This training module is designed as a series of lessons aligned with the 63 multiple-choice questions from the Alaska Board Certification for Service of Legal Process exam. Each lesson provides real-world examples, context, and citations to Alaska statutes, court rules, or regulations for deeper legal grounding. The tone is professional…
State Statute Compensation California Penal Code § 4900-4906 $140 per day for each day of wrongful imprisonment Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, Chapter 103 $80,000 per year of wrongful imprisonment, plus $25,000 for each year spent on death row New York Court of Claims Act § 8-b $50,000 per…
“The creeping progress of artificial intelligence (AI) places the notion of the human in crisis. There are many things that AI already does better and more efficiently than humans, and it is increasingly easy to imagine a world in which machines are better diagnosticians than doctors; wittier than comedians; more…
Domain-Level Scales Honesty-Humility Persons with very high scores on the Honesty-Humility scale avoid manipulating others for personal gain, feel little temptation to break rules, are uninterested in lavish wealth and luxuries, and feel no special entitlement to elevated social status. Conversely, persons with very low scores on this scale will…
This lecture explores leadership from two intertwined perspectives, though addressed separately: Can leadership be purchased, or is it created through shared meaning? Organizational communication scholars and psychologists have developed varying interpretations of leadership. Psychological thought guided this inquiry for “many years” by framing leadership as stemming from charismatic traits inherent…
According to Miller, conflict contemplates “The interaction of interdependent people who perceive opposition of goals, aims, and values, and who see the other party as potentially interfering with the realization of these goals” (Miller & Barbour, 2020, p. 159). At the center of FCSA is a subsystem, the YESS school,…
Socialization is a lens communication scholars study organizational discourse through evidence of individual interactions during the process of “joining, participating in, and leaving organizations” (Kramer & Miller, 2014 p. 525 as cited in (Lamb, 2024). Generally, communication scholars view this process through the lens of assimilation, which concerns the “ongoing behavioral and…
Emotional approaches to the study of organizational communication seem to be of high value to scholarship concerned with communication dynamics within organizations. One specific connection, in approach and study, is the view of systems theorists and their unique approach to studying the presence of emotion within organizations. Miller (2020) offers…
We now turn to the application of power by organizations for the various reasons organizations apply power, further, from a feminist critique, the we examine the context of women as disciplined bodies and how organizational communications can be studied from that point of view. Finally, we will address the insight…
Introduction Through the cultural metaphor, we endeavor to see organizations through the cultural values they espouse. Investigators and scholars typically associate culture, through assessment, and approach. Prescriptive approaches descriptive approaches see the metaphor through different styles and types of evidence. In turn, we will address each and offer a baseline…
