Final Exam

Organizational Communication (COM 365)

Due on Wednesday, May 15 by 2:00pm. Can be submitted by e-mail, but not as an attachment. The answers must be the body of the e-mail. Can be submitted typewritten or in a blue book.

1. What is organizational media ecology? How do stakeholders and media interact to create an organizational ecology?
2. How are organizations, according to James Taylor, a function of both conversation and text? What are they? How do they interact to create organization structure?
3. How does Giddens structuration theory relate to Weick and Taylor's notion of organization as conversation and text?
4. Define Classical Management and explain how this type of management is not appropriate in todays workplace? To what extent is classical management inevitable in today's organizations?
5. From all we have learned, which organizational management theory do you find the weakest? Why? Create/cite an example to support your opinion using specific theories from the authors mentioned in class.