The Business Communication Profession

Janis Forman is Founding Director of the Management Communication Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Professor Forman has received academic awards from the Association for Business Communication and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has published extensively on organizational storytelling, collaboration, corporate communication, and translation and consults for many organizations.

This book provides a unique orientation to the present, past, and future of the field of business communication by collecting reflective essays from some of its most influential scholars, teachers, and leaders.

Chapter 1. Introduction, Janis Forman Chapter 2. Take Two Xanax and Call Me in the Morning; or, Career Tension in Business Communication, Ronald Dulek Chapter 3. Cultivating a Liberal Arts Perspective on Workplace Communication, Deborah C. Andrews Chapter 4. "Only Connect" Between Personal Life and Professional Choice, Scholarship and Teaching, My Generation and the Next", Janis Forman Chapter 5. Collaborative Networking for Better Teaching and Research, Peter W. Cardon Chapter 6. To Summon the Future: Defining the Field and Deciding What to Teach, N. Lamar Reinsch, Jr. Chapter 7. The Visual Expeditions and Related Adventures of a Teacher, Scholar, and Administrator, Charles Kostelnick Chapter 8. Persisting in the Field of Business Communication: "There's Really Something to It", Priscilla S. Rogers Chapter 9. Selling My Soul: Moving from the Humanities to Business Communication, Daphne A. Jameson Chapter 10. My Experiential Learning Journey as a Management Communication Teacher-Scholar, Gail Fann Thomas Chapter 11. Developing from a Teacher to a Scholar Across Cultures: The Moves from the East to the West and Back Again, Bertha Du-Babcock