SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Organizational Culture, Enculturation
24 Jun 2013
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Organizational analysis or perspective is a view interested in the precise ways that the structure of an organization and the processes it understakes mutually influence one another in the production of media. Organization: a system (network) or ordered relationships and coordinated activities directed toward specific goals. One way to get at that relationship is to analyze the communicative practices that occur within organizations. Organization defines and effects the kinds of messages that you promote. Two aspects to any organization: structure= form. A) hierarchy; relationship of roles: names/ titles, financial institutions. B) specialization; division of an organization into units. C) formalization; formal standards: process= behaviour. Of the stories that are told about that organization: how it works, what it values. Technology: structure + process = organizational culture. Stories we tell about ourselves: texts organizational culture. Written documents that an organization produces: management organizational culture: How an organization is directed or managed: technology organizational culture:
