{"id":3406,"date":"2022-04-18T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=3406"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:12:30","slug":"module-14-assignment-communications-failures-in-the-world","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/chapter\/module-14-assignment-communications-failures-in-the-world\/","title":{"raw":"Module 14 Assignment: Communications Failures in the World","rendered":"Module 14 Assignment: Communications Failures in the World"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Scenario<\/h2>\r\nIn a 1950 article for Fortune, journalist and best-selling author William H. Whyte noted \u201cthe great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society\u2013and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.\u201d The illusion of communication in the workplace has become even more of an issue with the proliferation of communication tools, greater workforce diversity, political polarization and globalization.\r\n<h2>Your Task<\/h2>\r\nScan the news for coverage of a communications failure or select a scenario from your readings\u2014a few that come to mind are the Boeing 737 Max crashes and the Covid-19 pandemic\u2014and analyze the scenario using the communication process model. Using terminology from the module, identify the relevant barriers to communication. 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And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society\u2013and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.\u201d The illusion of communication in the workplace has become even more of an issue with the proliferation of communication tools, greater workforce diversity, political polarization and globalization.<\/p>\n<h2>Your Task<\/h2>\n<p>Scan the news for coverage of a communications failure or select a scenario from your readings\u2014a few that come to mind are the Boeing 737 Max crashes and the Covid-19 pandemic\u2014and analyze the scenario using the communication process model. Using terminology from the module, identify the relevant barriers to communication. Conduct additional research\u2014for example, reading post-ops of the situation\u2014and briefly comment on how the barriers were overcome\u2014or not.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-3406\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Assignment: Communications Failures in the World. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Nina Burokas. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":428269,"menu_order":57,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Assignment: Communications Failures in the World\",\"author\":\"Nina Burokas\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-3406","chapter","type-chapter","status-web-only","hentry"],"part":3233,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3406\/revisions\/3407"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3233"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3406\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}