Using the newly adopted IS 2002 Model Curriculum, this study investigates the expectations of sma... more Using the newly adopted IS 2002 Model Curriculum, this study investigates the expectations of small business employers about entry-level skills for Information Systems graduates. The results suggest that small business places the same emphasis on interpersonal, communication, and team skills and on analytical and critical thinking skills as do large businesses. However, unlike the Fortune 500 companies examined by earlier studies, small businesses rank business fundamentals higher than technology skills and business system development skills.
While most faculty and graduate students have opportunities to meet and begin networking at local... more While most faculty and graduate students have opportunities to meet and begin networking at local, regional, and national meetings and symposia, the same opportunities do not exist for most undergraduates. At least four needs of undergraduates might be served by developing dedicated listservers and encouraging students to begin using computer-mediated communication. These needs are: (1) practicing communication skills; (2) creating a sense of communal fellowship; (3) providing updated sources of information that will aid their scholastic and career endeavors; and (4) developing electronic peer networks that are gender-neutral. Listservers sponsored by student organizations, such as Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Honor Society, provide an inexpensive way for undergraduates to develop contacts around the country and begin networks that will provide future benefits. An analysis of the Lambda Pi Eta listserver suggests that it has at least made a small start toward meeting these needs. Areas for future growth of the listser-ver are a World Wide Web browser, a database of information about various graduate programs, and a database of current thinking about communication concepts and perspectives written by master scholars. (Contains nine references. Appendixes present information on subscribing to the Lambda Pi Eta listserver and data on usage frequencies of the listserver.) (RS)
An analysis of verbal behavior was undertaken to test principles of interpersonal deception theor... more An analysis of verbal behavior was undertaken to test principles of interpersonal deception theory (IDT). I t was predicted that language choice in deceptive messages would reflect strategic attempts to manage information through nonimmediate language. This linguistic profile, though, was expected to be altered in response to preinteractional factorsrelational and behavioral familiarity-and interactional factorsform of deception and receiver suspicion. Results from two investigations are reported: a secondary analysis on interactions in an earlier study and analysis of a primary experiment employing a 2 (relationship) x 2 (receiver expertise) x 2 (receiver suspicion) x 2 (truth/deception) within-subjects factorial design. As expected, senders displayed greater verbal nonimmediacy when deceiving. Expertise had a greater effect on linguistic behavior than a prior relationship with the receiver, with senders using more verbal nonimmediacy with novice receivers. Senders were more verbally nonimmediate when equivocating. Suspicion produced a mixed pattern of linguistic cues. The possibility that changes produced by preinteraction and interactional factors were strategic attempts to bolster credibility is discussed.
... of this contract depended greatly upon the work of several ý!ight, enthusiastic graduate rese... more ... of this contract depended greatly upon the work of several ý!ight, enthusiastic graduate research assistants, Including Walid Afift, Brooks Aylor ... Several researchers (eg, Bradac, 1983; Hopper & Bell, 1984; Turner, Edgley, & Olmnstead, 1975) have argued that it is necessary to ...
Using the newly adopted IS 2002 Model Curriculum, this study investigates the expectations of sma... more Using the newly adopted IS 2002 Model Curriculum, this study investigates the expectations of small business employers about entry-level skills for Information Systems graduates. The results suggest that small business places the same emphasis on interpersonal, communication, and team skills and on analytical and critical thinking skills as do large businesses. However, unlike the Fortune 500 companies examined by earlier studies, small businesses rank business fundamentals higher than technology skills and business system development skills.
While most faculty and graduate students have opportunities to meet and begin networking at local... more While most faculty and graduate students have opportunities to meet and begin networking at local, regional, and national meetings and symposia, the same opportunities do not exist for most undergraduates. At least four needs of undergraduates might be served by developing dedicated listservers and encouraging students to begin using computer-mediated communication. These needs are: (1) practicing communication skills; (2) creating a sense of communal fellowship; (3) providing updated sources of information that will aid their scholastic and career endeavors; and (4) developing electronic peer networks that are gender-neutral. Listservers sponsored by student organizations, such as Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Honor Society, provide an inexpensive way for undergraduates to develop contacts around the country and begin networks that will provide future benefits. An analysis of the Lambda Pi Eta listserver suggests that it has at least made a small start toward meeting these needs. Areas for future growth of the listser-ver are a World Wide Web browser, a database of information about various graduate programs, and a database of current thinking about communication concepts and perspectives written by master scholars. (Contains nine references. Appendixes present information on subscribing to the Lambda Pi Eta listserver and data on usage frequencies of the listserver.) (RS)
An analysis of verbal behavior was undertaken to test principles of interpersonal deception theor... more An analysis of verbal behavior was undertaken to test principles of interpersonal deception theory (IDT). I t was predicted that language choice in deceptive messages would reflect strategic attempts to manage information through nonimmediate language. This linguistic profile, though, was expected to be altered in response to preinteractional factorsrelational and behavioral familiarity-and interactional factorsform of deception and receiver suspicion. Results from two investigations are reported: a secondary analysis on interactions in an earlier study and analysis of a primary experiment employing a 2 (relationship) x 2 (receiver expertise) x 2 (receiver suspicion) x 2 (truth/deception) within-subjects factorial design. As expected, senders displayed greater verbal nonimmediacy when deceiving. Expertise had a greater effect on linguistic behavior than a prior relationship with the receiver, with senders using more verbal nonimmediacy with novice receivers. Senders were more verbally nonimmediate when equivocating. Suspicion produced a mixed pattern of linguistic cues. The possibility that changes produced by preinteraction and interactional factors were strategic attempts to bolster credibility is discussed.
... of this contract depended greatly upon the work of several ý!ight, enthusiastic graduate rese... more ... of this contract depended greatly upon the work of several ý!ight, enthusiastic graduate research assistants, Including Walid Afift, Brooks Aylor ... Several researchers (eg, Bradac, 1983; Hopper & Bell, 1984; Turner, Edgley, & Olmnstead, 1975) have argued that it is necessary to ...
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