Reference no: EM13975042

What are the communication challenges within an organization? How does an organization overcome the challenge and improve communication?

You will:

Analyze and synthesize the results of the data from the communication audit.

Based on the data, identify one main communication challenge within an organization of your choice

Create and deliver a presentation that provides results and suggestions for improvement based on the data obtained from the audit and the literature on organizational communication

Directions:

Assume you are the Director of Human Resources at your chosen organization. You are tasked with conducting a communication audit and then presenting the results to leadership. Your goal in conducting the communication audit is to

identify three communication challenges within an organization. You will complete the following tasks:

Conduct a communication audit using the Communication Audit Survey located in course content. In order to get good results, you should survey a minimum of 8 to 10 people.

You may print out the survey or you may put it online, for example, on SurveyMonkey or Google Form

This survey asks questions about 5 different areas: Receiving Information from others, Sending Information to others, Sources of information, Timeliness of information, and Channels of communication.

Within these 5 themes of organizational communication, identify the major issues in your organization's communication, based on the responses.

Then research the scholarly literature for recommendations on how the organization can address these issues.

Format:

Communicate the results of the Communication Audit through a presentation, using APA format. Include a title slide with your project title (e.g., "Communication Audit"), the organization's name, your name, class, instructor and date.

Present an introduction describing your research methodology providing details of the survey administration, response rate, and characteristics of the survey population. Clearly present a narrative to describe the data using appropriate tables, charts and graphs. Include a detailed analysis followed by findings. Identify the top three communication challenges from your survey, and present your recommendations to strengthen these communication challenges, based on the scholarly literature.

You should have an appendix with the scores and results of the survey.

Your presentation should be professional and creative. You may add audio and/or visual elements on the slides. Text should be proper size for viewing during a presentation. Your presentation will need title and citation slides. You must have a minimum of 3 reliable sources in your citations. Use APA format for your citations. Don't forget to check your spelling! You may not copy text directly from a source.

Attachment:- communication_audit_survey.zip