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A 9 page paper answering 3 questions about the theories of Karl Weick, Chester Barnard and Kenneth Burke. Topics include organizational communication and organizational symbolism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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with Karl Weicks. List both definitions, critique the elements of them, and discuss what scholars are able to see or do if they think of organizational communication in one
way versus another. Putnam and Cheney Definition Putnam and Cheneys (1985) definition of organizational communication is "the processing and interpreting of messages, information,
meaning and symbolic activity within and between organizations" (p. 11). Putnam and Cheney (1985) further define their use of the word "organization" to refer to "aggregates of persons arranged
in patterned relationships ... involving dynamic activities rather than static collections of people; these activities are integrated through role coordination, interdependence and interlocked behaviors (p. 11). Critique
The statement that "organizational communication is "the processing and interpreting of messages, information, meaning and symbolic activity within and between organizations" (p. 11) implies that the
individuals communicating within the organizational framework either have or are in the process of arriving at some level of shared meaning. Putnam and Cheney (1985) likely could have added
a symbolic meaning (as opposed to activity) component to the list as well. Organizations develop their own idiomatic language within themselves, language that newcomers are expected to learn, whether
or not they are expected to use it. Meetings at IBM years ago contained references to some meeting factor being off- or online. Long before the Internet came
into existence, IBM meeting leaders were suggesting that small groups take an issue "offline" for the present time to revisit it at another, when more information was available. Though
newcomers could guess at the meaning the meeting facilitator was conveying, those who had been at IBM for some time clearly understood the meaning of the statement. Karl Weick Definition
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