Organizations communicate: Leadership

Leadership is the ability or individual that leading the organization or group of people.

          Effective leadership may help to prioritize objectives for subordinates and can provide guidance toward achievement the corporate vision. Developing leadership at every level of your organization helps sustain your long-term success. It helps many way; Strategic Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Managing Conflict, Building and Sustaining Teamwork, Quality and Productivity Improvement, Innovation and Creativity and etc.  Every context is unique, and effective leadership communication is appropriate to the special combination of people, time, place, and topic.

Organizations communicate: Definition

          Communication in organization is not able to defined only one. It depends on one's view of the relationship between communicating. In the social constructionist approach, communication in organization is the way language is used to create different kinds of social structure, e.g, leadership or team. Those communication also can be formed by many way, such as e-mail, letter or meeting.



          Communication is based on relationship between people. When it combine with business, trust can be a key factor of communication in organization. It is very important to grasp people and atmosphere. Trust has effects that to make an individual confidence in another person's intentions and motives.

Organizations communicate: Formal & Informal

Formal communication

          Formal Communication is the general way to communicate in organization because it is channel that transmits information such as the goals, policies, and procedures of an organization. Formal communication through officially designated channels of message flow between organization positions.Business plan, Customer satisfaction survey, Annual reports, Employer's manual, Meeting and Organization chart are included.

Informal communication

          Communication does not have any correct answer and there are no organization that operates in a completely formal or structured environment. Successful leaders encourage formal and informal organizational linkages. It is effective for confidence between workers in relaxed atmosphere. Teamwork, Interpersonal, Social gathering and Discussions of gossip are included.

Organizations communicate : Examples

Meeting

Meeting is one of the most important thing in organization. Especially in business, people always need personal interaction. Sometimes negotiation also dealt with business meeting. Usually the meeting is for checking the work that they do and discussion about what they going to do. It is not only for help to making successful work, but also make better relationship between people in organization.

There are regularly or irregularly meeting taking place in business. The example of regularly meeting is reports and briefing. Irregularly meeting is usually in planning or starting new work.

Teamwork 

People need help of colleagues to achieve there goal efficiently. It is verified that better when people work in a team rather than work individually. Furthermore, teamwork is easy to make motivation to people and also it able to related with healthy competition. People are can be motivated to work hard in a team and to live up the expectations of other teammate. Each member can correct teammate whenever they are wrong.

Letter

Sometimes organization need extension of communication and it is also good way to complete the communication and work. A proper formatting and correct grammar may give a perfect means of presenting and communicating thoughts to a concerned person. Nowadays it generally used in any organization with internet, e-mail. 

Organizations communicate: Types

            We always communicate with each others. It is not possible to have human relations without communication. It is not exception in organization. Those communications can be grouped by usage and characteristics of them.
          Here is some types of communication in organization.

• Downward communication
• Upward communication
• Horizontal communication

Downward communication

          It is communication which flows from the upper to lower. In other words, it is communication from superiors to subordinates in a chain of command. Downward communication providing feedback on employees performance and giving job instructions. So, it give environment that can work effectively. Notice, Instructions, Orders, Letter to employees and Group meetings are included.

Upward communication

          It is communication that flows to a higher level in an organization. The worker use upward communication to convey their problems and performances to their upper. From that, the managers are able to know about the employees feelings towards their organization in general. Furthermore, the employees feel they are member of organization by share their ideas and participate in the decision-making process. Employee attitude surveys, letters from employees and employee-manager discussions are included.

Horizontal communication

          Horizontal communication is a communication that takes place at same levels of hierarchy in an organization. It is also called lateral communication. It makes co-operation among team members and saving time.