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Communication Efficacy Using Technology Within Virtual Teams, Jeremy Daros Ma
Communication Efficacy Using Technology Within Virtual Teams, Jeremy Daros Ma
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Technology has given businesses the flexibility to allow employees to collaborate beyond the limitations of geography. Today’s businesses are taking advantage of collaborative teams that are separated by distance, but work together as if they are in the same room.
Virtual Team Interactions: Do They Help Or Hinder Interpersonal Communication?, Lorna Puiia Ma
Virtual Team Interactions: Do They Help Or Hinder Interpersonal Communication?, Lorna Puiia Ma
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A lack of trust, communication breakdowns, or badly integrated team members are a few of the reasons why a team can fail. To address whether leader and team member perceptions of communication within the team are similar, this study explores interpersonal communications among leadership and team members and considers whether today’s technology helps or hinders successful knowledge sharing and relationship building within virtual teams.
The Anti-Social Phone, Eric Rollins
The Anti-Social Phone, Eric Rollins
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After becoming aware of America's overuse of smartphones, through a mission trip to Togo, I became interested in the effect of smartphones on American communication. I performed a literature review in order to understand the detrimental effects of smartphones. I conducted informal interviews in order to substantiate the claims made in the research I reviewed. Although smartphones have been known to bring out the worst in people, they are by no means a detriment to society. In fact they are paradigm shifting, for they afford us possibilities to communicate in ways never before possible. However, smartphones can be quite disruptive, …
Leadership Development For Pro-Environmental Behavior Utilizing Peer To Peer Communication And Learning: An Academic Pilot Project, Mark Wayne Carrera Ma
Leadership Development For Pro-Environmental Behavior Utilizing Peer To Peer Communication And Learning: An Academic Pilot Project, Mark Wayne Carrera Ma
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There is a cultural perception that the onus of responsibility for shark conservation falls on the shoulders of environmental and scientific communities’ leaders. Given the diminutive size of these two communities when compared to the vastness of American society, responsibilities should be shared by leaders of educational organizations who can communicate with greater populations. The general public must be encouraged to act pro-environmentally for effective shark conservation to ever take place in the world.