Business Librarian
Business Communication / Jan. 2024
Communication may be considered a soft skill, but in a recent survey completed by Intelligent.com, 70% of business leaders attribute Gen Z unpreparedness for the work force to lack of communication skills and work ethic (Forbes, 2023). For January 2024, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine Business Communication.
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Business Communication
Poor or inaccurate communication is extremely costly. A survey of 400 corporations (with 100,000 plus employees in the U.S. and U.K.) estimated that ineffective or inaccurate communication costs the average organization $62.4 million per year in lost productivity.
Effective Emails: The secret to straightforward communication at work
Do you want less frustrating emails at work? Would you like replies that actually answer your questions? How about getting your team to send shorter, clearer messages? If you answered yes to any of these questions this book is for you! Effective Emails is a straightforward guide to removing the pain from writing and receiving emails at work.
Answers for Ethical Marketers
With recent changes in technology, media, and the communication landscape, the journey to ethics has become more complicated than ever before. This book aims to answer ethical questions, from applying ethics and sound judgment through your organization and communication channels to taking your ethics and values into every media interview.
Mastering Communication at Work: How to Lead, Manage, and Influence
Excellent communicating skills have always been crucial to success in leadership and management roles. In the years since it was first published, it's been the go-to "communication playbook," helping leaders develop strategic responses and communication tactics with clear, actionable advice.
The Emerald Handbook of Multi-Stakeholder Communication
This book gathers an international, multidisciplinary team of experts to present just such sorely needed insight into effective brand messaging for multiple stakeholders, all while utilizing a diverse array of theoretical and methodological approaches that cumulatively present an up-to-date overview of the whole field.
Teaching Business, Technical and Academic Writing Online and Onsite: A Writing Pedagogy Sourcebook
This book grows out of the insights gained through teaching undergraduate and graduate students in onsite, online, and blended formats for almost three decades. Using a practitioner focus, it proffers best practices utilized and validated during the process of successfully instructing students in writing their scientific or technical proposals, professional or business reports, and academic papers or doctoral dissertations at premier American universities.
Proposal Writing for Business Research Projects
This book helps students with the initial phases of their business research project, offering a clear step-by-step approach from defining aims and research questions through to conducting literature reviews and writing a methodology. Features to aid learning include chapter objectives, plenty real-life examples to demonstrate good practice, exercises to apply the concepts, and further reading for proactive investigation.
The Grant Writing Guide
A practical guide to effective grant writing for researchers at all stages of their academic careers. Grant funding can be a major determinant of promotion and tenure at colleges and universities, yet many scholars receive no training in the crucial skill of grant writing. The Grant Writing Guide is an essential handbook for writing research grants, providing actionable strategies for professionals in every phase of their careers, from PhD students to seasoned researchers.
Writing the Research Paper
Covering both theoretical and practical approaches, Writing the Research Paper guides students studying in English as a second or additional language through the skills necessary for success in university-level writing and research.
Handbook on Digital Corporate Communication
This comprehensive Handbook offers an extensive overview of current knowledge of corporate communication from a digital perspective. It provides a state-of-the-art view of the ubiquitous impact, both positive and negative, of digital technologies and digitalisation processes on corporate communication.
The Happy Inbox
Get ready to learn how to conquer the distractions caused by information and communication overload, and how to get out from under "communication clutter," so you can live a life of choice-one of action, not reaction. Feeling buried by communication clutter is that it's that state of feeling like you are always owing return communication to someone...
Grant Writing for Dummies
Use this resource, including new and updated material, to move through the entire grant-writing process and apply for some of the billions of dollars available from public and private sector sources.