...Masking Poor Communication After reading the article, “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication”, I realized that miscommunication is a big part of our everyday lives. I am sure that many of us have thought that we have communicated very well with ones that are closest to us. The article made the statement that people believe to communicate better with their friends rather than strangers. When dealing with miscommunication this statement can have debates. Usually were wrapped up in the way that we talk with people we are close to and we usually make the assumption that since we’ve been close for so long that we have our own language and they automatically know what we’re talking about. When this is the case, when having conversations with people were close with we leave out important facts and expect them to put two and two together. So in actuality at some point these friends that we feel we are communicating well with were actually communicating on the same level with them as we would with a stranger. Every once in a while a miscommunication comes to the surface. Whenever this happens tension usually occurs which then cause’s conflicts. To stand clear of miscommunications one should always keep in mind to speak directly on the subject and note the important facts. By being direct and not making assumptions that someone is going to know what point you are trying to make will save a lot of time and save people from the confusion of trying to figure out...
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...Masking Poor Communication R. Coleman COMM 200 Kyle Ferguson September 8, 2014 Most recently I had an issue with my mother regarding my sister temporarily staying at my place. Prior to my sister coming to the city I had explained to her that I did not have the room to accommodate her and my nephew so she would have to stay somewhere else, but I had no problem with her staying a few nights if she wanted to. My sister arranged for her and her son to stay with another sister. However, once she arrived there, she felt like her home was uninhabitable for her to stay; I agreed that she could stay over for a few days until she worked on other options. In the meantime, she had already had her belongings coming from Tampa, Fl. Once my mother informed her that her things would be arriving the following day, she decided to go to New York to visit with friends and leave the responsibility on me to decide where her things would go. I had no room for them to come in my apartment once they were off the truck. My feeling was that since my sister had decided she no longer wanted to live with my mother and move from Tampa to Houston, TX, she then made the choice to be responsible for herself. Having to decide where she was going to live and making sure her things got there was not my responsibility and I did not want to do it while she went to NY and to me, did not care what happened to her things. My mother yelled at me and accused me of being selfish and not wanting to help my sister...
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...A good marriage thrives on the open exchange of emotion, desires, and beliefs. In fact, communication is one of the most important aspects of a satisfying marriage. Effective communication is meaning that is shared with others so that all parties come to a mutual understanding about what the words mean. To achieve shared meaning, we must listen carefully to what others say, ask questions to ensure that we understand what the words mean to the other person, and provide feedback to confirm that we understand the other person correctly (Sole, 2011). In the article that we read this week, “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication" made me take a closer look at my own communication within my marriage. There is no doubt that when people are in a close relationship that they take for granted that their significant other knows and understands the meaning of what is said to them. It is a common mistake to think that communication between you and your partner is only about the two of you. There are other major factors that can hinder effective communication: As human beings, we take experiences and interactions of our past and incorporate them into our thought process. If your partner...
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...Masking Poor Communication The article titled ‘Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication’ in the Health Day News of January 24th 2011, the concept of closeness-communication bias got brought to light. This is the phenomenon whereby, an individual assumes that the friend or other close person understands something they are saying without giving them all the details. They assume that they already know what they mean in their communication, and hence there is an understanding of unsophisticated gestures appropriately. It is simply the overestimation of the quality of communication between two people who are used to being together. They tend to assume that their perspective in communication gets shared with the partner and hence the message will be easily understood without further elaboration. According to Sole, in order “for communication to be effective, the message must have the same or similar meaning to both the sender and the receiver” (Sole, 2011, Elements of Interpersonal Communication, Feedback, par. 1). When it comes to communicating with a stranger, the individual could be more careful on how they communicate because they are aware there could be differences in their viewpoint. This is true to some extent. One tends to expect a friend to understand them better when a certain gesture or use of the phrase because, maybe, it had been earlier used before. Thus, it is expected of the partner to be conversant with the phrase. This might not always be the...
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...One of the significant change in the LEED v4 rating system is the implementation of Acoustic Performance credit in Indoor Environmental Quality (EQ) category. The new construction building will receive 1 point for its compliance. The credit added the requirements for room noise levels, speech privacy and sound isolation, reverberation time, and paging, masking, and sound reinforcement systems harmonized ANSI and ASHRAE standards. Effective acoustic design provides classroom and workspaces that promote occupant communication, productivity, and well-being. The ASHRAE (American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Condition Engineers) has been developing a standard for high performance buildings in conjunction with Illumination Engineering...
