SDSU Organizational Communication Discussion

Respond to two of the following questions using full sentences and referencing the textbook. When you’re finished, respond to two of your peer’s posts.

1. How do self-managing teams create concertive control? What are some other examples of concertive control? Have you ever been a part of a self-managing team or a flat/horizontal organization?
2. What values are expressed by the team members in the example from The Soul of a New Machine, and how did these values become norms and rules? How effective were the values, norms, and rules as a system of control?
3. What are the advantages of working in a concertive control environment such as self managing teams? What are the disadvantages of working in a concertive control environment?

Cheney, G., Christensen, L. T., Theodore E. Zorn, J., & Ganesh, S. (2010). Organizational communication in an age of globalization: Issues, reflections, practices (2nd ed.). Waveland Press.