Future of Organizational Communication.
The three basic requirements of how a company becomes a learning organization whose members question existing assumptions and devise new ways of doing business are (1) learning basic skills, (2) learning new technologies and (3) learning new ways of organizing. The U.S. Labor Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills illustrates three foundational abilities and five learning areas to accomplish success in the company workplace.
Necessary Workplace Skills.
The Foundational Abilities.
Basic: reading, writing, mathematics, speaking and listening.
Thinking: creativity, making decisions, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, knowing how to learn .
Personal qualities: responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, and integrity.
Learning Areas.
Resources: how to allocate time, money, and materials.
Interpersonal: how to work on teams, teach, serve customers, lead negotiations, and how to work well with people from culturally diverse backrounds.
Information: how to acquire and evaluate data, organize and maintain files, interpret and communicate.
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Systems: how to understand social, organizational and technological systems; design-improved systems.
Technology: How to select equipment and tools, apply technology to specific tasks, and maintain and troubleshoot technologies.
Earl Shorris (1997), a social philosopher, argues that it is the ability to answer and know the questions that are vital to all human beings. Earl brought together smart college students to a twenty-eight-week course called "The Clemente Project- where they were taught moral philosophy, art history and American history. .
As the technology grows faster, the skills and knowledge of workers needs to keep up with the technology. People who are in the engineering and computer industry's, use the skills they learn for only about a few years then they need to re-educate new skills and knowledge for the changing technology.
