CMN 2148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Organizational Communication, Crisis Communication, Organizational Identification

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

Document Summary

Identify career option areas and educational preparation for organizational communication. Relate personal and organizational values to the employment match. Understand continuous change as important for careers. Careers are the sum total of job experiences over time. Employment match: knowledge for employment matching. Develop knowledge about the functional requirements needed in specific occupational categories: sensitivity for employment matching. Know what sensitivities the organization has: skills for employment matching. Know your technical qualifications: values for employment matching. Evaluate your values versus those of the organization. Broad liberal arts background with emphasis on combination of theory and practical courses. Overview of the human communication process, an introduction to basic concepts and theories in organizational communication, and an understanding of how theories of organizations relate to human communication. Development of oral skills for interpersonal, small-group, and public settings. Basic research methods and statistics are essential for evaluating and collecting data, a responsibility of many communication positions.