A Discourse of Stability and Change: Professional Incivility Meets the Communicative Virtue of Professional Civility

• In Event: Stability and Change in Communication Ethics: Truth, Civility and Sovereignty

Abstract

This paper examines the literature on workplace incivility, highlighting its communicative properties, and suggests an ethical communicative remedy: professional civility as communicative virtue, a practice that protects and promotes goods of productivity, persons, place, and profession.

Author

• Janie Harden Fritz, Duquesne University