This document discusses a communication challenge at a university dining location where the author works as a student manager. Specifically, there is ineffective communication between supervisors, student managers, and regular employees regarding when formal vs casual communication is appropriate and responsibilities. The author analyzes this using Giddens' structuration theory, which explains how social structures emerge from individual actions. To address the problem, the author proposes an intervention plan involving assessing communication needs through employee reviews, implementing regular performance reviews and meetings, and evaluating the results over time to improve cooperation and effectiveness.
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Communication can be a dangerous word ā seemingly positive and action-orientated, but potentially laden with misunderstanding if used without thinking, writes Donnie MacNicol.
Internal communications in the workplace has undergone tremendous changes. Technology, remote working, globalization, and flat structures have led businesses to rethink how they communicate with their employees.
In these slides, we discuss, what internal communications is, how to put an effective internal comms plan in place, and the latest trends, standards, benefits, and challenges.
Project communication breakdown - APM Project ArticleDonnie MacNicol
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Communication can be a dangerous word ā seemingly positive and action-orientated, but potentially laden with misunderstanding if used without thinking, writes Donnie MacNicol.
Internal communications in the workplace has undergone tremendous changes. Technology, remote working, globalization, and flat structures have led businesses to rethink how they communicate with their employees.
In these slides, we discuss, what internal communications is, how to put an effective internal comms plan in place, and the latest trends, standards, benefits, and challenges.
What is internal communications, and why should any company spend money on it? Learning how to improve employee communications allows for more work to be done in less time and with less frustration.
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This slidedeck shows the kind of personalized report that can be offered to individual leaders as the result of a leadership communication audit. The audit methods are based on the competing values framework (Quinn and colleagues), leader-member exchange (Graen and colleagues), and rapport management (Campbell and colleagues).
Understanding Social Communication at Workplacepallavi75
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Communication is a two way process instead of what most people make of it, that is outgoing for the extroverts and the incoming for the introverts and the workplace consists of both types of personality types. Hence , the effective communication should involve the maximum participation between everyone. It should have an optimum balance of the downward communication with the usual formality as well as the informal nature to formulate a friendly environment and equal proprtion of the upward communication which should be a feedback indicator. Transsmission of messages should be flawless and the problems encountered in the process should be effectively managed at the grassroot level.The subordinates should be instructed properly about the procedures without any excess overload that may hamper the progression.In the same way there should be upward transmission of the problems as well as accurate evaluation of the performance and encouragement should be done to boost productivity and build loyalty.
The effective communicable environment is an important asset of a company and the benefits are manifold and ever increasing , this concludes the very importance and the basic need of communication at any workplace.
The āCourse Topicsā series from Manage Train Learn and Slide Topics is a collection of over 4000 slides that will help you master a wide range of management and personal development skills. The 202 PowerPoints in this series offer you a complete and in-depth study of each topic. This presentation is on "Communication Networks".
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As many businesspeople have experienced during the last 18 months, effective management communication is essential for guiding teams and lifting morale during times of disruption and uncertainty. Whether communicating with employees has never been one of your top strengths, or you see yourself as a canny communicator, it canāt be ignored thatĀ project.co. statisticsĀ show eight out of ten people rate their businessā communication as average or poor.
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What is internal communications, and why should any company spend money on it? Learning how to improve employee communications allows for more work to be done in less time and with less frustration.
Sample leadership communication audit reportKim Campbell
Ā
This slidedeck shows the kind of personalized report that can be offered to individual leaders as the result of a leadership communication audit. The audit methods are based on the competing values framework (Quinn and colleagues), leader-member exchange (Graen and colleagues), and rapport management (Campbell and colleagues).
Understanding Social Communication at Workplacepallavi75
Ā
Communication is a two way process instead of what most people make of it, that is outgoing for the extroverts and the incoming for the introverts and the workplace consists of both types of personality types. Hence , the effective communication should involve the maximum participation between everyone. It should have an optimum balance of the downward communication with the usual formality as well as the informal nature to formulate a friendly environment and equal proprtion of the upward communication which should be a feedback indicator. Transsmission of messages should be flawless and the problems encountered in the process should be effectively managed at the grassroot level.The subordinates should be instructed properly about the procedures without any excess overload that may hamper the progression.In the same way there should be upward transmission of the problems as well as accurate evaluation of the performance and encouragement should be done to boost productivity and build loyalty.
