The Routledge Handbook of Employee Communication and Organizational Processes

This Routledge Handbook takes a truly global and multidisciplinary approach to exploring all facets of employee communication.

Beginning with two key disciplinary approaches―organizational communication and public relations―scholars capture and define employee communication from both perspectives, addressing commonalities and bridging disciplinary differences. This volume places importance on the everyday communicative behaviors by internal members such as leaders, managers, inter/generational cohorts, employees, and those working on behalf of organizations, such as social media influencers, and on expansive conceptualizations of employee communication such as chatbots, environment, and global supply chain members involved in organizing. With a focus on employees in situ, the authors respond to these key questions: in what ways is employee communication relevant today? What does employee communication entail? How, why, and to what extent does employee communication influence or become influenced by organizational processes?

Investigating antecedents, organizational contexts and processes, and consequences of employee communication, and offering key theoretical information and empirically driven recommendations for practice, this handbook will be an essential resource for students, researchers, and industry practitioners in employee communication, organizational communication, business and management, leadership communication, and public relations more generally.

Soojin Kim is an Associate Professor and Program Director in the School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Her research seeks to find connections between public/stakeholder insights and organizations’ optional strategies for facilitating meaningful engagement and collaboration. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, including Public Relations Review, Communication Research, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Communication, and International Journal of Strategic Communication.

Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida, USA. Her primary research areas are organizational communication, career, work-life, resilience, feminist/gender organizing, and design. She has been honored with the Purdue Provost Mentorship Award and Distinguished Professorship, as well as ICA’s B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award.

Alessandra Mazzei is a Professor of Management at IULM University, Milan, Italy. She has been awarded with several scientific prizes and published several books and articles in journals such as International Journal of Strategic Communication, Corporate Communications: An International Journal, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Journal of Business Research. Her research interests focus on internal communication and employee engagement, organizational voice and silence, whistleblowing, and internal crisis communication.

Jeong-Nam Kim is a communication theorist. He is known for his theory, Situational Theory of Problem Solving (STOPS), and is the founder and leader of the DaLI (Debiasing and Lay Informatics) laboratory, which aims to tackle some of the most pressing information problems of our time such as pseudo-information, public biases, and failing information markets.