MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION

The field of management communication is one of the more current accompaniments to the business school prospectus. Most graduate business schools added such courses to their rosters about 20 years ago in response to requests from the business and academic communities for better printed and oral skills from alumnae.

Although all college and even high school graduates in the United States obtain some official instruction in inscription, this training tends to focus on minutia pretty than on communication strategy or issues of organization, which are critical in business writing. And few graduates receive any training prior to graduate school in the art of verbal presentation.

Thus, the first management communication  courses residential in the early on part of this century (Harvard Business School and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business were pio- neers in this effort) tended to spotlight on developing writing and speaking skills to help students prepare  themselves for executive careers.  Today, virtually all graduate schools teach a mixture of management communication, which includes: communication strategy, managerial writing, oral appearance, cross-cultural communication, as well as corporate communication.