The effective communicable environment is an important asset of a company and the benefits are manifold and ever increasing , this concludes the very importance and the basic need of communication at any workplace.
The āCourse Topicsā series from Manage Train Learn and Slide Topics is a collection of over 4000 slides that will help you master a wide range of management and personal development skills. The 202 PowerPoints in this series offer you a complete and in-depth study of each topic. This presentation is on "Communication Networks".
5 ways to improve your communications skills as a managerSameerShaik43
Ā
As many businesspeople have experienced during the last 18 months, effective management communication is essential for guiding teams and lifting morale during times of disruption and uncertainty. Whether communicating with employees has never been one of your top strengths, or you see yourself as a canny communicator, it canāt be ignored thatĀ project.co. statisticsĀ show eight out of ten people rate their businessā communication as average or poor.
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Complete the following in your post:
Reflect on the communication failures you have witnessed in organizational change efforts, and answer the following:
Ā· What was communication failure?
Ā· What communication needs were not met?
Ā· What was the result of these failures in communication?
Ā· What needed to be done to correct this problem?
Submission:
Answer each question. Ensure you post the questions and then respond under the questions. (Copy questions and discussion item into your response and make each a header)
ADDITIONAL READING:
Getting the Vision Right
Much has been written about the importance of vision in leadership and specifically in organizational change efforts (Kotter, 2012), the idea being that clarity of this vision will become an aligning and galvanizing force, driving efforts and resources toward the needed change. There is some truth to this, but it is an incomplete truth.
It is too easy for a leader to run into a āblind spotā with his or her own vision alone. The vast majority of leaders are better served engaging their upper-level and mid-level teams for the feedback needed to avoid that type of āblind spotā problem. Vision is only as good as the problems it effectively addresses and the future it can bring to the organization. It is only as good as the future positioning that it creates for the organization to maximize its strengths, minimize its weaknesses, take advantage of opportunities that arise from this new position, and alleviate threats to organizational survival and success.
In a real sense, vision is about belief in a targeted future. So how do leaders miraculously attain this perfect vision? The answer is they do not, at least they do not do it effectively alone, although many leaders mistakenly act alone. Good vision gets built over time. It includes understanding the need and pain in the current organizational environment, coupled with monitoring the external environment for trends, new technologies, new processes, new markets, customer need, new opportunities, an expected future with clarity about the organizationās role in that future, and so forth. The list is large and growing every day, so good leaders must be prudent in developing accurate feedback loops to stay informed in order to have the knowledge base needed to develop an effective vision. In addition to this knowledge base, the vision cannot be created in a vacuum, meaning the leader develops the vision and everyone else implements it. A good vision will need to stand up to intense and difficult critical scrutiny from knowledgeable individuals in multiple areas, and good leaders will want this scrutiny and not avoid it or use their power to keep it from occurring, because this critical reflection and scrutiny of the vision coupled with the dialogue of knowledgeable individuals from various areas covers āblind spotsā and ensures that the vision developed and the strategy to get there are evidence-based, and not wishful thinking.
The bottom line ...
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Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CHANGE
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CHANGE 4
Organizational Culture and Change
Name: John Blair
Institution Affiliation: Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on 11th December, 2018, for John Blair MAN4240CBE Section 01CBE Organizational Behavior Analysis.
Organizational Culture and Change
NoJax employs a hierarchical organizational culture where the work environment is formal and structured since the company follows a centralized power and decision-making process. There are set out procedures to guide what people should do within the company where for instance employees are expected to conduct weekly status meetings with managers and presence of daily activity reports that must be filled out by all employees. There is great supervision of employees to achieve a high level of efficiency. The employees are expected to work for an average of 50 hours a week which could probably be said to be higher since the normal working hours in a week should be 40 hours. The relationship between employees and the management is formal since decisions must be approved both by direct managers and someone from senior management, this is due to centralized management.
