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The Cultural Metaphor – Organizations as Cultures

Introduction Through the cultural metaphor, we endeavor to see organizations through the cultural values they espouse. Investigators and scholars typically associate culture, through assessment, and approach. Prescriptive approaches descriptive approaches see the metaphor through different styles and types of evidence. In turn, we will address each and offer a baseline…

HEXACO – Observer Reports

The HEXACO Personality Inventory includes an Observer Report Form alongside the traditional Self-Report Form, allowing for a comprehensive assessment of an individual’s personality from an external perspective.

HEXACO Factor Representations

The HEXACO model of personality structure is a comprehensive framework for assessing human personality. It is based on six major dimensions of personality, each representing a broad range of behaviors and tendencies. The acronym HEXACO stands for the six domains it measures: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness (versus Anger), Conscientiousness, and…

Social Exchange Theory, Dialectical Theory, and Communication Privacy Theory

Introduction Scholars of communication disciplines endeavor to explain messages between two interdependent people and defines interpersonal communication. This process focuses on how messages are offered to “initiate, define, maintain, or further a relationship” (Dainton & Zelley, 2019, p. 77). Four overarching theoretical constructs seem to reign supreme within the interpersonal…

Psychologically based theoretical perspectives on conflict interactions

In our facilitated examination of applied psychodynamics within the conflict interaction landscape, we are examined based on analysis and applied theory of three unique psychologically based theoretical constructs: psychodynamic theory, emotion-based or verbal aggressiveness theory, social cognition, or attribution theory. Our lecturer’s companion text outlines a series of events captured…

Mediating Conflict: An Integrative Approach

Mediating application and knowledge, conflict management practitioners need to be well educated in conflict interaction styles, approaches, theories, themes, and leanings, then formulate an opinion as to why, with the various strategies for managing conflict, as discussed in our companion study, are ineffective. While the suggestivity of the proficiency requirement…

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