The primary goal of this course is to provide you with frameworks for thinking about how and why communication occurs at different levels of analysis in organizations, and how to recognize, analyze and improve different communication problems. This is not a business communication class, nor a management class, nor an organizational behavior/theory class. Primary topics include: the nature of organizational communication; different paradigms toward studying organizational communication; classical organizational structure theories; behavioral and systems theories; loose-coupling, cultural approaches, and sense-making theories; authority relations; climate and culture; information flow and communication networks; new organizational media; power and leadership; group communication and teamwork; conflict and stress; individual and system-wide organizational analysis.