Re: Hillside Yellers

[Doug Bedell <dougb@paonline.com>]

Gordon - There is a new book published in the U.S. that should give  
you solace and encouragement. It's "Engaging Communication ,  
Transforming Organizations – Scholarship of Engagement in Action",  
edited by Jennifer Lyn Simpson and Pamela Shockley-Zalabak, Hampton  
Press Inc., Cresskill, NJ. It's a collection of papers by scholars in  
organizational communication who believe very much in being involved  
in the workplace and feeing backing to their teaching new insights  
from those "engaged" experiences. This, the book holds, is the way it  
has to be done. Too much is changing to have separate realms anymore.  
The second chapter, "Bridging Theory and Practice in Organizational  
Communication" by David Seibold – as far as I have gotten in the book  
so far – bears on the situation you describe in Scotland. You've got  
company in the U.S.!

Doug Bedell
Resource Relations
Building Communities of Interest
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