Workplace Observation

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In the workplace there are many different aspects of the organization. Some of the aspects or 'culture' of an organization are organizational diversity, dress and language, how communication flows, and organizational policies. Below I will discuss several aspects of the company I work for and define what the different cultures are.

How Communication Flows

As we know today there are many ways how to communicate. There is email, verbal, Internet, intranet, etc? However, there is only two ways communications flows. There is upward communication defined as ?communication from an employee to supervisor, supervisor to department head, department head to vice-president, and so on.? (Abbott 2005) The other flow is downward communication, which is described as ?"Information flowing from the top of the organizational management hierarchy and telling people in the organization what is important (mission) and what is valued (policies)." (Andrews 1996) In my company we definitely use upward communication. When anything important is going on it seems to impact the employees more when it?s sent from one of the directors. Taken with greater importance and definitely put into to play if applicable. I feel that there is more control and is more effective using upward communication.

Organizational Policies

Organizational policies are the basic common rules of the company. They can be described as sick time, narcotics abuse, sexual harassment etc? What the company finds the most impo...

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