web posters--change and climate

Today I'll blog about the remaining web posters, which focus on internal organizational communication, including organizational change and organizational climate. Cathyblog08 was interested in communicating organizational change, a slightly different take on organizational change than Hapa, who focused on changing organizational culture. What I found interesting was the research Cathyblog08 reported on that examined resistance to change. This research explores attitudinal and behavioral resistance to change and the role of communication in overcoming that resistance. I wonder if some of this resistance isn't a matter of employees recognizing that some change isn't good for the organization. For example, many faculty at SJSU resisted the change to Blackboard CE 6 and it turns out that it was a poor decision to adopt this particular learning management system.

Related to communicating organizational change is organizational climate, presented in Crives's web poster. Although the popularity of this topic has waned in recent years, the research still provides insight into organizational communication, especially between supervisors and subordinates. What I found most interesting is the need for research in light of Web 2.0 and new communication technologies. That is, the communication tools used to create organizational climate have greatly expanded, but as Crives points out, the research hasn't kept pace with these changes.

This is the final entry about the web posters. They reflected a range of interests in organizational communication, but also persistent themes, as with culture, technology, leadership, and change--all key issues in an age of globalization.

~ Professor Cyborg