craft

(noun)

The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

Related Terms

  • coordination
  • centralization

Examples of craft in the following topics:

  • Dynamically Crafting your Message

  • The Importance of Clarity in Professional Settings

    • Business communication may also refer to internal communication: a communications director will typically manage internal communication and craft messages sent to employees.
    • It is vital that internal communications are managed properly because a poorly crafted message could foster distrust or hostility among employees.
  • The paradox of skill

    • If it were, a surgeon would be simply a plumber employed to mend human pipes and valves; a lawyer simply a carpenter crafting together legal words and phrases into motions, wills or contracts; a teacher simply an actor skilled at presentation or lecturing.
    • While the surgeon must be extraordinarily skilled in the crafts of incision and suturing, while the lawyer must be adept at the craft of legal word-smithing, and the teacher a master of the practical arts of communication, such skills are not the essence of who they are as professionals, nor are they the be and end all of their practices.
  • Sales: the essential rim of the wheel

    • "Aid to Artisans (ATA), ( http://www.aidtoartisans.org ) an international nonprofit organization, is a recognized leader of economic development for the craft industry.
    • By linking artisans to new markets and buyers to culturally meaningful and innovative products, ATA provides needed economic opportunities to artisans while preserving the beauty of global handmade crafts. " (Aid to Artisans, "About Us," http://www.aidtoartisans.org)
  • The Reasoning of Specialization

    • This succeeds because we can work more efficiently if each of us specializes in the practice of a specific craft: I make all of the shoes; you grow all of the vegetables; she does all of the carpentry; etc.
  • Frederick Taylor

    • These include analysis; synthesis; logic; rationality; empiricism; work ethic; efficiency and elimination of waste; standardization of best practices; disdain for tradition preserved merely for its own sake or merely to protect the social status of particular workers with particular skill sets; the transformation of craft production into mass production; and knowledge transfer between workers and from workers into tools, processes, and documentation.
  • Creating Effective Messages

    • The solution is to craft well-written, attention-getting press releases and submit them to the right media outlets.
  • Benefits of Globalization

    • While one area may excel in producing the semiconductor for your phone, another area might excel in crafting your touch screen, and so on. 
  • Current approaches to job design

    • Key to effectively crafting a meaningful job for an employee is starting the thought process by looking at the values and strategy of the organization.
  • Social and Legal Considerations

    • When crafting advertising and marketing communications, businesses need to understand the legal ramifications of false advertising as well as the social implications that occur from intentionally misleading the public.
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