COMN 4115 Lecture Notes - Organizational Culture, Accept (Organization), Organizational Communication
17 Dec 2013
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Limit the variability of human behavior: pressure towards similarity. General effort to socialize you into the way the organization works: people must take account of others in their behavior, balance personal needs and goals with organizations needs and goals. Authority: we give them the right to this, the people who own the business can tell employees what to do. Accept coordination by both organizing rules, relationship communication, and communication-behavior cycles (ask-listen-act) To influence another person"s behavior to produce desired outcomes. This alters the conditions of effective communication. Organizations are systems of interrelated parts and functions. Two key survival functions: production, maintenance. The pattern of interrelatedness an organization develops is called it"s structure: structure is the pattern of arrangement that goes on between the various elements that serve the functions. The sum of these three elements is called the organizational culture. Growth means more focus on system guidance and environment.
