Quiz 6

Question 1

What are similarities and differences between groups and teams?

Answer 1

Teams and other groups consist of individuals who are interdependent and
who interact over time. People who are in one place but do not interact are not
a group, nor does a group exist if contact is limited to a fleeting exchange that
is insufficient to generate cohesion or interdependence.

Question 2

What are potential limitations of groups? What are the potential strengths of groups?

Answer 2

Limitations:
- Time If you’ve ever worked in a group—and who hasn’t, you know that
a group takes much longer to decide something than an individual does.
- Conformity Pressures Groups also have the potential to suppress individuals
and encourage conformity.
STRENGTHS:
- Greater resources, thoroughness and creativity and commitment.

Question 3

What are features of small groups? What is entailed in each?

Answer 3

• Cohesion is the degree of closeness, esprit de corps, and group identity.
• Group Size
  The sheer number of people in a group affects the amount of communication.
• Power structure is a third feature that influences participation in small groups.

Question 4

What are the four types of communication in small groups?

Answer 4

-Task Communication:
Initiates ideas, seeks and gives info.
- Climate Communication:
Establishes and maintains healthy climate.
-Procedural Communication:
- Egocentric Communication:
Aggresses toward others, disrupts ie.

Question 5

What are principles of leadership in small groups?

Answer 5

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Question 6

What are key features of organizations?

Answer 6

• Structure
• communication networks
• links to external environments.

Question 7

What is meant by the term “organizational culture?” What are the four kinds of communication in expressing and sustaining organizational culture?

Answer 7

VOCAB:
- Hierarchical Language
- Masculine Language 
STORIES:
- corporate stories
- Personal stories
- collegial stories
RITES AND RITUALS:
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STRUCTURES:
- roles
- rules
- policies
- communication networks

Question 8

What are prescribed principles and practices related to balancing work and life?

Answer 8

• Openness to change
  and willingness to experiment are challenges for effective participation
  in organizations.

Question 9

What are prescribed principles and practices related to managing personal relationships at work?

Answer 9

The challenge is to manage those relationships so
that the workplace doesn’t interfere with the personal bond, and the intimacy
doesn’t jeopardize professionalism. Friends and romantic partners may need
to adjust their expectations and styles of interacting so that personal and work
roles do not conflict. It’s also advisable to make sure that on-the-job communication
doesn’t reflect favoritism and privileges that could cause resentment
in co-workers. It’s important to invest extra effort to maintain an open communication
climate with other co-workers.

Question 10

How are “mass media” and “social media” defined? How are these two types of media similar and different?

Answer 10

• Mass media are electronic or mechanical channels of delivering one-to-many
  communication—in other words, the means of transmitting messages to
  broad audiences.
• Social media are means of connecting and interacting actively.
• Unlike mass media, social media are means of actively engaging others.

Question 11

What are the four ways in which mass media influence us? What is entailed in each?

Answer 11

• Provide gratification
• set agendas
• cultivate worldviews
• exercise ideological control

Question 12

What are the four characteristics of social media? What is meant by each?

Answer 12

• Blur Production and Consumption
• Alter Conceptions of
  Space
• Invite Supersaturation
• Encourage Multitasking