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| the sharing of information between two or more individuals or groups to reach a common understanding |
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| Functions of Communication |
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Providing Knowledge
Expressing Feelings
Controlling and Coordinating Group Activities
Motivating Organizational Members |
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Sender
Receiver
Message
Encoding
Medium
Decoding
Feedback |
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| specialized language or terminology within a group |
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| written or spoken means of communicaiton |
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| means of communication other that written or spoken word |
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| anything that interferes with the communication process |
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| a sender's withholding part of a message because the sender thinks the receiver does not need or will not want to receive the information |
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| Barriers to Effective Communication |
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Noise
Filtering
Information Distortion
Poor Listening Skills
Poor Feedback
Rumors
Grapevine
Linguistic Style |
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| the change in meaning that occurs when a message travels through a series of different senders to a receiver |
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| unofficial information on topics that are important or interesting to an organization's members |
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| a set of informational communication pathways through which unofficial information flows |
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| a person's characteristic way of speaking |
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| the amount of information a medium of communication can carry and the extent to which it enables senders and receivers to reach a common understanding |
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| a company-wide computer network |
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| the attempt by one person or group to transmit and share information with another person or group to get the other to accept, agree with, follow, and seek to achieve the former's goals and objectives |
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| a person willing to stand up and question the beliefs of more powerful people that a planned course of action is flawed |
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| the use of space in communicating |
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