NoJax was formed on a general partnership between Noah and Jaxson Williams who form the senior management of the company and are responsible for the major decisions of the company. The company follows a functional organization structure which was suggested by F.W. Taylor as one that selects specialists to head the important positions in an organization (Schermerhorn & Bachrach, 2017). This is seen where there are different product managers to oversee the different products of the company as well as departments that consist of design, marketing, and research and development. The existence of this form of structure makes the culture to be hierarchical in that communication and decisions move from the senior management, to the heads of departments, and finally to the junior employees who have to follow the rules.
The management leadership traits show that majority of the individuals in management are social, few are emotionally stable, few are open, majority use conscience, and a majority are able to agree with others on issues affecting the company. This shows that employees are able to approach the management due to the good level of extraversion but they may not benefit from the management emotionally since there is low emotional stability and openness among a majority of the management. Many of those in management show a high level of conscientiousness meaning that they are in a position to do what is good for the company and employees. The leadership style seen as a result of the companyās structure is autocratic since decisions are finalized by senior management and this limits the employees from developing their own leadership skills. This can bring a feeling of dictatorship and fear leading to poor emplo.
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Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CHANGE
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CHANGE 4
Organizational Culture and Change
Name: John Blair
Institution Affiliation: Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on 11th December, 2018, for John Blair MAN4240CBE Section 01CBE Organizational Behavior Analysis.
Organizational Culture and Change
NoJax employs a hierarchical organizational culture where the work environment is formal and structured since the company follows a centralized power and decision-making process. There are set out procedures to guide what people should do within the company where for instance employees are expected to conduct weekly status meetings with managers and presence of daily activity reports that must be filled out by all employees. There is great supervision of employees to achieve a high level of efficiency. The employees are expected to work for an average of 50 hours a week which could probably be said to be higher since the normal working hours in a week should be 40 hours. The relationship between employees and the management is formal since decisions must be approved both by direct managers and someone from senior management, this is due to centralized management.
NoJax was formed on a general partnership between Noah and Jaxson Williams who form the senior management of the company and are responsible for the major decisions of the company. The company follows a functional organization structure which was suggested by F.W. Taylor as one that selects specialists to head the important positions in an organization (Schermerhorn & Bachrach, 2017). This is seen where there are different product managers to oversee the different products of the company as well as departments that consist of design, marketing, and research and development. The existence of this form of structure makes the culture to be hierarchical in that communication and decisions move from the senior management, to the heads of departments, and finally to the junior employees who have to follow the rules.
The management leadership traits show that majority of the individuals in management are social, few are emotionally stable, few are open, majority use conscience, and a majority are able to agree with others on issues affecting the company. This shows that employees are able to approach the management due to the good level of extraversion but they may not benefit from the management emotionally since there is low emotional stability and openness among a majority of the management. Many of those in management show a high level of conscientiousness meaning that they are in a position to do what is good for the company and employees. The leadership style seen as a result of the companyās structure is autocratic since decisions are finalized by senior management and this limits the employees from developing their own leadership skills. This can bring a feeling of dictatorship and fear leading to poor emplo.
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Organizational Behavior
Outline
Ā· Overview
Ā· What Is Organizational Behavior?
Ā· Challenges for Organizational Behavior
Ā· Challenge 1: The Changing Social and Cultural Environment
Ā· Challenge 2: The Evolving Global Environment
Ā· Challenge 3: Advancing Information Technology
Ā· Challenge 4: Shifting Work and Employment Relationships
Ā· Summary
Ā· Exercises in Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior
Ā· Appendix 1: A Short History of Organizational Behavior
What is Organizational Behavior?
To begin our study of organizational behavior, we could just say that it is the study of behavior in organizations and the study of the behavior of organizations, but such a definition reveals nothing about what this study involves or examines. To reach a more useful and meaningful definition, letās first look at what an organization is. An organization is a collection of people who work together and coordinate their actions to achieve a wide variety of goals. The goals are what individuals are trying to accomplish as members of an organization (earning a lot of money, helping promote a worthy cause, achieving certain levels of personal power and prestige, enjoying a satisfying work experience, and so forth). The goals are also what the organization as a whole is trying to accomplish (providing innovative goods and services that customers want; getting candidates elected; raising money for medical research; making a profit to reward stockholders, managers, and employees; and being socially responsible and protecting the natural environment). An effective organization is one that achieves its goals.
