Critical
Assignment Instructions
For this paper, you are to
choose one of the topics below, then you are to choose one of three approaches
to the study of organizational communication: the systems approach, the
cultural approach, or the critical approach. In your paper, you should use this approach to
provide an analysis of your chosen organizational communication process.
Critical
Assignment Rationale (Due this week):
Students will identify one of
the topics below,
then you are to choose one of three approaches to the study of
organizational communication:
the systems approach, the
cultural approach, or the critical approach.
Once you have selected your
topic and approach, write a 300-word rationale for the topic to complete their
critical assignment paper. The paper is an analysis an organizational
communication process and/or theory. They will, also, include a list of at
least five sources they plan to use in the paper.
Topic
List (choose one topic below and then one approach):
Communication in
Employment Interviews
Information-Seeking in
Socialization
The Role Development
Process
Giving and Receiving
Feedback
Small Group Decision
Making
Participation in Decision
Making
Conflict Resolution Styles
Bargaining and Negotiation
3rd Party Conflict
Resolution
Communication in
Organizational Change
Emotional Labor in
Organizations
Communication as a Cause
of Burnout
Communicative Coping with
Burnout
Differential Treatment in
Culturally Diverse Organizations
Communication and Customer
Service in Organizations
Organizational Image
Management
Communication Media Usage
in Organizations
The Effects of
Communication Technologies
Communication in Service
Organizations
Globalization and
Organizational Communication
