1. Consider your own personal environment as related to organization communication. That most likely implies your job and work environment, but might also include organizations you are affiliated with outside of work. Describing the organizations you are involved with, and how organization communication impacts the effectiveness of those organizations. End with a statement describing what interests you the most about the subject of organizational communication.
2. Choose a communication situation you recently experienced at your workplace or other organization you are affiliated with. Summarize your experience and include your analysis. Consider the following items in your analysis: Identify the source and the receiver. What was the message and what type of message function was it serving? How was it encoded? How was it decoded? What channel was used to transmit the message? What type of noise was experienced? Comment on the competencies, fields of experience, and culture of the participants involved. Identify the communication context of this situation. What was the intended effect versus the actual effect of the message? Was a shared reality constructed? If not, what needed to change?