CMN3138- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3138
• Professor: Trevor Tucker

Document Summary

Important to remember: face-saving is majorly important in small groups, positive feedback has better impact than (constructive) criticism - praise in public and criticize in private, arrive early and stay late establishes commitment. Advantages of small groups: greater information resources, can employ a greater number of creative problem-solving methods, fosters improved learning and comprehensions of ideas discussed. 2: *members" satisfaction with the group decision increases because they participated (sense of ownership, consensus building is a very long, but important process, group members gain a better understanding of themselves as they interact with others. Individualism vs. collectivism: hofstede: individualism is the emotional independence from groups, organizations, or other collectivities, individualistic cultures: lack of shared goals, or common ground, collectivist cultures: we is more important than me . We may not stand at the center of our physical universe, but we do stand at the center of our experiential one .