Patricia A. Vera Organizational Communications Dr. Schmidt February 13, 2014 Group B Case 1.

The way we can understand the history of The Prep through the Four Flows is by examining each floe independently and seeing how each connects to the organization. The membership Negotiations Flow can be seen through the history of this organization by understanding that this organization was form by a small community where everyone came together to learn, worship and live together under the same campus. It was rune by the people who lived there and understood the community and the principals that The Prep was founded on. At the same time with this flow comes the understanding of people leaving the organizations and crossing some boundaries which is what the CFO was doing when he said that the faculty could no longer have their children for free which was a tradition that they organization upholder. With the Self-Structuring Flow the was that the organization was build on it was build on rules that would help these people in the community. The standards that they started the organization on was build on allowed The Prep to be one of the top organizations in the country but as soon as they started slipping from the norms and the rules that helped get the required work done the organizations itself slipped as well. Activity Organization The Prep had people in the community running positions of control but they would communicate with other people exactly what they needed to do. This allowed them to be more effective because they all had a great connection with each other. This makes it easier

because the communications flows better and people have a better understanding of what they need to do and better communication with each other. Once they community started to change and the students, teachers and faculty didnt have that great communication and connection they were not able to communicate better in order to figure out the task at hand. Institutional Posting Flow in the past was better because like I said before the students had great connections with the teacher, which means that they are more prone to listen and have better grades. The same way that the teachers had a great relationship with the faculty in order to communicate what the teachers need to do in order to get the proper work done. When the students didnt have enough connections with the teachers the way of teaching slips because they are not grasping the right knowledge and everything that the teacher is saying. I think that the flow that has influenced the most change in The Prep is the Membership Negotiation flow because that is the one that has allowed people to come in and out and also question certain boundaries. By so many different type of people coming and growing they were not able to keep the same traditions and communications that they had and the people who came in also had their own way of looking at things and started questioning the boundaries that the institution was set on. The way that those two flows have influenced institutional positioning by bringing together different types of people to an organization and allowing them to distinguish themselves from other types of organization by setting norms, boundaries and specific ways of communicating. 2. The episodes can be determined in the terminology of the Montreal School because the way that the organization was communicating goes along with the school. They

would have meetings in order to communicate effectively and share their thoughts and opinions on certain issues. Also as the school progressed the CFO would send them memos and communicate on a personal level what he believed and thought. The texts that are drawn from this organization is that there is a lack of communications and that the faculty is not communicating effectively with the CFO. I do believe that each participant draws on different text. For example the comment that the CFO made was very rude to many of the staff and teachers because they viewed it as him communicating that he does not care. Yet the same time the CFO could have taken that as him communicating the way he felt about the issue. Also with the picture I believe that many saw this as a ways to express their indignation towards his comment but the CFO could have seen it as an insult and people targeting him. I do not think that people accept the authority that others are expressing unless they agree with it. People want to always make their point be stated across. Specially is its a point that they do not agree on. The people who are coming into the conversation do not understand the entire meaning behind the text but they do not take the time t figure it out they are only interested in the text that agrees with what they believe in. This is why there is so much miscommunications because people do not listen they are more interested in talking and only hear the text that agrees with them. 3. The bucket drawing had implication in the textual agency is the meaning the drawing had and how people wanted to the entire community to know what the CFO had said and how insulting it was. It allowed everyone to know that the CFO did not really care about tradition or what the organization was founded on. It also

probably influenced the decision that the CFO made towards the end. The way we can understand the ventriloquism concept in this organization is by how the CFO wanted everyone to do as he said and he believed that he could speak for everyone in order to get what he wanted out of the organizations. I can see the bucket being something that speaks for everyone in order to get a point across. That drawing showed how people filed about the CFO respond to the faculties demand. It was drawings that showed and express a unanimous point across. The faculty is being spoken for with this drawing and the implications would be that they could get fired because of making the CFO angry. The CFO could have seen this as an insult and fired everyone but instead I believed that it helped the faculty get what they wanted because the pictures was all over campus and was influencing peoples ideas and it showed that the CFO did not care and he would not want the entire organization be against him.