TY - JOUR
AU - Lister, Eric
AB -  One might guess from its title that the Handbook would be a welcome resource to readers of Psychiatric Services. Working as we inevitably must at the interface of numerous agencies, and needing to communicate about matters both complex and urgent, anything we can learn about organizational communication would serve us well. As a psychiatrist working in the field of organizational consultation, I was particularly interested in what this book might have to offer. Alas, it is not what I'd hoped for. Currently in its second edition, the Handbook was designed and written by and for the relatively closed community of academic scholars in the field of communications, and the subfield of organizational communication in particular. The language is by and large highly theoretical, with an emphasis on research, research design, and metatheoretical constructs in the communications field. The writing is passionately referenced—one chapter of 42 pages of text is supported by 15 pages of references—and the vast majority of referenced sources represent other scholarly papers in the same and closely related fields. This makes for reading that, for me, a foreigner to this particular community, is often interesting but almost invariably dense and slow, with few links to 
TI - The New Handbook of Organizational Communication: Advances in Theory, Research, and Methods
JF - Psychiatric Services
DO - 10.1176/appi.ps.53.9.1188-a
DA - 2002-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychiatric-publishing-inc-journal/the-new-handbook-of-organizational-communication-advances-in-theory-5K0SdMswur
SP - 1188
VL - 53
IS - 9
DP - DeepDyve
ER -