Do you think you communicate strategically? For students and managers who want to manage and communicate more effectively, Phil Clampitt's book is essential reading.

Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness enables managers and students to clearly view their communication abilities and organizational dilemmas and challenges. The first two chapters explain the complex process of communication. The third chapter examines the impact of corporate culture on the communication climate. The next six chapters analyze critical communication challenges most managers face. These chapters discuss how to:

• Manage information
• Select appropriate communication channels
• Develop an effective performance feedback system
• Communicate about organizational changes
• Foster interdepartmental communication
• Create an innovative spirit

The final chapter focuses on ethics and building trust through communication practices. Real world cases and examples used throughout the book are drawn from Clampitt’s extensive organizational consulting experience and from the worlds of politics, history, science, and art.

What’s new in this edition?

• More -- emphasis on successful implementation
• More -- insight about managing the relationship between data, information, knowledge, and action More -- specific advice about how to strategically communicate about organizational changes
• More -- discussion of ‘dot.coms’ as well as the impact of the Internet on traditional brick-and-mortar organizations
• More -- opportunities to learn!

Visit the book’s Web site at http://www.imetacomm.com/books/cme/index.html for chapter outlines, exercises, and case studies.