Organization
A collection of people who work together and coordinate their actions to achieve individual and organizational goals.
Police forces, for example, are formed to achieve the goals of providing security for law-abiding citizens and providing police officers with a secure, rewarding career while they perform their valuable services. Paramount Pictures was formed to achieve the goal of providing people with entertainment while making a profit in the process. Actors, directors, writers, and musicians receive well-paid and interesting work.
Organizations exist to provide goods and services that people want, and the amount and quality of these goods and services are products of the behaviors and performance of an organizationās employeesāof its managers, of highly skilled employees in sales or research and development, and of the employees who actually produce or provide the goods and services. Today, most people make their living by working in or for some kind of company or organization. People such as a companyās owners or managersāor company employees who desire to become future owners or managersāall benefit from studying organizational behavior. Indeed, people who seek to help or volunteer their time to work in nonprofit or charitable organizations also must learn the principles of organizational behavior. Like most employ.
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with coworkers. In these situations, staff members may attack one another by asserting their position or
by criticizing ideas. In some cases, they attack one another personally.
In any organization if they want to get best production and retain their employees, they have to
provide best organization culture to their employees. That culture should be satisfied by the employees to retain
them. The purpose of the present study is to analyze the organization culture factors influencing the job
satisfaction.
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Article One
The article is named "Exchange," and it is written by Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford University. The article talks about the changes that young employees experience and how fast they adjust to those changes compared to older employees. These changes have brought about organization theories that explain this reality. The article states that these days, the old ideas about something are not considered as they were back in the day, and they are considered irrelevant. The world has changed in many different ways that everything that used to be done for one to gain power and influence in the past has been abandoned since new strategies have come up, and people in the current world are using them. Jeffery asks some questions regarding the organization theory. These questions are asked to try and find out if the change in people and work can affect the opinions of power and influence in the current world.
The article also explains why younger employees adjust to change quickly. Jeffrey states that the younger employees are brought up in less competitive environments, and influences are many compared to the older employees. On the other hand, although the world has changed along with the people and strategies they use to gain power and influence, some organizational dynamics are still relevant, and they are never changing from the past. These dynamics cannot always be seen as desirable by society, but they help to understand human behavior and how they change in different organizations. The dynamics that interested me include hierarchy whereby the control that comes with it encourages creativity and employee engagement in the organization. Even though the invention of social networks and technology has overtaken hierarchy, it is still there, and it can never end. Another dynamic is the self-enhancement motive whereby an individual has the freedom to motivate themselves by thinking positively and seeing ourselves as capable beings in the organization. It also includes never having the urge to give up even if the going gets tough. Individuals with self-enhancement motives always end up on top since they motivate themselves, and they do the things they have set the goals for, hence, working hard to reach the top and stays there. Others even drive others to believe in themselves and work hard to achieve their goals. The behavior never changes since every individual working for an organization, whether young or old.
Another dynamic behavior is us versus them and the importance of similarity whereby an individual tries to mimic the practices of the people who are on top by reading their books or listening to what they did before they made it to where they are now, among others. The mimicking shows that these in.
1. Erin Bosman
CJ 355 Message Design
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Communication Breakdown Paper
Communication challenges can be seen within various different organizations, and
generally people are involved with more than one organization. This leads to encounters with
ineffective communication on a daily basis for many individuals. Throughout this paper, I am
going to discuss a communication challenge for an organization that I am a part of, and an
intervention plan for that communication challenge.
As a student manager at one of the dining locations on the University of Wisconsin- Eau
Claireās campus, I think that communication between managers is less effective than it could be.
In becoming a student manager rather than a regular student employee, I had roughly two shifts
where I was trained into the differences. The regular student employees, are not informed of who
is a student manager, and there is no identifier for both other employees or customers other than
through verbal communication from the student manger themselves. Also, there is very little
formal, organized communication between all employees and supervisors which is the
communication challenge that I intend to focus on.
