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Jolanta Aritz
Associate Professor of Clinical Management Communication

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-821-5483
aritz@usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, University of Southern California; MA, University of Illinois - Chicago; BA, Vilnius University

Overview

Jolanta Aritz teaches Advanced Business Writing, Communication Strategy for Business, Managing Communication in Organizations, and Communication for Doctoral Students. Her research interests are in the area of international and intercultural communication, small-group interaction, and decision-making. Professor Aritz is co-editor of Discourse Perspectives on Organizational Communication, author of twelve articles, and has given 26 presentations at professional meetings. She has been awarded grants from the USC Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching and the USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative. Professor Aritz is a member of the Advisory Committee on National and International Graduate Fellowships at USC.

Research

chapter 2.C. Management Communication • 2012
Introduction • 2012
Discourse Perspectives on Organizational Communication • 2012
• 2012
Cross-cultural leadership styles • 2010
Multicultural groups in decision-making meetings: Language proficiency and group performance. • 2010
Cognitive organization and identity maintenance in cross-cultural teams: A discourse analysis of decision-making meetings • 2010
Cognitive organization and identity maintenance in cross-cultural teams: A discourse analysis of decision-making meetings • 2009
The Effects of Team Composition on Multicultural Group Performance • 2007
The Effects of Team Composition on the Performance in Decision-making Meetings. • 2007
Multicultural Team Dynamics and Attitudes about Group Work • 2007
A Videotaped Interaction Analysis of Member Contribution in Multicultural Groups • 2006
Language Loss or Linguistic Innovation: Controversial Evidence from American Lithuanian Discourse • 2002
"Self," "Familiar," and "Others" in the Narrative Structure of American Lithuanian • 2001
Evidence Against Monostylism in Language Loss Situations: Subject Focus Constructions in American Lithuanian • 2001
The Beginnings of Language Loss in Discourse: A case study of referentiality in American Lithuanian. • 2001
The Effects of the Primarily Oral Function of American Lithuanian on Writing • 2001
The Problem of Identity in Emigre and Full Language • 1999
The effects of leadership style on intercultural group communication in decision-making meetings.
Leadership in Intercultural Dialogue: A Discursive Approach
Management Communication
The effects of leadership style on intercultural group communication in decision-making meetings