Exam 1: Developing Your Professional Presence

Actions,attire,grammar usage,and proofreading all affect the ________ of an employee.

Which of the following communication skills will make you more valuable to an employer because your skills in this area will help the organization save money AND make money?

________ refers to the principles you use to guide decision making,leading you to do the right thing.

What are the external circumstances that influence communication referred to?

Which communication model focuses on a single communication exchange in a linear path from a sender to a receiver?

Many organizations use social recruiting as a way to publicize jobs and search for employees.

A receiver decodes a message by ________.

Putting ideas into words,images,or actions takes place during which step in the communication process?

Explain the physiological barrier,language barrier,and psychological barrier of communication.Include examples of each.

As a sender,immediately after ________ your message,you will most likely ________.

Which of the following does an active listener do?

Which of the following is a complex process of encoding and decoding information,ideas,and feelings?

When a communicator develops a message that uses no more words than necessary to convey meaning,what type of writing practice is being used?

The process of ________ a message involves interpreting its words and actions and attaching meaning to them.

Which of the following refers to the individual person or people for whom a message is intended?

Most students believe they are best prepared in the area of critical and analytical thinking when they graduate from college.In which area do employers find students well prepared?

Cultural sensitivity only applies to international communication.

Which of the following concepts helps to explain why communication can fail?

Kaylin graduated from college in June.For the last three years she successfully ran a small part-time business while attending school.Her business arranged for the delivery of personalized birthday cakes and other gifts to students in her school.Since many of these students were from different states or countries,this service provided a way for their family and friends back home to celebrate the occasion.Kaylin used social media like Facebook and Twitter to remind potential customers of upcoming birthdays and other gift-giving occasions,like holidays or campus events (care package for mid-term exams,picnic packs to celebrate the arrival of spring after a snowy winter,etc. ).Describe some of the communication issues that Kaylin might have faced while running her college business.

Based on a report issued by American Express and Millennial Branding,which of the following is often cited by managers as a negative attribute of young workers?