Professional Ethics Will be Topic of Noted Scholar's Talk Feb. 23
For release: February 13, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Internationally renowned communication scholar Dr. George E. Cheney will discuss professional ethics at the seventh annual Michael M. Osborn Communication Lecture at the University of Memphis.

His presentation, "Discourses of Professional Ethics in an Age of Careerism, Consumerism and Contingency - or How Americans Minimize Ethics at Work, and What Can Be Done About It," will begin at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, in the Fogelman Executive Center, Room 123. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Cheney is a professor of communication at the University of Utah. He also is an adjunct professor in the Department of Management Communication at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. Recognized for teaching and research, Cheney often lectures internationally in Western Europe and Latin America.

Cheney has authored, co-authored, or co-edited four books and has published more than 70 articles, chapters and editorials. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including Research Article of the Year from the National Communication Association, Golden Anniversary Monograph from the National Communication Association, and Best Book from the International Communication Association.

His teaching and research interests encompass organizational communication, contemporary theory and rhetorical criticism, and applied ethics. His specific areas of emphasis include: identity and power in organizations, quality of worklife, employee participation and workplace democracy, the marketization of society, corporate social responsibility and globalization.

The lecture is sponsored by the U of M's Department of Communication. For more information, call 678-2565.

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