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Organizational Information Theory (OIT) is a communication theory, developed by Karl Weick, offering systemic insight into the processing and exchange of information within organizations and among its members.
W. Charles Redding (April 13, 1914 – June 10, 1994) is credited as being the "father" of organizational communication. [1] Redding played a significant role in both the creation and study of the field of Organizational Communication.
The communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) perspective is broadly characterized by the claim that communication is not something that happens within organizations or between organizational members; instead, communication is the process whereby organizations are constituted.
From 1962 to 1965, Weick was an assistant professor of psychology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.Six months after arriving at Purdue, he received a letter from John C. Flanagan congratulating him on being the 1961-62 Winner of the Best Dissertation of the Year Award in Creative Talent Awards Program sponsored by the American Institutes for Research.
The field traces its lineage through business information, business communication, and early mass communication studies published in the 1930s through the 1950s. Until then, organizational communication as a discipline consisted of a few professors within speech departments who had a particular interest in speaking and writing in business settings.
The foundation of this theory is the concepts of text and conversation. Text is defined as the content of interaction, or what is said in an interaction.Text is the meaning made available to individuals through a face-to-face or electronic mode of communication.
Organizational theory refers to a series of interrelated concepts that involve the sociological study of the structures and operations of formal social organizations. ...
Agenda-setting theory was formally developed by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Lewis Shaw in a study on the 1968 presidential election deemed "the Chapel Hill study". McCombs and Shaw demonstrated a strong correlation between one hundred Chapel Hill residents' thought on what was the most important election issue and what the local news media reported was the most important issue.