Introducing organizational communication -- The critical approach -- Scientific management, bureaucracy, and the emergence of the modern organization -- The human relations school -- Organizations as communication systems -- Communication, culture, and organizing -- Power and resistance at work -- The postmodern workplace: teams, emotions, and no-collar work -- Communicating gender at work -- Communicating difference at work -- Leadership communication in the new workplace -- Branding and consumption -- Organizational communication, globalization, and democracy -- Communication, meaningful work, and personal identity

1. Communication in organizations