CMN 2148 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Job Satisfaction, Five Ws, Organizational Communication

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2148
• Professor: Mary Hawkins

Document Summary

Karl weick (1979: organizations are in the process of existing through ongoing human interaction. Steps to decision making: choosing ways to approach the goal, assigning individual responsibilities within the project, deciding what resources the group will need. Influence: creates and changes organizational events, contributing factors to organizing and decisions making include, who we see as influential, whys people seek to influence others, how people respond to influence, identification, socialization, communication rules, power. Assimilation; myers & oetzel (2003: organizational assimilation processes occur across six dimensions, familiarity/friendships, acculturation, recognition. 3: involvement, job competency, role negotiation, scott and myers (2010, a complex membership negotiation (sought via information seeking) along multiple dimensions within organizational social and work systems. 21st century emerging perspectives: communication constitutes organizations (cco, postmodernism, critical theory, feminist, race, class theory. Organizational communication is therefore the focal process for this construction and negotiation.