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MGMT 467
Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Communication | The process of conveying information and meaning. |
| Oral message-sending process | 5 steps: 1) Develop rapport 2) state your communication objective 3) Transmit your message 4) Check the reciever's understanding 5) Get a commitment and follow up. |
| Message receiving process | Includes listening, analyzing, and checking your standing. |
| Listening | The process of giving the speaker your undivided attention. Includes: paying attention, avoiding distractions, staying tuned in, not assuming and interrupting. |
| Analyzing | Is the process of thinking about, decoding, and evaluating the message. Involves thinking and waiting to evaluate until after listening. |
| Checking Understanding | The process of giving feedback. Involves paraphrasing and watching nonverbal queues. |
| Feedback | The process of verifying messages and determining if objectives are being met. |
| Paraphrasing | The process of having the receiver restate the message in his or her own words. |
| 360-degree feedback | Based on receiving performance evaluations from many people. |
| Coaching | The process of giving motivational feedback to maintain and improve performance. |
| Job instruction training (JIT) | 4 steps: 1) Trainee receives preparation. 2) Trainer presents the task. 3) Trainee performs the task. 4) Trainer follows up. |
| Coaching feedback | Based on a good, supportive relationship. It is specific and descriptive, and it is not judgmental criticism. |
| Attribution Theory | Used to explain the process managers go through in determining the reasons for effective or ineffective performance and deciding what to do about it. |
| The performance formula | Explains performance as a function of ability, motivation, and resources. P= A x M x R |
| Mentoring | A form of coaching in which a more experienced manager helps a less experienced protege. |
| Conflict | Exists whenever people are in disagreement and opposition. |
| Psychological Contract | The unwritten implicit expectations of each party in a relationship. |
| Dysfunctional Conflict | When conflict prevents the achievement of organizational objectives. |
| Functional Conflict | Exists when disagreement and opposition supports change and the achievement of organizational objectives. |
| Avoiding conflict style | User attempts to passively ignore the conflict rather than resolve it. |
| Accommodating conflict style | User attempts to resolve the conflict by passively giving in to the other party. |
| Forcing Conflict Style | User attempts to resolve the conflict by using aggressive behavior to get his or her own way. |
| Negotiating Conflict Style | User attempts to resolve the conflict through assertive, give and take concessions. Also called the compromising style. |
| Collaborating Conflict Style | User assertively attempts to jointly resolve the conflict with the best solution agreeable to both parties. Also called problem solving style. |
| Initiating conflict resolution model | 4 steps: 1) plan a BCF statement that maintains ownership of the problem, 2) present your BCF statement and agree on the conflict 3) ask for and/or give alternative conflict resolutions. 4) make an agreement for change. |
| BCF model | Describes a conflict in terms of behavior, consequences, and feelings. |
| Mediator | A neutral 3rd party who helps resolve a conflict. |
| Arbitrator | A neutral 3rd party who makes a binding decision to resolve a conflict. |