CMN 2148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Communication, Sensemaking, Human Communication
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Created through communication, and therefore: organizations are fluid and in perpetual process, what an organization is and can be is influenced by perceptions, biases, beliefs, fears, etc. communication is central to the process. They can both closed and open systems (how open are they to their external environment?) A change in one element can affect the whole. The process of making sense out of the world and sharing that sense with others. Remuneration (more than just % leave for ) Metaphors are devices for understanding one element in terms of another: e. g. the corporate world is a jungle (competitive) Metaphors offer an insightful and creative way to describe things. They have an emotional component to them. (see dreams) Metaphors capture the essence, but in a partial way: the corporate world is more than a jungle! So, metaphors work well when their limits are recognized and when more than one is used to describe things.