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Question 51

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What effect do public web sites dedicated to company gossip have on the corporate grapevine?

A) These web sites have almost completely replaced the corporate grapevine.
B) These web sites extend grapevine information to anyone, not just employees connected to social networks.
C) These web sites allow corporate leaders to control the corporate grapevine.
D) These web sites do all of these things.
E) These web sites have no effect on the corporate grapevine.

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The organizational grapevine is usually transmitted:

A) to everyone in the organization.
B) downward rather than upward through the organization.
C) by most employees who receive the information.
D) from management to non-management employees.
E) from a small number of senders to a larger number of receivers.

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A problem with email is that:

The metaphor used to explain the communication process model is that information is like fruit on a tree that needs to be carefully picked.

Corporate leaders should use the grapevine to send messages to employees further down the organizational hierarchy.

Which of the following communication media tends to be best for transmitting emotions and persuading the receiver?

The CEO of Bear Securities Ltd.is concerned that investment analysts and brokers at Bear Securities are using too much jargon to communicate with each other and with clients.The CEO believes that the use of jargon will result in costly communication errors and may intimidate clients.Discuss the accuracy of the CEO's concerns.

Ambiguous language is sometimes necessary to describe situations or concepts that are ill-defined or lack agreement between sender and receiver.

Which communication medium is a poor choice to convey ambiguous,complex,or novel situations?

One advantage of email is that it is very easy to interpret the emotional tone of the sender's message.

Media richness refers to the financial cost of using the medium relative to its frequency of use in the organization.

The social presence effect occurs when the sender and receiver are sensitized to their relative status during the communication process.

The three components of listening are encoding,decoding and interpreting.

In a business meeting where both men and women are present,women are more likely than men to:

You work at an advertising firm where a senior executive has suggested that advertising staff should rely more on email to communicate with clients rather than frequently visiting them in person.The executive has even suggested that this proposal might increase creativity because clients could communicate their ideas to staff members more often than through personal visits.The reason for this recommendation is that it is expensive and time-consuming to visit clients.Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this idea (using email rather than personal visits to interact with clients).Be sure that your answer considers emotional contagion,media richness and other factors related to these two communication channels.

A communication channel with high media richness should be used in routine situations where the sender and receiver have common understanding and expectations.

Empathy is explicitly identified in:

Metaphors and other types of ambiguous language are useful when:

A major engineering firm has introduced virtual teams around the globe to resolve client emergencies.Although some of these emergencies are routine (they occur often enough that the engineers have ready-made action plans),several are novel.Furthermore,information about the client emergencies often comes second-hand from employees of the client,so some of the details are missing or ambiguous.Although the company plans to eventually offer a variety of communication media that these virtual teams can use,engineers are currently limited to email,telephone,fax machine,and an instant messaging program that was recently introduced.Based on your knowledge of media richness,how can this engineering firm maximize communication effectiveness with the existing resources in this situation? Your answer should briefly define media richness.

Email is usually developed and sent so quickly that it increases the risk of transmitting an emotionally charged message before the sender has time to reconsider sending the message.