Organizing Relationships makes a contribution to the discipline
in its treatment of this area from multiple perspectives, in its
deliberate engagement/suggestions of future research directions,
and its functional purpose of bringing together extant research on
this important topic in a coherent and organized way. It adds
cumulatively to our knowledge of organizational communication and
relationships, it fits within the horizon of the established
parameters of our field while opening new areas for engagement,
and, moreover, it is a very interesting read. It will, no doubt,
become a touchstone for the field of organizational communication.
Janie Hardin Fritz, Duquesne University This book represents an
important step to a relational approach to organizational behavior
(communication) by pulling together many different areas/types of
relationships. It will be a must book to anyone who teaches
relationships in organization or broadly relational/applied
organizational communication. Jaesub Lee, University of Houston The
first book in the field to provide a comprehensive,
interdisciplinary treatment of workplace relationships, Organizing
Relationships: Traditional and Emerging Perspectives on Workplace
Relationships explores both negative and positive workplace
relationships, including supervisor subordinate relationships, peer
relationships, workplace friendships, romantic workplace
relationships, and customer client relationships. Author Patricia
M. Silas, a recognized scholar in the field, examines workplace
relationships from multiple theoretical perspectives, including
postpositivism, social construction theory, critical theory, and
structuration theory. She helps readers understand the unique
influences of the workplace on relationship processes and dynamics.
Key Features Examines the role of workplace relationships as
information-sharing, resource-distributing, decision-making, and
support systems and highlights their importance to both
organizational and individual well-being Includes cases in each
chapter that demonstrate the usefulness of approaching real-world
workplace problems and issues from multiple perspectives Helps
readers broaden and enrich the ways they think about workplace
relationships and their roles in organizational processes Provides
an innovative agenda for future research
Organizing Relationships is appropriate for upper-level
undergraduate and graduate courses in Workplace Relationships,
Relational Communication, Applied Interpersonal Communication,
Organizational Communication, Communication Management,
Operations/Human Resource Management, Organizational Psychology,
and Organizational Sociology."
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