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Organizational Culture in Action

A Cultural Analysis Workbook

By: Gerald Driskill

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Organizational Culture in Action

A Cultural Analysis Workbook

By: Gerald Driskill

Offering students and practitioners an applied approach to the subject, Organizational Culture in Action (OCA) walks them through a six-step model for analyzing an organization’s culture to provide insight into positive communication practices to improve organizational ethics and effectiveness. The authors review relevant theory while integrating a constitutive approach to studying organizational culture and communication. Practical guides for multiple data collection methods are provided, and the workbook format is full of interactive tools that engage students and reinforce learning. The revised OCA cultural analysis model in this edition provides the below elements. • The revised first step in the model – "articulating the value of cultural analysis" includes connections to public relations and crisis management. • A definition of communication and the analysis process that foregrounds ethics throughout the book is included. • Recent research on organizational moral learning is integrated in the ethics chapter, and throughout the book. • The Communicative Constitutive of Organizations is now foregrounded throughout the book, and reflected in a table capturing variable and metaphor approaches to culture. • The latest applied research is integrated in units on diversity, change, leadership, and effectiveness in relation to positive organizational communication. • Enriched guides on multiple data collection methods now includes surveys. • Cases, examples, and applications relevant to crisis, employee engagement, virtual organizations, conflict management, and public relations are provided. Professionals come away equipped to apply cultural insights to fostering inclusiveness in relation to diversity, supporting organizational change, making leadership more dynamic, understanding the link between ethics and culture, and achieving personal and professional growth.

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Organizational Culture in Action

A Cultural Analysis Workbook

By: Gerald W. Driskill,Angela Laird Brenton

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A Cultural Analysis Workbook

By: Gerald W. Driskill,Angela Laird Brenton

`In a cogent and easily accessible style, it provides superb guidelines for observing, interpreting, and understanding the subtle and complex nuances of an organization′s culture. The integration of qualitative research methods with cultural analyses makes this text distinctive and valuable addition to any organizational communication class′ - Linda Putnam, Texas A&M University `The authors skillfully weave together theory, application, and their professional experiences to create a wonderfully useful book that meets the needs of students and practitioners. Anyone who takes cultural analysis seriously should read this book′ - Phillip G Clampitt, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Metacomm `Organizational Culture in Action fills a real resource gap. It is a "workbook" in the most positive sense of the word. It offers enough step-by-step guidance to give students the confidence they need to move forward independently. At the same time, it does not sidestep the theoretical complexities, conflicts, and confusions surrounding the world of organizational culture and cultural analysis. The book is well conceived, usefully structured, and filled with application exercises that really make sense and are pedagogically justified. My students found it to be both accessible and stimulating′ - John Gribas, Idaho State University What is organizational culture? And how might knowledge of culture improve our organizational performances? This stimulating workbook guides students through data collection, analysis, interpretation, and application of organizational culture data using a practical five-step process. It begins by explaining theories on which organizational culture is based. It then provides guides for gathering information to help improve organizational performance. Based on more than 20 years of experience in using this approach with hundreds of students, the authors help students apply cultural insights to fostering diversity, supporting organizational change, making leadership more dynamic, exploring the link between ethics and culture, and making organizations more effective overall.

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The Business Writer's Handbook, Eighth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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The Business Writer's Handbook, Eighth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

Contains nearly four hundred alphabetized entries that provide guidance for writing business documents such as brochures, press releases, resumes, executive summaries, proposals, and reports, and provides general advice on organizing, researching, writing, revising, grammar, usage, style, and punctuation.

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0312352689

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The Handbook of Technical Writing, Eighth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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The Handbook of Technical Writing, Eighth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

Alphabetically organized and easy to use, its nearly 400 entries provide guidance for the most common types of professional documents and correspondence, including reports, proposals, manuals, memos, and whit papers. Abundant sample documents and visuals throughout the book demonstrate effective technical communication, reflecting current practices for formatting documents and using e-mail. In addition, advice on organizing, researching, writing, and revising complements thorough treatment of grammar, usage, style, and punctuation to provide comprehensive help with writing skills.

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0312352670

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Organizational Culture in Action

A Cultural Analysis Workbook

By: Gerald Driskill

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Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

Combining guidance for writing over 40 typers of professional documents with thorough coverage of grammar, usage, and style, the Handbook of Technical Writing functions as both a writer's handbook and a complete guide to technical communication. It provides quick access to hundreds of topics and scores of sample documents and visuals. [publisher's note]

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The Business Writer's Companion

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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The Business Writer's Companion

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

An easy-access guide to the most common types of business writing and communication, The Business Writer's Companion places writing in real-world context with hundreds of business writing topics and more than sixty sample documents. Always anticipating the needs of today's business writers, the sixth edition includes updated information on the technologies that are integral to workplace writing and offers tips about professionalism. BOOK COVER.

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The Business Writer's Handbook

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

More than just a guide, The Business Writer's Handbook places writing in a real-world context with quick and easy access to hundreds of business writing topics and scores of sample documents. The handbook now offers up-to-date coverage of the job search, tips on professionalism, and advice about adapting to evolving workplace technologies."--Publisher's description

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Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

This comprehensive resource, organized alphabetically by topic, provides guidance on the business and technical writing process, real world examples, in-depth treatment of grammar and usage and up-to-date coverage of the latest office technology.

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AIDS Update 2002

By: Gerald James Stine

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AIDS Update 2002

By: Gerald James Stine

This book requires no prior knowledge of biology, and is the most comprehensive, authoritative, accurate, and up-to-date book on HIV/AIDS currently available as it is updated each and every year. It presents the entire 17-year chronology of the AIDS pandemic in a reasonable, logical, and scientific manner that interweaves biological, clinical, social, and legal discoveries in a uniquely readable presentation. Chapter topics include discovering AIDS, naming the disease; what causes AIDS: origins of the AIDS virus; biological characteristics of the AIDS virus; anti-HIV therapy; the immunology of HIV disease/AIDS; opportunistic infections and cancers associated with HIV disease/AIDS; a profile of biological indicators for HIV disease and progression to AIDS; epidemiology and transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus; preventing the transmission of HIV; prevalence of HIV infections, AIDS cases, and deaths among select groups in the united states; prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS cases among women, children, and teenagers in the united states; testing for human immunodeficiency virus; AIDS and society: knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. For individuals seeking current and detailed coverage of all the facets of the AIDS crisis.

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Organizational Culture in Action

A Cultural Analysis Workbook

By: Gerald W. Driskill,Angela Laird Brenton

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Organizational Culture in Action

Organizational Culture in Action

Organizational Culture in Action

Organizational Culture in Action

The Business Writer's Handbook, Eighth Edition

The Business Writer's Handbook, Eighth Edition

The Handbook of Technical Writing, Eighth Edition

The Handbook of Technical Writing, Eighth Edition

Organizational Culture in Action

Organizational Culture in Action

Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition

Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition

The Business Writer's Companion

The Business Writer's Companion

The Business Writer's Handbook

The Business Writer's Handbook

Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition

Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition

AIDS Update 2002

AIDS Update 2002

Organizational Culture in Action

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