Practicing Professional Civility: Communication Ethics in the Workplace

Christianity and Communication Studies Network

This workshop presents communication principles that lead to healthy organizational relationships, productivity, and human flourishing.

Presenter: <a href="https://www.duq.edu/faculty-and-staff/janie-harden-fritz.php" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Janie Harden Fritz</a>, PhD, Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne UniversityDescription: How can we communicate with others in the workplace in ways that support productivity and human flourishing? This workshop presents communication principles that lead to healthy organizational relationships. Topics include language and shared meaning, content and relationship dimensions of messages, and the power of communication in shaping work contexts. Opportunities for questions, discussion, reflection, and application invite participants to put professional civility into practice in their own institutions.Dr. Fritz (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is professor and director of the BA, MA, and PhD programs in the Department of Communication &amp; Rhetorical Studies. She teaches courses at the undergraduate, MA, and PhD levels, including Exploring Interpersonal Communication, Exploring Leadership Communication, Intercultural Communication, Organizational Communication, Communication Research Methods, Communication Ethics and Professional Civility, Rhetoric and Philosophy of Organizational Communication and Leadership, and Rhetoric and Philosophy of Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication. Dr. Fritz holds the William Patrick Power, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Academic Leadership (2019–2024).Dr. Fritz’s research focuses on communicative practices that constitute, sever, and restore the ties that bind individuals to the institutions of which they are a part. She is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Civility-Communicative-Virtue-Work-ebook/dp/B07FW42FH8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Professional+Civility%3A+Communicative+Virtue+at+Work&qid=1646595387&sr=8-1" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professional Civility: Communicative Virtue at Work </a>(Peter Lang) and has co-edited or co-authored four other books. Her most recent work focuses on the intersection of professional civility and leadership practices. Dr. Fritz is a past president of the Eastern Communication Association and the Religious Communication Association (RCA) and currently serves as executive director of the RCA. Dr. Fritz is editor-in-chief of Listening/Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture and editor of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.

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