An Instructional Simulation for Organizational Communication / Michael Pacanowsky and Richard V. Farace.

Ineffective communication in an organization is costly. This paper examines one of the many approaches to solving this problem--increasing employee awareness of communication by increasing employee communication skills and sophistication. Simulation games are an effective means of improving employee awareness. The simulation provides a common experience through which participants can learn general communication principles. It also gives the participants a perspective of the overall communication processes in the organization and provides a framework on which organizational communication skills can be built. Finally the simulation can be used to permit participants to experiment with different organizational structures and communication strategies to observe the effects on communication behavior. (RB)

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