There Are Competing Conclusions About the Nature of Listening Styles

question 14

Essay

There are competing conclusions about the nature of listening styles. Watson, Baker, and Weaver (1995) identify action-oriented, time-oriented, people-oriented, and content-oriented listening. Bodie, Worthington, and Gearhart (2010) identify task listening, critical listening, rational listening, and analytical listening. Answer the following questions using any above the eight styles: Which listening style or styles do you generally prefer and use when listening to others? Explain why you've chosen this particular style or styles. Which other listening style or styles would you like to develop and use more effectively? Explain why.

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Definitions:

Sample Proportion

The ratio of members in a sample that have a particular characteristic to the total number of members in the sample.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, especially of the mean.

Sample Mean

The average value calculated from a sample of observations from a larger population.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population, representing the square root of the variance.