The Business Communication Profession

This book provides a unique orientation to the present, past, and future of the field of business communication by collecting reflective essays from some of its most influential scholars, teachers, and leaders.

Auteur

Janis Forman is the Founding Director of the Management Communication Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management Professor Forman has received academic awards from the Association for Business Communication and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has published extensively on organizational storytelling, collaboration, corporate communication, and translation and consults for many organizations.

Contenu

Chapter 1. *Introduction,* Janis Forman

Chapter 2. Take Two Xanax and Call Me in the Morning; or, Career Tension in Business Communication, Ronald Dulek

Chapter 3. Cultivating a Liberal Arts Perspective on Workplace Communication, Deborah C. Andrews

Chapter 4. "Only Connect" Between Personal Life and Professional Choice, Scholarship and Teaching, My Generation and the Next", Janis Forman

Chapter 5. Collaborative Networking for Better Teaching and Research, Peter W. Cardon

Chapter 6. To Summon the Future: Defining the Field and Deciding What to Teach, N. Lamar Reinsch, Jr.

Chapter 7. The Visual Expeditions and Related Adventures of a Teacher, Scholar, and Administrator, Charles Kostelnick

Chapter 8. Persisting in the Field of Business Communication: "There's Really Something to It", Priscilla S. Rogers

Chapter 9. Selling My Soul: Moving from the Humanities to Business Communication, Daphne A. Jameson

Chapter 10. My Experiential Learning Journey as a Management Communication Teacher-Scholar, Gail Fann Thomas

Chapter 11. Developing from a Teacher to a Scholar Across Cultures: The Moves from the East to the West and Back Again, Bertha Du-Babcock