PART 1 :

Personal Organizational Communication Experience

Consider your own personal environment as related to organization communication. That most likely implies your job and work environment, but might also include organizations you are affiliated with outside of work.

Write a paper (likely 1–-2 pages in length) describing the organizations you are involved with, and how organization communication impacts the effectiveness of those organizations. End with a statement describing what interests you the most about the subject of organizational communication.

APA FORMATT!!!

PART2:

The Human Communication Process

Choose a communication situation you recently experienced at your workplace or other organization you are affiliated with. Use the human communication process described in your text, starting on page 11, "Human Communication: Message and Constitutive Processes," to analyze why—or why not—a shared reality was experienced as an end result. Summarize your experience and include your analysis as an attachment in this assignment thread. Consider the following items in your analysis:

• Identify the source and the receiver.
• What was the message and what type of message function was it serving?
• How was it encoded?
• How was it decoded?
• What channel was used to transmit the message?
• What type of noise was experienced?
• Comment on the competencies, fields of experience, and culture of the participants involved.
• Identify the communication context of this situation.
• What was the intended effect versus the actual effect of the message?
• Was a shared reality constructed? If not, what needed to change?

Text on page 11:

Human Communication: Messages and Constitutive Processes

When John and Mary construct their shared realities, they engage in what we call the human communication process. Both John and Mary serve as sources and receivers of messages. Both engage in message encoding and decoding and in selecting verbal and nonverbal channels for message transmission. Both are influenced by their individual competence and their perception of the competence of the other. Each brings to the exchange a different set of experiences, and each may view the context of their interaction differently. Thus, all their messages are subject to distortion or noise. The effect, or what happens between John and Mary, is a result of the complex interaction of all these elements. John and Mary are literally constituting or bringing about the reality of their relationship.