Organizational Communication as an Effective Communication Strategy in Organizations and the Role of the Leader

Abstract

In today’s business world, organizational structures have become more complex with the effect of global, social, economic, and technological developments, and with the increasing need for division of labor and labor, all employees in organizations need to establish close relationships with each other and continue their activities in harmony. In this context, organizational communication has become a vital phenomenon for organizations to achieve organizational goals successfully. Leadership is considered the most important organizational variable for the effective management of the organizational communication process. The role and importance of leadership and leaders in the effective organizational communication process is an undeniable fact. Leaders play important roles in the effective management of organizational communication with their identity as a good communicator as well as many of their characteristics. In this study, it is aimed to examine the relationship between organizational communication and leadership and to reveal the interaction areas according to the basic dimensions of both concepts. First, the conceptual framework for organizational communication and leadership is presented in the study, and then the relational context is explained. Within the framework of the findings and evaluations revealed in the study, it is understood that leadership variables, which play a key role in the effective management of organizational communication and organizational communication, are complementary to each other, and the successful continuation of the communication process in organizations can be achieved through leader activity interaction. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.