| Type: | Undergraduate Subject |
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| Code: | COMN11-103 |
| EFTSL: | 0.125 |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Society and Design |
| Credit: | 10 |
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Description
In this subject, you will learn about significant issues, topics, theories, and practices in contemporary organisational communication from both an employee and a managerial perspective. The subject aims to help you understand how organisational communication functions to guide you in making your own communication choices and make sense of others’ communication. You will learn about employee socialisation, managerial and leadership communication, organisations as cultures, communication and decision-making, communication between employees, conflict communication, power and resistance, reactions to change, and communication during employee transitions. Throughout the subject, you will analyse various organisational communication issues and make recommendations for change. The subject considers many different organisational communication scenarios, and students will have opportunities to lead discussions.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Apply organisational communication theories and concepts to analyse and make effective recommendations for responding to various workplace communication issues.
- Research an issue in organisational communication.
- Construct clear, evidence-based arguments.
- Effectively lead discussions about contemporary organisational issues.
Enrolment requirements
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Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for students’ lack of prior knowledge.
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