Managerial Communication or Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World

Managerial Communication: Bridging Theory and Practice

Author: Charles Beck

Innovative in perspective, this book emphasizes the extremely close connection between communication and the traditional functions of management. It explores both the objective elements of communication (sender, message, channel and receiver) and the subjective elements (assumptions, purpose — intention/audience, and interpretation. It recognizes — and emphasizes — that human communication is complex and that communication is not the message sent, but the message received. Describes how communication works. Discusses the basic communication skills in listening, public speaking, writing, and networking. Explores communication in relation to management and leadership -- and the communication climate. Addresses specific types of communication that managers need in motivating people, helping teams function, conducting meetings, and managing conflict. Considers special topics in management communication, including ethics, organizational change for total quality, and relating to the wider community. Outlines alternatives for explaining information to diverse audiences. Offers a table of Manager's Tips in each chapter. For managers, directors, and department heads of all types, in all functions, at all levels.

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Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice

Author: Brad Weiss

At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and the producer of everyday practices. Drawing on his experience living with the Haya, Brad Weiss explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their community, and examines the forces that shape and transform these practices over time. In particular, he shows how the Haya, a group at the fringe of the global economy, have responded to the processes and material aspects of money, markets, and commodities as they make and remake their place in a changing world.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	An Orientation to the Study	1
I	Making the World	27
2	"Evil Flee, Goodness Come In": Creating and Securing Domesticity	29
3	Hearthplaces and Households: Haya Culinary Practices	51
4	Mealtime: Providing and Presenting a Meal	80
5	A Moral Gastronomy: Value and Action in the Experience of Food	127
II	The World Unmade	151
6	Plastic Teeth Extraction: An Iconography of Gastrosexual Affliction	155
7	"Buying Her Grave": Money, Movement, and AIDS	179
8	Electric Vampires: From Embodied Commodities to Commoditized Bodies	202
9	Conclusions: The Enchantment of the Disenchanted World	220
	Notes	227
	References	239
	Index	247