13601Purpose: Participate in a Culture Walk: One way to observe the culture in your organization is to take a walk through the building to look at some of the signs of culture. For example: How is space allocated? Where are the offices located? Are supervisors located on...
13597Purpose: The systems approach to organizational communication is a powerful and insightful perspective. It shifts away from individual-focused explanations of organizational behavior to a perspective explaining organizational communication. Organizational communication behavior has to be understood contextually and holistically, rather than by dividing it up and looking...
13596One of the most important features of a system is its ordering into a hierarchy. Systems are not structured on a single level but rather process information and function dynamically across multiple levels. As such, any system is made up of interrelated and interdependent subsystems...
13591As a founding theory of organizational management, Fordism involved a technical revolution in which the very nature of work was transformed, going through what might be termed a process of rationalization — the application of rational principles to make work as efficient and productive as...
13590Purpose: Fordism is a founding capitalistic approach to organizational communication management. From this framework, the classical theories of management (scientific management, bureaucratic theory, human relations theory, and human resource management) are all key to managing and maintaining Fordism at the organizational level; each of these theories...
13582Purpose: When you focus on a communication perspective, you move away from thinking of organizations as formal structures within which people communicate and toward thinking of organizations as existing only because of the collective communication processes in which people engage. In this assignment, you will research...
13581Critical cultural studies researchers explore the systems of shared meanings that connect members of a particular group or community. Such shared meanings are developed through systems of representation that enable communities to make sense of the world in particular ways. Systems of representation involve not...
13580Respond or elaborate on the response below: I am going to write about a workplace that I used to be a part of. The culture and organization needed drastic improvement. In my opinion the biggest issue that I saw was maximizing work time. In the United...
13579Respond or elaborate on the response below: One of the worst organizations I’ve been a part of was a process improvement group at my current duty assignment. While the mission was great, the group struggled a lot with communication and coordination. Three major tensions that really...
13578One of the defining features of an organization is that it coordinates the behaviors of its members so that they can work collectively. But while coordination is a nice concept in theory, it is surprisingly complicated to achieve in practice. One of the principal factors...