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...this lack With the United Nations predicting world population growth from 6.6 billion in 2007 to 8.2 billion by 2030, demand for energy must increase substantially over that period. Both population growth and increasing standards of living for many people in developing countries will cause strong growth in energy demand, as outlined above. Over 70% of the increased energy demand is from developing countries, led by China and India - China overtook the USA as top CO2 emitter in 2007. Superimposed on this, the UN Population Division projects an ongoing trend of urbanization, reaching 70% worldwide by 2050, enabling world population to stabilize at about 9 billion with better food supply, clean water, sanitation, health, education and communication facilities. Coal is not limited globally, but large amounts need to be moved from where it is plentiful to where it is needed, mainly for power...
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...tracking scenarios are boosted by the invention of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Global Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Global Positioning System (GPS). By making using the above specified technologies, one can trace the movements of the security vehicle or even cash-box efficiently with graphical maps and location information stored in the backend database. If the theft of cash-box is detected, tracking system can be activated to trace the path of cash-box. Once tracked and located, through the monitoring system, we can easily retrieve it or even catch the criminals. This assignment discuss the above issue of detecting and tracking the cash-box by using wireless technologies like RFID, GPS, GSM, GPRS and EGNOS. GPRS serves as the communication backbone of the system while GPS/EGNOS plays the role of locating the box and RFID is used for theft detection. The assignment also briefly describes the technologies used in the system, its benefits and disadvantages and technical and security drawbacks. Finally a framework is developed by making use of above listed technologies to perform the required task. Intentional Jamming: This is one way of denying the GPS signals by jamming the signals using Radio Frequency interference. It is found to have been...
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...Emotional work is the control of feelings and emotions to create an observable facial and bodily display (Hochschild 1983). This means that workers evokes or suppresses certain emotions to allow their visible behaviours to conform to social norms as required by the situation. Given the growth of the service sector (Lovelock et al. 2008), the importance of emotional work is critical in achieving service excellence and customer loyalty. The service sector, which includes sales jobs for the purpose of this essay, is defined as economic activities where customers expect to obtain value by accessing labour, professional skills and goods (Lovelock et al. 2008). This essay will examine the term emotional work and its relevance to the service sector. Arlie Hochschild (1983) first introduced the term emotional work in her book called “The Managed Heart”. She argues that emotional work is a gesture in everyday social exchanges that applies both socially and professionally. The term emotional work is further described in the book as the management of emotions with an underlying motive to make profit by organizations in a ‘service-producing society’ (Hochschild 1983). It can, therefore, play an important role in the delivery of service. Through their study of hospitality organizations, Johansson and Woods (2002) showed that emotions play a critical role in the delivery of service excellence and customer loyalty. The importance of emotional work in the service sector can also be understood...
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...ISAS 640 9040 – Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems Dr. Ashraf Shirani Literature Review for Group 1 Group Members: Leslie Allen Joe Nimely Oluranti Odofin Gary Turner The topic for the research paper will be business intelligence, most specifically the impact on privacy. The data gathered through various business intelligence technologies, while it may not be personally identifiable information such as name and/or social security number, the data provided to businesses gives them a greater insight into consumer behavior. This provides the businesses with information to leverage additional sales and services. Businesses gather all kinds of data on consumers, often sharing with other related competitors, to obtain a better view of the consumer behavior, including trends and associations. The information obtained through business intelligence may or may not be personally identifiable, it may still be sensitive in nature. Does it cross the line ethically? Are there other techniques to gather this information while maintaining privacy for the consumer? In this paper, the ethical issues of privacy on business intelligence will be explored to determine if the business intelligence outweighs the intrusion on privacy. Key concepts in this review include privacy, big data analytics, business intelligence, ethical awareness framework, data mining, hackers, and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) guidelines. Data mining is discovering...
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...UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI TONALITY ESTIMATION USING WAVELET PACKET ANALYSIS By Vaibhav Chhabra A Research Project Submitted to the Faculty of the University of Miami in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Coral Gables, Florida May 2005 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI A research project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science TONALITY ESTIMATION USING WAVELET PACKET ANALYSIS Vaibhav Chhabra Approved: ________________ Ken Pohlmann Professor of Music Engineering _________________ Dr. Edward Asmus Associate Dean of Graduate Studies ________________ Colby Leider Assistant Professor of Music Engineering _________________ Dr. Paul Mermelstein Professor of Electrical Engineering DEDICATION They say that one’s experience is what defines an individual. After all, you are what you are because of your experiences. On that note I would like to dedicate this work to all those who have contributed to my experience in this journey. For what I have learned has laid the foundation for what I will learn. I would also like to thank my family who has always been supportive of me, my brother Ruchir who is a natural send-master, Papa and Ma thanks for keeping the faith. All the Chacha’s, Chachi’s and cousins, thank you all for the support. Next on my thank you list are my Tae Kwon Do buddies. Sensei Jeff thanks for all of your advice, some day I’ll be teacher like you. Rico, training...
