Winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award 2014 Winner of the NCA Clifford G Christians Ethics Research Award 2013 from the Carl Couch Center for Social & Internet Research The crisis of incivility plaguing today's workplace calls for an approach to communication that restores respect & integrity to interpersonal encounters in organizational life Professional civility is a communicative virtue that protects & promotes productivity one's place of employment & persons with whom we carry out our tasks in the workplace Drawn from the history of professions as dignified occupations providing valuable contributions to the human community an understanding of civility as communicative virtue & Mac Intyre's treatment of practices professional civility supports the "practice" of professions in contemporary organizations A communicative ethic of professional civility requires attentiveness to the task at hand support of an organization's mission & appropriate relationships with others in the workplace Professional civility fosters communicative habits of the heart that extend beyond the walls of the workplace encouraging a return to the service ethic that remains an enduring legacy of the professions in the United States