PART I. DEVELOPING A CRITICAL APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION -- 1. Introducing Organizational Communication -- 2. The Critical Approach -- PART II. THEORIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND THE MODERN ORGANIZATION -- 3. Scientific Management, Bureaucracy, and the Emergence of the Modern Organization -- 4. The Human Relations School -- 5. Organizations as Communication Systems -- 6. Communication, Culture, and Organizing -- PART III. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND THE NEW WORKPLACE -- 7. Power and Resistance at Work -- 8. The Postmodern Workplace: Teams, Emotions, and No-Collar Work -- 9. Communicating Gender at Work -- 10. Communicating Difference at Work -- 11. Leadership Communication in the New Workplace -- 12. Branding and Consumption -- 13. Organizational Communication, Globalization, and Democracy -- 14. Communication, Meaningful Work, and Personal Identity.