COMN 3111 3.0 Organizational Communication Lecture 1a WELCOME!

WE STUDY ORGANIZATIONS BECAUSE WE SPEND MOST OF OUR LIVES IN THEM. ORGANIZATIONS ARE THE PRODUCTS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION AND ONCE CREATED, THEY SHAPE HOW WE TALK AND WITH WHOM WE TALK. KNOWING HOW THEY WORK AND HOW WE CAN WORK WITHIN THEM IS ESSENTIAL FOR A SUCCESSFUL LIFE.

WE WILL BEGIN WITH A SHORT REVIEW OF A VERY BASIC MODEL OF IP COMMUNICATION FOCUS ON THE TYPE AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNICATION IN ORGANIZATIONS WHAT FUNCTIONS DOES COMMUNICATION – OF WHATEVER TYPE – SERVE IN ORGANIZING? REVIEW HOW COMMUNICATION TYPES CHANGE AS ORGANIZATIONS GROW – FROM PURELY FACE-TO-FACE TALK – MUTUAL ADJUSTMENT – TO AN EMPHASIS ON WRITTEN DOCUMENTS – TEXT ON PAGE AND NOW TEXT ON SCREEN. ALSO WE WILL KEEP COMING BACK TO THE PROBLEM OF COMMUNICATION OVERLOAD – TOO MUCH INFORMATION -AND HOW ORGANIZATIONS DEAL WITH THIS. HOW THEY CHANGE.

COMN 3111 IS A BLENDED LEARNING COURSE COMBINES ELEMENTS OF “LIVE” FACE-TO-FACE TEACHING A ONE HOUR PER WEEK TUTORIAL YOU MUST SIGN UP FOR AND ATTEND PLUS CONTENT DELIVERED ON LINE COURSE LECTURES HAVE BEEN VIDEOSTREAMED AND ARCHIVED AVAILABLE ON A WEEKLY BASIS ON THE COURSE WEB SITE.

THIS COURSE IS TIME-TESTED FOR NINE YEARS WE HAVE DEVELOPED TESTED AND RUN THIS COURSE IT’S RATED VERY HIGHLY BY THE STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN IT IN TERMS OF THE QUALITY OF THE CONTENT, THE TEACHING AND THE ON- LINE EXPERIENCE WE HOPE YOU WILL ALSO LEARN AND ENJOY

ONE TEXT REQUIRED Organizational Communication: Selected Readings by Dalton Kehoe, Pearson Education Canada, Custom Publication, 2012.

COURSE TEXT Available Two Places York Book store OR Discount Text Books has some 4699 Keele St. (in Plaza across from the main entrance to York on Keele - Last unit south next to Tim Horton’s) Cheaper than York

Course Web Site http://comn3111.thetalkpage.com “Back to Home” navigation – once inside the site always click on course logo bar to get back to home page to go somewhere else The “Go to” heart of the course

GO AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK

LECTURE SCHEDULE

The First Thing You’ll See The video is being mounted on your desktop!

The Next Thing You’ll See COMN 3311 COMMUNICAITON IN ORGANIZATIONS The video starts playing automatically. Slider

THE LECTURES MOUNTED EACH FRIDAY FOR 14 DAYS NO LECTURE LONGER THAN 30 MINUTES, MANY SHORTER AVERAGE LENGTH – ABOUT 25 MINUTES EMBEDDED VIDEOS ONLY PLAY IN THE LEFT HAND WINDOW WHERE I WALK AND TALK GO IN EVERY WEEK REGULAR ATTENDANCE RELATES TO HIGHER GRADES ON EXAMS

Only Course Password For the Additional Readings there is a Password

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SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS

COMN 3311 Assignment Submissions To submit essays electronically: Enter name and student number Choose your TA Paste your essay into the appropriate area Please note: You are still required to hand in a hard copy of your work

COMN 3311 Assignment Submissions You will receive a confirmation number after you submit your assignment. Don’t wait until the last minute to send in your paper. If the system closes you out at 11:59 pm on the night of the due date, it’s the system clock that counts not the clock on your computer.

Professor Dalton Kehoe Course Director Links to Teaching Team Members

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IN CONCLUSION We’ve covered the basics of the course. Please go to tutorial in the first two weeks and be sure you are on the tutorial list. We ask students every year to give advice to new students…it’s always the same: Keep Up With The Lectures!

IN CONCLUSION Enjoy the course. See you at the exam.