Karl Wieck's Organizational Information Theory

In this chapter I have understood that Organizational Information Theory is mainly concerned with how organizations practice information to make sense of it. It also explains how individuals within organizations communicate important information in order to assure success and effectiveness in their environment. Specially, Karl Wieck highlights the importance of human interaction as essential to handling information thus; communication is the main concentration of his theory. The main idea is that organizations are not just simply structures or building blocks but are instead repeatedly changing and varying entities or objects, created by their members. By making the process of reducing equivocality central to his theory, Wieck stresses the

Another strategy to reduce lack of clarity organization needs to work united and ensure that it is comprehensible. Then in order to understand the theory certain key terms have been discussed. Equivocality has been the critical theme of this theory so in order to deal with equivocality three guiding principles have been proposed and the ways with the help of which we can reduce equivocality in organization. The organization needs to understand the equivocality information and series that can be used to reduce it, numbers of rules and series then how to deal with the amount left. The reduction of equivocality is possible through enactment, selection and retention. The way the organization receives and interprets information, how the organization can make the situations clear which are difficult, then to choose the best method in order to achieve further information and finally organizations must use their gathered knowledge in order to make experienced decisions and retention is also necessary to escape repeating mistakes. There should be certain departments, individuals, teams to handle specific information so to avoid unclear or uncertain information