MGTS2606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Corporate Communication, Organizational Culture, Videotelephony
Document Summary
Social media at work: with increasing influence of social media --> social media platforms play a key role in communication at work, while social media can enhance and enrich organisational communication experiences, it can also have problematic consequences. Fb privacy settings: organisational culture, honest expressions of concerns. Virtual teams: dynamic teams whose members are geographically and temporally dispersed but work remotely often dependent on electronic tech, tech. allows them to work promptly across time, distance and cultures, offer distinct advantages and disadvantages to organisations. Increased social isolation of a lack of face-to-face contact. Disadvantages of virtual teams: varying degrees of trust within and between teams, communication issues, asynchronous communication assoc. with greater communication problems, technology failures. Lean communication, social presence, and low interactivity: conflict between supervisors and subordinates due to perceived loss of power, poor management of conflict. Flexibility in work schedules can lead to reduced routine supervision.
