COMN 4115 Lecture Notes - Technostructure, Organizational Communication, Communication Studies

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 4115
• Professor: Dalton Kehoe

Document Summary

Large number of components (like university, everyone is different, many choices for programs, courses, etc) Remain basically the same relationship (no matter what course, still teacher/student relationship but each client is still unique) Appropriate structure: high division of labour job specialization: no geography teacher would teach math or communication studies, no anthropologists teach business courses. High formalization everyone knows generally what their job is supposed to be. Context: complex yet stable box 3, inputs alike but can have changing relationship to core operators. Issues: advantages of democracy and autonomy, but, problems of coordination, reluctance to innovate, last thing most want to do is make changes because they have spent years training in a specific way. Autonomous operators in the core (doctors, professors) Because the core operators dr. "s for example are supposed to deal with each client separately that"s the complex at one level people are unique. A large set of labels for diseases each of which binds together.