Communication Technologies in Organizations

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN ORGANIZATIONS
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Communication Technologies in Organizations
For an organization to be successful, it must have effective communication skills. The employees in the company should be free to communicate to the outside world without problems. Technology is paramount to attain this. Thus, the managerial department should embrace this and encourage their employee to use the technology. This will help them work faster, work efficiently and became more productive. Technology gives everyone the power to unite with the whole world and get instant information; this makes the organization be more competitive (Aldrich, 1972).
The technology changes the ways of thinking and even doing things. When an organization experience a problem, with the existing technology the company can access solution very fast. Technology has increased hope and optimism as it shows the potential to solve perennial problem in human race.
The information technology in any organization according to Galbraith, 1973 can be divided into two. Some technology can be used to benefit the people involved while the can be used to harm the society. The technology has the capability of uniting the community and the organization restoring environmental consciousness and promoting the cohesiveness in the societies (Strube & Wender, 2003). However, the marginalized group can be left out in the long ran as the technology is so demanding. It makes these people to be excluded from participating in the roaming revolution of telecommunication.
The technology acts like a tool in the organization. It involves reading procedures and its language appropriately. It uses symbols and has some values. Thus, it influences the end user and mostly the organization. Technology is an avenue that provides connection all over the world promoting globalization (Galbraith, 1973).
Globalization in itself concerns on how well an organization is publicized. In globalization, language matters a lot. The other characteristic is the efficiency of the mode of technology. Efficiency and the productivity of the organization is increased thus communication protocol became so cheap globally. This helps the organization to relocate its plant to other countries with a lot of ease. Therefore, the outsourcing of the resources from other countries becomes very fast. This has helped the organization increase their productivity as their business is relocated to countries with lower environmental conditions of employment.
Communication technologies in the organization have been intensified by the globalization. This is because it has fostered economic development in the world. It made the technology to get to places where it was least expected in a very short time possible. Globalization has lead to unity in the world making the organization to increase their business more easily. Nevertheless, it has also some disadvantages. Sometimes it may bring inequality among nations and leads to human rights violation. It also can cause unemployment especially with the technology it brings, such as robots to substitute the human labor. This lowers the standard of living and retards social development. Thus, must be taken with a lot of care.
The growth of the technology in an organization leads to social class. If the communication system is not well defined, it segregates people in line of culture, gender and class. For the communication system to be complete and efficient, it should put into consideration such basic issues. This is brought by the dominance of upcoming technology. This technology tries to face off the initial knowledge people had and those who do not embrace it are termed outdated.
Communication technologies in organization lead to intensified competition among the corporate world (Orlikowski, 2007). Especially 1950 reduction of trade barriers and restriction, capital and financial organizations have lead to integration of worldwide economy to a single global market. International internet treaties among different organizations through communication technology have brought this.
In the current business world, there is call for efficiency. Thus, call for a faster means of communication protocol. Therefore, for an organization to compete successively, they have to embrace the new communication technology. The technology has led to liberalization of the market thus demanding high efficiency in information and goods conveyance (Aldrich, 1972). This is because there is a lot of competition among organization to do so.
The technology in the communication has helped the organization to network. This has lead to the people in the remote area to become part of the organization. There has also been inter -organizational net working making different organization to open their values. This has lead to organization sticking to core value hence specialization. This allow offer of good quality services to their customers.
Effective communication technology boosts the organization’s morale leading to high production rate (Galbraith, 1973). The people involved in the management of the organization are able to communicate fast to their junior and getting feedback at the same rate thus job satisfaction.
Organization coordination and communication processes
Technology in the communication has increased the coordination in the organization. However, for an organization to deal with its management, it must improvise its kind of information strategy approach. This will help in systematic information flow. Some information strategies that can be adapted are anarchy, hierarchy, federal or feudalism. This leads to adoption of production technology in the organization such as long connected, mediated and concentrated production technology.
The organization coordinates its communication process according to the communication strategy it follows. For the one that follows the anarchy type, each person is entitled to manage his/her personal communication network (Orlikowski, 2007). The dimension at which one is required to communicate with others relies solely on ones ability ...