...Demonstrative communication is the act of communicating verbally or non-verbally. It can be effective or ineffective, positive or negative for both the sender and the receiver. Demonstrative communication includes written communication, verbal communication, tone of speaking or writing voice, as well as body language and tone such as facial expressions, crossing of the arms, or a simple nod of the head (Cheesebro, 2009). Being an active listener is also a vital part of communication. Demonstrative communication is the process of transferring a message from one person to another. When talking about verbal communication, “speaking” is the first thing that comes to mind. Verbal communication is merely the art of speaking. In communicating verbally it is important to take into account your choice of words, tone of voice, as well as facial expressions, and other forms of body language. Although speaking may be the most essential part of the communication process the way you speak and how you relay the message determines the way the receiver will interpret the message that you are trying to get across. Choice of words is important when speaking to others because it determines the end result of the overall communication. We often say things that we may not mean to say and do not realize it until after we have already said it. We also often explain things in the wrong way and the message gets misunderstood. According to Communication Coach, we have three ways to rectify situations...
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...INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION Introduction Communication is the process of creating and sharing information with one another. Rapid changes in technology, transportation and immigration are making the world into a small-intersected community, where understanding how different cultures communicate is extremely important. In order to achieve effective intercultural communication we have to understand how different cultures communicate. Communication styles differ by how power is distributed within an organization. There are essentially two types: hierarchical, and democratic. In a hierarchical structure the most power is held by the highest ranking individual, where as in a democratic structure, power distribution is uniformed among the individuals. The classification of high-context versus low-context cultures based on the amount of information that is implied versus stated directly in a communication message. In high-context cultures, the meanings of the messages are found in the situation and in the relationships of the communicators, or are internalized in the communicator’s beliefs, values, and norms. In low-context cultures, less emphasis is placed on the context. Instead they rely on explicit verbal messages. Understanding these differences is essential to accurately decoding the message. Communication specialists estimate that three-fourths of our communication is nonverbal and takes place through our behavior. Nonverbal cues serve as the markers of ones’ identities...
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...population in the world. According to geert-hosftede.com, one of the biggest differences between the U.S and the Brazilian culture is the individualism. In the United States, individualism is practiced 91% compared to Brazil with 38%. People in the United States think more as “I” compared to Brazil which think and act more as “we”. In Brazil, power distance is practiced a lot because all the individuals in the society are not equal. Also, the power holders have more benefits than the less powerful in the society. In Brazil the power distance is 69 compare to the United States with 40. When it comes to masculinity, the score of Brazil is 49 and the United States 62. Reading with scores the United States is more driven to success, achievement and competition and Brazil has a lower score. For long term orientation, the United States scores lower than Brazil with 26 and Brazil scores is 44. This being said, Brazil takes more pragmatic by encouraging thrift and efforts in modern education as a way to prepare for the future compare with the United States. According to geert-hofstede.com, “At 76 Brazil scores high on UAI – and so do the majority of Latin American countries. These societies show a strong need for rules and elaborate legal systems in order to structure life. The individuals need to obey these laws, however, is weak. If rules however cannot be kept, additional rules are dictated. In Brazil, as in all high Uncertainty Avoidance societies, bureaucracy, laws and rules are very...
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...Communication Or Lack There Of: Between Two Educational Organizations MGMT 591 April 15,2014 Communication Or Lack There Of 1 Communication or Lack Thereof: Between Two Educational Organizations I. Introduction: In 1973, Dr. Robert Wolfe started a program where students can be a part of a workplace-learning program. This is where students will receive classroom instruction, be placed at a job site out into the community where they will receive occupational skills by professionals in the field. Merced County Office of Education serves the needs of more than 70,000 PreK-12 students and prepares them to be career and college ready. The mission of Merced County Office of Education, as the educational leader of the Central Valley and trusted community partner, is to transform education and inspire personal, social, and academic achievement of students through collaborative partnerships, accountable leader-ship and innovative, high quality programs and services. (Quevedo 2013, p.20) Holly Newlon is the Assistant Superintendent for the Department of Career and Alternative Education. The Career and Alternative Education (CAE) Department provides a wide range of quality programs and exemplary services to our districts in the areas of Career Education, Career Technical Education Programs, Alternative Education Programs, Charter School Options and Outdoor Education. Merced County ROP serves all comprehensive, continuation, and community high schools in Merced...
