Say What You Mean to Say
Words Behaviour
Culture Shock
100
This channel for non-verbal communication reveals to others our race, our height and the color of our hair. It says that people that our society defines as attractive tend to have the advantage in life.
What is APPEARANCE?
100
A dog is a domesticated carnivorous mammal (Canis familiaris) related to the foxes and wolves and raised in a wide variety of breeds. This type of meaning defines words explicitly, with personal experiences detached.
What is DENOTATIVE MEANING?
100
________ emerges as members of organizational sub-cultures speak to outsiders using their shared language.
What is NOISE?
200
This is a type of body movement that communicates emotional meanings.
What are AFFECT DISPLAYS?
200
This term refers to the personal meanings we give to words, based on individual as well as shared experience, that go beyond their explicit definitions.
What is CONNOTATIVE MEANING?
200
Sales associates, professional athletes, and surgeons are professions that exemplify this organizational culture.
What is the TOUGH GUY MACHO CULTURE?
300
This term refers to our use of space in order to communicate. It's importance was famously illustrated by the television show Seinfeld ("the Close talker").
What are PROXEMICS?
300
This term refers to the idea that different combinations of words can make it a clearer or more ambiguous way to respond to questions.
What is DEGREE OF DIRECTNESS?
300
Due to the high-stakes nature of each decision, risk taking and immaturity are not tolerated in this organizational culture.
What is the BET-YOUR-COMPANY CULTURE?
400
Four distances used to define the type of relationship existing between people through non-verbal engagement were examined by this scholar.
Who is Edward Hall
400
You may use slang with your buddies, but not necessarily with your boss. The words you use depends on the ________ of the interaction, and shapes its meaning.
What is CONTEXT?
400
The process of having newcomers "learn the ropes" of an established culture when they join an organization.
What is SOCIALIZATION?
500
Devito’s studied this form of non-verbal communication involving touch.
What is HAPTICS?
500
This term looks at a paradoxical relationship - cultural learning shows that we all learn about society’s values in a similar way, yet we emphasize certain values pertaining to our personal development that may not comply.
What is Contradictory Complexity?
500
The organizational development scholar who stated that culture in organizations often operates unconsciously, and defines how an organization views its environment.
Who is Edgar Schein?