Organizational Communication: Formal and Informal Communication Networks

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Organizational Communication
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1ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION
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Answer to Question 1......................................................................................................................2
Answer to Question 2......................................................................................................................3
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2ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Answer to Question 1
Organizational Communication is considered as an important aspect for the success of the
businesses. Organizational communication refers to the process of collecting and coordinating
various activities within the organizations so that both organizational as well as individual goals
can be achieved (Shockley-Zalabak 2014). In my class, there has been many discussions on the
different topics of organizational communication as vast number of topics are required to be
covered under organizational communication. Among all these topics of organizational
communication, I have found the topic named ‘Formal and Informal Communication’ most
interesting. A short description of this topic is provided below:
Formal and informal communication is regarded as one of the major topics falls under the
vast zone of organizational communication.
Formal Communication: Formal communication is a common form of communication in the
business organizations and it is also considered as the most known form of communication in the
companies. Under the process of formal communication, organizations people communicate
among each other in a formal manners; like they communicate among each other on written
manner such a emails, posted notices and others. More specifically, formal communication can
be considered as the flow of information in upward, downward and horizontal manner
throughout the organization (Conrad and Poole 2012).
Informal Communication: Informal communication in the organizations considered as the
communication process that takes place outside the formal communication structure in the
business organizations. Most of the people in the business organizations consider informal
communication as ‘grapevine’. In the business organizations, grapevines refer to the particular