ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION

The evoking of a shared or common meaning in another person, could be interpersonal that means communication between two or more people in an organization.

Barriers to communication: Physical separation, status differences, gender differences, cultural diversity and language are the mains barriers that impede the communication process

Reflexive listening: the skill of listening carefully to another person and repeating back to the speaker to heard message to correct any misunderstanding.

Levels    

• reflective core feelings   
•  Clarify the impact    
•  Paraphrase the expressed
•  Affirm contact

One way	Two ways communication
In which a person send a message to another without questions, feedback or interactions	In which communicator and receiver interact

Nonverbal communication:

 Proxemics

 Kinesics

Facial and eye behavior

 Paralanguage

Virtual team: are groups geographically, organizationally and or time dispersed workers brought together by information technologies to accomplish one or more organization task.

What benefits and problems arise as a consequence of the creation of virtual team? Identify five each. Based on this, explain how to make the transition from a more traditional team structure to the more distributed team structure?

Benefits: increase productivity because more personal flexibility is achieved, extended market opportunity due to direct access to different market opportunities, with work teams located in different parts of the globe organizations are able to establish their presence with customers worldwide, knowledge transfer is one of the most important benefits of a virtual team, in which are people with different types of knowledge spread out across the globe can be very beneficial to any organization.

The biggest disadvantage that any virtual team can suffer from is the lack of efficiency in communication, partly due to constraints in virtual communication mediums. This is also primarily due to the fact that humans communicate better when they are able to communicate with their body language, other problem is the poor leadership that can result in the failure of any team, whether virtual or not; however, it becomes a much more prominent problem in virtual teams, virtual teams should only consist of competent and experienced team members due to the distance factor which can overtly affect the timing and completion date of a project. Projects are more likely to fail if the team consists of individuals who are lazy or lack sufficient knowledge to complete their assigned tasks. Virtual teams have other kind of problems arise as lack of project visibility, failure to see emotional aspects of members, difficulty in contacts, technology constraints and misunderstanding

The transition of traditional team to more distributed team as virtual team can be achieve through highly structured coordination, where all the team is driven by common goals, and where the communication technologies are appropriate.

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