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  • Race and Community

    Race and Community

    Race and My Community 1 All of my experiences and opinions on cultural diversity are derived from living my entire life in Bourbonnais, Illinois which is a culturally diverse town with approximately 30,000 residents. According to the U.S. Census Bureau my community is made up of about 50% Caucasian, 41% African-American 0.27% Native American, 0.32% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, and 1.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latinos of any race makes up 9.25%

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    Essay Length: 322 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Communication and Team Dynamics

    Communication and Team Dynamics

    Abstract Communication is a part of everyday life. It may be overlooked in some areas, but when dealing with a team environment, communication is vital. It holds true that communication can either break or make any team. Lack of communication can lead to confusion within a team, as well as lack of production. Any team will ultimately have its challenges. With effective and open communication, these challenges can be dealt with head on. Communication and

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    Essay Length: 894 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Global Communication

    Global Communication

    PROBLEM SOLUTION: Global Communications Problem Solution: Global Communications Carol Kochlin University of Phoenix MBA 500 Bernadette Tjarks, PhD October 2, 2006 Problem Solution: Global Communications Communication miscues on the part of Global Communications has created an environment of suspicion, mistrust, damaged credibility and declining stakeholder commitment. Employee job satisfaction and customer loyalty have all plummeted since the announcement of outsourcing and layoffs. While Global Communications has acknowledged its miscues, leaders did not fully evaluate the

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    Essay Length: 1,943 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Slave Community

    The Slave Community

    John. W. Blessingame, The Slave Community: The Plantation Life in The Antebellum South (Oxford University Press, Inc: 1972, 1979). John Wesley Blassingame was a scholar, historian, educator, writer, and leading pioneer in the study of American slavery. He received a bachelor’s degree at Fort Balley State College in 1969, a master’s degree at Howard University in 1961, and a doctorate at Yale University in 1971. He then became a history professor at his alma mater

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    Essay Length: 1,220 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Jon
  • Gap Analysis: Global Communications

    Gap Analysis: Global Communications

    Gap Analysis: Global Communications Global Communications is under tremendous economic pressure along with other telecommunications companies in an industry struggling to compete with the increasing global market. Global Communications is facing numerous issues and has many opportunities as they implement strategies to introduce new products and services, increase technological sophistication, and expand into the global market. Global Communications has, and will continue to experience ethical dilemmas and conflicts among stakeholders as they find ways to

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    Essay Length: 1,286 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Wireless Communications

    Wireless Communications

    Wireless Communications Wireless communications are everywhere. People around the world regularly send and receive messages wirelessly, that is, transmitted through the air. Three types of wireless communications include wireless messaging services, wireless Internet access points, and global positioning systems. People use mobile phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices to access text messaging, instant messaging, and picture messaging services (Davies 34-42). Through text messaging services, users send and receive short text messages, which usually consist of

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    Essay Length: 333 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Max
  • Global Communications Benchmarking

    Global Communications Benchmarking

    Global Communications Benchmarking Global Communications has several problems facing it due to their outsourcing project and the accompanying layoffs. Team A focused on four issues facing Global Communications and used generic benchmarking to find possible solutions. The issues faced were not unique to Global Communications and in fact are common in the business world. The issues were diversity and inclusion, layoff management, management-union relationships, outsourcing, and advertising campaigns. The goal was to once again make

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    Essay Length: 4,357 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Monika
  • Communicating with the It Department

    Communicating with the It Department

    What is the best way to communicate with the Information Technology (IT) department? In this paper, we will look at two IT personnel and comparre communication styles. The most effective way to present this scenario is to engage you, the reader, in a mock computer/network crisis in your company. For many years communicating with the IT department was not a priority. Most businesses used computers for word processing and simple spreadsheets. Networks were stations on

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    Essay Length: 357 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Intercultural Communication

    Intercultural Communication

    Intercultural communication In this assignment we discover some of the aspects of intercultural communication such as: the reasons for the increase in intercultural, the differences between cultures in nonverbal cues, the likeness of ethical norms between cultures, the definition of cultural homogenization and the need for community building between cultures. The major reasons that intercultural communication has increased "modern means of travel an communication have brought us into contact with virtually the whole world" (Tubbs,

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    Essay Length: 735 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Why Huck Is Realistic and Tom Is Imaginative

    Why Huck Is Realistic and Tom Is Imaginative

    Why Huck is Realistic and Tom is Imaginative In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the connection between Huck and Tom is contrasted several times throughout the novel such as in the beginning of the novel Twain introduced them as friends who were always around each other. Then by the middle of the book Twain shows how Huck lives and thinks for himself out on the frontier and how he uses Jim as

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    Essay Length: 776 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: July
  • Problem Solution: Global Communications

    Problem Solution: Global Communications

    Problem Solution: Global Communications Global Communications is facing difficult times. In the last three years they have seen their stock decline almost 60%. Competition from local and long distance providers and the entrance of cable companies into the communication arena, has contributed to the decline seen at Global Communication. To correct this, the senior leadership team devised a growth strategy to help Global become more competitive and responsive to its customers. However, a new problem

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    Essay Length: 1,196 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Janna
  • Technology and Communications

    Technology and Communications

    14/05/07 Technology and the “Big Brother Effect” There is no doubt that the technological advances in recent years have changed the way we live. We are now able to talk to people in any part of the world within six seconds, we can watch events from any country such as the Olympic Games live on television screens in our own living room’s, we can even have interactive video conversations through as small a device as

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    Essay Length: 462 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Bred
  • Global Communications

