1.Think of the role you have played as a member of an organization. Analyze yourself and the role you played in that organization in terms of the four communication competency components.

2.Using a meaning-centered approach, to what extent do you think it would be ethical to deliberately change an organization’s culture and/or climate? Why or why not? Justify your choice.

3.Compare Clegg’s characteristics of post-modern workers in organizations with traditional ideas of task specialization, mass consumption, and bureaucracy.

4.Describe the ideal organizational member, in terms of intrapersonal attitudes, and interpersonal and small group attitudes, behaviors and skills they should possess for a workplace in 2021? What would be the nature of the ideal supervisor? The ideal employee? The ideal peer?

5.What is a team-based organization?  Why do you think the move to team-based structures is one of the fastest growing contemporary trends? What domestic and global shifts have impacted team-based organizations?  In framing your answer, consider organizational goals, roles, relationships, and processes.