political economy, cultural studies, and a wide range of the social sciences, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women will find readers among scholars of colonialism, African history, and ethnography as well those for whom the problem of commodification is a significant theoretical issue.

Choice

The overlapping layers of this book are as successively fascinating as the subject matter is unusual and treated thoughtfully, both theoretically and empirically.

History Journal of American

Burke . . . has a keen eye for many ironies and paradoxes occurring at the point of reception, where African men and women, variously located in colonial society, gave their own twist and meaning to products and messages as these reached them. . . . [A]dmirably nuanced and subtle.

American Anthropologist

For those who work in Zimbabwe, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women will be a welcome addition to the literature. It will also be of great use to other Africanists, as well as those interested in the theoretical intersections of commodity culture, desire, and the colonial encounter.

American Historial Review

This important, engaging, and theoretically sophisticated study explores the history of consumption in twentieth-century central Africa. . . . [A]t the same time that Burke provides a compelling 'biography' of a commodity, he raises and reframes a series of crucial questions regarding the histories of modern African societies.

Journal of Social History

Burke has produced an imaginative, even thought-provoking, work. . . .Lifeboy Men, Lux Women remains a lively addition to the historical literature on Zimbabwe and southern Africa more generally. It will no doubt be variously acclaimed and assailed, but it is unlikely to be ignored.

History Journal of Interdisciplinary

Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women's greatest contribution is its theoretical connection of previously disparate fields of inquiry and its development of perspectives and strategies about the changing conceptualization and realization of cleanliness and body care in Zimbabwe.