Assuming a unique perspective for an organizational communication text, this " handbook" focuses students on how to communicate with managers and peers to survive, thrive and prosper in organizational environments. The nature of organizations; nonverbal communication; administration, supervision, and communication; barriers to effective communication, communication traits, perceptions of people in organizations, approaches to management, management styles and decision-making, power and status, organizational culture, supervisory and subordinate relationships; and disagreement, conflict and Groupthink. Organizational communication.