Course Description
The relationship between communicating and organizing within complex organizations. Course content includes the ways in which communication creates organizational cultures, identities, networks, leadership, conflict, and other topics.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Students will be expected to complete additional
readings (50-100 pages) and to complete an independent research
project relevant to course content.
Athena Title
Organizational Communication
Prerequisite
COMM 1100 or COMM 1300 or COMM 1500
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. To analyze critically existing theory and research regarding organizational communication. 2. To apply existing organizational communication theory and research to concrete organizational problems, dilemmas, and tensions. 3. To develop a perspective for viewing the relationship between communication and the effective functioning of organizations.
Topical Outline
Work and Organizational Communication Scientific management, human relations, and human resources approaches to organizational communication Systems theory, sense making, and organizational communication Cultural approaches to organizational communication Critical approaches to organizational communication Communication networks Interpersonal relationships in organizations Leadership and organizational communication Issues management Communication, change, and innovation