CMN 2148 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ingroups And Outgroups, Organizational Commitment, Bounded Rationality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2148
• Professor: Mary Hawkins

Document Summary

Introduction: communications; behaviors that create and shape relationships and events through a culturally dependent process of assigning meaning to symbols, 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. Written and oral communication, inquiry, critical and creative thinking, qualitative literacy, cultural knowledge, teamwork, synthesis of learning and strong personal ethics will be highly valued. Organizational communication as a process: an on-going process without distinct beginning and ends. The process includes patterns if interactions that develop among organizational members and those external to the organization and how these interactions shape organizations. 2: message; symbolic attempt to transfer meaning; the signal that serves as a stimulus for a receiver, channel; medium through which the message is transmitted.