This location of this dining establishment has a very calm, casual environment which
leads to less than effective communication. Generally, the employees communicate in a way that
you would with family or friends, rather than what you typically would see between coworkers
and a supervisor. After becoming a student manager and through my courses in both
communication and psychology, Iāve been able to identify this informal, casual environment and
sometimes ineffective communication. In addition, when asking, reminding, or instructing
regular student employees to complete or help with a task, I have had many reply poorly saying
that what Iām asking is āunnecessaryā or the minimal effort for that task is āgood enoughā rather
than them being as effective as they could be at their work. Partially, this is due to new additional
2. protocol that has recently begun. Partially, it is due to the relaxed, casual environment that the
employees tend to engage in. To summarize, I see a communication challenge between
supervisors, student managers, and regular employees in relation to when formal communication
and casual communication should be occurring, as well as in relation to who is in command and
what tasks need to be completed.
I think that one theory that this communication challenge can be described with is
Anthony Giddenās structuration theory. This theory considers the idea that social life is more
than random individual acts but also isnāt determined by specific social protocol. Furthermore,
Human agency and social structure are correlated together, and it is the repetition of the acts of
individual agents which reproduces the structure. This means that there is a social structure or
specific protocol in place but that this structure can be changed when people start to ignore the
protocol or respond differently than expected (Gauntlett, 2002). In context of the communication
challenge that I discussed above, the company, supervisors and managers have specific protocol
targeted for their intended structure, but the employees along with the supervisors have changed
that protocol by acting in a more casual manner and acting how they feel comfortable and
relaxed with rather than fully adhering to the structure that was intended. Often times
structuration theory is a positive concept, that can help an organization to form a unique identity
that applies to their goals and to the organizations members. While this has occurred for this
organization I am a part of, it has also lead to a lack of cooperation and compliance from
employees, which in turn has lead to a need for an intervention plan.
Organizations need to have the characteristics of being constructed through
communication, having a willingness to cooperate among members, and having a common
purpose among members. The organization I have been discussing has all of these characteristics
3. except the willingness to cooperate is not as strong and effective as it could be. In order to
achieve a stronger willingness to cooperate, and more effective communication between
supervisors, managers, and students, a communication intervention needs to be initiated and
achieved.
The first step in creating an intervention plan is to assess communication needs in the
organization. In discussing the communication challenge, I have done this. To repeat and once
again summarize, the communication needs in this organization is a need for effective
communication between supervisors, managers and other employees. It is necessary that all of
the employees of this organization know when to be more formal and when to be more casual in
their communication. Supervisors and managers also need to be able to be more assertive when
needed.
Next, it is necessary to Design an intervention to meet the communication needs that
were assessed. I think that a necessary part of an intervention would be to execute a review of all
three levels of employees. For this review, I would ask employees both how effective they feel
they are performing and communicating and how they believe they could improve. Then I would
ask how effective they feel that the different level(s) of employees surrounding them are
performing, and how those employees, managers, and/or supervisors could improve. For each
question I would expand by asking how they or the other employees were being ineffective.
Their perceived notions about themselves and their perceived notions about the other employees
in the organization could be conflicting and not allowing them to understand each other point of
view and needs. I would then discuss anything that was seen as being ineffective and anything
that one considered effective, but others did not.
4. Furthermore, for the implementation step in intervention, I would implement regular
performance reviews between supervisors and managers, and managers and employee. I would
also implement weekly team meetings to discuss changes, or communication needs that could be
made more effective. Finally, to evaluate the intervention I would come back later, preferably six
months later, and go over the performance reviews. I would also sit down with the various
employees to see if they felt there had been any improvement, and if there was any ineffective
communication that needed to be reassessed. Hopefully, the initiation of this intervention plan
would succeed as I expect and would be effective for this campus dining location.
5. Sources
Gauntlett, D. (2002). Media, gender, and identity: An introduction. Retrieved September
27, 2016, from http://www.theory.org.uk/giddens2.htm