Saturday, August 30, 2008

Organizational Communication

First thought that comes to our minds when thinking about Organizational Communication is how people interact within an organization. But the reality is a bit broader. An organizations success relies on how efficiently its people are able to communicate with each other and deliver the message across so that the tasks are not misunderstood and done inefficiently. Organizational communication also plays a great role in building bridges between the outer world and the company itself. Bringing more business by communicating with the clients and customers is one of the key aspect of earning the business.

Another aspect of Organizational Communication is satisfying human relationships. That how good a person feels at a work place and how it affects its working skills. Many people hate to go to work place just because of the way how people communicate with them or make them feel depressed.

Things affecting organizational communication:

There are few things that analysts have noticed that could affect the production of an organization:


1- Differences in Background
2- Levels of Communication

Hopefully we will discuss these aspects in a little more details as we move further.

1 comment:

tinyshell said...

Nobody likes to go to work and gets intimidated by others (especially their boss). However, this type of things do happen frequenty at workplaces and I've experience it before.

I used to have a manager who enjoy yelling and screaming at others when things go wrong. She thought this was the best way to get other's attention and treat her command as the 1st priority. It did worked the first few times but when it kept repeating people no longer listens. She then had to yell and sceam harder to get some attention.

As expected, the turnaround rate for our department sky-rocketed, alsmot half the department left within 6 months after she took over. Only after a few of us who stayed had the guts to approached her and told her how we felt about this whole situation. She was shocked at first but later she thanked us for being open and straight-forward. Yes I still have my job.

Sometimes, it feels so hard to change the workplace/group culture but you'll never know if you don't try. We just have to learn to talk skillfully.