COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Organizational Communication, Machismo, Organizational Culture

• School: UConn
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 1000
• Professor: Stephen Stifano( S I)

Document Summary

Lecture 14: organizational communication and leadership: march 25, 2019. Organizational culture: a continuum from traditional to innovative, the whole of an organization"s behavior patterns. Google: test employees, box, how would you improve emptiness. Communication in organizations: command function, telling people what to do, leading, relational function, people get to know each other, form bonds, ambiguity-management function, not everyone knows everything, how much do people at different levels need to know. Organization change: organizations must be adaptive overtime, otherwise leads to failure, sensitive to subtle changes, can result in higher-order change, can come from any level. Leadership: a lot of things that go into being a good leader. Interpersonal, productivity, vision, get other people on board. Leader-member exchange theory: focus on interactions between leaders and followers that shape organizational culture, leaders and members have relationships, extend beyond employment, form intimate bonds. Ingratiation: butt-kissing, self-promotion, assertiveness, leader trust, contextual factors, work-setting, location, cultural dimensions.