After reading this
chapter I have come to realize that organizational communication ethics is a concept
that applies to my everyday life. I had just assumed by the title that this was
communication within major companies, which it is, but it is also so much more.
The text book defines it plain and simple, “Organizational communication
focuses on the form of communication needed to get a particular task done (139).”
The “good” within this notion is not totally concrete. Generally, the “good” of
organized communication is different for every group, organization, or party. As
long as there is a “dwelling place” for communication to take place, then the “good”
keeps its integrity. If there is no functional way for a group to organize
communication, then the organization cannot function.
The institution, or “publicly recognized” structure must also follow community of memory. This means that the
organization has a clear, structured method of retaining the integrity of the
institution so that it can keep information that develops the group. According
to the text, this makes the organization the “what” and the organized communication
strategies the “how” or the way the group can continue to exist.
I was in a student group
last year, Public Relations Student Society of America. As a communications
group, it was naturally well organized. Weekly meetings, contact over email,
and updates over social media allowed for clear direction and communication. By
having multiple ways to keep the group together, there was a clear sense of
unity and organization. If there were no clear ways in which the group was
being run, then nobody would show up to functions, and there would be no way to
know what was going on. In every aspect of my life there is some form of organized
communication similar to this, and it really makes me realize that this form of
communication is something I have interacted with for the longest time.
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