CMN 2148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Organizational Communication

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

Document Summary

Practical theory; a set or principles enabling communicators to construct tentative models and approaches relevant to broad ranges of practical situations. Functional tradition; way of understanding organizational communication by describing what messages do and how they move through organizations: describes; Communication as a complex organizational process that serves organizing, relationship, and change functions. The way messages move through organizations through examining communication networks, channels, message directions, communication load, and distortion. Communication transmits rules, regulations, and information throughout the organization. Organizational communication system; number of related units that operate together to create and shape organizational events. Communication inputs; information in the external environment that may influence the decision making of the organization: almost has to be autocratic in order to avoid miscommunication or mistakes. Communications throughput; transforming and changing of input information for internal organizational use and the generation and transmission of internal information throughout the organization: approaches to keep fluid movement within the organization.