Employee Development at the Workplace: Achieving Empowerment in a Continuous Learning Environment

Author(s): Edward Woods

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2005

Pages: 190

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Employee Development at the Workplace describes the communication characteristics employees need to acquire for career success.  The main ideas that power this text are simple, but of great value to students. 

Employee Development at the Workplace advocates that readers engage in behaviors and practices that build credibility, and develop communication skills associated with self-empowerment.  It provides an innovative stage framework for analyzing employee development, with the identification and exploration of communication competencies associated with each stage.  Integrating a focus on organizational competencies with adaptation to a variety of organizational structures, this text emphasizes the widely adopted and highly influential continuous learning organizational structure.

Preface     

Chapter 1 Communication at the Workplace:   First Principles       

Communication, Credibility, and Influence   

Competence    

Trustworthiness    

Dynamism    

Communication and Credibility    
Credibility and Empowerment    
Communication Competencies and Employee
Development   
For Discussion    

Chapter 2 The Cultural Context of Organizations       

Definition of Culture    
Traditional Typologies of Culture    

Loose or Tight   

Edward Woods


Employee Development at the Workplace describes the communication characteristics employees need to acquire for career success.  The main ideas that power this text are simple, but of great value to students. 

Employee Development at the Workplace advocates that readers engage in behaviors and practices that build credibility, and develop communication skills associated with self-empowerment.  It provides an innovative stage framework for analyzing employee development, with the identification and exploration of communication competencies associated with each stage.  Integrating a focus on organizational competencies with adaptation to a variety of organizational structures, this text emphasizes the widely adopted and highly influential continuous learning organizational structure.

Preface     

Chapter 1 Communication at the Workplace:   First Principles       

Communication, Credibility, and Influence   

Competence    

Trustworthiness    

Dynamism    

Communication and Credibility    
Credibility and Empowerment    
Communication Competencies and Employee
Development   
For Discussion    

Chapter 2 The Cultural Context of Organizations       

Definition of Culture    
Traditional Typologies of Culture    

Loose or Tight   

Edward Woods