AN ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION DISSEMINATION PATTERNS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY IN UYO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Communication is the process of getting information across from one person to another. But effective communication is the process of getting information across from one person to another in a way that they will understand our feeling, thoughts and needs. Communication in all organization whether private or public is the life stream of the organization or putting it in another way, it serves as the thread that weaves everything together in the said organization Bankole (2011).
Goals of communication are to: establish and disseminate the goals of an enterprise; develop plans for their achievement; organize human and other resources in the most effective and efficient way; select, develop, and appraise members of the organization; control performance and create a climate in which people want to contribute; and control performance. With the above aims of communication, it is obvious that nothing could be achieved by any organization without effective channels of active human beings life on the job is spent communicating.
While a greater proportion about 90% of a typical managers time at work is spend in the communicating process. It is therefore important to understand how the communication network operates and the elements that contribute to an effective system. Obviously, it is through communication system that plans, decisions, politics and information that flow from the management are made possible and all levels of management linked. A typical communication process is depicted in the diagram below;
Feed back
Bankole A. R (2011) pp 206 Communication model
Communication therefore begins with the sender who has “thought” of an idea, which is then “encoded” in a way that can be understood by the receiver. The information is then transmitted over a channel that links the sender with the receiver in which the media used may be in oral or written form, or a computer. The receiver then receives the message and decodes into thoughts, accurate communication can occur only when both the sender and the receiver attach the same or at least similar meaning to the symbols. Against this backdrop the study examines information dissemination patterns and organizational efficiency in Uyo Local Government Council.
Downward communication, upward communication and lateral communication exist in this organization. Downward communication refers to the directives and other messages that originate from the officials at top levels i.e. superiors and are transmitted down through the hierarchy which are intervening levels of supervision, until they reach the lower-ranking worker. While upward communication is a system of communication where recommendations, request or messages are passed from the lower levels of the hierarchy up to the higher levels of the management.
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