Organizational Discourses - A Literature Review

Abstract

Reaching effective communication by organizations represents a challenging mission. The objective of this article is to discuss the communication strategies and organizational discourse practices studied by various researchers and published in nine major academic journals between 1981 and 2015. After reviewing the literature, the findings illustrate that annual reports are examined by revealing different structures, catalogues of sub-texts, types of discourses, graphs, themes, indicators, words classifications. Study of organizational discourses using communication theories offer valued information to the researchers and organizations. Literature review was performed in academic articles referring to human resources that allowed us to observe what information about employees is relevant for the organizational discourses.

Keywords

• strategic communication; organizational discourses; annual reports