Communication privacy management (Relationship) Flashcards
What are the main focuses of communication privacy management?
It is about what to share in relationships. Adresses the tension between openness and privacy, public and private.
There are a constant managing boundaries in a relationship.
What partners in a relationship must do to manage the challenges they face. Conjoint effect negotiated in communication.
Explain the concept boundaries.
THE OPEN/CLOSED BOUNDARIES
Permeable: meaning some information can be shared
Impermeable: information is never shared
What do closed boundaries lead to? (Maintaining)
greater autonomy/safety
What do open boundaries lead to? (Opening)
creates boundaries. intimacy, personal vulnerability.
Explain how the boundaries of sharing effect a person.
Creates an inner discussion: Do I share? Do i nor share?
The tension between the need to share and the need to protect one-self is present. Requires a person to negotiate and coordinate their boundaries.
What do dialectics mean in this theory?
Interplay between the pressures to reveal and to conceal.
The individuals cost and reward from sharing.
What is meant by “relational contract?”
Agreement on shared cost and reward within the relationship.
Explain the idea of co-ownership of information.
once we share private information to a person, that person becomes a co-owner of the information.
Explain the idea of boundary management.
A risk/benefit ratio.
What do a gain by telling and what risk does it hold.
Risk assessment: meaning thinking about the costs and rewards of revealing information.
Explain the following boundary coordinations:
which means negotiating the rules of co-ownership of information.
- Boundary permeability
- Boundary linkage
- Boundary ownership
- how open or closed a boundary should be
- an agreement about who is included within the boundaries and who is not
- boundary ownership: the rights and responsibility of the co-owner
What happens if the boundary coordination (the negotiated rules) are violated?
Conflict
Boundary turbulence.
Who created the Communication Privacy Management?
Sandra Petronio
How can you use this theory in a management perspective?
Manager to employer
Employer to employer
- establishing professional boundaries, such as confidentiality
- What is appropriate to talk about with your co-workers and what is not
Critique of the theory?
Not something people would actually talk about, more something that happens more naturally.
Not something you would do every time you share information.
