Discussion #1

The Saint Leo core value on which this course focuses is excellence. If communication competence is the key to organizational excellence, how would you encourage the members of an organization to become competent communicators to enhance the corporate communication strategy? Be certain to be specific in your response and support your answer. Include at least two credible academic sources as support.

Rather than a case study this week, we are dealing with a hypothetical situation. In your responses, be sure to cite at least two academic sources. Let me further recommend you make them peer-reviewed journal articles.

Discussion#2

For this module, you will use what you learned in Chapter 3 of the textbook and expand your critical thinking about the differences in people and how to appreciate and effectively manage these differences in the workplace.

1. Take the abbreviated (and less accurate) Myers-Briggs test. Reveal your MBTI type in your response and describe the following scenarios:

a. An organizational situation (job function, event, team assignment, etc.) where your personality type could be at a disadvantage (real world or hypothetical)

b. A situation where your personality type might be an advantage (real world or hypothetical)

c. Based on your MBTI, how you learn best?

2. Respond to the following two questions about negative effect and self-monitors:

a. Imagine that you have a person with negative affect in your organization. What might be a positive contribution that this person could make in a group where everyone else has positive affect and similar backgrounds?

b. What contributions can high self-monitors make in organizations? Low self-monitors?

When you answer the personality part of this question, make sure that you have viewed the module material, including ideas on how to think about where your personality type is at an advantage or disadvantage (i.e., the Nurse MBTI example) and the definition of negative affect! And, with respect to how you learn best, consider the MBTI introvert/extravert differences (page 94) and "You 1.2" from Chapter 1, Module 1.