Organizational Communication

What is organizational communication?

Our research and teaching are based on an understanding of organizational communication as a multifaceted managerial and social activity that needs to be studied from a multi- or interdisciplinary perspective. Communication is used in organizations not only to convey ideas and represent objects of knowledge. It is also used strategically and performatively to construct realities and to make things happen. A better understanding of the dynamics and complexities of organizational communication thus bears relevance not only for communications and management professionals, but also policy makers and other practitioners in the broader field of organizational communication, strategic management, and business-society –relations.

Our educational offering

The Unit is responsible for teaching a variety of mandatory and elective courses in the School’s BSc program, such as Mastering Influence in Business Communication, Scientific Thinking and Writing, Communication and Interaction Skills in Business, and Management Communication. Our teaching in the BSc specialization in Management and the MSc Programs, Strategic Management in a Changing World and People Management and Organizational Development, focuses on the subject areas of leadership in organizations, strategy communication, and social responsibility communication.

Doctoral training in organizational communication

As one of the major areas of specialization of the Aalto Doctoral Program in Business, Economics and Finance, the unit also offers comprehensive research training in organizational communication. The multidisciplinary research profile of the unit gives doctoral researchers the academic freedom to pursue interesting projects that defy disciplinary boundaries, within the broad field of organizational communication and management studies.

Research in organizational communication

Research and teaching in the unit of Organizational Communication focuses on the social and communicative practices through which organizations, communities, and societies are managed and organized. The unit has a unique research profile in interdisciplinary organizational communication studies.