Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures Beginnings of America: • Nearly 12‚000-14‚000 years ago / 9000 BC migrations reached the southern tip of South America / 15th century AD = contact with Europeans -> brought with them diseases (smallpox) ended in: demographic catastrophe‚ weakened societies‚ aided Spanish/ Portuguese exploration America before Columbus: • Adaptation to surroundings = nomadic bands‚ hunting‚ fishing‚ agriculture -> created civilizations • Population: a lot more people
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Jones International University James P. Lewis Military Organization BC345: Organizational Communication Instructor: Dr. Loretta Jenkins Assignment Due Date: 3/8/2014 My choice is easy because‚ how can you not choose one of the greatest forces on this earth the US Military. I will emphasize more on the US Army because that is who I work for now. I did serve sometime in the US Air Force for the first part of my career‚ five years’ worth.
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My third supervisor meeting took place on Friday‚ January 30. By this time I had decided that I could not have an actual recycling program in place‚ but that I should create a plan for such a system. At my meeting‚ Mrs. Wilkinson and I discussed finding additional sources of information for my project‚ the skills I used throughout the course of my project‚ and what my product and presentation were going to look like. Mrs. Wilkinson suggested that I have more face-to-face communication with others
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Effective Meetings for Managers The purpose of an agenda (weighting 5% of the total mark) Productive‚ valuable‚ and engaging meetings require a clear goal‚ an open dialog‚ and a strong leader. Key to this is a well constructed agenda prepared prior to the meeting. An agenda should act as a guide to attendees letting participants know the meeting objective and what to expect. An agenda aims to direct the meeting by providing topic prompts‚ a running order and proposed time allocation for relevant
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Effective Communication in a Business Meeting It probably started with the juice of some wild berries‚ a stick‚ a cave wall and an artistic Cro-Magnon hunter presenting his ideas to his tribe for the next day ’s hunt. 2.5 million years later‚ we still conduct meetings to bring everyone up to date‚ gather feedback‚ or invite suggestions. The business communities have embraced the teamwork mentality of coordinating projects and the sharing of ideas. Business meetings can range between two people to
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consultation meeting‚ and considering what happens during this first appointment and why it is such an important part of the client/therapist relationship. I will examine what the objectives of the first meeting are and illustrate how an ethical therapist uses this time to ensure that they have the appropriate skills to deal with the client’s issues or discuss alternatives. Whilst the first part of the meeting is clearly an exercise in fact-finding‚ the most important aspect of an initial meeting is to
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Services are generally described by a six-level classification. Those levels indicate‚ but do not strictly define‚ the type of organization‚ the level of medical treatment involved‚ or the severity of‚ or prognosis for‚ the medical situation. The levels are: • Preventive – Health education and prevention programs provided by business and other organizations‚ such as schools and family planning clinics. • Primary – Early detection and routine treatment of health problems‚ such as are often
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Gareth Morgan’s Metaphors of Organizations Introduction Metaphors help simplify complex concepts by integrating an already know term to a new term‚ therefore making it more comprehensible to the readers. In his book‚ Images of Organization‚ Gareth Morgan (2006) simply applied metaphors in bringing to our understanding the different perspectives and faces of organizations (Bottero‚ K‚ 2013) This paper would pinpoint and attempt to examine the major metaphoric postulations of
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THE CHANGING ORGANIZATION Our world is filled with organizations. We put our children into day-care organizations. We work at for-profit or not-for-profit organizations. We rely on organizations to deliver the services we need: food‚ water‚ electricity‚ and sanitation. We depend on health organizations when we are sick. We use religious organizations to help our spiritual lives. We assume that most of our children’s education will be delivered by formal educational organizations. In other words
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Features of an organization Aggregation of Human beings: Organization is an identifiable aggregation of human beings. The identification is possible because human group is not merely a number of persons collected at London‚ but it is a group of persons who are interrelated. The identifiable group of human beings determines the boundary of the organization. Such boundary separates the elements belonging to the organization from other elements in its environment. Deliberate and conscious Creation:
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