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Organizational Spr2006 Sess40

Announcement

Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communications Honor Society, is sponsoring a Communications Community Networking Night on Thursday, May 11 at 6:00PM in Lanigan 104. Free Pizza. Real dirt on the professors in the department.

Reminder

Term papers are due Friday.

Ethics continued

• Ethical behavior usually entails balancing competing ethical principles
  • Individual versus collective
    • rights
    • goals
    • values
  • Competing interests of stakeholders
    • Every stakeholder makes an investment in the organization
    • Ownership clearly has, at minimum, a level of power that gives their investment precedent
    • But ignoring the investments of others isn't right either
  • Competing investments of stakeholders

Integrity and Mindfulness in Organizational Communication

• Mindful communication
  • versus mindless communication
    • Phatic Communication
    • Scripts
  • Goal-oriented communication
    • Focused
    • Strategic
    • Adapted to the situation
    • Attentive to feedback
    • To achieve goals one has to find a voice
  • Relationship-focused communication
    • Developing relationships
    • Mindful listening
    • Acting with Conscious Integrity
    • You cannot build relationships without engaging in discourse
      • Engaging differences without judgement
  • Work as Poetry
    • Taking minimal actions
    • That use creativity within constraint
    • To create beauty
    • You cannot manage poetically without thinking about the words
    • Work is, at some level, a performance
• A zen of work
  • From the beginning of the chapter

               What is the secret of happiness?
               When you are hungry, eat.
               When you are tired, sleep.
From the end of the chapter
You cannot succeed if you do not risk failure
And you probably need to fail to truely succeed

Change happens.  Embrace it with new ideas.
Trust and Respect others
The individual has value

Act with Honesty and Integrity
Deliver what you promise