Week 7.2 Relational Dialectics

In Chapter 6 page 146 discusses relational dialectics and types of it like connection-autonomy,
openness-closeness, novelty-predictability, equality-inequality, instrumentality-affection and impartiality-favoritism.

The authors explained openness-closeness as the desire to allow information to be disclosed or free flowing versus the desire to maintain privacy. Sometimes at work we get requests for information that are very cryptic and raises a lot of questions in the minds of the team members. Recently, we are asked to provide the list of tasks we own and we work on regularly, describing our duties and responsibilities. This raised a lot of rumors in the team about a possible reorganization etc., The reason for this was when we were asked for such information last time there was a reorganization that followed it soon. To clear the issue after a week we asked the manager in the team meeting why he requested that information. The reason was so that he can enter the tasks in the new time sheet portal we have, he was planning to enter them so that we can enter time cards easily. If he mentioned this in the email when he requested information there would have been no unnecessary discussions about it. I think openness in communication is very important when there are chances for assumptions.