Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The “workplace” is best viewed as a relational enterprise that involves meaning making, rhetorical visions, and everyday communication.
2. The “Protestant work ethic” is the lack of drive to achieve success through hard work.
3. “Bonding weekends” and “team-building exercises” are workplace activities generally valued and anticipated by employees.
4. A machine metaphor represents organizations as standardized by repetition, specialization, or predictability.
5. The “structuration theory” views organizations primarily in terms of the patterns of relationships among the members of the organization.
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True
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seek to build A) norms. B) cohesion. C) commitment. D) arrangement.
Researchers Sullivan and Ekman have identified individuals (lie detection wizards) who have an uncanny ability to identify when a person is lying more than 80% of the time. Which statement is true about the methods these “wizards” use?
a. They notice micro-expressions and other cues that don’t go along with what the speaker is saying. b. They pay close attention to a short list of nonverbal cues that are consistent with the laboratory studies that have been done. c. They notice the “quantity” rather than the “quality” of nonverbal behaviors. d. They avoid getting distracted by what the speaker is saying.