Introduction: Forget Everything You Learned About Communication at Work

Jesse Sostrin

A chapter in Re-Making Communication at Work, 2013, pp 1-20 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Almost four hundred years ago the seminal philosophers John Locke and David Hume implicitly defined “communication” as a tool for the transmission of pure ideas, meaning ideas themselves are what matter, not the way they are expressed and exchanged. This perspective not only took hold, but it has survived until this day as the dominant way of defining communication. Now known as the transmission model,1 this approach to communication is the foundation of many academic courses in communication theory and practice, and it is embedded in most business literature and education programs that address subjects related to workplace communication, organization behavior and culture, leadership, conflict resolution, and more.

Keywords: Effective Communication; Transmission Model; Organizational Life; Unresolved Conflict; Workplace Communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137332769_1

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