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G5: Communication in workplace Flashcards

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refers to all the ways a company and
its representatives communicate.

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Organizational Communication

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  • How subordinates communicate to superiors or someone of higher rank.
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Upward Communication

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  • It is used to limit the number of people communicating directly with the top executive.
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Serial Communication

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bad news and complaints are seldom relayed

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MUM (minimize unpleasant messages effect

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  • Usually, an external consultant conducts an annual survey where employees are asked to rate their views on different factors regarding the work/workplace.
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Attitude Surveys

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  • A meeting between an outside consultant and current employees to gather opinions and/or suggestions.
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Focus Groups

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An interview with a departing employee.

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Exit Interviews

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  • Allows employees to communicate their thoughts with a sense of anonymity.
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Suggestion Boxes

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  • Having third-party individuals (e.g., liaison or ombudsperson) who handle employee complaints and suggestions and then collaborate directly with management to resolve issues.
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Third-Party, Facilitators

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  • Communication of superiors to subordinates or management to employees.
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Downward Communication

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  • Its main use is to communicate non-work-related information.
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Bulletin Boards

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  • The place for posting important changes in policy or procedure.
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Policy Manuals

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  • Designed to boost employee morale.
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Newsletters

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  • Organization-wide versions of the Internet.
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Intranets

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  • Sharing business information among staff, managers, and customers.
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Business Communication

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  • One of the most common methods and has the advantage of providing detailed information quickly to many people.
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Memos or Memorandum

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  • Connects one caller to another.
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Telephone Calls

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  • Are primarily used to ask questions and exchange general and/or timely information.
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Email and Voicemail

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Is transmitted through the grapevine. Communication is
often distorted.

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Informal Communication

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  • Primarily focuses on individuals.
  • The content lacks significance to those gossiping.
  • Serves to entertain and provide social information.
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Gossip

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  • Can be about individuals or other topics.
  • Contains information significant to the lives of those communicating it.
  • Serves the function of helping to make sense of ambiguous
    information and of helping manage potential threats
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rumor

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  • Employee 1 (Uno passes a message to E2 who passes it to E3, and so on. Either received by everyone or the
    “chain breaks”
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Single Strand Grapevine

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  • Uno passes the message to only a selected number of people.
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Gossip Grapevine

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  • Uno tells a selected number of employees, who will tell a few selected others.
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Cluster Grapevine

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  • Uno shares the message with a few employees, who then pass it on randomly to other employees.
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Probability Grapevine

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: received less than half of the information.

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Isolates

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: both received most of the information and passed it on to others

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Liaisons

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: heard most of the information but seldom passed it

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Dead-enders

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  • Involves the exchanging of a message across a communication channel from one person to another.
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Interpersonal Communication

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  • Information can be communicated in a variety of ways, such as orally, nonverbally, through a second party, or through a written medium such as a letter or memo.
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Communication Channel

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  • Is the interference that affects proper reception of a message.
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Noise

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  • Our words often say one thing, but our actions say another.
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Nonverbal cues

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(How we move and position our body)

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Body Language

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(Also provides nonverbal cues about their feelings and personality.

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Use of Space

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punctuality and tardiness

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Use of Time

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  • the way we say things and consists of variables such as tone, tempo, volume, number and duration of pauses, and rate of speech.
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Paralanguage

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  • Is concern on the objects that a person wears or with which they surround themselves.
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Artifacts

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  • When a message contains more information than we can hold in memory, the information becomes leveled, sharpened, and assimilated.
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Amount of Information

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• (Ignored everything and is focused on one task)

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Omission

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• (Attempts to deal with every message she receives)

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Error

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• (Placing the work into a queue, or waiting line)

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Queuing

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• (Withdraws or runs away)

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Escape

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  • The meaning of a message can change depending on the way in which the receiver interprets the message.
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Message Received VS Message Interpreted

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allows only the most important to go through

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Use of a Gatekeeper

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an organization reduces the amount of communication going to one person by directing some of it to another

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Use of Multiple Channels

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  • listen only for words that indicate pleasure.
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Leisure Listening

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  • listens for the main ideas behind any communication.
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Inclusive Listening

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  • listens to the way the communication is presented.
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Stylistic Listening

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  • hears and retains large amounts of details, but does not hear the meaning of those details.
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Technical Listening

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  • hears tunes into the feelings of the speaker and most likely pays attention to nonverbal cues.
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Empathetic Listening

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  • attends only to information that is consistent with her way of thinking.
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Nonconforming Listening

52
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(emotions gets in the way of communication.)

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Emotional State

53
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the way in which a received
message is interpreted)

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Cognitive Ability

54
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we only process pieces of information that are consistent with our opinion

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Bias

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