Copyright Dr. Larry W. Long1 Chapter 1 Managing Organizational Processes through Communication by Dr. Larry W. Long
Copyright Dr. Larry W. Long2 Integrative approach Emphasis on management & communication Emphasis on effectiveness Emphasis on development & adaptation Emphasis on survival
Copyright Dr. Larry W. Long3 Effectiveness criteria Achieve “short-run”goals Achieve “intermediate” goals Achieve “long-run” goals
Copyright Dr. Larry W. Long4 Short-run goals
Copyright Dr. Larry W. Long5 Satisfaction-productivity relationship “The correlation between satisfaction & productivity is zero!!!”
Copyright Dr. Larry W. Long6 Intermediate Goals inputs outputs
Copyright Dr. Larry W. Long7 Long-Run Goals SURVIVAL
Copyright Dr. Larry W. Long8 Your payoff -- communication is... central to career development central to organizational development the most obvious manifestation of management an inevitable consequence of the act of managing needed to define units of analysis representative of underlying assumptions about outcomes needed for development reciprocally related to the environment
Copyright Dr. Larry W. Long9 Organizing processes