1. Communication and Theatre 310 Organizational Communication: The Nature of Communication

2. Information Transfer: Language can convey meaning Communicators put meaning into messages Words contain meaning Receivers extract meanings from words

3. Communication as a transaction: Meaning is in people Receiver oriented Negotiation of meaning

4. Communication as controlling action: Personally Socially Politically Ethically

5. Strategic ambiguity... Multiple interpretations Preserve position Facilitates change

6. Communication as balancing creativity and constraint We are socially constructed vs. we are independent agents We are determined via communication We reflect who we are by communicating

7. Organizational communication is “the moment-to-moment working out of the tension between individual creativity and organizational constraint.” p.36

8. What if balance is not possible? Unbalanced mind by Paul Hero

9. Organizations as dialogues... “I” “Me” Context

10. Who is the “other?”

11. We are situated multicontextually... What might multiplexity mean?

12. Have you ever mixed up your performances?

13. Equality... How real is that? Empathy... This sounds like an ideology Real meeting = I say what I think and listen to you Requirements for dialogue:

14. We seem to be left with corporate dominance in the service of capitalism. What if the ideas presented here are only “window dressing?” My hope is that, through education, you will do better.