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Organizational Communication: A Review and Analysis of Three Current Approaches to the Field

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Elizabeth More

Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education

This article examines the study of organizational communication as presently offered by the fields of Organizational Behavior, Organiza tional Communication, and Business Communication. Concerns, philoso phies, and methodologies of the three areas are compared in order to identify the current conceptual framework of organizational commu nication. The critical issues explored are those concerned with questions of academic respectability, which is centered on the theoretic versus skills orientations of communication; centrality, which reviews the debate on whether communication is a central or peripheral variable in organizations; and the consequences of studying organizational communication in the three fields.

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