Exam 9: Interpersonal Communication in Organizations: Part A

Face-to-face dialogue or videoconferencing are appropriate mediums for difficult and pressing problems that are characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity.

Communication through the use of color is chromatics.

Communication through the use of time is chromatics.

When the sender is satisfied that he/she has fully and completely relayed a message,accurate interpersonal communication is said to have occurred.

A person's verbal and nonverbal communication patterns that have become habits are called language attributes.

Semantics is the special meaning assigned to feelings.

In a gossip chain,messages move through the grapevine by one person telling a rumor to the next,who then tells the next person,who tells the next and so on.

Assertive communication means confidently expressing what you think,feel,and believe as the only reasonable point of view.

Instant and text messaging have the advantage of being more "real time" than e-mail.

Email is different from live conversation in two important ways: First,you cannot modify the content of a message based on the nonverbal reaction of the other party.Second,you can not tell if the other party received the message.

The most common form of informal group network is email.

The receiver's response to the message is decoding,which lets the sender know whether the message was received as intended.

The use of feedback is extremely important when accuracy in interpersonal communication is crucial.

In the PERCEIVE framework,relative orientation is the term for considering types of personal nonverbal cues that reflects the degree to which individuals face one another.

Low adjustment,low sociability,and low conscientiousness are most appropriately considered personality-based barriers as challenges to effective interpersonal communication.

In discussing communication networks,the focus is on whether the receiver properly interpreted the message from the sender.

When accuracy in interpersonal communication is crucial,the use of feedback should be delayed until a later time.

Communication openness is defined as being open,candid,and nondefensive.

Media richness is the media's capacity of a communication approach to transmit cues and provide feedback.

Individual feedback is any information that individuals communicate (verbally or nonverbally)about themselves to others.