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...How to Deal An exploration of how to deal with emotions and stress in the workplace. Presented to Judy Tedford, Instructor MSD101 – Organizational Development Presented By Kimberly M. Bentley Spring Quarter, 2009 At some point, we’ve all had “one of those days”. Sometimes it’s because our manager has upset us, or maybe our co-worker has done something that you have to pay the price for. Or perhaps it’s because of trouble in our personal lives, or simply because it’s a rainy day. No matter what the circumstance, as humans we are driven by our undeniable and sometimes uncontainable emotions. So how do we really deal with all of the emotions and stresses that life may throw our way? How do our emotions affect our jobs? How do others expect us to handle our emotions? In order to answer these questions, we must first address what emotions and stress really are. This paper will focus in particular on how much our careers are affected by our personal emotions, the emotions and stresses of others, consequences of not properly dealing with emotions and stress, and possible suggestions for dealing with these issues. Organizations are emotional places. Emotions do not just effect organizations, but they also contribute to their structure. In fact, a great deal of leadership is actually about emotion management. Organizations and businesses use emotions to motivate employees to perform and to motivate consumers to buy. Various events in organizations create...
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...my little plane, twisting and twirling the plane was sent in every direction I was shaken violently out of the plain, lucky my parachute was still attached. I hit the ground hard landing in a farm paddock. The bird was busted she buried her nose in no man's land, half a mile due west of where I went down. Wilson, the poor sap, didn't make it out but that was his bad luck. I awoke at a cold breeze brushing on my face, I looked around and I soon realised I was in German Territory. I sneaked around and remembered one thing, seeing my gorgeous plane plunge towards the ground. It was a dreadful sight to bare seeing my plane twisting franticly as the sun engulfed it with its glare. Where oh where would I ever get another one, I thought jokingly...
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...encounters. History over time is defined by new technology used. In each age a significant impact has attributed to the advancement in the civilization of mankind. Humanity has moved from prehistoric times into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. During modern times, the ages defined as the Industrial Revolution, the age of steam, the steel age, the age of the automobile, and the computer age. With every new age, the people developed and used the new technology could dominate militarily or economically (Technology 2005). Technology has changed the face of modern day civilization. Technology has inundated grade schools colleges and universities with the use of online communication for teaching and learning. One of the most common online communication tools used in schools and universities is the asynchronous online discussion (AOD) forum. AOD allows and provides students the flexibility of participating in a discussion 24 hours a day, regardless of geographical location; therefore making it much more convenient than in- person...
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...Communication anxiety: Name: Tutor: Institution: Date: Abstract Communication essentially refers to passing of information from one party to another. There are generally two forms of communication. The verbal and the non-verbal communicatiuion. Verbal communication is basically the spoken or written means of communicating. On the other hand, non-verbal communication refers to those acts, gestures or suggestive body movements that relay information without spoken words. The importance of communication cannot be overstated. In every sphere of life, good communication plays a cruicial role in ensuring starndard if not outstanding performance as well as sustainability. Success in virtually all endevours calls for good communication. For a healthy family setup, communication between the parents and the children has to be efficient. In business, good communication is vital for smooth running of every organization. Despite the known facts about the heavy significance of good and effective communication, since the 19th centuary communication apprehension has been persistently a ruccuring hindarance that has never been fully addressed. Families have fallen apart as a result of barriers to communication. Employees have lost their jobs to communication anxiety. Organistation have fallen to the ground due communication breakdown. Students have registered low grades attributed to communication anxiety. Communication apprehension is now established as the biggest...
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...Culture may have its sources in different aspects of human life, as: language, nationality, education, profession, group, religion, family, social class, corporate culture. All these elements influence every member of a society and thus, culture is learnt and transmitted to others. Differences between people within any given nation or culture are much greater than differences between groups. Polish people and British, although have a lot of common in terms of historical inheritance, they vary in many aspects of social life and these differences naturally affect the behaviour and culture. Much of the differences in culture have to do with superstitions. Many of today’s traditions and superstitions date back thousands of years. It is surprising how many of these were originally to ward off evil spirits, as well to enhance good luck, fertility and prosperity. For example, bielief that black cat crossing your path can affect your luck goes far back in time. In Poland, it is considered unlucky to see the black cat crossing the road and it is probably because of the fact that the black cat was supposed to be a witch in disguise, or some kind of spy or helper for her. It may therefore have been imagined to possess the same magical abilty to cause harm. Conversly, in England the black cat is considered to be something lucky. There is a story about King Charles the first of England who owned a black cat and whom he valued very much. He treasured the cat so much that he had...
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