Organizational Issues in Business: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography examines organizational issues, primarily focusing on communication challenges within various business contexts. The bibliography includes 10 articles, each critically analyzed to understand their contributions to the field. The articles cover a range of topics, including the importance of effective communication, the impact of technology on communication, leadership communication strategies, and the challenges of organizational change. Each annotation provides a brief summary of the article's content, its key arguments, and any identified strengths or weaknesses. The bibliography explores how communication breakdowns can affect organizations, how to integrate communication practices, and how leadership can influence employee engagement and organizational success. The references include articles from various journals, offering a comprehensive overview of the selected organizational issues.

Organizational Issues - Annotated Bibliography
Organizational Issues - Annotated Bibliography
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................3
Article 1.............................................................................................................................3
Article 2.............................................................................................................................3
Article 3.............................................................................................................................4
Article 4.............................................................................................................................5
Article 5.............................................................................................................................5
Article 6.............................................................................................................................6
Article 7.............................................................................................................................6
Article 8.............................................................................................................................7
Article 9.............................................................................................................................8
Article 10...........................................................................................................................8

Organizational Issues - Annotated Bibliography
Introduction
Communication is a growing concern in all of the organization. As technology develops over
time, it is increasingly becoming difficult to clear the communication channel in the
organizations due to several reasons.
In this annotated bibliography, we will focus on analysing various proofs of how this has
posed to be a problem over time.
Article 1
This article identifies the importance of communication from an independent perspective.
The authors have very effectively pointed out how communication is an essential requirement
to sustain the flow of information and general operations in the company. Further, the
analysis of the paper has focused on how the process of communication has improved over
time and all the relevant strategies for the same.
What is the most relevant thing in this paper is how the authors have mentioned the
breakdown of the communication machinery of the organization with examples of several
companies, and how it is rectified to control the damage on urgent basis. However, the
explanation of this part could have been a little more detailed. Even though the authors have
focussed on the right approach to explaining to the readers about the importance of
communications, the better approach could have been to sync it with the theory and then
critique the approaches.
Article 2
The paper has taken its base from a 2002 survey of around 1200 employees of a various
organization to understand their approach towards communication and how their company
promotes it as well. This sets a good base for discussion on the paper since the results which
have been analysed have set a base for the paper. The paper then swiftly converges into
understanding how communication should be integrated as a practice in the organization.

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Furthermore, the discussion then traverses how few organizations have implemented this, and
the benefits they are getting. Also, the paper has identified the ideal workplace
communication methodology and how employers can communicate effectively with the
employees to increase productivity as well. The only loophole in the research was that it
could have been a little more descriptive and method-oriented instead o just building around
the base of the survey.
Article 3
In this article, the author has focussed on informing the readers about the importance of
organizational communication in detail. The work has been structured extremely well and in
a cohesive. For example, the paper first introduces the different types of communication in
detail and then integrates it with how communication takes place in the organization itself.
This approach is quite comprehensive as it helps the reader to understand the discussion well.
furthermore, in the later parts of the paper, the focus then shifts towards understanding the
importance of communication with respect to organizations in Uttarakhand and how the
situation was rectified as well. It also gives alternatives to the solutions and discusses them in
detail. However, the anomaly in this paper was a large amount of data which was represented.
The data was represented in a nice manner, however, at some point, the data was redundant
and not of use. Because of this, the paper became a little too hard to digest and lost its
universal appeal with which it started.
Article 4
This paper focuses on organizational change and how a successful organisational change can
be implemented through effective communication. This paper has been well formed and is
not at all redundant at any point. The literature used is also relevant and so is the language
which has been used. The paper has successfully chalked out the importance of both,
organizational change and communication. Further, the paper has then integrated both these
concepts based on need and how communication can help in the implementation of change. It

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is well known that change can be implemented in the best way possible only when it is
communicated to the people.
However, the anomaly in this paper was the change communication model. This model did
not solve the purpose entirely and hence, was quite confusing in its initial stages. This
rendered the model a little out of bounds and of little use in a practical environment.
Article 5
This paper is based on the Swedish healthcare environment and how communication can be
instrumental in resolving organizational issues. The main aim of the study is to explore
communication processes during workplace meetings in a Swedish healthcare organization.
The background of the study is set up against the Swedish healthcare environment and
assessing how a happy employee can work towards the success of the organization. The focus
is put on how maintaining the interest of the employees through communication and ensuring
that they are heard and listened on time. This makes the employees feel wanted, and at the
same time is it is important to retain them as well. the focus is kept solely on workplace
meeting and how they structure the employee-employer relationship to strengthen the work
environment furthermore.
The results were highly appreciated. The study concluded that “communication flow and the
organization of the observed meetings varied in terms of physical setting, frequency, time
allocated and duration. The topics for the workplace meetings were mainly functional with a
focus on clinical processes”.
Article 6
This paper focuses on collaborating between leadership and communication, and how leaders
of an organization need to communicate effectively to keep the employees engaged.
Communication plays an important part in the life of employees, and this is the only way they
can actually connect with their employer as well. for a leader, a clear channel of

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communication can allow a better reach to the employees and ensuring that the employees
have a clear understanding of the missions and the vision of the company as well.
The paper has explained leadership communication in detail and has focussed people at the
leadership positions only. The audience of the paper is highly centred and revolves around
understanding how communication and leadership go hand in hand.
This centred approach for the audience is the only drawback of the paper as the author does
not take into account how people who are in transition from being mere employees to leaders
can benefit out of this, simply because the example provided is too leadership specific and
not at all general.
Article 7
This paper focuses on the challenges in communication which the management faces and
how the team dynamic changes over time. The paper further focuses on how communication
practices can be formed and applied to the people of the organization. The paper has focussed
to detail these practices well and in a way where the reader can understand how
communication is essential for the organization.
Furthermore, the paper details these practices in a manner in which the people can understand
how these theories can be implemented in all the spheres of team management. Since
communication plays an important role, it is essential to understand how it can be integrated
into all the spheres of the organizational implementation and practices as well. it was found
that most of the communication challenges facing MTs are related to the teams' meetings,
where issues of leadership, decision making and participation may well be intensified.
Article 8
This paper focuses on understanding how communication in the context of an organization
happens. The paper aims at understanding how in a dynamic business environment the
communication changes over time and how the employees are further conditioned to ensure
that the flow of information is always maintained as well. The paper explores various

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communication channels and sights and how it can be further integrated by involving certain
practices which are quite exploratory in nature.
Article 9
This research paper aims to analyse the relationship between communication and technology
and how both are interdependent in the current business environment. The paper gave a high
appeal to the context as it was a fresh outlook on integrating communication and technology
in a nice manner. Though the data was represented in a nice manner, however, at some point
the data was redundant and not of use.
Article 10
The paper focuses on discussing CMC or Computer-mediated communication (CMC) has
become mainstream in work life. It explores the various dynamics of workplace
communication under the ambit of this and how it has evolved over time. Workplace
communication has further changed over the decade, and email has played an essential role
in it. This paper then analyses how e-mail has created an irreplaceable place for itself in the
organizational communication culture.

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