Cases on Organizational Communication and Understanding Understudied Groups

  • 5h 1m
  • Jessica A. Kahlow
  • IGI Global
  • 2022

In today’s business world, understanding and supporting understudied groups is vital to maintain workplace diversity, safety, and ethics as well as promote a positive work environment. Communication within a business is a key aspect of ensuring these groups are considered and all employees are informed of guidelines, services, and other various support systems available.

Cases on Organizational Communication and Understanding Understudied Groups presents case studies that focus on organizational issues that individuals are likely to experience at some point during their employment in various understudied areas such as neurodiversity, learning differences, mental health, identity, gender, ethics, and emotion. Covering topics such as cross-cultural interactions and privacy management, this reference work is crucial for business professionals, academicians, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

About the Author

Jessica A. Kahlow (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) is a Teaching Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research concentrates on neurodiversity and new media in interpersonal and organizational contexts. Her work has been published in the Review of Communication Research, Computers in Human Behavior, Human Communication and Technology, and other journals and book chapters.

In this Book

  • “Who Can I Trust?”—Mental Health Communication, Privacy Management, and Organizational Socialization
  • Relationship Quality Matters—LMX and Mental Health in the Workplace
  • Concealing Mental Illness in the Workplace—Applying Communication Privacy Management Theory to Managing Mental Health Privacy in the Workplace
  • “Stop Trying So Hard!”—Disclosing ADHD in the Workplace
  • Seeing (Speaking) Through Her Eyes (Brain)—Louisa's Journey
  • Avoiding “Beige Cubicle Hell”—Emotions and Work-Life Spillover among Adventure Workers
  • Convergence and Divergence at Work—Cross-Cultural Interactions with a Difficult Co-Worker
  • “You’re Very Smart for a Black Woman”—A Case of Microaggressive Communication
  • I Am Me—Transgender Communication in the Workplace
  • Workplace Resilience during Cancer Treatment—An Exploration of Workplace Communication Processes That Lead to Resilience for Female Employees
  • It’s Just a Part of Life
  • Glossary
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