Category: I

  • Informational approach

    A method of teaching concerned with the acquisition of health knowledge and its comprehension and with its application to the issues being explored.  

  • Information age

    A view of society that recognizes the increasing role of technology and resultant ease of communication and the sharing of information.  

  • Information

    Conclusions derived from data analysis. Facts about something. A term generally used to mean data which have somehow been “digested” (manipulated, summarized, organized, or interpreted) so that inferences may more readily be drawn and decisions made than from “raw” data. Data that are interpreted, organized, structured, and given meaning.    

  • Informal standard

    Within a particular culture, the expectations of most of the people as to how to behave without it being mandated in law or religion or by some other controlling body.  

  • Informal organizational communication

    Organizational communication that does not follow the lines of communication set forth on the organizational chart.  

  • Informal organization

    A loosely structured and loosely defined interaction pattern that tends to develop in formal organizations.  

  • Informal groups

    Groups that naturally develop in organizations as people interact.  

  • Informal education

    Learning experiences encountered in the course of daily life out of school, often with tutoring from others not explicitly trained to do so.  

  • Influencing subsystem

    A part of the overall system of management of an organization. The purpose of the desirable organization member behavior. The performs four major management activities: a. leading, b. motivating, c. considering groups, and d. communicating.  

  • Influencing

    The process of guiding an individual or a group of people toward a desired goal.