Dr. Phil Salem

About Dr. Salem

Biography and Education

Dr Salem has directed over 500 student assessments of organizational communication, and he has conducted over 150 organizational communication consultant interventions. He is one of the first people to study or teach about communication and technology, and he is the author of one of the first textbooks on the topic. Other recent work relates complexity theory to human communication, and to communication and organizational change. He was instrumental in establishing the Texas State Mediation Program. He was the third person to receive the Outstanding Member Award for Contributions to the Discipline and the Association from the Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association.

Teaching Interests

Organizational communication, human communication technology, conflict management.

Research Interests

Organizational communication, human communication technology, complexity theory, conflict management, communication networks.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

Salem, P. J., & Timmerman, C. E. (2018). Transformative practice and research in organizational communication. Transformative Practice and Research in Organizational Communication. Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global.https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2823-4

Salem, P. J., & Timmerman, C. E. (2018). Forty years of organizational communication. In Transformative practice and research in organizational communication (pp. 1–28). Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global.

Salem, P. J. (2018). Transformative organizational communication practices. In Transformative practices and research in organizational communication (pp. 109–129). Hersey, PA, USA: IGI Global.

Salem, P. J. (2016). Human communication technology. Austin, Texas, USA: Sentia Publishing.

Salem, P. J. (2013). The complexity of human communication. Cresskill, NJ, USA: Hampton Press.