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Communicative Constitution

of Organizations

Four Principles of the Flows

Introduction

Membership Negotiation

Activity Coordination

  • Designed by Robert McPhee
  • Interpretive Socio-cultural tradition
  • Communication creates and binds organizations
  • Chaos has underlying order
  • Constitution
  • Sensemaking
  • Four flows and principles
  • All four flows are necessary for organization
  • Different flows happen in different places
  • The same message can address multiples flows
  • Different flows address different audiences
  • Working toward a goal
  • Larger organization vs. small organization
  • Concerns who is a member
  • Hiring
  • Socialization
  • Texas A&M Universtiy

M. (2012, May 08). What is Organizational Communication? (full version).

Retrieved fromhttps:// youtube.com/ watch?v=e5oXygLGMuY

Griffin, E. A., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. G. (2015). A first look at communication

theory. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Education

In Your Group:

  • In what ways does activity coordination bring an organization together?
  • What is a example of activity coordination?
  • Example of a time activity coordination broke down.

Griffin, E. A., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. G. (2015). A first look at communication

Theory. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Education.

  • When you were hired, what qualities of fellow employees did you notice?
  • When you first started, how did you get trained?
  • Examples of conversation that helped you learn and become a better member of the organization?

Four Flows

Overview

Self-Structuring

Institutional Positioning

  • Circulation of messages
  • What an organization is, not does
  • Membership Negotiation
  • Self-Structuring
  • Activity Coordination
  • Institutional Positioning
  • Shapes relationships
  • Different types of structures
  • Traditional
  • Cabal
  • Cultural Differences
  • Closure
  • Organizations with external entities
  • Many different forms
  • What that looks like

In Your Group:

  • What was the hierarchy like?
  • Example of a time structure was broken.
  • In what ways do you see CSB/SJU using self structuring?

B. (2013, November 15). Baileys Christmas Nutcracker 2013. Retrieved from

https:// www. youtube.cm/ watch?v=w-1XB00Ss8I

Baileys Christmas Nutcracker Commercial

In Your Group:

  • What are some other examples of institutional positioning that you have noticed?