You Have Been Excelling in Your Position and Gaining a Good

question 16

Essay

You have been excelling in your position and gaining a good deal of attention from your managers and coworkers. While your managers are praising your work, your coworkers are making fun of you and calling you a brownnoser. Because you do not like being made fun of, you start to reduce your efforts. What role has communication played in the changes to your behavior?

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Definitions:

Discriminant Validity

The degree to which a measurement tool is not correlated with variables from which it should theoretically differ.

Significant Correlations

Statistical relationships between two variables where the association is strong enough to not likely be due to chance.

Constructs

Abstract concepts or theoretical entities that are devised to explain patterns in research, such as intelligence, motivation, or happiness, which are not directly observable.

Interrater Agreement

The level of consistency among different observers or raters in the assessment or evaluation of the same phenomenon.