CMN 2148 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Organizational Communication, Onboarding, Structuration Theory

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

Document Summary

The functional tradition, the meaning-centered approach, and emerging. Perspectives for understanding organizational communication help us ask questions important for analyzing problems: the following questions are included for the purpose of use throughout the text as we analyze a variety of organizational problems. How can change occur: how is rationality conceptualized and presented, how do institutions influence particular organizations, how do global cultural differences influence organizational collaborations, describe how technology influences issues of power, marginalization, culture, and participation in decision making. 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.