This is an updated version of the original What is Organizational Communication? video (2012), which you can still access here: • What is Organizational... --------------- Download the transcript for this video here: ddc08459-231f-...
Great video! I used your old one to help frame the importance of communication in the workplace. Senior leaders I've worked with often think of the transmission model of communications. This is a new concept for many of them.
Let me challenge the idea that tables and chairs have "no inherent meaning ,apart for our interactions with each other". Cheap shitty chairs communicate that you ( or your role) are not valued.
Good point Brandon. But consider: how exactly do cheap chairs do that without human intention and interpretation? The point is that chairs can only communicate value within a communication process that coveys values, beliefs, and norms about status--there's nothing in the materiality of the chair itself that does this apart from human interaction and involvement. This relates to the fascinating concepts of sociomaterialtiy and hybrid agency. Lots of nuanced perspectives within these concepts, but a great place to start if you want to dig deeper~
Interesting point Brandon. I feel that judging the furniture may say more about the person doing the judging than the actual value of the personnel in the company. Additionally, there is the concept that, culturally, the expectation for a meeting may not include sitting. There are so many caveats to consider. IE: What if the person coming in was blind? Would the state of the chairs count then?
Does somebody know wether Koschmann agrees with Feldner & Fykes (2018) approach of the conventional approach? And I would argue that Koschmann agrees with Ryan Bisel (2010), in terms of materialism and objects centered around communication. Where does this put Nicotera (2020)? is Koschmann placing himself in the middle of Feldner & Fyke and Nicotera? I would argue that Nicotera agrees with Feldner & Fyke in terms of process and structure? Does anybody know of this?
Correct me if I am wrong, from what I have understood, organizational communication is inherently a constitutional framework of an organization defined through the use of concepts of communication.
