Test 3 Flashcards
What are communal friendships?
Close friends/emotional support
What are agentic friendships?
Helping friends
What are friends with benefits?
Friends who do sexual things without a relationship
What are the friendship rules?
- Show support
- Seek Support
- Respect privacy
- Keep confidence
- Defend eachother
- Avoid public criticism
- Make happy
- Manage Jealousy
- Share Humor
- Maintain equity
What are workplace relationships?
any relationship you have with a professional peer, supervisor, subordinate, or mentor
What is a organizational culture?
the distinctive set of beliefs and practices existing whthin an organization
What are organizational networks?
Systems of communication linkages within the workplace
7 Relational Maintenance patterns
Positivity Assurances Sharing Tasks acceptance Self-disclosure relationship talks social networks
What is the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
4 key terms couples are doomed to break up Criticism Defensiveness Contempt Stonewalling
What are the 4 dark sides of romance
Violence
Jealousy
Betrayal
Intrusion
What is conversation orientation?
communication about a wide or narrow range of topics
What is conformity orientation?
communication emphasizes similarity or diversity
Consensual Families
High, High
Pluralistic Family
High, Low
Protective family
low, high
Laissez-faire family
low, low
Relational dialects: Autonomy vs connection
challenging during adolescence
Helicopter parents
Openness vs protection
struggle with different family relationships and disclosure
communication privacy management theory- we choose what we reveal
Family privacy rules
boundary conditions that govern the following
- what families talk about
- how they talk about it
- who else they talk to about it
Stepfamily transition
hard for adolescents
children have behavioral problems, turbulent relationships, and lower selfesteem
Triangulation
loyalty conflicts that arise when a coalition is formed uniting part of the family against another member
Parental favoritism
parents allocate unfair amount of valuable resources to one child over another
Interparental conflict
overt hostile interactions between parents
- Detrimental to couple
- social and relational effects on children
- Spillover hypothesis
Workplace relationship dimensions:
Status
Intimacy
choice
Organizational culture
set of beliefs and practices existing within an organization
- Values
- Norms
- Artifacts
Define professional peers
people at work holding similar power
Information peers:
Only discuss business
Collegial/blended peers:
coworker is a friend
Special peer:
coworker is a close friend
Virtual peer:
only talk thru technology
Peer relationship maintenance strategies
Positivity
Openness
Assurances
treating others as whole human beings
Upward communication
workers persuading superiors to support their work related needs
Advocacy
designing messages in accordance with your superiors communication preferences
- plan before you pitch
- know why your advisor should agree
- tailor your message to your superior
- know your superior’s knowledge
- create coalitions beforehand
- competently articulate your message
Downward communication
when superiors have formal authority in organization and freed to craft their messages with subordinates
- emphasize the importance of communication
- listen emphatically
- frame wants and needs as polite requests
- be sensitive to subordinates feelings
- share relevant information when possible
