Organizations
These studies showed that workers tend to respond positively to attention from others.
What are the Hawthorne Studies?
Three techniques for getting claps
What are Contrasts, lists of three, set ’em up and knock ’em down?
E. T. Hall distinguishes between these two orientations to time.
What are monochronic and polychronic?
In China, friends would greet each other by asking “Have you eaten yet?” when they are meet, while this habit may cause North American to misunderstand as they are trying to invite other for a meal. In this instance, Americans get to know Chinese culture by ______ way.
(Question by Hongping Lin)
What is Cross-cultural contact
The sum of symbols, events, traditions, standardized verbal and nonverbal behavior, folktales, rules and rituals that give an organization its "personality."
What is an organizational culture?
Cicero five canons, or tenets, of rhetoric
Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery
The description of the Nacirema culture is an example of this.
What is thick and thin description?
___________ emphasizes the way systems maintain themselves through continuous interactions between their parts and their environments.
(Question by Waverly Choi)
What is Systems theory
According to this theory, the organization is a machine; the worker is motivated by financial reward; the job of the manager is to produce.
What is scientific management theory (or Taylorism)?
Discovering ideas and evidence, Developing a thesis, Assessing the audience and Reaching conclusions
(Question by Joseph Lee)
What is preparing to create a speech.
"Time is Money" would be suitable to describe this culture.
What is a monochronic culture?
Student Instructional Rating Surveys is what type of communication flow in a organization.
(Question by Hongping Lin)
What is Upward message flow
“Team” is the image that best describes this school of thought.
What is the Quality School of Management?
Surveillance, Correlation, Socialization, and Entertainment
What are the Four Basic Functions of Mass Communication
Cultures in which the rules are primarily communicated through the use of contextual elements (i.e., body language, a person's status, tone of voice) and are not explicitly stated
What is a high context culture?
_____ specify the means through which an organization carries out its mission and pursues its aspirations (often, called a vision) and the _____ that make these accomplishments possible.
(Question by Cynthia Vasquez)
What are plans, goals
Supportive superiors, high quality downward communication, open relationships between superiors and subordinates, high degree of influence in upward communication, reliable information.
What is a positive organizational climate?
This perspective views audience behaviors as being guided by the pursuit of particular goals and needs.
What is Uses and Gratification Theory
Japan is a culture that demands you respect the elders of any family that you meet without being told to. It’s common for many people to perfect a single craft in Japan, and so the majority of people will spend years on mastering the different multiple aspects of their single crafts. Based upon these facts, which of TWO concepts would BEST define the culture of Japan?
(Question by Joseph Lee)
Whats is High context and monochronic
Public/mass media communication is defined as the transmission of a ______ _______ to large numbers of people who may or may not know, or be known, to the ________ _______.
(Question by Cynthia Vasquez)
Common message, message initiator