The most interesting part for me in this chapter is about dwelling places in organizational communication ethics, as I used to believe that organizational communication ethics can be simply concluded as the reason why an organization exist. As the description in the reading material, it says the definition of organization ethics is "the orchestrating of communicative practices through formal and informal structures of events and persons in a given organization to accomplish a given purpose or purposes"(P 138). And the dwelling place is a place where "gathering of communicative practices and stories that gives an organization a sense of uniqueness, separating a specified organization from others within the same industry"(P 138). The most significant part in the description of dwelling place is "Within any organization are competing goods that must be negotiated in order for the organization to carry out its work"(P 141). In other words, negotiations and changes are necessary in an organization to promote its development.
From my personal experience, as I worked as a volunteer for MinnPost twice, there are always topic for their gathering. As an organization mostly organized for journalistic purpose, there are different topics for them to talk about. As I can observed, every time, they invite a celebrity as their guest speaker talks about their opinion about a specific social issue, or prepare a show including political ironic features, or simply a gathering for members communicate their views about a new book or a social event. Overall, all gathering are about journalistic needs, but with different timely topics after negotiation. It can be a realistic example for a dwelling places in an organization, and for organizational communication ethics, all their activities are aimed to protect and promote the development of this organization, including the relationships between its members.
Yandi,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, the dwelling place is an interesting concept and I found it even more interesting in how we can relate examples to it in relation to organizational communication ethics. I like your example in how you relate your volunteering example and their gathering into the concept, that are in fact journalistic needs. A few years ago I worked with Doorsales for a company that made me almost feel like a part of a "sect". Every day before getting out on "field" we had to stand close together and scream, as some kind of warm up... Every Organization has their own dwelling place and in this case It was a sales culture I didn't feel like I belonged in.