A. Supporting Evidence There must be an atmosphere of cultural competency and inclusion within an organization if it wants to enhance its communication (Gupta, 2009, para
A. Supporting Evidence When it comes to the communication within an organizational setting, it is important for the person to take into consideration the significant principles associated with human communication (Kreps, 2011)
The things that are involved in a communication process are the message, sender, channel, receiver and feedback. However, these are very basic things involved in the communication which at times can turn out to be a very complicated process (Nelissen and Martine, 2008)
Some of these factors are active listening, strategic leadership, conflict management and cultural competencies Topic Sentence: Active listening is the initial concept that is significant for making communication successful. Supporting Evidence Brain is required to work in active listening in order to perceive the message, get an understanding of the attitude as well as the nonverbal clues (Rane, 2011)
Today it is very important for the firms to have global workforces but it is equally important for them to see if their own employees are benefiting from this diverse working environment or not (Suchan, 2006). Topic Sentence: In the same manner it is important for the organizations to deal with the conflicts and provide their employees with resolution that would help them in functioning efficiently (Spaho, 2013)
So as to attract as well as retain a workforce that is diverse the firms need to have an inclusive workplace environment which would value and respect the cultural differences and believes of others and encourage its employees to work together. With the help of these diversity training courses the firms as well as the employees will be able to learn the value of diversity in the business and how they can make the working environment better and more productive (Suchan, 2006)
2). In his essay, "Powerful Crisis Communications Lessons PR Lessons Learned from Hurricane Isabel," one public relations firm (2003) reports that their company developed a crisis communications plan that allowed them to effectively respond to a wide-scale outage on the magnitude caused by Hurricane Isabel: "Our plan for responding to a hurricane like Isabel, which was drafted by my colleague Bill Yingling, was mapped to the operational steps that we take to respond to such a natural disaster -- prepare, assess, restore, and analyze" (Brown, 2003, p
In fact, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the series of natural disasters that affected the coastal regions of the United States in the years that followed appear to have been a wake-up call for many enterprises. Indeed, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a survey of national public relations professionals determined that many companies area assigning higher priority to updating their crisis communications plans and attempting to identify faster approaches to communicate with all employees during such emergency situations (Duhe, 2005)
2). Crises can assume a number of both manmade and artificial forms, including strikes, terrorisms, fires, boycotts, product tampering, product failures, or a wide range of other, comparable events; the size of the enterprise involved is not relevant to the need for crisis planning and management (Fearn-Banks, 2002)
S. businesses in particular is underscored by three salient factors: The increasing mass media reporting of hazards and their attendant risks; The phenomenal growth in the number of product-liability lawsuits, particularly since 1975; and, The pervasive, enormous impact of business crises on more than the reputations and the financial and social status of businesses (Gonzalez-Herrero & Pratt, 1996)
The convergence of the foregoing factors has created environments in which a number of enterprises have been forced to respond strategically to crises; the communications strategies that have been adopted in response represent a trend wherein companies are perceiving themselves as being more vulnerable to crises today than they were in the past (Gonzalez-Herrero & Pratt, 1996). Unfortunately, in spite of these trends, an enormous number of companies in the United States still do not have any type of crisis communications plan in place today (Samansky, 2002)
Paul Farmer of Partners in Health, stresses that working with a model in which some forms of health intervention are considered appropriate for some populations but not for others violates the human rights of the poor and oppressed people in underdeveloped countries. These models in action in the planning and implementation of health communications strategies in Sierre Leone and other underdeveloped countries would advocate for interfacing with the public and with technology in disparate ways (Farmer 2001)
The ideology behind the application of "appropriate technologies" is that the limited financial and physical resources can be allocated across a wider population. This would prevent smaller pockets of health disparity from emerging within these developing countries, a serious reality which could exacerbate already-delicate political, social, cultural, and economic tensions often afflicting countries coping with chronic poverty and the post-colonial transition (LeFebvre 1988)
Health-related communication is a relatively low-cost health intervention requiring less person-to-person contact than direct care. While health media can never replace medical care, it is a stop-gap measure that can critically intervene when harmful medical myths are being disseminated (Maxfield 1999)
The proposition had to be understood and prepared for. It has to be understood that "controversy is an essential prerequisite of debate" (Freeley & Steinberg 2005: 43) and that the controversy must be minutely understood
If a person does not understand the two different sides prior to beginning the debate they may have some difficulties convincing people that they are in the right. It is a fact that, "asserting something to be true is no guarantee that what is being asserted is true" (Holowchak 2004:22)
While the debate is going, since it is sometimes difficult to recall the specific details of the original proposition, a restatement of the topic may be necessary. "At its simplest, restatement involves nothing more that repeating the main idea" (Kane 1988: 81)
Thinking of a political debate, politicians need to understand that they can trust the others on their team to agree with the basic premise that is being proposed. Without some trust in the people who will be forwarding the argument, it will break down (Kee 2006: 13)
The structure is then completed when someone summarizes the position. "A summary speaker has been compared to 'a biased news reporter', going over the various arguments that have already been made but implying that your side has won them all" (Sather 1999: 9)