Chapter 9 (The Organizaiton)

Hello class!

As we get close to the end of the semester, I know we all are excited; however, we are not quite done yet. A couple more chapters and we will be there soon.

As we wrap up Chapter 9, we all should have gotten an understanding of key principles about communication and organizations. Communication helps an organization run smoothly and more efficient. It helps create patterns and structure. The chapter also focused on how communication helps to understand various cultures and different genders, race, and class.

During this chapter, a classmate and I was delegated to teach the class a specific theory within the chapter. This theory was the communicative constitution of organizations (Montreal School) created and authored by James Taylor, Francois Cooren, Daniel Robichaud, Boris Brummans. The communicative constitution of organization (CCO) theory shows and displays how communication constructs organizations through five translations. These five translations include co-orientation, distanciation, textualization, presentification, and back to the specific rules and regulations of the culture.

Overall, the theory focused on how organizations are created and how they produce and reproduce themselves. After getting an understanding of the theory and how it works really got me to thinking about others companies that are constantly reproducing such as Walmart's and fast food chain restaurants. 

References: Littlejohn, S. W., Foss, K. A., & Oetzel, J. G. (2017). Theories of Human Communication.