- Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Organizational Communication - correct answer The creating, sending, processing, and storing of messages within purposive systems Theory X - correct answer Douglas McGregor's theory that states workers dislike responsibility Traditional, Rational-legal, Charismatic - correct answer What is a type of authority proposed by Max Weber? Frederick Herzberg - correct answer This classical theorist argued that hygiene factors interfere with any potential effect of employe...

What is communication? - correct answer Using symbols to establish and interpret meaning What is communication inquiry? - correct answer Learning how to study messages What is research? - correct answer Systematic exploration What are research methods? - correct answer Strategies (for systematic exploration) What are strategies for systematic exploration of messages called? - correct answer Communication research methods What are the five phases of the res...

Peer communication - correct answer - collegial peers - Information peers - special close relationships - mentoring - emotional management population ecology - correct answer theoretically grounded in natural selection, population ecology is the study of the differential reproduction and survival of organizations depending upon their relative advantages - survival of the fittest - sociological view diffusion of innovations - correct answer - Rogers (1995) - Innovat...

Collective vs. Individual - correct answer -Collective is the process of putting recruits who are facing the same boundary together to work "in the same boat" -Individual mode allows recruits to accumulate experience separate from other newcomers Formal v. Informal - correct answer Formal tactics in which newcomers are more or less separated from others and trained on the job -Informal tactics allow recruits to learn new roles through trial and error Serial v. Disjunctiv...

(II. Defining communication) What is communication? - correct answer A social process in which individuals emply symbols to establish and interpret meaning How do we share meaning? - correct answer Symbols and language *What is the focus of communication (as opposed to psychology?) - correct answer The focus on symbols or language and MESSAGES Mind vs. thinking *What is communication inquiry? - correct answer The study of anything related to messages *Inquiring ab...

Organizational Communication - correct answer The creating, sending, processing, and storing of messages within purposive systems. Communication - correct answer The behaviors of human beings or their artifacts that result in messages being received by one or more persons Message - correct answer Anything that a receiver sees as meaningful 2 components of a message - correct answer Content and Relational Communication models - correct answer Linear and Transa...

What is finance? - correct answer the study of how people and businesses evaluate investments and raise capital to fund them How is finance different from economics? - correct answer It addresses not only how resources are allocated but also under what terms and channels resources are allocated How do I analyze a firm? - correct answer Look at a company's: - Return on Assets - Net Profit Margin (a profitability/efficiency measure) - Total Asset Turnover (a productivity...

What is finance? - correct answer the study of how people and businesses evaluate investments and raise capital to fund them How is finance different from economics? - correct answer It addresses not only how resources are allocated but also under what terms and channels resources are allocated How do I analyze a firm? - correct answer Look at a company's: - Return on Assets - Net Profit Margin (a profitability/efficiency measure) - Total Asset Turnover (a productivity...

What is finance? - correct answer the study of how people and businesses evaluate investments and raise capital to fund them How is finance different from economics? - correct answer It addresses not only how resources are allocated but also under what terms and channels resources are allocated How do I analyze a firm? - correct answer Look at a company's: - Return on Assets - Net Profit Margin (a profitability/efficiency measure) - Total Asset Turnover (a productivity...

What is finance? - correct answer the study of how people and businesses evaluate investments and raise capital to fund them How is finance different from economics? - correct answer It addresses not only how resources are allocated but also under what terms and channels resources are allocated How do I analyze a firm? - correct answer Look at a company's: - Return on Assets - Net Profit Margin (a profitability/efficiency measure) - Total Asset Turnover (a productivity...