The Content of: COMMUNICATIONS COURSES

THERE IS a growing tendency for industrial managements to recognise the importance to morale and efficiency; of effective communications‐horizontal and vertical, individual and collective, within the workplace, and between the organisation and the outside world. This has led to an increased interest within colleges, and to the establishment of teaching posts in Communications, mainly within departments of Management and Liberal Studies. However, because this movement is still in its infancy there is no general body of agreement as to the subject matter of a course in Communications, or how it should be taught. The following notes are therefore offered in the hope that they may stimulate some fruitful thought and discussion. They will be concerned with immediate and practical matters only; for, in the nature of things, it will be many years before a body of generally received theory can be built up.