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Message equivocality, media selection, and manager performance: Implications for information systems.

Similarly, the more cycles used, the less equivocality remains.

The theory addresses how organizations reduce equivocality, or uncertainty through a process of information collection, management and use.

The more restricted the medium's capacity, the less uncertainty and equivocality it is able to manage.

In these studies, the results showed that managers would employ "leaner" media for tasks of high equivocality.

In order to construct meaning from these messages in their environment, the organization must reduce equivocality and commit to an interpretation of the message.

For both of us the animality of the letter has become the primary and infinite equivocality that is the sign of the earth.

Selection - Upon analyzing the information the organization possesses, the selection stage includes evaluation of outstanding information necessary to further reduce equivocality.

Likewise, the frequent reports of unsuccessful multicommunicating episodes include a sense of high intensity, equivocality and theme confusion.

Several factors, including intensity, topic of conversation, equivocality, and the presence allocator themselves may help to determine the outcomes of an episode of multicommunicating.

Weick pays attention to questions of ambiguity and uncertainty in this sense-making, which is known as equivocality in organizational research that adopts information processing theory.

"A lot of people find Chaplin very disturbing as a character," says Mr. Kamin, "and one theory is that they don't like the equivocality.

Managers may want to communicate negative messages in person or via a richer media, even if the equivocality of the message is not high, to facilitate better relationships with subordinates.

A solution to support such needed organizational "equivocality" (Karl Weick, 1969) is to leave the problems vaguely defined, and to propose opportunistic, conventional and available actions.

The notion of equivocality is closely related to topic or theme of communication and is another key factor, which may help to determine the success of multicommunicating.

Media richness theorists focused on the objective dimensions of media richness and the need to match the degree of medium richness with the message equivocality for effective communication.

An inverse relationship exists between the number of rules established by the organization to reduce equivocality and the number of cycles necessary to reduce equivocality.

In dealing with the equivocality of the contentions in the respondent's affidavits, it was not permissible to base factual findings regarding such contentions on a mere weighing up of the probabilities.

Inefficient, superfluous and otherwise unnecessary information that do not contribute to the completion of the project or reduction of equivocality will most likely not be retained for future application of similar project.

The possibility for equivocality extends to episodes of multicommunicating, too, and could potentially be compounded if one has to switch their attention between media - or does not engage in rich-media conversations when necessary.

Media richness theory states that all communication channels possess certain characteristics that make them more or less rich, and one main purpose of choosing a communication medium is to reduce the equivocality of a message.

The problem was that the premises of his own theory required the answer to this question to remain always in abeyance, while his text enacts rather than resolves the equivocality of the choice which it sets up.

Weick defines organizing as, "the resolving of equivocality in an enacted environment by means of interlocked behaviors embedded in conditionally related process" and that, "human beings organize primarily to help them reduce the information uncertainty in their lives".

Richard L. Daft and Norman B. Macintosh, "A Tentative Exploration into the Amount and Equivocality of Information Processing in Organizational Work Units," Administrative Science Quarterly, 26 (1981): 207-224.

Media richness theory predicts that managers will choose the mode of communication based on matching the equivocality of the message to the richness of the medium, however, often other factors come into play, such as the resources available to the communicator.

Instead, Merleau-Ponty proposed an open dialectic which would concede Marxism's equivocalness, and give up the claim to the dialectical logic of History as a process of objective truth.

Merleau-Ponty's argument thus meant acknowledging a certain equivocalness in Marxist claims to truth, which could no longer claim exemption from critical examination, and led inevitably, therefore, to an early form of what, even then, was characterized as 'post-Marxism'.

The dialogue between Zarathustra and the Magician reveals pretty fully what it was that Nietzsche grew to loathe so intensely in Wagner,--viz., his pronounced histrionic tendencies, his dissembling powers, his inordinate vanity, his equivocalness, his falseness.

A day or two afterwards, chancing in the evening promenade on a gun deck to pass Billy, he offered a flying word of good-fellowship, as it were, which by its unexpectedness, and equivocalness under the circumstances so embarrassed Billy that he knew not how to respond to it, and let it go unnoticed.

Thus, after the Persian treatise Kalid-i bihisht (The Key of Paradise), where he takes up the theory of the equivocalness of being professed by his teacher Rajab Ali, he started to write an extremely complex Commentary on Forty Hadith, but he does not get beyond the twenty-eighth.