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...Introduction 2 What is communication? 2 1) What is the role of non verbal communication? 3 What is non verbal communication? 3 Different types of Non verbal communication 3 Roles of nonverbal communication 5 2) Using elaborate examples illustrate where necessary, compare and contrast verbal and non verbal communication. 7 Verbal communication 7 Similarities between verbal and non verbal communication 8 Differences between Non-verbal and Verbal (Language) Communication 8 3) With reference to any two cultures, discuss how differences in the interpretation of non verbal communication symbols can lead to misunderstanding in intercultural communication/interaction? 10 Conclusion 12 Bibliography 13 Introduction What is communication? Communication is the most important thing in everyone’s life, without proper communication we end missing out on a lot of opportunities that come our way. Communication is the key to success. With great communication skills one can almost get out of any problem, almost achieve anything they desire. Communication is the use of messages to produce meaning within and across a variety of contexts, cultures, methods and media. It is a learned activity - you must learn to speak your native language, operate a cell phone or even use gestures that are common in your culture. You must also learn to receive and interpret messages from others. Communication involves the use of writing, talking, gestures- Non verbal communication (e.g. Facial expressions...
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...submitted for this assignment is my own and research sources are fully acknowledged.Learner Signature: ……………………. Date:……………… | P2 Describe how the skills that employees require to carry out jobs in an organization. ------------------------------------------------- Employers are often looking for skills that go beyond qualifications and experience. ------------------------------------------------- While your education and experience may make you eligible to apply for a job, to be successful in the role you will need to exhibit a mix of skills: ‘employability skills’. This means that the specialist, technical skills associated with different roles may be less important than the 'soft skills' that can be transferred between different jobs and different employment sectors. ------------------------------------------------- For employers, getting the right people means identifying people with the right skills and qualities to fulfill the role and contribute to the organization’s success. Candidates may have the qualifications and 'hard skills' needed to be able to...
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...What Is Organizational Communication?[edit] L ike defining many aspects of communication study, many of the definitions of organizational communication share common elements. Stanley Deetz (2001) argues that one way to enlighten our understanding of organization communication is to compare different approaches. However, for the purpose of this text, we want to define organizational communication so you have a frame of reference for understand this chapter. Our definition is not definitive, but creates a starting point for understanding this specialization of communication study. We define organizational communication as the sending and receiving of messages among interrelated individuals within a particular environment or setting to achieve individual and common goals. Organizational communication is highly contextual and culturally dependent, and is not an isolated phenomenon. Individuals in organizations transmit messages through face-to face, written, and mediated channels. Organizational communication largely focuses on building relationships, or repeated interpersonal interactions, with internal organizational members and interested external publics. Goldhaber (1990) identified a number of common characteristics in the variety of definitions of organizational communication -- Organizational communication 1) occurs within a complex open system which is influenced by, and influences its internal and external environments, 2) involves messages and their flow, purpose...
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...tool and hunting weapon; which gradually developed into spears, bows and arrows, and swords. And as time pressed on, one of the most important and influential inventions since the beginning of time was designed in the shape of a circle: the wheel. However, unlike in earlier times, the evolution of technology in the past 60 years has been growing so rapidly that society has scarcely been able to keep up with it on a global scale. And due to this accelerated development of technology, accurate assessment and critical reflection on our dependency of these new technologies has been greatly hindered. So if one were to consider all the consequences and results of today’s technology objectively, could our dependency on modern day technology be viewed as positive or negative outcome? Both sides of this argument have solid, valid claims, but do the pros outweigh the cons or are the benefits of technology not worth the potential harm it can cause to our society. As the advancement of technology drastically rises, society’s dependency for these technologies also rises, however, this correlation can prove exceedingly beneficial for the people of this era. The improvement of medical technology has been especially helpful in maintaining the health and well-being of millions of people around the world suffering from various diseases, such as cancer and heart disease. In England alone, 30,000 doses of radiotherapy treatment per 1,000,000 people in 2005, which is a...
