Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication provides a sophisticated overview of the fundamentals of organizational communication as a field of study, examining the field's foundations and providing an assessment of the field to date.

Anne M. Nicotera is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication at George Mason University and an organizational communication consultant. Her research is grounded in a constitutive perspective. She has published six books and numerous articles in outlets such as Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Health Communication.

Part I: Organizational Communication History 1. Organizing the Study of Organizational Communication 2. Developments in the 20th Century 3. Developments in the 21st Century 4. Paradigms: Ways of Knowing in Organizational Communication Part II: Foundational Organizational Theory 5. Classical Management Theory 6. Human Relations Theory 7. Human Resource Management Theory Part III: Topics in Theory and Research 8. Socialization 9. Communication Networks 10. Workplace Relationships 11. Identity and Identification 12. Power and Resistance 13. Gender and Feminist Theory 14. Difference and Intersectionality 15. Groups, Teams, and Decision Making 16. Conflict 17. A Communicative Approach to Leadership 18. The Structuration of Emotion 19. Technology and Organizational Communication 20. Globalization and Organizational Communication 21. Organizational Change