Sunday, November 8, 2015

Organizational Communication Ethics-chapter 8



In chapter eight, organizational communication ethics is introduced.   One of the concepts introduced was "dwelling place".  According to the book, "dwelling place is the type of communicative home a given organization invites by its communicative practices. It is a gathering of communicative practices and stories that gives an organization a sense of uniqueness, separating a specified organization from others within the same industry." (138) The dwelling place is an area where the good of the organization is protected.  The book mentions that the dwelling place is not a neutral ground, that there is no ethically neutral organization.  It is skewed to the good of the organization.  No place can accommodate to all, it needs to be a place where there is not an overwhelming amount of appreciation or criticism.   It is about finding a balance and being able to promote that balance.
I think that a good example of this is a restaurant that I work at part time.  Their whole concept is based on fresh, local, and sustainable.  It is grounded in the field to table idea of the heartland and the cuisine is made with fresh, locally sourced ingredients.  This is the organizational communication of the restaurant and is what makes it unique and separates it from other restaurants within the hospitality/food service industry within our area.  There are the supporters and then there are the critics, but capturing the balance between those who think that everything needs to be locally sourced and those that don’t support the idea of local, they just want the best, is the niche that they are trying to fill and to promote the balance of.  Healthy, fresh, locally sourced food is good for everyone and supports the community and is used whenever possible.
After reading about this and the promotion of balance within organizational communication ethics, do you think that in the world today of social media and instant publication that this balance is harder for organizations to find and promote than it was previously?

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