COM 1000 Study Guide - Organizational Communication
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Individualistic cultures tend to be low context cultures. Japan and france are examples of undertaininty-rejecting cultures. George hooking up with sylvia after she showed a positive interest in him is an ex of the responsiveness motivation for initiating a relationship. Organizational community the ways in which groups of people both maintain structure and order through their symbolic interactions and allow individual actors the freedom to accomplish their goals. Pattern maintenance orientation (family, church, some schools, non-profit hospitals) Small group the interaction between more than two people who are working together to achieve an interdependent goal. Communication networks patterns of relationships through which information flows in an organization. Messages that follow prescribes channels of communication throughout the organization. Any interaction that does not generally follow the formal structure of the organization. Emerges out of social interaction among organization members. Organizational communication students gain an understanding of organizations on both the large and small scale.
