About this Assignment
Effective organizational communication is a primary tool for creating and sustaining a competitive advantage in organizations of all types, sizes, and stages of development. In this course you learned about the importance of organizational communication, a variety of key theories surrounding organizational communication, some of the different roles it can play and the forces that benefit or hinder effective communication. In a 1500-2000 word paper please complete the following:
Prompt
Major Motors is a nationwide manufacturer of all types of vehicles. The CEO would like a risk assessment done on the whole company. This will require collecting the data from three assembly facilities and ten dealerships around the United States on the local risks they face. A company executive has approached you about creating a report about the communication strategies and styles that can be used in order to gather this information.
You need to address the following in this report:
1. Which communication tool or tools will you use? Why did you choose them? How will you organize the information collected?
2. With many people involved, the project will take patience and plenty of emotional intelligence. How can that be developed?
3. What communications policies will be needed? What theories in the course are they based on?
4. The group will need to be a cohesive team until the project is over. How will you develop this?
Related Lessons
- Internet in Business Collaboration: Communication & Platforms
- Organizational & Communication Theories: Theories, Theorists & Implications
- How to Improve Emotional Intelligence at Work
- Communicating in Team-Based Organizations
- Trust Building in Business Teams: Definition, Activities & Exercises
- How to Effectively Communicate an Organization’s Culture
- Diversity & Organizational Communication: Theories, Theorists & Implications
Formatting & Sources
Please write your paper in the APA format. You may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use 3 sources and cite them using APA format. Please include a mix of both primary and secondary sources, with at least one source from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in APA (including the lesson title and instructor’s name).
- Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and press releases published by the company in question.
- Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Management. You may use sources like JSTOR, Google Scholar, and the Social Science Resource Network to find articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.)
If you’re unsure about how to use APA format to cite your sources, please see the following lessons:
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