BAM-441
January 11, 2016
Chapter 1 1. How can communication help an organization to achieve its goals? On page 13 in the book it says that organizations can use a few different tasks in order for a company to achieve its goals. These tasks include alerting workers to production goals, scheduling meetings within and between departments, planning how the company will communicate with its customers and respond to their messages, and produce in-house informational material about policies and goals. When faced with a task it is good to have an understanding of ones organizational communication in order to have multiple options to handle it efficiently and effectively. This will also in turn help the person to achieve goals they have set for themselves. At the DJ Company I work at we have meetings almost every week in order to try and grow bigger and stronger as a company. In our meetings we go over anything and everything to do with the company. I have been with the company for many years, since almost the beginning. When we first started having meetings we did a lot of discussing of policies and guidelines we wanted to set for the company. We built the company at these meetings, which couldn’t have been done without a lot of collaborating and communicating. This is why we still continue to have the meetings and stress communication as one of the main reasons we are the best DJ’s around, because we are very avid about having great communication with our clients. 2. What implications do the information age and globalization have for organizational communication? Information age and globalization have allowed things to be a lot more convent and helpful for organizations when it comes to communicating. On page 4 in our book it talks about all the different benefits organizations gain because of the upgrades in technology. With the use of the internet and phones we