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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Zeitgeber pacers

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Power

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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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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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Moore’s Law

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The capacity (speed) of microprocessors doubles every 18 months

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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
A focus on distant outcomes that have yet to occur
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Temporal Depth
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
Degree of emphasis on the past, present, and future
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Past Temporal Focus
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
A focus on the here and now: being in the “moment” vs. immediate gratification
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Future Temporal Focus
A focus on distant outcomes: longterm thinking vs. destination addiction or worry/anxiety
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Decision fatigue
Making lots of decisions w/o appropriate fuel and willpower is exhausted
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Affective Forecasting
Predicting how you will feel in the future concerning valence, specific emotions, intensity, duration
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Left brain functions
Past and Future; keeps you safe
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Right brain functions
Present; keeps you connected/well
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Clock of the Long Now
10,000 Year Clock: hand advances every century; chimes once every 1,000 years
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Cathedral Thinking
Long-term goals that require decades of planning so future generations can enjoy their full realization
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Polychronicity
People prefer to be engaged in two or more tasks simultaneously
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Multitasking
Polychronicity (multiple task accomplishment) + Speed (Taylorism)
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Multitasking origin
In computer science: multiple parallel processing
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Multicommunicating
The use of technology to participate in several interactions at the same time
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Multicommunicating requires media that offers
Compartmentalization and flexibility of tempo
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Multicommunicating is intensifed by
Number of open conversations, pace, integration of social roles, and number of topics
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Task Switching
The juggling of interruptions (volitional or non-volitional)
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Budgeted Social Presence
From multicommunicating; doling out attention
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Entitled Social Presence
Demanding attention
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Competitive Social Presence
Fighting for attention
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Invitational Social Presence
Creating a partnership for mutual attention and dialogue
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Presenteeism
Showing up for work unable to engage due to illness (technology has made this easier to do)
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Communication savoring
The capacity to enhance the positive experiences in one’s life
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Communication savoring types
-Aesthetic communication -Communication presence -Nonverbal communication -Recognition and acknowledgement -Relational communication -Extraordinary communication -Implicitly shared communication
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Time
-The various external markers that point toward work related activities or events -Ex: clocks, schedules, appointments, deadlines, and calendared meetings
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Temporality
-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
Pace, linearity, separation, flexibility, scheduling, punctuality, and delay
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Pace
Tempo or rate of activity
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Linearity
Actual task execution
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Separation
Measure of (spatiotemporal) connection among organizational members in time and space
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Flexibility
The degree of rigidity in time structuring and task completion plans
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Scheduling
Sequencing and duration of events are formalized
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Punctuality and delay
The exacting nature of timing and deadlines.
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5 construals of time
Urgency, scarcity, future time focus, past time focus, present time focus
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Urgency
Describes members’ preoccupation with deadlines and task completion
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Scarcity
The construal of time as a limited and exhaustible resource
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Past time focus
To use previous events as a referent for today
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Present time focus
Concerned with unfolding, emergent contemporary events within a short time scale
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Temporal enactments vs. construals
-Enactments refer to the way people “perform” time -Construals refer to the way people interpret time
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Entrainment
One cyclic process becomes disrupted by, and set to oscillate in tune with, another process
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Clock time
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
Emphasis on letting events themselves drive activity rather than a clock, people are treated more important with a natural flow of events
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Karoshi
Death through overwork
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The cause of jet lag
When there is a temporary mismatch between our external environment and our internal biological clock
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Reification
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
The conventionality of a social institution such as the 7 day week is transformed into perceived inevitability
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Positivity Resonance
Sustainable positive energy resonating back-and-forth between people
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Taylorism
Science time management and a piece-rate system to increase production output among workers
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Relationship between the history of clock time and the MER mission
Part of the MER mission's sociocultural and organizational infrastructure
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High frequency
Journalism
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Mid frequency
Academic and scholarly writing
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Low frequency
Public architecture
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Intensification
Piling on the pressure with more work and rigid curriculum
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Healthcare efficiency and quality of care
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
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Slow Science Manifesto
Science needs time to think, read, and fail
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Positive Organizational Scholarship
Focuses on the dynamics leading to exceptional individual and organizational performance
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Invitational Presence outside of the workplace
Creating a partnership with your audience by inviting them into your conversation and trying to understand their perspective while sharing yours