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"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 innovative spirit.

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. www.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.

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Communicating for managerial effectiveness.......2007-09-30

This book examines theories and techniques employed by communication professionals in large organisations. It provides an opportunity to assess these theories and techniques by applying them to an analysis of communication practices within specific organisations and examining an organisations external communication.

Ideal read or textbook if interested in or studying concepts that exist within small or large organisations or seeking to improve communication within their own organisation.

Communicating.......2006-02-20

This book is also very appropriate for my communication management class. We use it extensively.

More than just Skills!.......2001-04-05

I am a Director of Training and communication is a pervasive concern. Unlike other books that focus on skill-building, this one addresses more fundamental communication issues. What I found particularly valuable was that the strategic discussions were directly linked to specific action plans that I could implement. For instance, the book discusses the principles behind effectivly communicating change along with providing some concrete suggestions. I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone charged with addressing communication problems in their organization.

Informational, entertaining, and extremely useful........2001-03-20

Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness is a book aimed at executives and managers. However, employees at all levels will benefit from Clampitt's suggestions and recommendations.

The book is comprised of 11 chapters and covers communication breakdowns and challenges that I can certainly relate to, such as using the correct communication channels, communicating change, giving performance feedback, and communicating the corporate culture. In each chapter, Clampitt analyzes common problems that occur in organizations, defines why these problems occur and offers concrete recommendations and suggestions. Clampitt is skilled at using great metaphors, case studies, examples, statistical evidence, and experience to form his recommendations. Every day I apply the knowledge I've gained from this book to my career at Rockwell Automation; I highly recommend this book to you so you can benefit from it in your career as well.

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Student Workbook for Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness
Phillip G. Clampitt , and Laurey Berk
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A student workbook is now available for Clampitt's Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness. This workbook contains a chapter summary, learning objectives, key terms and concepts, an outline, exercises, and case studies for every chapter in the text. The exercises and case studies are organized on three learning levels: knowledge, analysis, and application. An ideal accompaniment to Clampitt's best-selling text, the Workbook will help enrich students' understanding of vital managerial and organizational communication concepts.

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Why do humans long to reach beyond the confines of our planet? Why, in an age when our voices routinely bounce off satellites to around the world and back, hasn't a human set foot on the moon for 30 years?

A visionary work by the most provocative and original thinker on technology and human communication since Marshall McLuhan, RealSpace traces the neat marriage of communication and transportation --talking and walking--that recently ended in a jarring separation. Throughout recent history, Levinson shows, rail lines and telegraphs, cars and radios, airplanes and television have been coupled in a synergy that allowed us to reach the places we heard about. But with the invention of the Internet and cell phones, our verbal reach has exceeded our corporeal grasp.

With a lucid, reflective style that spans philosophy, science fiction, religion, and technology, RealSpace reopens the final frontier, delving into the roots of our desire to know what's out there and exploring how we might actually make it one day. Packed with exciting, innovative, even revolutionary thinking about our future, RealSpace is essential reading for everyone who has ever sat at a desk, gazed into the distance and imagined boarding a space shuttle.

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A Gem of Reflection.......2007-09-22

I am sorry to say that with all the reading I do, this is the first time I have come across Paul Levinson. This is a gem of a book, and I will attend to anything else he write, and hope to hear him in person someday.

The author, the book, and by the authors account, California, converges four vectors:

- Cyberspace where its just information, not "real"
- Outer Space, where he believes we need to go
- Inner Space, with hightened spiritual awareness being important
- RealSpace, which only live beings with all their senses can engage

I found this gem to be absorbing and it rounded out my Sunday morning reading quite nicely. Some bullets I took away:

- No senses of smell, touch, taste in cyberspace
- Knowledge is not Experience
- Walking and talking are intertwined
- Cell phone is antidote to Interent, restores ability to work in the real world and not be chained to a computer or cubicle
- Makes care for business, not governments, to fund space exploration
- Discusses robots as useful for some things but no substitute for humans
- Discusses how much we missed in our evaluation of Mars until we actually had a real soil sample with traces of bacteria
- Wants a World Spaceport Center at WTC site in NYC, adds chapter on terrorism and sspace.

The selected bibliography, with annotation, is quite remarkable. I am only familiar with a third of what is catalogued there.

This book helped me understand Jeff Bezos better, and that is always useful.

The author buys into the myths of 9/11. This is disappointing.

Some other books that his is a complement to:
The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All
The Age of Missing Information
Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin
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Status quo repackaged and overpriced.......2006-01-26

Here is a book that seems always on the verge of making a difference, or at least a point, but never gets there. Why did the U.S. space program progress so slowly after the Moon landings while communication technology grew by leaps and bounds? That's Levinson's central question and I'll be damned if I know what his answer is after reading this book. Chapter 4 ends with the promise that chapter 5 will discuss it, but instead there's a discourse on California culture during the Space Age, and how Natural philosophy has only recently eclipsed moral and intellectual philosophy. Huh? I would have appreciated something prescriptive to connect the dots. The closest thing to an intellectual risk Levinson takes is to say that humans will gain a better picture of their place in the universe if they explore space personally, not just with robots. Oh, and perhaps NASA (he sees no serious alternative to government space programs) is not packaging the experience right. Really? There's not even enough in here to tell whether Levinson is wrong. The book is a charming mind-screw littered with historical nuggets, such as how Diego Columbus's books about his father's voyages of discovery became best-sellers. But for $27.95 suggested retail, I expected something a lot more bold and relevant.

A Good Guidebook Offering a Rationale for Human Spaceflight.......2005-08-21

This is a helpful handbook for advocates of human spaceflight. In the summer of 2004 esteemed space scientist James A. Van Allen, asked the poignant question, "Is human spaceflight obsolete?" He added: "Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest?...Risk is high, cost is enormous, science is insignificant. Does anyone have a good rationale for sending humans into space?" Paul Levinson has an answer, one that should at least prove convincing to those wanting to believe even if it might not convince James Van Allen.

Levinson says essentially that while cyberspace made virtual exploration of almost anything possible it has also demonstrated an under-appreciated fact of the human existence, cyberspace is a pale comparison to reality. We continue to seek firsthand human experience to understand and experience the universe. He addresses the full range of rationales for spaceflight, suggesting that the human desire to experience and explore is what makes us fully human. This is a work of advocacy that is poignant and provocative, suggesting that our desire to fly in space is just as much spiritual and eternal as it is practical, political, economic, and military.

For any science collection or reader.......2003-08-08

Cyberspace is part of daily living, with most people spending part or most of each day on the Internet. But what happens to reality when technology moves more and more into the virtual world? Realspace addresses a myriad of issues and concerns in the course of such a move; from the human need to explore and the lack of efforts to further space exploration to why humans need to constantly expand knowledge bases. Realspace is an essential, thought-provoking purchase for any science collection or reader.

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