COM6303: Guides and Handbooks

Discover how to connect with and inspire employees throughout an organization. Improve your leadership skills -- even if you aren't a "natural" communicator -- with a specific communication strategy that anyone can use. Authors Matha and Boehm present research showing that all managers can improve performance by using the principles outlined in Beyond the Babble. They explore why communication is crucial, how and when to do it, how to embed it in an organization's culture, and how to measure results. They also show how internal communications professionals can improve an organization's communication to the outside world.

Studies in Applied Interpersonal Communication offers solutions for communication problems that erupt in our daily lives. By focusing on socially meaningful applied research in communication, this book offers a new direction for interpersonal communication studies. Featuring original studies that are practical and relevant, chapters provide readers with a balanced combination of rigorous research with pragmatic application. This book will generate enthusiasm among students and scholars and inspire future research that moves beyond the theoretical and toward the practical. Key Features and Benefits Includes solid research by a distinguished group of communication scholars Clarifies the connections between research results and prescriptive application Reveals the importance of conducting research targeting the communication concerns of the general public Provides practical advice that is meaningful to everyday lives and encourages future research that can benefit society Intended Audience This provocative book is an ideal supplement for graduate or advanced undergraduate courses such as Interpersonal Communication, Relational Communication, Empirical Research Methods, and Applied Communication.

Almost everything that matters to humans is derived from and through communication. Just because people communicate every day, however, does not mean that they are communicating competently. In fact, evidence indicates that there is a substantial need for better interpersonal skills among a significant proportion of the populace. Furthermore, "dark side" experiences in everyday life abound, and features of modern society pose new challenges that make the concept of communication competence increasingly complex. The Handbook of Communication Competence brings together scholars from across the globe to examine these various facets of communication competence, including its history, its essential components, and its applications in interpersonal, group, institutional, and societal contexts. The book provides a state-of-the-art review for scholars and graduate students, as well as practitioners in counseling, developmental, health care, educational, intercultural, and human resource management contexts, illustrating that communication competence is vital to health, relationships, and all collective human endeavors.

The current volume, featuring 28 contributions from cutting-edge researchers, emphasizes uses, purposes, origins, and consequences of nonverbal communication in the lives of individuals, dyads, and groups - in other words, the behaviour of human beings. As such, the volume as a whole is not just about communication systems per se nor the impact on humans of the physical environment, whether built or natural. Instead, the volume focuses on humans engaging in nonverbal communication and the communicative and psychological aspects of this behaviour. Nonverbal behaviour is an inclusive category and includes all emitted nonverbal behaviour that may be subject to interpretation by others, whether the behaviour is intentionally produced or not. This panoramic volume, edited by two of the world's leading authorities on nonverbal communication, contains 28 essays presenting the state of the art in the domain of nonverbal behaviour study. Reginald B. Adams, Jr. Tamara D. Afifi Peter Andersen Sarai Blincoe Ross W. Buck Peter Bull Judee K. Burgoon Vanessa L. Castro Gaëtan Cousin Amanda Denes M. Robin DiMatteo John P. Doody John F. Dovidio Marshall Duke Hilary Anger Elfenbein José-Miguel Fernández-Dols Mark G. Frank Jillian Gannon Robert Gifford Laura K. Guerrero Sarah D. Gunnery Amy G. Halberstadt Judith A. Hall Jinni A. Harrigan Monica J. Harris Hyisung C. Hwang Jessica Kalchik Arvid Kappas Mark L. Knapp Eva Krumhuber Ravi S. Kudesia Dennis Küster Marianne LaFrance Jessica L. Lakin Leslie Martin David Matsumoto Joann M. Montepare Anthony J. Nelson Stephen Nowicki Alison E. Parker Sona Patel Miles L. Patterson Stacie R. Powers Kevin Purring Klaus Scherer Marianne Schmid Mast Michael A. Strom Elena Svetieva Joseph B. Walther Benjamin Wiedmaier Leslie A. Zebrowitz

Media scholarship has responded to a rapidly evolving media environment that has challenged existing theories and methods while also giving rise to new theoretical and methodological approaches. This volume explores the state of contemporary media research. Focusing on Intellectual Foundations, Theoretical Perspectives, Methodological Approaches, Context, and Contemporary Issues, this volume is a valuable resource for media scholars and students.