COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ahold, Sharpening, Organizational Communication
29 Mar 2017
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A lot of people hate working in groups. Comes from all the different individual roles, different behaviors, the stressors that come with a group dynamic, social anxiety. 74% of people said they preferred working in groups rather than working on something on their own. Millennials expect more and more positive interactions with their work supervisors. Millennials also expect open communication from their supervisors. Millennials prefer to work in teams, it is more fun and less risk. People are starting to want different things so companies are going to have to start changing their ways. Command function: telling people what to do. Relational function: maintaining the relationships between people in the company, people above or below us in the company, can work in all levels of hierarchy. Ambiguity-management function: there are going to be things that are unclear to some members, to some degree that can be problematic. Controlling how much people know about things at a certain level.
