Choose one of the following topics and elaborate on it using 200 words.

1) As a participant in the ongoing dialogue of organizational communication, explain the importance of studying theories.

2) What is meant by “all talk is partial, partisan, and problematic”?

3) What are the basic assumptions of the classical management theory? What is the underlying metaphor associated with this theory?

4) How does a horrific event like the Holocaust provide an example of the abuse of classical principles of organization?

5) What is meant by the term particularism, and how did the new system of bureaucracy try to protect employees from the practice of particularism? What are some of the factors that limit the true realization of this system?

6) What kinds of changes were happening during the Great Depression and World War II that influenced our understanding of organizations and led to the emergence of the human relations perspective?

7) What were the main conclusions of the Hawthorne studies? What were the implications on organizational views?

8) Explain the main differences between the human relations perspective and the human resources approach.

9) How does the role of dialogue differ within each approach? How is it problematic to balance the creativity and constraint of dialogue within these models?