CMN 2148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Organizational Communication, Individualism, Masculinity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2148
• Professor: Rumaisa Shaukat

Document Summary

Am i doing the right thing? (job description and code of ethics) Values in relation to work: values: concept that refers to the relative worth of a quality or object. Organizations check people"s values against their own. A person"s ability to take control and responsibility for their own actions. When looking into values, we all have different backgrounds: ethics training is becoming mandatory, organizations don"t have values, individuals do, from an hr perspective, you"re looking that people have values matching to your organization"s. Ethics and the source of ethics: ethics moral principles that guide judgments about good and bad, right and wrong, not just effectiveness or efficiency. Hofstede"s five cultural dimensions: hofestede questioned over 116,000 ibm employees in 40 ountries about their work related values, four basic dimensions along which work-related values differed across cultures: Individualistic societies are very unhappy with unequal distribution of power. Individualistic (people view themselves as i: offer individual incentives.