Gender and Communication at Work

Written by leading researchers from four continents this book offers a broad and contemporary assessment of the ways in which gender affects workplace communication and how this in turn influences people’s choices training opportunities and career development. A range of work situations are considered (including communication within the normal routine in a crisis or under pressure and during those occasions important for career development) and examples are sourced from a variety of contexts (including international business leadership service work and computer-mediated communication). Gender and Communication at Work includes a diversity of theoretical perspectives in order to most successfully map the range of communication strategies identities and roles which impact upon and are influenced by gender at work.