Exam 1 Flashcards

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Chronemics

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Study of time as it is bound to human communication

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Time as a cultural assumption

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Deepest level of culture that contains taken-for-granted and institutionalized beliefs and values

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Contemporary Zeitgeist

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The spirits of the times: More-faster-better

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Project Management Triangle

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-Old engineering maxim
-Pick two: cheaper, faster, better

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Fungible Time

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Time units are exchangeable

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Epochal Time

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-Each time unit is unique and not exchangeable
-Signals a different “code” for our behavior which dictates our temporality

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Objective Conception of time

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-In the environment or biologically-driven
-Pacers that impact social and personal times
-Ex: semester

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Subjective Conception of time

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-Individual
-Personal idiosyncrasies (like or unlike one’s culture)

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Intersubjective Conception of time

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-Shared by a culture or group
-Created through interaction, communication
-The basis of chronemics

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The relationship of pace to other dimensions of time

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slow <—> fast

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Pacers

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Sleeping at night and waking at daylight (i.e., the diurnal cycle)

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Exogenous pacers

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The environment

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Endogenous pacers

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An entity

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14
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Zeitgeber pacers

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Power

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15
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Speed of creation

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-How quickly it is written
-140 characters

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Frequency of circulation

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-How quickly it is shared
-Rapidly

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Wavelength of consumption

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-How quickly it is read
-Constantly

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Principles of Speed

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-Speed is an addictive drug
-Speed leads to simplification
-Speed demands space
-Speed creates assembly line effects
-Speed leads to a loss of precision

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19
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Filling in all the gaps

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The loss of un-accelerated time

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Globalization

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-Reduces importance of distance in speed
-Global telecommunication based on real time

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21
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Moore’s Law

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The capacity (speed) of microprocessors doubles every 18 months

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22
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Slow Movement Principles

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Calm, careful, receptive, still, intuitive, unhurried, patient, quality-over-quantity,
reflective

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Tempo guisto

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-Balance
-The right speed

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Unhurried conversations

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An accomplishment between a clinician and patient to make themselves available to the other in order to improve care

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Future Time Focus

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A focus on distant outcomes that have yet to occur

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Temporal Depth

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Distances into the past and future that individuals typically consider when contemplating events that have happened, may have happened, or may happen.

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Temporal Focus

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Degree of emphasis on the past, present, and future

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Past Temporal Focus

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A focus on the way things used to be: traditions vs. regret or being “stuck in the past”

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Present Temporal Focus

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A focus on the here and now: being in the “moment” vs. immediate gratification

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Future Temporal Focus

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A focus on distant outcomes: longterm thinking vs. destination addiction or worry/anxiety

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31
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Decision fatigue

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Making lots of decisions w/o appropriate fuel and willpower is exhausted

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Affective Forecasting

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Predicting how you will feel in the future concerning valence, specific emotions, intensity, duration

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33
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Left brain functions

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Past and Future; keeps you safe

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34
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Right brain functions

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Present; keeps you connected/well

35
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Clock of the Long Now

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10,000 Year Clock: hand advances every century; chimes once every 1,000 years

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Cathedral Thinking

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Long-term goals that require decades of planning so future generations can enjoy their full realization

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Polychronicity

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People prefer to be engaged in two or more tasks simultaneously

38
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Multitasking

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Polychronicity (multiple task accomplishment) + Speed (Taylorism)

39
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Multitasking origin

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In computer science: multiple parallel processing

40
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Multicommunicating

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The use of technology to participate in several interactions at the same time

41
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Multicommunicating requires media that offers

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Compartmentalization and flexibility of tempo

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Multicommunicating is intensifed by

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Number of open conversations, pace, integration of social roles, and number of topics

43
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Task Switching

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The juggling of interruptions (volitional or non-volitional)

44
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Budgeted Social Presence

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From multicommunicating; doling out attention

45
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Entitled Social Presence

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Demanding attention

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Competitive Social Presence

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Fighting for attention

47
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Invitational Social Presence

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Creating a partnership for mutual attention and dialogue

48
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Presenteeism

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Showing up for work unable to engage due to illness
(technology has made this easier to do)

49
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Communication savoring

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The capacity to enhance the positive experiences in one’s life

50
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Communication savoring types

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-Aesthetic communication
-Communication presence
-Nonverbal communication
-Recognition and acknowledgement
-Relational communication
-Extraordinary communication
-Implicitly shared communication

51
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Time

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-The various external markers that point toward work related activities or events
-Ex: clocks, schedules, appointments, deadlines, and calendared meetings

52
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Temporality

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-The inherent patterns that define a process, activity, or event and saturate it with meaning and relevance
-Ex: Basic aspects of organizing, team development, member socialization, and structural dynamics like virtual teams and teleworking

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7 Enactments of Time

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Pace, linearity, separation, flexibility, scheduling, punctuality, and delay

54
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Pace

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Tempo or rate of activity

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Linearity

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Actual task execution

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Separation

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Measure of (spatiotemporal) connection among organizational members in time and space

57
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Flexibility

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The degree of rigidity in time structuring and task completion plans

58
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Scheduling

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Sequencing and duration of events are formalized

59
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Punctuality and delay

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The exacting nature of timing and deadlines.

60
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5 construals of time

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Urgency, scarcity, future time focus, past time focus, present time focus

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Urgency

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Describes members’ preoccupation with deadlines
and task completion

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Scarcity

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The construal of time as a limited and exhaustible resource

63
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Past time focus

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To use previous events as a referent for today

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Present time focus

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Concerned with unfolding, emergent contemporary events within a short time scale

65
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Temporal enactments vs. construals

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-Enactments refer to the way people “perform” time
-Construals refer to the way people interpret time

66
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Entrainment

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One cyclic process becomes disrupted by, and set to oscillate in tune with, another process

67
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Clock time

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Time is viewed as a scarce resource and a high value is placed on carving it up into activities that run back-to-back

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Event time

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Emphasis on letting events themselves drive activity rather than a clock, people are treated more important with a natural flow of events

69
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Karoshi

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Death through overwork

70
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The cause of jet lag

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When there is a temporary mismatch between our external environment and our internal biological clock

71
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Reification

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The apprehension of human phenomena as if they were things in non-human or possible super human terms

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Reification and the social construction of time

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The conventionality of a social institution such as the 7 day week is transformed into perceived inevitability

73
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Positivity Resonance

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Sustainable positive energy resonating back-and-forth between people

74
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Taylorism

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Science time management and a piece-rate system to increase production output among workers

75
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Relationship between the history of clock time and the MER mission

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Part of the MER mission’s sociocultural and organizational infrastructure

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High frequency

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Journalism

77
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Mid frequency

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Academic and scholarly writing

78
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Low frequency

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Public architecture

79
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Intensification

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Piling on the pressure with more work and rigid curriculum

80
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Healthcare efficiency and quality of care

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The contemporary incarceration of efficiency and how much of a desirable outcome can be obtained from each unit of resource spent means time is money

81
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Slow Science Manifesto

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Science needs time to think, read, and fail

82
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Positive Organizational Scholarship

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Focuses on the dynamics leading to exceptional individual and organizational performance

83
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Invitational Presence outside of the workplace

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Creating a partnership with your audience by inviting them into your conversation and trying to understand their perspective while sharing yours