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Management Communication, 7th Edition
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Management Communication, 7th Edition

by James S. O'Rourke
March 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
22h 46m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 1 Management Communication in Transition

DOI: 10.4324/9781003331490-1

This book will argue that management communication is the central skill in the global workplace of the twenty-first century. An understanding of language and its inherent powers, combined with the skill to speak, write, listen, and form interpersonal relationships, will determine whether you will succeed as a manager.

At the midpoint of the twentieth century, management philosopher Peter Drucker wrote:

Managers have to learn to know language, to understand what words are and what they mean. Perhaps most important, they have to acquire respect for language as [our] most precious gift and heritage. The manager must understand the meaning of the old definition of rhetoric ...

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