Organizing the Organizational Communication Course: Content and Pedagogical Recommendations

Abstract

Organizational communication extends beyond communication that takes place in an organizational context to the ways communication is used to organize and facilitate activity. This article is designed to enhance organizational communication pedagogy practices by highlighting foundational concepts and content areas that should be included in undergraduate organizational communication courses. Additionally, four active learning assignments, including case studies, applied organizational communication theory papers, organizational audits, and media assignments, are described to enhance student engagement with class material and to assess student learning. Finally, the article includes common issues to help educators anticipate concerns and plan effective classroom strategies.

Communication Technology and Social Support to Navigate Work/Life Conflict During Covid-19 and Beyond

“…Nevertheless, paid work and private life boundaries can collide and disrupt role performance across domains (Greenhaus & Beutell, 1985). Negative spillover, when events from one domain interfere in detrimental ways in another domain, creates work/life conflict (Riforgiate et al, 2021). Two directions of work/life conflict exist: conflict flowing from the workplace to the home (work-to-life) and conflict emanating in private life that disrupts work (life-to-work).…”