Polycultural Perspectives on Organizational Communication (original) (raw)

Management Communication Quarterly, 1992

Abstract

The article proposes a new field I am calling polycultural organizational communication. This field is defined as encompassing theorizing and research involving organizations in both international and domestic settings in which cultural differences operate (multicultural settings). Polycultural organizational communication encompasses both cross-cultural (comparative) and intercultural theories and research. The article delineates (a) the need for the field brought about by increasing diversity; (b) the potential contributions of the new field to the study of communication, including the bringing together of organizational and intercultural communication; (c) the contribution of this area to practice in actual organizational settings; and (d) the theoretical and practical issues that need to be addressed to develop theory and research in this new area.

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