This work focuses on the current research on and implications of globalization for social organizations and the study of organizational communication. The chapters are wide-ranging in terms of how they approach international and intercultural issues and draw on a wide range of literatures.

Introduction, George A. Barnett and George Cheney. Meanings Of Diversity Management. Cultural Diversity Training: A Critical (Ironic) Cartography of Advocacy and Oppositional Silences, Susan Hafen. Through the Subject's Eye: Situating the Other in Discourses of Diversity, Debashish Munshi. Cross-Cultural Identities And Tensions. How Relevant is Trust Anyway? A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Trust in Organizational and Peer Relationships, Deborah A. Cai and Chun-ju Flora Hung. Data-Driven Dynamic Models (3-D) for Intercultural Communication and Diversity Training in Organizations, Catherine Becker. One Million Initial Conditions: At-one-ment as Organizational Coherence, Renee Houston and Mark Lawrence McPhail. Focus On Mexican Organizations. Possessing a ""Sense of Community"": A Study of Employee Perceptions in Selected Organizations in Mexico, Hector R. Diaz-Saenz and Patricia D. Witherspoon. An Interpretive Study Messages and Organizational Culture in a Mexican Multinational Company, Mariela Prez Chavarria. Studies In A Global Perspective. The Myth of the Nongovernmental Organization: Governmentality and Transnationalism in an Indian NGO, Shiv Ganesh. Organizational Communication and Globally Displaced Perimeter Populations: A Neglected Challenge for Intercultural Communications Training, Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngail and Peter J. Koehn. Author Index. Subject Index.