Dear Colleagues,
I m organizing a Blue Sky workshop at the conference and wanted to draw your attention to it. We have so many interesting events and presentations that it's easy to overlook some.
The workshop will interest members from all divisions who want to explore communication as a risk factor in organizations - for example, through misunderstanding, inappropriate use of jargon, prejudice and ineffective leadership, etc. I organized another workshop on crisis communication a couple of years ago that led to a popular Special Issue, and I plan to do the same this time too.
The workshop will take place on Friday June 21 at 1.30-2.45 in Burleigh Boardroom, Star L2. It will be an interactive discussion, so please bring ideas, questions, methodologies and examples from your own research to share. Here is a summary of the content:
Communication as an Issue in Risk Management
Communication is often seen as an afterthought or is taken for granted when approaching risk factors and navigating uncertainty in organizations. Yet, communication, in the form of misunderstanding and conflict, is itself an issue that can lead to crisis if it is not recognized. The workshop offers the opportunity to scholars from different communication fields to discuss this phenomenon. The aim of the workshop is to invite communication scholars from different divisions to consider ways in which ineffective communication practices can become risk factors in professional projects.
Questions explored will include:
· How can communication (ie lexical choice, register, medium, setting, etc) be approached as an issue or risk factor in preventing crises?
What are major impediments in communicating risk or uncertainty internally in an organization and can we find a pattern in these?
What is the role of leadership in implementing systematic communication processes in project management?
What are some methodological tools and frameworks to analyze and evaluate risk issues and are these sufficient?
You can get more information from the program. I hope to see some of you there on the 21st!
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Sky Marsen
Associate Professor
Flinders University
Australia
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