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Culture and Communication
LEARNING OUTCOMES Describe strategies to adapt communication for an intercultural audience Culture and communication are inextricably linked, and messages can be misconstrued without an awareness of a particular cultural or subcultural ...
Putting It Together: Social Diversity in the Workplace
Communication is invention: through our language, our imagery, our operating policies and practices, we construct reality. As is true of every other period of history, the standards of society and our nation are changing. The key question is what we want those...
Conflict Resolution
LEARNING OUTCOMES Describe various ways of interpreting and responding to conflict in interpersonal communication Interpersonal conflict occurs in the workplace between individuals. Conflict can also occur within working groups and is som...
Group Communication Networks
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss impact of group size on communication In organizations, there are hierarchies of reporting structures. Those official links of authority and responsibility impact communication among individuals and groups. Here are some of those co...
Teams and Team Dynamics
LEARNING OUTCOMES Explain advantages and disadvantages of teams and team dynamics It may seem obvious to say so, but groups are made of humans, and humans express behaviors that are both beneficial and detrimantal to the function of their teams. People who f...
The Value of Teams in Business Communication
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss the value of teams in business communication Discuss types of teams in organizations You hear a lot about teams every day—sports teams, disaster and rescue teams, and medical support teams. Teams exist because t...
Introduction to Team Communication in the Workplace
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the role and types of teams in workplace communication We enter the workplace as individuals and then quickly interact with peers, work groups, and customer groups. As we make our way through our careers, we see that work is b...
Why It Matters: Collaboration In And Between Teams
As Pedro scans through his morning email, he sees a message letting him know that the corporate office is offering a store remodel to the store with the best idea about how to increase customer purchases while decreasing operations costs. The email wants all p...
Assignment: Social Diversity in the Workplace
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Bias in the Workplace
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss the impact bias might have on communication in the workplace When thinking about diversity in the workplace, chances are, most individuals tend to see themselves as good-intentioned, egalitarian, and fair-minde...
Introduction to Working across Genders
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the how gender impacts communication in the workplace What’s in a chromosome (or two)? The difference in the pair of sex chromosomes that determine whether a child is assigned female (XX) or male (XY) at birth ha...
Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
LEARNING OUTCOMES Describe the differences between stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination Social perception is relative, reflecting both positive and negative impressions of people based on a range of factors. Our perceptions of peo...
Introduction to Combating Bias
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss strategies for creating a functional workplace by combating biases Our perceptions and the resulting judgments we make are prone to error. The terms we use to define our perceptions are often used without a clear...
Working across Generations
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss the language differences found across different generations Discuss strategies for bridging intergenerational communication gaps Each generation is a subculture with a sense of reality based on formative world a...
Introduction to Working across Generations
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss different strategies for talking to individuals from a different generation We are shaped not only by our DNA but by our times. Imagine how different your priorities and values might be if your formative experience included th...
Disabilities
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss how various physical and mental disabilities might affect communication Impossible is an opinion—not a fact. —Paul Hockey General perception and understanding of those who are different is not...
Introduction to Working across Abilities
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the impact of disabilities in the workplace So far in this module we have discussed cultural forms of diversity, yet in a work setting we are also exposed to individuals with varied skills, talents, and abilities. Another comp...
Attitudes and Gender Communication
LEARNING OUTCOMES Compare and contrast how gender might impact communications styles Starting in childhood, girls and boys are generally socialized to belong to distinct cultures based on their gender and thus speak in ways particular t...
Using Gender Neutral Language
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss different strategies to use gender neutral language in business communication The use of gender-neutral language is now considered standard practice, incorporated in the APA (American Psychological Association)...
Introduction to Collaborative Projects
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss strategies for working in collaborative projects Now that we understand the value of teams in the workplace and the risk of conflict, let’s look at how teams working collaboratively manage communication in order to be producti...