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Thursday, February 4, 2010

The Importance of Communication within the Management Group

Communication within the Management
Organization is established to obtain certain goals. Organization has opened a management group to manage, control, suggest and co-ordinate the human activities. Top level, middle level and lower level managers are involved in management group. There must be good communication managed between managers. Communication plays important role to interact, formulate plan and policy and co-ordinate mutually in management group. Importance of communication within management group can be presented below:

a) Information: The main base and power of organization is communication. There must be continuous communication. It helps to find out useful alternate to solve problems. In this way, in decision process, communication plays important role.
b) Planning: For good management of organization, it should be formulate effective policy, plan, strategy and programs. For this purpose, large numbers of information are required.
c) Direction and Control: For successful implementation of plan and programs, manager should give direction and control to keep good co-ordination between directors, manager requires communication.
d) Behavior Management: Communication helps to manage and co-ordinate in behavior of managers.
e) Emotional Expression: Communication is required to interact in management group. It helps to remove emotion, dissatisfaction, frustration of managers.
f) Human Relation: There should be mutual human relation in between managers and should be developed. For this purpose, effective communication is required. It increases the work satisfaction of workers and helps to remove sorrows.

In this way communication has large contribution in organization. It is also important for co-ordination, management development, conflict management and environmental adaptation….etc.

Current Issues in Communication

Current Issues in Communication
We know that, world is changeable. Rapid change and development can be seen in technological sectors. Large number of change is becoming in the sector of information and communication of technology. The method exchanging information by meeting face to face is going to be replaced by modern and scientific means of communication. For eg. Telephone, Mobile, Message, E-mail, Internet….etc. can be taken. In this situation, different issues have been seen. The major issues seen in present condition are as follows:

a) Electronic Communication: There is rapid development in communication technology. Together direct talking, Fax, E-mail, Internet, Pager, Video, Conference, Voice Message, Cellular Phone, Plam-sized, Personal communitor, Telephone….etc. are used to exchange information. So that, it is challengeable to manage communication.
b) Cross Culture: Development of communication has made the world a global village. In this age of globalization, information is exchanged in between the persons with different culture. In this way, while communicating, different challenge has been seen. It has been added complexity on communication process due to different language, pronunciation and concept.
c) Words Modification: With the development in culture and language, people are starting to use new-new words. So that there has been seeing problems of understanding information.
d) Gender in Communication: Nowadays, females are engaged with different organization and institutions by going out from house. Due to gender, different barrier has been emerged in communication between male and female.
e) Privacy in Communication: There is not certain limitation to keep secrete the information in communication. Due to technological development, organization has been feeling difficult to keep secrete the information.
All these are issues emerged due to technological development in communication.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Functions of Communication in a Business Organization

Communication in a Business OrganizationCommunication is the process of transfer message/ ideas/ notices in systematic ways. So that receivers understand what sender wants to make understand to receivers. In general language, communication is the exchange of information or message in between two or more than two persons. Communication plays vital role in direction, co-ordination and conflict management. A good manager should have capacity to flow message to related persons in required level.

There are different tasks of communication in organization. It plays effective role while operating managerial activities and solving intergroup conflict. Communication provides input to the members of organization to perform right work, in right time with right way. Its functions can be denoted as follows:

1. Information Flow: Organization can’t be operated without flow of information. In success of organization and regular operation of task, organization needs information. And communication provides all these information to related persons and places.

2. Helps to Management: All managerial activities and programmes are run by the help of information. For directing, controlling, co-coordinating, motivating, leading and other matters there must be communication.

3. Environmental Adoption: Organization must keep good relation with the factors of internal and external environment for success of organization. To keep information and make decision about factors of external environment like; society, shareholder, government, customer, agent, competitor etc, Communication plays vital role.

4. Increases Productivity: Productivity and communication are interrelated matter. Problem solving and persuasion play vital role to increase productivity. Required information for these two matters is obtained from communication. So that communication is important to increase productivity.

5. Promotes Cohesiveness: Communication not only flows the messages, it links the works and group members. In this way linkage makes the workers cohesiveness towards the organizational goals. So that, communication is needed to increase cohesiveness.
In this way, there are other many functions of communication like; Improve Human Relation, Solves Inter-Group Conflict, Emotion Expression, Control the Activities etc.