Communications Management

Communications management is the systematic planning, implementing, monitoring, and revision of all the channels of communication within an organization, and between organizations; it also includes the organization and dissemination of new communication directives connected with an organization, network, or communications technology. Aspects of communications management include developing corporate communication strategies, designing internal and external communications directives, and managing the flow of information, including online communication. It¿s the manager¿s responsibility to determine if their employee¿s personality falls under the following: Reactors, Workaholics, Persisters, Dreamers, Rebels, or Promoters. This book focuses on the communication management of multi-organizational international projects. Furthermore, it focuses on the importance of effective communication in the planning stage of this kind of projects. The empirical data supports the literature about the importance of effective communication at this stage of the project since the lack of effective communication at this planning stage increases the chances of the failure of the whole project.