Necessity is the mother of invention; challenging times can provide new opportunities that must be detected and exploited at the right moments. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that it is not only an issue of healthcare but also a challenge for the global economy, business, and society. Organizations have rapidly deployed technology solutions that enable them to work and service remotely and continue most of their normal operations. Technologies and Systems for E-Collaboration During Global Crises focuses on emerging technologies and systems, strategies, and solutions for e-collaboration. This book assesses the importance of technologies and systems for e-collaboration in dealing with emerging crises such as pandemics. Covering topics such as deep learning processes, machine vision, and profit-sharing models, it is an essential resource for computer scientists, public officials, engineers, students and professors of higher education, healthcare administration, programmers, researchers, and academicians.

Conflict management is an overlooked area in leadership development. Mediation as an intervention method to use in conflict management can be productive for building leadership capacity and organizational development in higher education. Adults average five conflicts per day and people in titled leadership spend over two-thirds of their time engaged in managing conflict. This workbook offers conflict management strategies, models, and processes to support college and university personnel in recognizing and managing conflicts and how to build skill sets that can enhance effective communication and address conflicts.

Knowledge Driven Development: Private Extension and Global Lessons uses actual cases written specifically to study the role and capacity of private companies in knowledge sharing and intensification through agricultural extension. Descriptions of specific models and approaches are teased out of complex situations exhibiting a range of agricultural, regulatory, socio-economic variables. Illustrative cases focus on a particular agricultural value chain and elaborate the special feature of the associated private extension system. Chapters presenting individual cases of private extension also highlight specific areas of variations and significant deviance. Each chapter begins with a section describing the background and agricultural context of the case, followed by a description of the specific crop value chain. Based on understanding of this context, extension models and methods by private companies receive deeper analysis and definition in the next section. This leads to a discussion of the private extension with respect to its relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, equity, sustainability and impact. Following that, comparison with public extension, the uniqueness of the knowledge intensification model, and lessons for its replication and scaling up are elaborated. The final chapter summarizes the major results from the ten cases presented, looking at the trends, commonalities and differences of various extension approaches and the general lessons for success or failure. It concludes with a set of messages around value creation, integrated services, market links, inclusive innovation, and capacity development.

Conducting a Communication Audit: Promoting Organizational Effectiveness through Communication Efficiency equips readers with the knowledge and skillsets they need to conduct successful communication audits and, in doing so, help organizations overcome their communication issues. The text teaches readers how to identify communication problems within organizations and then how to use this diagnostic information to enhance communication across the organization. Opening chapters provide readers with context for communication in the organization, as well as foundational determinations for beginning the audit process. The material discusses the importance of performing communication audits, the role of the communication consultant, setting goals and determining a strategy, and involving key stakeholders in the process. Additional chapters walk readers through the steps involved in an audit, including conducting a needs assessment, collecting data, analyzing data, and communicating results. Readers learn how to use audit results to create an internal communication strategy, infuse communication audits into organizational culture, and utilize results to inform organizational training. Closing chapters address the nuances of communication audits in a digital world and clearly summarize key ideas from each chapter. A dynamic, practical, and approachable handbook, Conducting a Communication Audit is an ideal resource for courses and programs in communication, business, and organizational communication and behavior.

Globalization has brought many risks to the financial market. A much higher level of competition and certain laws and regulations have driven executive leaders to rely on more transparency and effective communication with different shareholders in order for their companies to not only flourish but survive. The Handbook of Research on Global Issues in Financial Communication and Investment Decision Making seeks to define the significance of financial communication and the necessary actions and strategies that companies should take to remain competitive. Highlighting topics such as investor relationships, audits, effective financial reporting, corporate governance, risk management, international business, and economic development, this book is ideally designed for researchers, academicians, executives, consultants, policymakers, and government officials seeking current research on maintaining strong lines of communication throughout the fiscal sector.

This book focuses on rules for teleworking generated by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) that exist without a national strategy. The research goes further to address implications for everyday situations, many that already existed before the pandemic. The research offers an opportunity to take a new look at teleworking in all situations regardless of the reasons that make it necessary or prudent. This book addresses telework issues and answers: trustworthiness, performance, productivity, employee risk, achievement, accountability, emotional intelligence, and radical change. It addresses the need for and the existence of a shared understanding where leaders and employees openly discuss the challenges presented by teleworking. It also asks whether there are impediments or obstacles that organizations could remove or reduce to enable employees to accomplish the same amount of work they are currently doing in the office, but in a shorter duration of time while teleworking. This work conducts a deeper evaluation of telework than is currently available in relevant literature so that we can understand how to build strengths and mitigate weaknesses in trustworthiness and performance as they are applied in organizational development. The evaluation begins with a description of the current state of teleworking. This examination identifies plans and resources that can be used to improve teleworking tomorrow. This book also collects and analyzes LMX - leader-member exchange - to ensure the lens of evaluation is focused on all parties from member to leader to CEO. It examines whether organizations have made decisions to mandate or encourage teleworking formally and informally, making the possibility of participation available to the whole organization.

While personal variables like age, education, and gender are often thought to contribute to a person s distinctive speech pattern, corporate environments often develop its own way of communication which include larger scale variables like the economy and organizational traditions. Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World provides insight into the verbiage of the corporate world and the influence of this environment for a person s speech pattern, language, and terminology. This book will provide a guide for language researchers and business leaders alike so that they may find a way to communicate with everyone customers, colleagues, and CEOs effectively."

The Complete Business Speaker: How to Prepare and Deliver Effective Business Presentations equips students with the knowledge, skills, and mindset needed to successfully speak on behalf of an enterprise. The text focuses on the real-world challenges associated with business speaking and effectively prepares readers to deliver speeches and presentations with savvy and confidence. Readers learn the importance of tailoring a speech to key audiences, as well as a company's unique goals and policies. The text underscores how prepared remarks must be well-researched and effective to make an impact on potential legislation, local regulation, community relations, and business operations. Students learn effective strategies for speech delivery, listening, and interacting with audiences. Specific topics include best practices for delivering bad news, how to handle hostile audiences, addressing small groups, and whether or not the use of PowerPoint slides will enhance a presentation. Throughout, real-life accounts from a variety of business speakers illuminate the successes and learning opportunities experienced by business professionals. Providing students with a highly practical and focused perspective, The Complete Business Speaker is well suited for courses in business communication and public speaking.