Communication Styles and Methods for Promoting and Enhancing Faculty Professionalism in the Workplace

Abstract

The effective and efficient workplace communication lies in knowing the right tools and appropriate channels for particular circumstance. Any member of the organization should have ability to communicate interpersonally that exhibits ability to adapt to diversified workplace, culture and social systems. Communicators have styles that reflect their characteristics as active, connective, thinking and logical. In addition, communicators can be categorized on their communication methods as director, expresser, harmonizer and thinker. To this effect, this study which aimed to determine the professionals’ assessment of the aforementioned variables yielded the impressions that most communicators are logical in their communication style; hence, they are thinkers in their method of communication. The significant difference between the respondents’ communication methods and style shows the versatility of the respondents to adjust communications styles and methods to the organization’s structure and culture as they engage in interrelated communication.