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...Interpersonal Communication in an Intercultural Setting Cultural growth in the twenty-first century has heightened the emphasis on interpersonal communication in an intercultural setting. As our world grows, expands and becomes increasingly more interconnected by various technological advances, the need for effective interpersonal communication among differing cultures has become quite clear. Due to the advancement of technology in today's world, a world in which some businesspeople are involved in transactions with other businesspeople in faraway countries, the call for knowledge of intercultural communication within this setting has become a reality. Interpersonal communication is a form of communication that involves a small number of people who can interact exclusively with one another and who therefore have the ability to both adapt their messages specifically for those others and to obtain immediate interpretations from them (Lustig et al, 1993). Although interpersonal communication is usually thought of as being perf! ormed in small, centralized groups, a need to broaden these groups and bring about a general feeling of cultural awareness has become apparent. To a certain degree, all communication could be called interpersonal, as it occurs between two or more people. However, it is useful and practical to restrict the definition to distinguish those relationships that involve a relatively small group of people, such as couples...
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...Arvidsson & Robin Agné Ellinor Torsein Acne Studios, brands, “Branding by doing”, communication channels, fashion industry, non-traditional marketing communications, The Swedish fashion wonder, traditional marketing communications, word-of-mouth marketing To determine required conditions to adopt “Branding by doing” as a marketing approach in the Swedish fashion industry. Question 1: What conditions are required of a company to refrain from traditional marketing communications? Question 2: How is “Branding by doing” applied in practice? Question 3: For what reasons do companies refrain from traditional marketing communications? Methodology: This thesis has a hermeneutical approach. A qualitative research method is used and empirical results are based on a case study. Theories of brand management and word-of-mouth marketing. The primary data is collected from interviews with Suhrab Lachin, Credit & HR Manager at Acne Studios and Daniel Björk, fashion journalist and author. There are four main conditions required in order to apply “Branding by doing”; product focus and uniqueness, an elaborate corporate culture, a strong customer relationship, consequence and clearness in actions. The product becomes the main communication channel of the brand. Course: Authors: Tutor: Keywords: Purpose: Research questions: Theoretical framework: Empirical results: Conclusions: 2 Acknowledgements We would like to...
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...poor, it will affect your team performance. Therefore, it is important for teams to value the conflict of dynamics and eventually hope that teams can control whatever that come in their way. Conflict isn’t something that teams can control from time to time. It is natural. For example; before a baby start to walk, he or she have to face many challenges (crawl, fall etc.…). By natural I meant that conflict can occur whenever and anytime even thou if they are not prepare to face it. The important thing that teams should consider doing when conflicts happen is to think of a solution to solve it. Conflict isn't necessarily a bad thing. Conflict arises from differences between team members; the same differences that often make diverse teams more effective than those made up of people with similar experience. Having different point of view, experiences, skills, and opinions in teams are tasked with a project or challenge, the combined effort can far surplus what any team of similar individual could achieve. Teams must be open to these differences and not let them rise into full-blown disputes. Therefore, my research paper essay will be about all the outstanding dilemmas that my team members and I had faced. I will also provide research information that will help me determine how to improve my team performance. Then based on research...
