Communication: The Invisible Bridge to Global Synergies

Organizational behavior in practice is always confined to human behavior. National and international business environments ultimately rely on output from human capital- people-to function at optimal operational capacity. Management and leadership share the need and the responsibility to embrace organizational structures that encourage communication. This paper will discuss the role of communication in fostering seamless and synergistic behaviors in organizational practice. Everything begins with receiving and understanding the correct written or spoken message. The primary goal of communication in organizations is to assist participants in identifying with visions, missions, goals, and objectives organizational culture is attempting to share. Although new participants are allowed to join the organization based on what their experiences and skill sets indicate they might add, the major foci is on creating a community of optimal performers. Optimal operations depend on well-informed, capable participants who are willing to communicate. “If people feel part of the corporate community, if they feel safe and cared for, if they are passionate about the mission and values and believe that others are living by them, they will generally give good service to the whole” (Pinchot, 1996, p.27). Like any other community, the corporate community reflects people from many backgrounds and experiences. Specific to each member of the corporate community is a foundation of knowledge synthesized by practice to create new knowledge of outcomes. Communication seeks to have the new knowledge shared to promote growth and optimal use of corporate resources. Leadership and management are necessary to provide the appropriate language. Language partners with communication to act as the invisible bridge between the phenomenon of community that occurs when free people, with some sense of equal worth, voluntarily join a common enterprise and the political struggle that often replaces community when people are separated by vast differences in power, wealth and conflict over resources and promotions (Pinchot, 1996). Seamless progressions and synergies in behavior require good communication.