    Global Communications

    Global Communications is a corporation that is in a transitional period in its life. The industry is changing and Global Communications needs to rise above the rest and become a leader as they have in the past. Many problems arise with becoming an industry leader, but with analysis and hard work Global Communications will become an industry leader not only in communications but an industry leader on how to run a major corporations. Global Communications

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    Essay Length: 3,085 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Stenly
  • High and Low Context Communication Styles

    High and Low Context Communication Styles

    High and Low Context Communication Styles The “context” is the information that surrounds an event and is strongly connected with the event. The elements that combine together to give meaning to an event are different depending on the culture. High context refers to societies or groups where people have close connections over a long period of time. Many aspects of cultural behavior are not made explicit because most members know what to do and what

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    Essay Length: 468 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Bluetooth and Its Impact on Wireless Communication

    Bluetooth and Its Impact on Wireless Communication

    BLUETOOTH AND ITS IMPACT ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATION Prepared for: BUS 305 August 10, 2006 MEMO TO: Professor McQueeney FROM: DATE: Aug 10, 2006 SUBJECT: Bluetooth and its Impact on Wireless Communication Here is the report you assigned in partial fulfillment of the requirements for BUS 305. The report represents the brief background of Bluetooth technology and how its functions have been applied to benefit the current society. While Bluetooth enhances our wireless communication, it

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    Essay Length: 949 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Megahertz Communications

    Megahertz Communications

    Megahertz Communications A strategic commitment is “a decision that has a long-term impact and is difficult to reverse, such as entering a foreign market on a large scale.” (p. 399) Megahertz’s strategic commitment was motivated by the long-term growth potential for media and broadcasting in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Their export strategy aimed to provide a turnkey solution to emerging broadcast and media entities, offering to custom design, manufacture, install, and test

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    Essay Length: 901 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Informal Communication

    Informal Communication

    Communication in organisations can follow both formal channels; theses are designated by organisational structure and lines of command, and informal channels, known often as the grapevine. Formal communication generally follows the pathways that are outlined in an organisational structure chart. Informal on the other hand has no defined patterns of interaction and is somewhat random. In addition to these formal and informal methods of communication, some scholars have argued that communication can occur in a

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    Essay Length: 333 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • International Communications

    International Communications

    The economic forces have shaped the structure of the global internet into an information society. Free flow of communication has increased and countries like United States infused themselves in the ?development theory? in today times. This type of theory is used to spread message of contemporary living and to shift economic and political models of the West to new independent countries. This is a form of globalization and the internet is key component of this

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    Essay Length: 334 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Victor
  • Problem Solution Gap Analysis: Global Communications

    Problem Solution Gap Analysis: Global Communications

    Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Problem Solution: Global Communications Jesse Neubert University of Phoenix 10/30/2007 Problem Solution: Global Communications Gap Analysis: Global Communications Years ago Global Communications was at the forefront of the telecommunication industry. Profits and market share continued to rise as the demand for traditional land line phone services grew. Now demand for such traditional services has decreased dramatically. Telecommunication companies have been facing increasing economic pressure and GC is no exception.

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    Essay Length: 4,931 Words / 20 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Intercultural Communication

    Intercultural Communication

    Intercultural Communication One intercultural communication issue that is not acknowledged as much in the business world is the issue that presents itself before people enter the business world, and that is in our school systems. The academic underachievement of African-American and Hispanic students is documented by a high rate of suspension and dropout rates by these students. Many issues have affected this underachievement including; economics, parents, community and the environment. Everything that occurs within a

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    Essay Length: 889 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: regina
  • Communication

    Communication

    Ch8 The functions of communication in organization are: 1. Share information, instructions 2. Share feeling and emotion 3. Central and co-coordinated efforts 4. Motivate employee 5. Interact with other stackholders Organizations success or failure is often the direct result of : 1. Company’s communication philosophies 2. Employees’ communication skills 3. Quantity of communication that is within the orgnation 4. Environment of trust and effort Supportive communication: A person who communicate accurate and nearest information and

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    Essay Length: 281 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • Working on Common Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges

    Working on Common Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges

    We all have an internal list of those we still don't understand, let alone appreciate. We all have biases, even prejudices, toward specific groups. In our workshops we ask people to gather in pairs and think about their hopes and fears in relating to people of a group different from their own. Fears usually include being judged, miscommunication, and patronizing or hurting others unintentionally; hopes are usually the possibility of dialogue, learning something new, developing

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    Essay Length: 2,572 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Communication

    Communication

    Communication Communication is key to any family dynamic; without communication no one knows what is going on and people get isolated. In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, the family’s communication, or lack thereof, is a big problem. Gregor’s metamorphosis into a world of complete isolation is seen through four stages of communication. Gregor understands what his family is saying when he first morphs into a bug and he assumes that his family can understand him as well.

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: regina
  • Gap Analysis: Global Communications

    Gap Analysis: Global Communications

    Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications Gap Analysis: Global Communications Global Communications is a telecommunications company struggling to be successful in a competitive marketplace. In this paper, discussed are challenges that Global Communication faces, issues and opportunities, stakeholders perspectives and ethical dilemmas, and a gap analysis of the company. It is important to remain competitive, keep up with new services and technologies, and restructure the company. The Gap Analysis evaluates the

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    Essay Length: 1,278 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Artur
  • Poor Communication Systems in Expanding Company

    Poor Communication Systems in Expanding Company

    Introduction The purpose of this report is to give an overview of poor communication systems in expanding (…) Company and to present solutions to those issues. The investigation was undertaken at the request of Helen Marcy. Our group of communication consultants from “Rush, Reed and Associates” conducted interviews with number of Branch Managers of respective divisions as well as their staff, and made a research based on our own observation. 1.0 Methodology The report was

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    Essay Length: 1,166 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Steve

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