Managing Projects in Organizations or Organizational Communication

Managing Projects in Organizations: How to Make the Best Use of Time, Techniques, and People

Author: J Davidson Fram

In this third edition of Managing Projects in Organizations, J. Davidson Frame updates and expands on his classic book to provide an accessible introduction to the field of project management. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of consulting and training experience, Frame's most current edition of his landmark book includes a wealth of new topics, including:

• Managing virtual teams

• The evolving concept of the project manager's role

• Comanaged project teams

• The project office

• Project portfolios

• Web-based project management

• International project management

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	The Author
	Introduction: Understanding the Process of Managing Projects	1
Pt. 1	The Project Context: People, Teams, and the Organization
1	Operating Within the Realities of Organizational Life	25
2	Finding and Working with Capable People	50
3	Structuring Project Teams and Building Cohesiveness	80
Pt. 2	Project Customers and Project Requirements
4	Making Certain the Project Is Based on a Clear Need	111
5	Specifying What the Project Should Accomplish	137
Pt. 3	Project Planning and Control
6	Tools and Techniques for Keeping the Project on Course	163
7	Managing Special Problems and Complex Projects	210
8	Achieving Results: Principles for Success as a Project Manager	241
	References	249
	Index	251

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Organizational Communication: Foundations, Challenges, and Misunderstandings

Author: Daniel P Modaff

Organizational Communication:

Foundations, Challenges, and Misunderstandings, Second Edition

Daniel P. Modaff

Sue DeWine
Jennifer Butler

 

Organizational Communication uses interviews to explore communication and misunderstandings at all levels of an organization.    

 

This text offers a unique perspective on the field of internal organizational communication. The authors review the foundational material but also intersperse the discussions with excerpts from interviews conducted with more than 100 leaders and workers in a variety of organizations. Unlike other texts in the field, Organizational Communication explores organizational communication from the perspective of all organizational members, not just management.

 

Features:

• Contains segments in each chapter from interviews with different organizational members, including those in positions from the bottom of the organization to the management.
• Includes communication as central to each chapter, not just as an ancillary discussion, so that students will understand how communication is relevant and critical to each of the concepts discussed.  
• Highlights the central role of communication inorganizations and its relevance to all organizational members through the “The Communicative Organization Model,” proposed by the authors (Chapter 6).
• Relates almost every chapter to the concept of “misunderstandings,” the inherently problematic nature of organizational life.  
• Shows how organizational communication begins before a person enters the organization, by sharing realistic recruitment practices and problems (Chapter 7).

Quotes from Reviewers:

 

“It offers a solid coverage of the fundamentals of organizational communication theory while engaging the reader through real-world examples and cases. Students will love the easy-to-read delivery of complex information!”

                                                                                                    — Sandy H. Hanson, University of North Carolina

 

“First, the book is well-written, detailed, and fits the level of my students without being too scholarly or too simplistic. Second, the book is based on a solid foundation of relevant research in the communication field as well as related fields.” 

                                                                                                    — Calvin Brant Short, Northern Arizona University