Globalization correct answers The rapidly developing processes of complex interconnections
between societies, cultures, institutions, and individuals worldwide.
outsourcing correct answers businesses move manufacturing and service centers to countries
where labor is cheap. Companies have multinational or international presence.
4 aspects of our complicated world correct answers -Globalization
-Terrorism
-Climate Change
-Changing Demographics
Climate Change correct answers The role of organizational communication in climate change
and global warming is widespread. Org Com is also implemented in the debates on CC
Changing Demographics correct answers demographics refer to statistical descriptions of
characteristics of a population such as age, race, income, educational attainment. Who we are in
most basic terms.
Five critical features of organizations correct answers -The existence of a social collectivity
-Organizational and individual goals
-Coordinating activity
-Organizational structure
-Embedding of the organization
Structure correct answers -More than basic hierarchical structure or even more complex team
structures.
-Consider structures based on collective and communal relationships
, -Structures that eschew hierarchy in favor of flat organizational forms
-Structures that cross boundaries of time and space
Goals correct answers -Move far beyond the economic goals that are often assumed in
discussions of the "bottom line"
-Many goals driving organizations today involve changing the world in big and small ways
-Or even simply concerned about "connection" itself
SMCR Model and Communication correct answers Source, Message, Channel, Receiver,
**Communication is not just about sending simple messages to one or more receivers - also:
-Intricate networks though which ICT link us to others
-Creation of meaning systems
-Framing information
-Coming to an understanding about competing issues
Constitutive model of communication correct answers -"a process that produces and reproduces
shared meaning"
-Proposed "domains" - different ways of thinking about how communication works in the world
Requisite variety correct answers the need for organizations and groups to be as complicated as
the problems that confront them
Scientific Management correct answers Two issues of current industry operations concerned
Taylor:
o Newcomers learned tasks by watching more experienced
workers at a particular job