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...performance that is greater than the sum of the individual inputs. Thus, a company has the chance to produce greater output without adding more inputs. This sounds ideal, of course, since all companies in our days are threaten be the economic recession. This definition, however, is referring to effective work teams, and not to just any team. In our case, the construction company named Habos has been assigned a new project dealing with building a new mall in the subsidiaries of Athens. As it is understood, the project is a big one and the success of it can lead to great profit for our company. Due to the vast needs that the projects needs the company had decided to create an entire group that will has under its responsibility the project. Such a mission needs the team to be constructed by members of different departments of the company, from employees with accounting skills, technical skills, manufacturing skills and so on. After the company had decided which employees will be members of the new project, the manager after a while had noticed some level of resistance in commitment to the team on behalf of the members. Thus the manager needs to manage the obstacles that have been observed so that the work team will become an efficient one and success to be the outcome of it. In order to understand how managers need to act on such situations, we will have to see the case of Habos through the eyes of the manager that is assigned this big project. As it already mentioned, the work...
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...is Practiced Donald K. Wright & Michelle D. Hinson1 This article reports on a three-year-long international survey of public relations practitioners examining the impact blogs and other social media are having on public relations practice. Findings show these new media are dramatically changing public relations. Results indicate blogs and social media have enhanced what happens in public relations and that social media and traditional mainstream media complement each other. The study also finds the emergence of blogs and social media have changed the way their organizations communicate, especially to external audiences. Findings suggest social media complement traditional news media, and that blogs and social media influence coverage in traditional news media. The study reports blogs and social media have made communications more instantaneous by encouraging organizations to respond more quickly to criticism. Introduction David Meerman Scott (2008), an online thought leadership and viral marketing strategist, says, “one of the coolest things about the Web is that when an idea takes off it can propel a brand or a company to seemingly instant fame and fortune” (p. 8). Scott also points out that although communicating via the Web usually is free – as opposed to purchasing space through traditional advertising – only a small number of public relations practitioners are effectively using blogs and other social media when communicating with their strategic publics...
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...FORO EUROPEO ESCUELA DE NEGOCIOS DE NAVARRA 2014 WHY INTERNAZIONALIZE OUR COMPANY? As a normal company, Flores Jogal wants to grow, become bigger, increase their sales and gain more recognition. With a good strategic plan the internationalization could be possible due to the company has as competitive advantage the quality of the products and their variety, our demand is increasing with the pass of time, also we have in our disposal one supplier per type of product in order to guarantee the quality of the product, also we have a big industrial site showing us that we have the capability for growing more and expands our markets. About human resources it’s important to highlight the high level of education and specialization with is important to make easier our growing company. Now that the company has an economic wellness is the time to think in internationalization. One of the advantages of the internationalization is the diversification our risk by decreasing the domestic dependency and gets benefits from the economies of scale obtaining additional incomes for our company. Furthermore we want to take advantage of the growing flowers demand and be recognized in the international market due to the quality of our products. Internationalizing our company we could obtain more competitiveness and has the access of different sources of information about process that can improve our efficiency in the way we manage and make the products. In order to be ready for the internationalization...
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...Introduction Present there is a high number of companies worldwide, which have moved some activity of the company to another country. There are many variations of what activities companies choose to move, though some activities have remarkably higher tendencies of being moved. After the Second World War there has been a high number of companies, which move industrial activities such as manufacturing of textiles, cars and ships. During the recent decades there have been other tendencies for moving activities abroad, hence services as in helpdesks, and non-physical products such as programming. One of the countries, which have a very high influence on these activities is India. The purpose of moving an activity to another country has various reasons, for instance trips abroad or high accessibility to skilled resources, but the major reason is to reduce costs of these activities. For that reason India have made a high impact on these activities as of the low wage level. India is in general one of the successful countries when it comes to offshoring IT enabled services. It has for many reasons, but the major factor is India’s cost competitive labor, vast human capital, and their education system, which made them excellent English speakers. Yet, there is still many companies, which have not moved any activity across borders. The reason they have not may differ. As mentioned above some industries have a higher disposition to become offshored, and some activities may not profit from...
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