Exam 6: Managing Communication and Information Technology IT

In choosing a communication medium,managers should consider:

Management information systems (MIS)are electronic systems of interconnected components designed to collect,process,store,and disseminate information to facilitate management decision making,planning,and control.

Programs for word processing,spreadsheets,graphics,and database management which are developed for a specific task are called operating system software.

The most common arrangement now emerging is a three-tier network consisting of clients,servers,and a mainframe situated externally in the cloud.

Information systems have no limitations.

Information richness is lost if electronic communication is not followed up with face-to-face communication.

Which of the following communication networks is generally used among work groups and teams who may collaborate using file sharing and reply-all email?

A manager who is a member of a self-managed team calls his office in Vancouver when he is at a conference in Halifax to retrieve his phone messages by himself without going through his secretary so that he can respond to messages from the other members of his team while he is out of the office.What communication medium is this manager using?

Which of the following communication networks symbolizes either formal horizontal or lateral communication among people at the same level of the organization or formal top-down or bottom-up vertical networks?

In the communication process,when the receiver attempts to interpret the message,this is known as:

All of the following are considered important elements of a social media strategy,except:

Stereotypes are simplified and often inaccurate beliefs about the characteristics of particular groups of people but do not interfere with encoding and decoding messages.

Email overload has the following characteristics,except:

The intuitive thinker has "big picture" thinking.

Applications software include all of the following,except:

There are five dominant communication styles.

Which of the following is an important element of a social media strategy?

The effectiveness of a social media strategy comes from constantly pushing products or promotions.