Organizational Communication

Communication: The words their pronunciation and the methods of cobining them used and undestood by a group of people.

Organizational communication is nowadays very important to manage bussines information, managment information and mass communication. In the communication will be speakers ams liseners.

Reflexive Lisening: the skill of listening carefully to another person and repeating back to the speaker the heard message to correct any inaccuracies or misunderstandings.

There are types of communication:

One way communication: comminication in wich a person sends a message to another person and no question feed back and interaction flow.

Two-way communication: a form of communication in which the communicator  and reciever interact.

Non verbal communication: all elements of communication that do not involves words.

• Proxemics:
• Kinesics
• Facia and eye behavior
• paralanguaje

One of the most important is proxemics, this concept consist in the space extending outward from de body, this space depend of the culture.

The communication also have barriers, this barriers are:

• Physical separation
• Status differences
• Gender differences
• Cultural diversity
• Language

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Today the communication has become easier thnks to the communication revolution as internet, facebook, mobile phones, blogs and virtual teams.The most important and the most revolutionary of the is the virtual teams, because it allows groups and time dispersed workers brougth together by information technologies and accomplish one or more tasks for an organization. And today the information technologies is providing more and more resources to improve this type of communication and culture that is becoming revolutionary and is becoming the worplaces flexible and responsible.

Today and in the future the tendency is to adopt the virtual teams culturem but others dont agree with this affirmation because they said that the virtual teams dont provide confience and ae very vulnerable comunnication breack downs, conflict, and power struggles.

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Question

Accroding to Kuruppuarachchi (2009), 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?

Virtual teams offer great benefits as cost savings, flexibility it enables teamwork in situations where people are not sitting in the same physical office at the same time,cut travel,relocations, help build global prescence and meny other benefits. But also with virtual teams other kind of ploblems arise as lack of project visibility,failure to see emotional aspects of members, dificulty in contactsa, technology constraints and misundestanding most od them are associated with comunication.

The transition of traditional teams to more distributed team structure as virtual teams can be made with mentoring and coaching, and selecting the rigth people, because a good manager not always will be a good manager througth a screen, and many times the same managment charge if its going to be related with virtual teams will need other types of capabilities, the best solution is to research how a type of managment for example ris managment is better comunicated by a virtual team.

References

Time Managment Guide.com. "Virtual team benefits and challenges." Personal time management and goal setting guide. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 May 2011. <http://www.time-management-guide.com/virtual-team.html>. 

Kuruppuarachchi, P. R. (2009). Virtual team concepts in projects: A case study Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/218750033?accountid=45662

Nelson, D and Quick, J.C. (2009) Organizational culture. In Organisational
Behavour: Science, the real world and you.