Organizational Communication

Organizational Communication is communication defined by power or hegemony.

This type of communication differs in terms of what his position is in the company,
and what is the position of the receiver of the message. Hence, the difference
makes channels different through context.

Elements of Communication

✔ Context – it is anything that’s not communicative but affects communication.

It has many aspects like the physical environment, the emotions involved, the
social status of each person, etc.
✔ Participants – they take part in communicating. Meaning, if there are two
people talking but there are other people within their area but are not
involved in communication, the only participants are the two people who are
talking to each other. Personally, I already took out the dichotomy of sender –
receiver because in one way and another, both participants will become
sender and receiver of message, alternately.
✔ Message – this is the information that the sender - participant wants to
convey. However, whatever the sender wants to convey becomes different in
many occasions depending on, for instance, the other participant’s mood, the
context of the conversation, etc.
✔ Channel – if the message was a gift, the channel is the gift wrapper. This
element of communication is the medium through which the message runs.
✔ Feedback – this element proves that communication is a stimulus – response
process. Feedback is the reaction of the receiver to the message. It might be
linguistic or metalinguistic (e.g., facial expressions).

In organizational communication, the manager is the most important person. Why?:

Barriers in Communication

A barrier may be defined to as a wall or a shield or anything that protects a brittle

object, or even a country. In this case, a barrier is an unavoidable obstacle to 100%
understanding in communication.

I can only give a few samples:

1. Noise – this is any unwanted sound (e.g., even Vivaldi or Beethoven becomes
noise if it interferes with your date).
2. Physical condition of a participant – you can consider a loss or disfunctionality
of a sense or phonetic organ (e.g., dumbness, muteness, loss of hearing, poor
eyesight) as a barrier when it interferes with your communication. Remember
Boy Ngongo?
3. Psychological condition of a participant – this refers to the emotional strain in
the participant, e.g., when he is so sad, or when he is mad, or whether he
really is having psychological problems. ‘Nuff said.
4. A participant’s knowledge of the topic – whether you like it or not, there
would be times you would be talking to your boyfriend about the hippest
clothes in town, and apparently, he will look dumb in that conversation.
Consider talking about transformers with him.
5. Social/ Sociological Context of the Conversation – this refers to as anything
that can only be understood by one culture. Try translating “nagdidildil ng
asin” in English, literally, and see if it means the same thing.
6. The medium itself – there are some times in which your cellphone loses
signal, right?
7. Linguistic differences – say, a Batangueño would say “Nakain ka ba ng
alimango?” and another would say, “Aba’y oo! Kasarap nga eh!”. Or try it
when a British teacher would ask, “Er… Clahs, ahr yu reddeh to die? (Uhm…
Class, are you ready today?)

Can you suggest some ways to cope with these?