The Social Network and a Reflection of the Past

An end of term review

Approaches to Organizational Communication

Chapter 2 mainly discusses about four approaches to organizational communication. The first approach is having communication as information transfer. It is an approach in which information flows from one person to another considering the fact that both…

Weeks 5 & 6 — The Systems Perspective

We’ve spent the last couple of weeks wrestling with machine metaphors for organizations, and now we’re turning to a different metaphor: systems. The biggest difference between the systems perspective and the approaches we’ve studied is that the systems perspective…

Week 2 - Defining Organizational Communication

Reading Assignment: Chapter 2

Watching Assignment: none, though many episodes of Scandal may be interesting to think about

Week 11: Communication & Pitch Perfect

The Barden Bellas follow a very hierarchical leadership structure and the leaders make all the decisions. While they have two leaders in their organization, Aubrey typically ends up making the decisions based upon what she thinks is best.

Computer Science: Outsourcing, the Global Economy, and the Exaggerated IT Apocalypse

Through the readings and the “watchings” for this week, several topics held striking relevance to the core concepts behind computer science — some so stark it seemed appropriate to…

Centrality of Power in Organization

As per definition Power is assume that it is something that is possessed by group or a person and their effects can be seen through actions. In paper written by Robert French and Bertram Raven (1968), they described five types of social power. They follow that assumption person A has a…

Week 7: Organizational Culture and Socialization

Chapter 5 introduces the cultural metaphor for studying organizations. It argues that competitive pressure, interpretive methodology, and social concerns led to the rise of this approach (pp. 125–131). Specifically, it introduces three…

Strategic Ambiguity and Communication

In the chapter, “Defining Organizational Communication” there is a lot of insight on how important definitions are especially when trying to communicate in a specific organizational setting. It gives the example of how in a business; certain terms are expected to…

Week 4 — Human relations and human resources approaches to management

This week we’re focusing on the last half of chapter 3 in which we were introduced to two more theories of management:

• human relations: “aimed at restoring whole human beings and…