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Organizational Spr2006 Sess01

Welcome to SUNY Oswego BOINCorp

• Today is your new employee orientation
• On Monday you will be:
  • assigned to your work group
  • introduced your management team
• You will need to
  • Read two chapters in the our company reference manuals
  • Do a short assignment that I'll introduce later
• Here's today's agenda

Agenda

• Formal employment paperwork
• The business of SUNY Oswego BOINCorp:
  • Organizational Communication Assessment
    • We look at how organizations interact with their stakeholders

• And make practical recommendations about how they can do better
• Your responsibility, as trainees, will be to
  • learn as much as you can about Organizational Communication over the next 16 weeks
  • do an initial assessment of an organization
• Philanthropic Distributed Computing Support
  • This is a charitable sideline
  • But with your help it will be a profitable one.
  • Details can be found at http://davis.foulger.info/oswego/boinc
  • Your responsibility, over the next sixteen weeks, will be to make this business turn a profit by selling others on participating in the project
• Rules, expectations and evaluation materials
  • You can find pointers to today's handout at http://davis.foulger.info/oswego/
  • Today's handout is for your convenience
  • The online version should be considered the reliable one.

Index Card Assignment 1 (due Monday)

Look over the BOINC site at http://davis.foulger.info/oswego/boinc. On one side of a 3x5 card, rank the five projects documented there from most interesting (to you) to least interesting. Explain what, about the top ranked item, makes it interesting to you.

Read for Monday

Chapter 1 of Eisenberg and the Preface of Tompkins. Bring two questions to class based on the readings. Write your questions on one side of a 3x5 index card.