Supervisor Relationships and downward Communication
Peer Relationships and Horizontal Communication
Workplace Emotion
Organizational Culture
Research Methods
100

When subordinates provide supervisors overly positive and very little negative information

Upward Distortion

100

Horizontal communication between peers can be challenging due to jargon or group related language. This illustrates the concept of: 

Specialization

100

The display of emotion as a part of the job that is in some way controlled by management and is often seen as inauthentic. 

Emotional Labor

100

According to Schein, these are on the surface of culture. They are easy to observe but difficult to decipher.

Artifacts
100

Creating and analyzing maps of relationships by studying actual communication patterns.

Network Analysis

200

According to LMX Theory, these types of relationships are formal, relatively impersonal and supervisors generally only share task related information.

Overseer or Outgroup Relationships
200

This type of social support provides insight and advice needed to manage uncertainty.

Informational support

200

The expression of genuine emotion that is a natural part of the job of working with clients. 

Emotional work

200

This type of communication norm must be followed or you are likely to get fired from the organization. 

Pivotal Norm

200

Danny and Russ have a strong network link. They talk about many different topics. This illustrates which property of network links?

Multiplexity

300

The assumption that all supervisors treat all subordinates similarly

Average supervisor style

300

This negative type of social support is transactional. I support you now, so you owe me later. 

Support as commodity. 

300

Emotion that emerges through relationships and interactions with other employees in the workplace

Emotion with work

300
This theory explains why it is so hard to change culture. It suggests we recreate systems by using the same rules and resources over and over again. 

Structuration Theory

300

In this method of studying culture, we join an organization and participate in the organizational processes. 

Ethnography

400

This effect is when subordinates are more satisfied because they believe their supervisor has upward influence and can influence their own boss.

Pelz Effect


400

In this type of peer relationship, we have moderate trust and self-disclosure, task and relationship communication and social support. 

Collegial Peer

400

Emotion that comes from outside of the workplace but is experienced at work

Emotion at work

400

These are the core of culture. They are often taken for granted by organizational members. 

Cultural Assumptions

400

In this method of studying culture, we find a frequently repeated story and analyze the rites/rituals, heroes and values in the story. 

Narrative or Script Analysis

500

Which of these is NOT a part of formal downward communication? Job performance reports, job instructions, Job rationales, Indoctrination


Job performance reports.

500

Informal communication (the grapevine) moves faster and is more accurate than formal communication. True or False? 

False

500

Emotion expressed with work as the target of emotion. 

Emotion toward work

500

This view of culture from Joann Martin suggests that organizations are hotbeds of sub-cultures. 

Differentiation 

500

In this type of cultural research, we examine organizational decision making processes to identify the cultural values of the organization.

Reflective Comment Analysis

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