Chapter 1—Communication Skills as Career Filters MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Communication skills a. are not as important as technical skills for career success. b. are not necessary in today’s competitive job market. c. are ranked by recruiters at the top of qualities they most desire in job seekers. d. cannot be learned; they are innate. ANS: C Studies confirm that recruiters rank communication skills at the top of qualities they most desire in job seekers. Your ability to communicate will make you
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teach us how easy it is to judge cultures that we don’t know much about. Miner is sneakily describing American culture‚ their entire way of life including both material and symbolic elements‚ the whole time77. Miner is trying to teach us that ethnocentrism‚ using your own culture as a standard to evaluate another‚ leads to the belief that other cultures are inferior78. Instead‚ we should be using cultural relativism‚ understanding other cultures on their own terms78. He is trying to show us that
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leader is required who will attach the importance of diversity to the backbone of the organization. Thus‚ developing the leadership diversity among all the associates in the the company. A perfect thriving workplace can only be built where ethnocentrism and discrimination does not exist. Prioritizing and labeling your own culture will make the organization inefficient. Therefore‚ Interactive leadership style is an example which will enhance workplace performance with the assistance of diversity
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the ship Serenity‚ fought on the side of the Browncoats. The Alliance won the war and maintained control of the central planets while the rebel “Browncoats” typically settled on the outer desolate American old-west type planets‚ poor‚ lawless. Ethnocentrism can probably be observed in the crew of Serenity‚ they’ve become a family‚ weary of outsiders. The ‘Verse is a dangerous place. The Alliance and all their riches have built the biggest cities‚ the biggest buildings‚ the biggest army‚ and best technology
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holism in theory or practice. researchers incorporate this concept into their work because it help with an "eyes wide open" point of view‚ to see all different types of religions‚ cultures‚ practices across the world that way they don’t have an ethnocentrism point of view of things. This ties in with forensic anthropology‚ physical anthropology‚ paleoanthropology‚ primatology‚ cultural anthropology‚ linguistic anthropology‚ and archaeology‚ all to answer some of the simple questions where did we come
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*imitation -imitates even the undesirable traits from his peer group . *indoctrination- formal teaching . conditioning -the individual acquires a certain pattern of beliefs‚ values‚behavior amnd action . CULTURAL VARAIABILTY *ETHNOCENTRISM – this is a universal phenomenon . CULTURABILITY - moral standards of rights and wrong and good and bad for evaluating cultural phenomena . “OTHER CONCEPTS CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE “ CULTURE SHOCK – experience by migrants or even
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between private individuals (Skene & Parker‚ 2002). There is a diversity of religions throughout the world. A lot of people feel that their religion is superior and consider that religious chauvinism as a religious commitment. Xenophobia and ethnocentrism have led to the feeling of hostility towards different religions. Thus‚ the diversity often
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Speech 101 Midterm Study Review Chapter 1 1. 2. 3. Ranked first among the skills of college graduated sought by employers 4. The oldest known handbook on effective speech was written on papyrus in Egypt some 4‚500 years ago. In classical Greece & Rome‚ public speaking played a central role in education and civic life. The great Roman leader Cicero used his speeches to defend liberty & wrote several works about oratory in general. In recent years‚ communication researchers have provided an
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Josh Ailes‚ Nick Burlage‚ Holly Riggen‚ and Kyung Ha Oh Professor Baddam Case 4: We Want More Guitars! 12 September‚ 2014 We Want More Guitars Fletcher Guitars‚ a guitar-producing company based out of Los Angeles‚ is interested in increasing production within their Spanish sister company Guitarras Dominguez. The CEO of Fletcher Guitars decided to send Adam Wainwright‚ a potential high end manager in the company‚ to Spain to influence the increase production. His task is to convince the owner and
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The world‚ as the audience may know is made up of many countries each having its own culture‚ beliefs‚ practices etc. Surprisingly‚ many if not most of the cultures of today are heavily influenced by other cultures to a point that there is deliberate destruction of an ethnic group. An example of this would be the Westernization of cultures. Westernization has caused an massive impact on acculturation. Acculturation is proposed as a multidimensional process consisting of the confluence among heritage-cultural
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