COM 21200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Job Satisfaction
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Agenda: motivational monday, professional relationships, activity, homework. Examples, control of emotions, modesty, sportsmanship: interactions enable practical goals, interactions allow for expressive behavior, playacting, it involves trying on new roles in the company of strangers, example: halloween. Communicating in the community: community/public a a (cid:862)thi d place(cid:863: they are areas beyond the home and workplace where conversation is the dominant activity. Because they include a wide variety of people, they create community connectedness. Playful mood: 8. (cid:862)ho(cid:373)e a(cid:449)ay fro(cid:373) ho(cid:373)e(cid:863, examples: corner groceries, caf s, and pubs. Organizational culture must be learned: we learn through, narratives, rituals and practice, participating in informal networks and the grapevine. Informal, unofficial, word-of-mouth conduit of information: subject to rumors. Making the team: leadership, group roles and skills, group norms, group cohesion (1)leadership, traditionally, research focused on personality traits. Incompatible goals: scarce resources or time, not necessarily bad. Conflict become negative when : keeps the group from completing a task, threatens the existence of the group.