Are multiple strategies being used simultaneously? What strategies seem to be shifting over time? How effective are each of these strategies and why?

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Learning Journal

1.Choose one of the following documentaries or videos on an organizational crisis. You may choose a different example provided that it clearly meets the definition of an organizational crisis.

2.What crisis communication strategies can you identify

    • Are multiple strategies being used simultaneously?
    • What strategies seem to be shifting over time?

    3.How effective are each of these strategies and why?

    • How do large institutions try to ”localize” problems and minimize crises by associating them with “a few bad people” rather than a larger systemic problem?

    4.Which ethical principles would have guided your response to this crisis?

How do self-managing teams create concertive control? What are some other examples of concertive control? Have you ever been a part of a self-managing team or a flat/horizontal organization?

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Discussion

Cheney, G., Christensen, L. T., Theodore E. Zorn, J., & Ganesh, S. (2010). Organizational communication in an age of globalization: Issues, reflections, practices (2nd ed.). Waveland Press.

Respond to two of the following questions using full sentences and referencing the textbook. When you’re finished, respond to two of your peer’s posts.

  1. How do self-managing teams create concertive control? What are some other examples of concertive control? Have you ever been a part of a self-managing team or a flat/horizontal organization?
  2. What values are expressed by the team members in the example from The Soul of a New Machine, and how did these values become norms and rules? How effective were the values, norms, and rules as a system of control?
  3. What are the advantages of working in a concertive control environment such as self managing teams? What are the disadvantages of working in a concertive control environment?

discuss what sorts of meanings are being generated for you and are these meanings dominant, negotiated, or resistant? Also what discourse(s) is the clip using to tell its message?

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Media discussion

Watch the clip above of ABC’s According to Jim. The clip originally aired in 2002 during its first season. After viewing the clip, discuss what sorts of meanings are being generated for you and are these meanings dominant, negotiated, or resistant? Also what discourse(s) is the clip using to tell its message? Remember discourse is how we talk about something. Is it using the discourse of motherhood? masculinity? femininity? family? capitalism? education? to tell its message? Why?

Provide a 1-2 short paragraphs describing the specific role(s) you played in preparing your group’s presentation as well as the overall process by which your team worked together to gather research and compile an argument.

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Communications Question

This component of the midterm assignment provides you with a space to reflect and individually expand on the takeaways and analyses you and your group mates forged through collective dialogue and research. Your essay should first open with 1-2 short paragraphs describing the specific role(s) you played in preparing your group’s presentation as well as the overall process by which your team worked together to gather research and compile an argument. The remainder of your essay should then flesh out the formal analysis and cultural tensions broached by your group presentation, explicating any personal stakes and resonances that became apparent in the research process. You may adopt a more informal journalistic style of writing here, much like we saw in the pieces by Josh Kun and Michael Fuhr assigned in Week 2. It is important that you not only learn how to conduct a scholarly analysis, but understand the meanings and implications it has in your own life.

Prepare a persuasive speech in which you seek to change the attitudes, values, or behaviors/actions of your audience.

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COM 231 Persuasive Speech Assignment

Prompt: Prepare a persuasive speech in which you seek to change the attitudes, values, or behaviors/actions of your audience.

  • Ensure that what you want your audience to do or believe is clear: are you trying to change their thoughts? Their actions? Review the difference between fact, value, and policy claims.

Construct a personal narrative about an experience that you have had where social support made a difference. Because social support is such an important Health Communication concept, explore this idea a bit further.

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Health Communication

Construct a personal narrative about an experience that you have had where social support made a difference. Because social support is such an important Health Communication concept, explore this idea a bit further. In addition to using your course readings, find 2 outside peer-reviewed journal articles from the following sources:

  • The Journal of Health Communication
  • Health Communication

You should be able to relate, either personally or vicariously through a friend or family member, to these articles. Using the readings as a foundation, construct a 3-page personal narrativet hat covers the following information:

  • the health issue that you faced
  • if you provided or received social support
  • what kind of support?
  • how did the support help or hurt the health situation?
  • how do the course readings and the additional articles help you make sense of both the story and Health Communication even more?
  • You should be prepared to cite your additional sources both within text and in a References section, using APA 7th edition.

Explain how you would adjust your own interpersonal communication habits to include this person in your own life as a friend. What are some things you would do to best communicate your own ideas, wants, and needs with a person from this particular culture?

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Interpersonal Communication

The Assignment

First, review the concepts you have learned about Interpersonal Communication in Chapters 1 through 9 in the Wood (2020) textbook including:

Identity, Perceptions, Verbal/Non-Verbal Communication, Mindful Listening, Managing Emotions, Communication Climate, and Managing Conflict.

