Executive Master in Business Administration
Subject: - Organizational Communication
Registration No. 1452-313022
Name: - Muhammad Ali Awan
Assignment : - 02
Communication style
Definition Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information between at least two agents. Communication requires a sender, meaningful message, medium, receiver, feedback (from receiver). Communication is the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.
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Detail of style of communication used with in organization:-
• Tell: This is also known as the autocratic style of management. It represents top down, dictatorial decision making with little employee input. Tell is also the manner in which traditional, hierarchical organizations communicated with employees. In tell mode, the manager makes the decision and communicates the decision to employees. Tell is a useful management style when communicating about safety issues, government regulations and decisions that neither require nor ask for employee input. You might also use the tell management style when you communicate directions to a new, inexperienced employee. Tell is used less frequently in the quickly changing work environment of today’s offices. Technology and the availability of information in organizations have changed the balance of power that favored management decision making in the earlier hierarchical, paternal organizations. Even in manufacturing and industrial settings, traditionally bastions of the tell style of management, employees now experience more autonomy and involvement in decision making.
• Sell: In the sell management style, the manager has made the decision and then attempts to persuade employees that the decision is correct. The manager attempts to gain commitment from staff by selling the positive aspects of the decision. During the process of selling the decision, the manager may allow