COMM 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Organizational Communication, Organizational Identification, Organizational Culture

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Dale Herbeck

Document Summary

Understanding how to com effectively will enhance professional success, allow you to. Influence indivs and indivs influence orgs ask more informed questions about everyday practices, and help you decide what organizations to frequent and support. Process of interacting as students and teacher that gives meaning. Organizations- set of interactions that members of purposeful groups use to accomplish their individual and common goals. Indivs alter or maintain organizations, and members, with comm. Organizational members pursue goals: not random indiv and collective goals. Properties that organizational comm exhibits: function- the goals and effects of comm. Production- function in which activity is coordinated toward accomplishing tasks. Maintenance- function of preserving stability of existing systems. Innovation- function by means of which systems are changed: structure- recurring patterns of interaction among organizational members. Traditionally, lines of comm assume hierarchy a power structure in which some members exercise authority over others. Downward comm- in traditional conduit model of comm, comm with subordinates.