CMN 2148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Communication, Knowledge Economy, Global Warming
10 Jan 2017
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Develop knowledge, sensitivity, skill, and value competencies through interaction of theory, practice, and analysis. Define and describe the human communication process. Understanding communication as a key to organizational excellence. Understand human communication as creating shared realities, shared meanings. Distinguish among interpersonal, small group, and organizational communication. Practice analysis capabilities: develop your ability to analyze and think outside the box. Nature of innovation: outsourcing (cheap labor argument) Jobs of the conceptual age: teacher, lawyer, media & writers, medicine, engineering, finance. Characterized by; rapid change associated with mass production of information, change requiring consistent involvement in the learning of new activities, processes and technologies. Information society; environment in which more jobs create, process, or distribute information than directly produce goods. The environment is characterized by mass production of information, which requires the constant learning of new activities and processes. Conceptual age; environment in which inventive, empathetic, big-picture capabilities will be required for the most fulfilling jobs.
