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COMT 310: Organizational Communication Fall, 2009

COMT 310: Organizational Communication Fall, 2009. . Emergency Response Guidelines. Emergency = 911 Campus Police = 657-2147 Facilities Services = 657-2306 Campus Technology = 247-5700. R1N1 Avoid close contact with other individuals who may be sick.

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COMT 310: Organizational Communication Fall, 2009

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  1. COMT 310: Organizational Communication Fall, 2009 

  2. Emergency Response Guidelines

  3. Emergency = 911 Campus Police = 657-2147 Facilities Services = 657-2306 Campus Technology = 247-5700

  4. R1N1 Avoid close contact with other individuals who may be sick.

  5. If you are sick (fever over 100 for three straight days, cough, aches, fatigue, diarrhea and vomiting) experts recommend you stay at home.

  6. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick.

  7. Clean your hands: Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. Use a hand sanitizer - located around the university - as much as possible.

  8. Keep your hands away from your face: Refrain from touching your eyes, nose and mouth to avoid “catching” a cold or flu. This is how germs usually enter your body.

  9. Clean your personal space: Cleaning your work and livng area (doorknobs, cabinet handles, etc.) with a bleach-based cleaner will help prevent the spread of germs.

  10. Be diligent: Don’t share personal items such as lipstick, towels, razors or eating utensils.

  11. Stay in touch: Keep in contact with your parents and your professors so they know how you are doing.

  12. POWER OUTAGE: Call university police at 657-2222 and follow instructions. MEDICAL EMERGENCIES: In the event of an injury or serious illness: Call 911 IMMEDIATELY. Call university police at 657-2222 to report the emergency.

  13. CHEMICAL SPILLS, GAS LEAKS OR SUSPICIOUS ODORS • Call 911 IMMEDIATELY. • 2) Call university police at 657-2222 and follow instructions. • 3) Evacuate your area.

  14. EXPLOSIONS 1) Call 911. 2) Call university police at 657-2222 and follow instructions. 3) If able, pull the nearest fire alarm to initiate building evacuation 4) Remove people from immediate danger. Evacuate the building

  15. SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR AND PERSONAL SAFETY: Call university police at 657-2222 and await further instructions.

  16. PHONE THREAT, if you receive a telephone threat: • Listen & take notes. Check caller ID. Be polite so that you can gather information. • 2) Notify university police at 657-2222 IMMEDIATELY. If possible, signal a colleague to contact university police for you or call as soon as the caller hangs up. • 3) Write down as many details as you can for a police report. Those details should include: • a. Date and time of call • b. The type of threat referenced in the call • c. Exact words used by person placing the call • d. Caller’s identity including gender, voice characteristics, accent and apparent manner

  17. If you receive a written threat; e-mail threat; suspicious parcel; or if you find a suspicious object anywhere on the premises: • Keep everyone from handling or going near the object. • 2) Notify the university police IMMEDIATELY. • 3) Promptly write down everything you can remember about the parcel or letter. • 4) Follow the university police’s instructions.

  18. FIRE • Call 911; pull a fire alarm; notify campus police at 657-2222. • 2) Remove people from danger. Try to confine the fire. • 3) Use a fire extinguisher if it is safe to do so. • 4) If area is smoky, stay low to ground. If your clothes are on fire, STOP, DROP AND ROLL. • 5) Do not break windows unless necessary. If the door is hot or smoke is visible, do not open the door. • 6) If you are trapped in your office: • a. Wedge material along bottom of door to keep out smoke. • b. Close doors between you and the fire. • c. If you must have air, open the window and/or hang something outside so it is visible.

  19. EARTHQUAKE . . . If you are inside: • Stay inside. Stay near center of the building. Watch for falling objects. Stay calm. • 2) Crawl under furniture. If not possible, get against an interior wall; protect your head/neck with your arms. • 3) Fire danger increases after an earthquake; take precautions. • If you are outside: • 1) Stay outside. Move to open area. • 2) Beware of falling objects.

  20. ACTIVE SHOOTER INCIDENT: In the classroom or your office • If you are in a classroom/office, STAY THERE, secure door. • 2) If the door has no lock a wedge can be driven in, otherwise try a barricade. • 3) If the door has a window, cover it if you can. • 4) It may be possible to exit through window openings. • 5) If no Police units are on scene find safe cover. • 6) When safe to do so move toward Police keeping hands on head. • 7) Don’t leave the area, you may have information police will need.

  21. In hallways or corridors: • If in hallways, get in a room and secure it. • 2) Don’t run through a long hall to get to an exit, you may encounter the gunmen or hostage taker. • In large rooms or auditoriums: • If in large room and gunmen or hostage taker/s are not present, move toward external exits and get out. If police are present move toward them.

  22. Trapped with the gunmen • If trapped with the gunmen, don’t provoke. If they are not shooting, do what they say and don’t move suddenly. • If shooting starts, you have three choices. Stay still; run for exit; or attack the shooter. Attack is very dangerous, but not more than doing nothing and dying in place. The shooter will not expect to be attacked by unarmed persons. • Open spaces • Stay alert and look for appropriate cover such as: brick walls, large trees, retaining walls, parked vehicles etc.

  23. CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR & SUSPICION OF THREAT Instructor can confront the threatening person. Students can label the behavior. If warranted, use a cell phone to call 911 or campus security at 657-2222

  24. The conclusion of a most reassuring activity!

  25. Imagine that it is December and this is the worst class you have ever taken. What would have happened?

  26. Imagine that it is December and this is the best class you have ever taken. What will have happened?

  27. What is it you need to know about me in order to have a more productive learning experience?

  28. exercise summary: • goals for a sense of direction • best/worst scenarios to approach and avoid • getting to know me

  29. The first days of class like the first days at work. Compare the beginning of our first class to now. What are the differences? How did that happen?

  30. Usually in our culture organizational socialization involves one-way communication. boss new worker

  31. What is the result of this one-way socialization? • models power relations • passivity • powerlessness • wait and see

  32. The Other Side a conformist

  33. Some dependency is necessary, but we tend to overdo it!

  34. If we create too much dependency, we lose creative resources

  35. alternative: create and examine an explicit contract between workers and organization.

  36. This contract should: • clarify work to be done • method for feedback • offer support • forward communication

  37. This class served to illustrate a two-way organizational communication socialization process.

  38. honeymoon period.

  39. Organizations and employees • information vs. trusted human networks • more work vs. more meaning in life (home, family, community) • profit vs. more meaningful work • workers are expendable, temporary, often victims.

  40. The new social contract: • Sources of power • Changing values • The meaning of work • Life is no longer linear

  41. Rebels against the future

  42. Our technological culture is producing similar outcomes • job security • salaries • benefits

  43. 5% will have have $$, education, power, status . . . the rest of us are on that “slippery slope.”

  44. From Harper's Magazine, 9/13/05 Wealthy residents of New Orleans were devising ways to rebuild the city with a minimum of poor people. Barbara Bush visited the Astrodome and said that, given that the evacuees were "underprivileged anyway," things were "working out very well" for them, and Representative Richard Baker gave the hurricane credit for finally cleaning up public housing in New Orleans. The government began to award no-bid contracts for the reconstruction, and President George W. Bush signed an executive order to allow federal contractors working in the wake of Katrina to pay their workers less than the prevailing wage. When questioned by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi over his administration's response to the storm, Bush asked, "What didn't go right?" http://www.harpers.org/Subscribe.html

  45. What you will get to do from now on is . . . compete

  46. Your advantages are: • education • persistence/energy • intelligence • What else??

  47. The World is Flat (2005) Thomas L. Friedman

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