Research Guides: OER: Business Communication

Business Communication OER

Group or Team Communication Resources
Many university courses require team presentations and collaborative reports. The materials listed below offer brief but salient advice on how to succeed with such assignments.
Guide to Communication and Corporate Culture
This guide explains one way of classifying corporate cultures and how to recognize different cultures as a job-seeker or adapt to them as a new employee.
How to Detect Cultural Differences
This module prepares engineering students who are undertaking engineering projects in developing countries to detect cultural differences that affect communication and cooperation.
How to Conduct a Meeting in an Intercultural Setting
This module offers a version of the Harvard Negotiating Process suitable for conducting village meetings and intercultural discussions about engineering projects in student outreach programs such as Engineers without Borders.

Saylor is a unique resource that can be used in a couple of different ways.

Anyone wanting to take a class and not get any credit can take a "course" at Saylor.
Resources that they use can be viewed to incorporate into your class.
Students can use this as supplemental material.

Corporate Communication
Effective communication skills are a prerequisite for succeeding in business. Communication tools and activities connect people within and beyond the organization in order to establish the business's place in the corporate community and the social community, and as a result, that communication needs to be consistent, effective, and customized for the business to prosper.
Crisis Communication
Crisis communication is one of the many specialized areas or functions of public relations. This course will specifically focus on the use of crisis communication to protect and defend a company or organization facing a problem or challenge that threatens to harm its brand or reputation.