What I found useful in this weeks reading is in the book Group Communication by O’Hair and Wiemann. In Chapter 4, it talks about communicating in organizations. Organizational communication“ (O’Hair 54) is a process that involves the exchange of messages between organizational members or among members of different organizations”. There are all different types of organizations, such as organizational culture, organizational relationships, organizational departments, organizational communication and etc. In communicating organizations, you have to have good relationship skills. You have to be able to interact with one another; for example, being a team leader and a team member, both will have to have good communication skills in order to get what needs to be done, completed. Another way to communicate is within networks, whether it’s centralized or decentralized. So everyone knows what networking is by now. If you have Facebook or Myspace, you are in a network, and you are networking. Networking refers to “communicating with others outside a single organization” (O’Hair 64). Whenever you meet new people, you are networking. It’s better to talk to strangers, so you can get into the network and have connections. This may be a good thing. All in all, organization culture is the main organization that sets up general culture to present exchange within the outside world.
I really enjoyed reading your post! I completely agree that communication is vital in any kind of organization, club, or most daily activities. You need to be able to communicate effectively with anyone; whether it is in a personal or business environment. It is funny that facebook, myspace, and all of those other online networking systems do indeed help us a bit by communicating more frequently with others. We take advantage of these systems and believe that they are solely to keep in touch with friends and continue to be involved and updated with peoples lives, when it is also aiding our networking skills.
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