Part I: theorical issues involving administrative communication Administrative communication: domain, threats, and legitimacy - James L. Garnett Trends and gaps in the treatment of communication in organization and management theory - James L. Garnett Interorganizational communication: opportunities and challenges for public administration - Laurence J. O'Toole, jr The environmental context of communication: public sector organizations - Joseph P. Viteritti Groupthink in government: pathologies of small-group decision making - Paul `t Hart and Marceline B. R. Kroon Phenomenology of administrative communication - Jong S. Jun The relevance of administrative communication to democratic politics: communicating in democracies - Uriel Rosenthal Legal issues surrounding administrative communications - Jay A. Sigler Communicating in the innovation process: issues and guidelines - Mark L. Lame Communicating administrative issues through creative forms - Marc Holzer Communicating through humor in the workplace: looking for laughs in all the work places - Elaine Lundberg Part II: communication issues in specialized arenas Public relations management in government and business - James E. Grunig The CEO's changing communication role: precursor to effective leadership - J. David Pincus and Stephen C. Wood Boundary spanners, legitimacy, and corporate communications - Richard A. Harris Utilizing communication and information technologies in government and business - John W. Linker Communicating in policy analysis and evaluation - Dan W. Durning and Richard W. Campbell Communicating with and across experts in R&D and complex technologies - Dianne Rahm Shared risk: a dynamique model of organizational learning and action - Louise K. Comfort Communication in human resource management - Willa M. Bruce Communicating in pblic sector training and human resource development - Dorothy Olshfski and Alma M. Joseph Communicating about budgets and finance administration - Charles W. Washington Communication, productivity, and administrative reforms - Arie Halachmi Part III: communicating in global arenas Administrative communication in the international community: the united nations and the global village - Jeanne-Marie Col Communicating in a supranational organization: the case of the European Union - Elke Loffler Value change and transition: catalysts of a new societal and economic reality - Helmut Klages and Olga Schabanowa "Virtual politicking": toward a theory of e-mail use for political purposes - Celia T. Romm and Nava B. Pliskin Asia-pacific culture worlds and intercultural corporate communication - Harry Irwin Corporate/strategic planning and local government communications: the spatial policy dimension - Alan M. G. Jarman Part IV: new directions in administrative communications Applying communication analysis to administrtive phenomena: methodological approaches and insights - Holly H. Bognar From managerial dysfunction towards communicative competence: rediscovering dramaturgy and voice in communicating risk - Alexandar Kouzmin, Robert Leivesley, and Adrian Carr From "captains of ship" to "architects of organizational arks": communication innovations, globalization, and the "withering away" of leardership steering - Nada Korac-Kakabadse and Alexander Kouzmin Communication practises in public administration - Raymond L. Falcione and Allyson Downs Adrian Epilog: directions and agendas for administrative communication - James L. Garnett