CMN 2148 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fide, Workplace Democracy, Job Satisfaction

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

Document Summary

Sias & silva (2010: groups provide important relationships between individuals and the larger organization, link individual members, provide an expressive environment, allows for restructuring, allows dis-identifications with the organization while maintaining relationship, helps establish shared realities. Diverse work groups; taylor cox jr. (1993: it is important to acknowledge that all members of organizations, not just members of minority groups, have salient group identities. To the extent that gender affects organizational experience, it affects both men and women. To the extent that racioethnic identity has effects, it affects whites and non- If accountants are disdained in favor of engineers, both engineers and accountants are affected. Expressed views during group interactions are treated as individual statements. Members from collectivistic cultures may prefer to defer to the entire group. 3: self-construal; some cultures support a self-construal which is independent, while others support interdependence and connections to others, face presentation; the concept of face refers to image, including self-image and the image of others.