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A response is a reaction to equivocality.

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According to Weick, the fewer cycles that are used to obtain additional information and make adjustments, the more equivocality is removed.

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Weick proposes that members of an organization must work together in order to reduce the ambiguity of information. It is not the sole responsibility of one person.

Because OIT has stimulated a lot of scholarship on various organizational information issues, it is considered to have good __________ value.

Discuss the influence of General Systems Theory and Darwin's Theory of Evolution on the development of Organizational Information Theory. What other communication theory could be applied to explain how organizations reduce the ambiguity of information they receive?

You are interested in studying how a news organization deals with equivocal and sometimes contradictory information about events it needs to report to the public. How would you use Organizational Information Theory to study this phenomenon? Develop a hypothesis or research question, and describe your study.

Kendall's project team is reviewing the information that it received from other teams in the organization. They focus on assigning meaning and interpreting the information they have received in order to determine its level of equivocality. Which stage of the process of reducing equivocality is Kendall's team experiencing?

All of the following are principles that organizations use when dealing with equivocality, according to OIT, EXCEPT

According to Weick, if an organization has few rules to deal with equivocality, a greater number of cycles will be needed.

According to Weick, organizations and their environments change so rapidly that it is unrealistic to show what they are like now, because that's not the way they're going to be later.

According to Organizational Information Theory (OIT) , the cycle of communication behaviors includes three stages. Which of the following correctly lists the stages and the order in which they occur?

The information environment is identical to an organization's physical environment.

Describe the four rules that an organization might employ to reduce the equivocality of information. Provide an example of each.

Equivocality involves the process of engaging in complex communication behaviors in order to reduce the ambiguity of information.

Explain the relationship between the following concepts of Organizational Information Theory: information environment, information equivocality, rules, and cycles.

The theory that describes the influence of information that is received from an organization's external environments, as well as the interrelationship among various units in an organization, is

When an organization chooses to employ a plan of communication that has been proven effective in the past at reducing equivocality of information, _____ is the influential rule that is being applied.