COM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Organizational Communication
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Organizations- social collectives, or groups of people, in which activities are coordinated to achieve both individual and collective goals. The ways in which groups of people both maintain structure and order through their symbolic interactions and allow individual actors the freedom to accomplish their goals. Organizational communication students gain an understanding of organizations on both the large and small scale. Learn to analyze organizations and make recommendations for improvements using their understanding of different types and levels of communication. Economic orientation- organizations that manufacture products and/or offer services for consumers. Political orientation- organizations that generate and distribute power and control within society. Integration orientation- organizations that help mediate and resolve discord among members of society. Pattern maintenance orientation- organizations that promote cultural and educational regularity and development within society. Patterns of relationships through which information flows in an organization. Messages that follow prescribed channels of communication throughout the organization. Downward communication- messages flowing from superiors to subordinates.
