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What are values?

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Are the principles and ideas tat people or organizations strongly believe in and consider important.

2
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Situational Knowledge

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Info that you have or can collect about requirements for successful communication.

3
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Each communication situation can be approached as what model in communication?

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Goal Setting.

You will more likely succeed if you have a goals set for yourself when communicating

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What are the four Strategic Communication factors that provide a basis for developing communication skills in the business environment?

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  1. Situational Knowledge
  2. Goal Setting
  3. Communication Competence
  4. Anxiety Management
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What are four ethical guidelines?

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  1. Maintain Candor: refers to truthfulness, honesty, & frankness in your comm. w/ other people.
  2. Behave Constantly: You must always monitor your behavior to ensure that it matches what you say to others/
  3. Keep Messages Accurate: When relaying messages from one source to another, communicate the original message as accurate as possible.
  4. Keep Confidences: When being told something and it is being expected to you to pass the information,
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What 6 steps are in the goal setting process?

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  1. Identify the problem
  2. Map out a Strategy
  3. Set a Performance Goal
  4. Identify the Resource Necessary to Achieve the Goal
  5. Recognize Contingencies That May Arise
  6. Obtain Feedback
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What are the three terms that equal Culture?

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  1. Attitudes- person’s learns & likes
  2. Beliefs- person’s judgment about right & wrong
  3. Values- person’s deep cultural assumptions that reflect all areas of life.
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A belief in the superiority of one’s own culture, is called what?

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Ethnocentrism

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A negative preconception about people, activities, places, ideas, and other parts of our lives, is called what?

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Prejudice

10
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How is prejudice considered a conflict?

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Through..
GENDER- A women would not be considered as a very good professor because they are not “bossy” and “pushy” enough.

ETHNICITY- a teacher asking a child to bring her parents in for show in tell of their “Indian” clothes.

11
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Why do we stereotype people?

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Because people don’t really care or want to get to know a stranger.

12
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We represent ourselves and the means by which we interpret others. What is this a definition of?

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Language Culture

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The first step to analyzing your perspectives to succeed in a diverse workplace is?

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To analyze your own perspectives.

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The second step to analyzing your perspectives to succeed in a diverse workplace is?

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To know that the perspectives of others may be different from your own.

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The third step to analyzing your perspectives to succeed in a diverse workplace is?

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To realize that conflict from diversity can be positive

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Three steps of basic messaging are?

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  1. Task messages- accomplish certain goals
  2. Maintenance messages- keep the organization in working order so that the tasks can be performed.
  3. Human Relations messages- help employees fully realize their potential in the organization.
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What are Proxemics?

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The study of personal space

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What are the four zones to Proxemics?

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  1. Intimate Zone (closest distance)
  2. Personal Zone (personal or private)
  3. Social Zone (business settings)
  4. Public Zone (twelve feet and beyond)
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What is one organizational norm that includes touching?

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Japanese business people working in the U.S. appear to need more personal space than the people from the U.S. Casual touching is rarely seen among Japanese and other cultures.

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What is Jargon?

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Is the specialized language that professionals use to communicate efficiently with one another.

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What are Euphemisms?

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They are agreeable, neutral, or indirect phrases used to describe unpleasant events.

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What is the difference between a request and a directive question?

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A Request is- a critical activity on the job, particularly when you are a new employee.
EX: “Can you help me solve this problem?”
EX: “Can we meet sometime today?”

A Directive is given when particular when it complements a positive request-making style.
EX: “be sure you finish today”
EX: “See you at 10:30”
EX: “file this!”

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What is communication?

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-The sharing of meaning.