CMST 2064 Midterm: CMST 2064 MIDTERM
Document Summary
Communication is the collective creation, maintenance, and transforming of meaning and expectations through the sending and using of messages. Advantages of working in a group: superior resources, member satisfaction, learning, cultural understanding: develop flexibility and adaptability, creativity, civic engagement. If the commitment to the decision is more important than the outcome of it: task is too large or too complex for an individual, additive task, certain expertise sends their different pieces of work (not much communication) Ethics: ethics is the art of integration and compromise, not blind obedience and conformity. Ethics calls for tolerance of ambiguity; yet it is an action-oriented . process. It signifies a heightened ability to seek truth that stems from core beliefs and to decide consciously on one"s action in a social context. In a practical sense . ethics is wrapped up with integrity and authenticity. (mccoy, 1983, emphasis added)