Exam 1: A: Organizational Communication: a Competency-Based Approach

Sophisticated communications technologies have made little impact on our daily lives.

Quintilian's ideal of the "good man speaking well" is not related to contemporary notions of communication competency.

The context is the environment for the communication interaction.

Individual communication competencies do not influence interpersonal communication.

Organizations can be described as entities where people work together with random goals.

Human communication is the process of constructing shared realities,creating shared meanings.

Individual values of members of the organization are not important to organizational culture.

One of the least important characteristics of the "communications" era is the rapid change associated with mass production of information.

Deetz suggested that increasing the "political competence" of individuals is not necessary for increased participation practices.

An effect must be immediate to be a true effect.

Quintilian's ideal of the "good man speaking well" is an outdated concept of organizational communication competency.

Communication competency has evolved to the point where researchers finally agree on its definition.

Researchers generally agree on definitions of communication competency.

Excellence in organizational problem solving is nothing more than the management of large volumes of facts.

Challenges to the planet will be best addressed by governments not all members of organizations.

Littlejohn and Jabusch defined communication competency as the ability and willingness of an individual to participate responsibly in a transaction in such a way as to maximize the outcomes of shared meanings.

Organizing is an attempt to bring order out of chaos or to establish organizations.

Sources send messages consisting of auditory,visual,olfactory,gustatory,or tactile stimuli in any combination of these five senses.

Creative problem solving among diverse groups of people who often share little common information is not usually a problem in organizations.

Organizational communication,as opposed to other forms of communication,is best understood as separate and distinct creations of organizational messages which have no dependence on previous messages.