What are communities of practice?
What will be an ideal response?
A satisfactory answer would describe Wenger’s ideas briefly, outlining the three components identified in the textbook; a better answer would relate these to wider examples from the literature or from examples drawn from the arts or everyday life; an outstanding answer would relate the communities of practice literature back to what has been learnt about organizational culture, and the different approaches to it.
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When developing communication that ensures the message can be sent and understood across a variety of cultures, the sender is practicing what?
A) Stereotyping B) Cultural competency skills C) Exemplary social custom skills D) Practical intelligence E) Ethnocentrism
Which of the following is most likely a benefit of joint ownership?
A) It allows a firm to gain the financial and managerial resources that it may otherwise lack. B) It is the simplest way for a domestic company to enter a foreign market. C) It minimizes the need to build a new manufacturing facility in the foreign market. D) It allows one firm to acquire complete ownership of the other firm in the venture. E) It provides significant economies of scale for both the local firm and the foreign investor.
Information as a source of power is
A. an acknowledged accumulation of information, or mastery of a body of information, on a particular problem or issue. B. the accumulation of money, raw material, manpower, time, or equipment, which can be used to create incentives for other people to comply, or as threats and punishments if they do not comply. C. power derived from being located in a particular position in an organizational or communication structure. D. the accumulation and presentation of data intended to change the other person's point of view or position on an issue.
Define the term ‘generation’ and summarize the three main generations listed in your textbook. Then design the perfect job in terms of human resource policies for each of them.
What will be an ideal response?