Communication and Collaboration Strategy

Communication and Collaboration Strategy

Collaboration requires communication, which is also nonverbal, experiential, and emotional, as suggested by (Wood, 2006). (Nooteboom, 2007) has enumerated several qualities characterizing collaborative communication processes that can be expected to be found in certain specifiable situations. As Johnson and Johnson point out, people may find themselves in situations of positive and negative interdependence and this will significantly determine the communication and interaction. Positive interdependence creates promotive interaction while negative interdependence tends to result in oppositional interaction; the former facilitates, the latter blocks, as (Wood, 2006) argues. Thaler sees promotive interaction as self-reinforcing in ...