Your brain is fried, and you just cannot come up with a creative topic for an assigned speech. As a last resort, you fire up your computer and search the Web looking for something to spark your interest
Is this advisable, according to your textbook?
A) No; Web sources offer unreliable material, which doesn't make for a good topic.
B) Yes, but topics generated from Web sources take much longer to develop than others.
C) Yes; scanning Web directories may be an effective strategy to find a speech topic.
D) No; it is a form of plagiarism when you poach speech topics from sites on the Web.
C
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Hall identified four spatial zones of interpersonal distance. At what distance do business meetings usually take place?
a. intimate b. personal c. social d. public
When individuals come into a negotiation conference already deep-rooted in their perspectives, which type of conflict management is best applied?
A. Positional B. Optional C. Interest focused D. Any or all of the above are appropriate for this situation
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The workplace frame is one in which instrumental goals tend to dominate over relational goals. 2. Workplace culture, workplace groups, and workplace communities consist of thinking, reflective people who monitor their own behavior and try to reinvent a new style each day. 3. Most organizations try to create an atmosphere of friendliness and the valuing of customers by the use of such phrases as “Your call is very important to us.” 4. Clear relational connection and positions of power in the workplace are rarely established through the ways in which people talk with one another. 5. People derive much of their sense of identity from their job.
Threats, negotiations, and promises represent:
a) overt politics. b) hidden politics. c) expertise power. d) interpersonal network power.