Part 1
Answer the following questions in your discussion post.
How has digital and social media have changed the employee selection process?
What advice you would give an employer about avoiding problems with using such tools for selection.
What advice would you give to a prospective employee?
Part 2
Organizational Cultures and Diversity (chap. 6)
The four organizational cultures described by Trompenaars are “pure” types and seldom exist in practice. When examining these dimensions of organizational culture, Trompenaars suggested the use of two continua. One distinguishes between equity and hierarchy; the other examines orientation to the person and the task.
Define the terms and state a country associated with each term
Family Culture
Eiffel Tower Culture
Guided Missile Culture
Incubator Culture
Cross-Cultural Communication and Negotiation (chap. 7)
Proxemics is the study of the way that people use physical space to convey messages. For example, in the United States, there are four “distances” people use in communicating on a face-to-face basis.
Define the terms
Intimate Distance
Personal Distance
Social Distance
Public Distance
Chronemics refers to the way in which time is used in a culture.
Define the terms
Monochronic time
Polychronic time