Now, choose a particular culture whose members tend to communicate very differently from members of your culture. You can choose a culture with which you have some experience/interaction or one that you’re interested in exploring.

In a 500-word essay, explain how you would participate in a healthy and positive friendship with a person from this different culture. You may use an actual friendship in your life, or you may answer this prompt hypothetically (in other words: imagine that you had a friendship with a person from this different culture.)

Compose a well-organized five-paragraph essay (1 introduction paragraph, 3 body paragraphs, and 1 conclusion paragraph) that clearly applies key concepts about friendship from Chapter 10 and key concepts about communication from Chapters 1 – 9.

  1. Compare and contrast the interpersonal communication patterns of your own culture and the interpersonal communication patterns often held by people in this other cultural group that you have chosen.
  2. Explain how you would adjust your own interpersonal communication habits to include this person in your own life as a friend.
  3. What are some things you would do (concepts that you would apply) to best communicate your own ideas, wants, and needs with a person from this particular culture?
  4. What are some things you would do (concepts that you would apply) to better understand and honor your friend’s ideas, wants, and needs?
  5. Explain why dual perspective, as described by Wood (2020, pp. 38-39) is an important part of this process for you.

 

Identity, Perceptions, Verbal/Non-Verbal Communication, Mindful Listening, Managing Emotions, Communication Climate, and Managing Conflict.

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CASE STUDY

The world around us continues to grow and change. In order to communicate with diverse people from different cultures in the expanding global environment, we need to understand and deal with our own perceptions and sense of self, and understand and deal with the perspectives, values, and practices of people from other cultures. Friendship is a very important arena for this kind of intercultural exchange.

The Assignment

First, review the concepts you have learned about Interpersonal Communication in Chapters 1 through 9 in the Wood (2020) textbook including:

Identity, Perceptions, Verbal/Non-Verbal Communication, Mindful Listening, Managing Emotions, Communication Climate, and Managing Conflict.

Now, choose a particular culture whose members tend to communicate very differently from members of your culture. You can choose a culture with which you have some experience/interaction or one that you’re interested in exploring.

In a 500-word essay, explain how you would participate in a healthy and positive friendship with a person from this different culture. You may use an actual friendship in your life, or you may answer this prompt hypothetically (in other words: imagine that you had a friendship with a person from this different culture.)

Compose a well-organized five-paragraph essay (1 introduction paragraph, 3 body paragraphs, and 1 conclusion paragraph) that clearly applies key concepts about friendship from Chapter 10 and key concepts about communication from Chapters 1 – 9.

  1. Compare and contrast the interpersonal communication patterns of your own culture and the interpersonal communication patterns often held by people in this other cultural group that you have chosen.
  2. Explain how you would adjust your own interpersonal communication habits to include this person in your own life as a friend.
  3. What are some things you would do (concepts that you would apply) to best communicate your own ideas, wants, and needs with a person from this particular culture?
  4. What are some things you would do (concepts that you would apply) to better understand and honor your friend’s ideas, wants, and needs?
  5. Explain why dual perspective, as described by Wood (2020, pp. 38-39) is an important part of this process for you.

 

Requirements:

  • You must use terms or concepts from the Wood (2020) textbook and/or the supplemental videos.
  • You must use at least ten (10) key terms from the assigned chapters (5 from each) in the Wood textbook
  • You must use at least one (1) key term from at least one (1) of the assigned videos in the module
  • Put key terms in bold in your essay.

 

What obstacles or constraints exist that make giving person-centered care difficult? How would you recommend tackling those obstacles or constraints?

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Social determinants of health

A young man has been stabbed and his hospitalized. He is 16 yrs old and lives with his grandmother in a less than desirable neighborhood.

Write a report for you supervisor using the socio cutural perspective and the lens of the social determinants of health about his life situation leading up to the stabbing.

You can be creative, you need to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concepts

  • What do you consider to be the essence of person centered care? Why?
  • What obstacles or constraints exist that make giving person-centered care difficult?
  • How would you recommend tackling those obstacles or constraints?
  • What are the rewards of providing person-centered care for
  • For staff?
  • For an entire organization?

How did this experience make you feel? Why do you think it made you feel this way?

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Communications Question

Think of something you have experienced in the media that challenged your version of truth. Perhaps a senator made a statement that made you angry, or a newspaper opinion piece said something inflammatory about a group of people you associate with.

How did this experience make you feel? Why do you think it made you feel this way?

The goal is to start recognizing that the media, and of course society, is made up of differing perspectives, not all of which you may agree with. Facts can be interpreted in different ways. Science can be deemed irrelevant