LTStraipsnyje pateikiami vidinių ir išorinių ryšių Lietuvos įmonėse tyrimo rezultatai. Juose atsispindi Lietuvos įmonių darbuotojų tarpusavio ryšių bei darbuotojų ir vadovų ryšių struktūra, gylis, pobūdis bei motyvai, o taip pat Lietuvos įmonių ryšių su konkrečiais aplinkos elementais struktūra ir motyvai. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Išoriniai ryšiai; Vidiniai ryšiai; Įmonės aplinka; Aplinkos elementai; External links; Internal links; Organizational environment; Elements of environment.
ENOrganizational communication has great influence on individuals, groups and effectiveness of companies’ activities. Although communication can occur only through created and maintained channel between the sender and the receiver of information. The basic element of the organizational communication process is human – the employee of a company. He can initiate and maintain links inside a company or on the personal and institutional level maintain links with external elements of environment, invoked by his basic assumptions and motives. Management theories pointed out the human factor and the significance of organizational communication long time ago, but we still have a minor view on the basics of creating and maintaining links. It’s inevitably important to analyze the factors of communication based links’ development, seeking to avail of organizational communication benefits on times of global social networking. Therefore the object of this research paper is internal and external links in Lithuanian companies and the main goal of the research is to estimate the spread of internal and external links in Lithuanian companies. Firstly, the theoretical pattern of internal and external links in companies was proposed, and also its elements were discussed. Secondly, the questionnaire was built with reference to the mentioned theoretical assumptions, then the research was performed and the data was processed by SPSS 17 software for Windows. There were presented findings about the making of links and relationships maintained among employees, managers and their subordinates, the organization and elements of its environment.Trying to draw a picture of an employee, which is a subject of making and maintaining links in companies, it appears as follows: High educated (such an employee makes links more purposefully, also his leisure pursuits are linked to usefulness); Middle-aged (such an employee has already made a dozen of useful links concerning his gained professionalism); Single (not married or living in partnership – such an employee doesn’t need to divide his attention between job and family, he or she more easily matches collegial and personal relationships; Exercising an individual activity (a proactive employee creates his prosperity by his own, motivated by the argument that creating links and relationships with colleagues, managers and environmental elements brings him or her various benefits). Women seek usefulness with the help of deep personal relationships, while men prefer creating more superficial relationships with a priori useful selected individuals. The common classical approach to the authority acceptance is more profound and doesn’t fit to time, although it is common in Lithuanian companies between manager-subordinate relationships and this limits the spread of internal and external links in Lithuanian companies. Estimating the company’s links with environmental elements, we can state, that the poor level of employees’ privacy blocs the spread of external links in Lithuanian companies. It means that the links between managers and subordinates aren’t properly filled with downwards communication and information; the latter statement is confirmed by the research results. [From the publication]