Organizational Communication

Message movement from a person in a position of authority to an employee or group with lesser authority.

Message movement across the organization among individuals of approximately the same level of authority and without distinct reporting relationships to one another.

A principle of bureaucracy in which there is a formal authority and reporting structure within an organization

Organizations that continually take in new information, transform that information, and give information back to the environment.

A way of understanding organizational communication by describing what messages do, how they move through organizations, and describes how communication produces organizational outcomes is referred to as the __________.

A way of understanding organizational communication by discovering how organizational reality or shared meanings are generated through human interaction.

The examination of taken-for-granted assumptions, the examination of the myths we use to explain how things are the way they are, and interpretations of everyday events.

Regional or country-specific societal values and practices including core dimensions such as uncertainty avoidance, power distance, collectivism, egalitarianism, future orientation, and humane orientation are dimensions within the study of __________.

__________ theories/perspectives focus on the marginalization and domination of women. It critiques the gendered assumptions of modern organization and calls for the recognition and valuing of multiple voices and perspectives.

__________ theories that focus on power and domination and on challenges to hierarchy, bureaucracy, and management control.

Message load

Anticipatory socialization

Postmodern and Critical

Deconstruction

Horizontal communication

Global cultures

Feminist

Downward communication

Open systems

Maslow�s Hierarchy of Needs

Functional tradition

Meaning-centered approach

Chain of command