COM 229 QUIZ 1 WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% SOLVED
Which of the following is NOT a critical identifying feature of organizations?
a. social collectivity
b. embeddedness among other organizations
c. coordinating activity
d. multiple participants in the same location - ANSWER d. multiple participants in the
same location
The SMRC model of communication is unique from the transmission (aka the transactive)
model of communication because it...
a. utilizes multiple channels
b. involves a process of message encoding and decoding
c. does not involve message receivers
d. minimizes the role of feedback - ANSWER d. minimizes the role of feedback
Organizational communication scholars can address issues related to global warming by
a. getting organizations to focus on the social responsibility of going green rather than
its potential for profitability
b. finding ways for organization to avoid changing their practices
, c. helping local, state, national, and international agencies coordinate their activities to
cope with the human consequences of global warming
d. limiting an incomprehensible debate about the many different ways nations can work
together to influence climate change - ANSWER c. helping local, state, national, and
international agencies coordinate their activities to cope with the human consequences
of global warming
Contemporary organizational communication theory specifies that "formal
communication" within the organizational communication occurs when communicators
are professionally dressed (i.e., "business casual" or greater) within the confines of the
workspace or related organizational settings
a. true
b. false - ANSWER b. false
formal communication deals more with communication structures (e.g.,
upward/downward flowing communication, form of address) than attire or setting
Weber's notion of bureaucracy has six major facets. Which of the following is NOT one of
Weber's facets of bureaucracy?
a. a clearly defined hierarchy
b. clear divisions of labor
ANSWERS 100% SOLVED
Which of the following is NOT a critical identifying feature of organizations?
a. social collectivity
b. embeddedness among other organizations
c. coordinating activity
d. multiple participants in the same location - ANSWER d. multiple participants in the
same location
The SMRC model of communication is unique from the transmission (aka the transactive)
model of communication because it...
a. utilizes multiple channels
b. involves a process of message encoding and decoding
c. does not involve message receivers
d. minimizes the role of feedback - ANSWER d. minimizes the role of feedback
Organizational communication scholars can address issues related to global warming by
a. getting organizations to focus on the social responsibility of going green rather than
its potential for profitability
b. finding ways for organization to avoid changing their practices
, c. helping local, state, national, and international agencies coordinate their activities to
cope with the human consequences of global warming
d. limiting an incomprehensible debate about the many different ways nations can work
together to influence climate change - ANSWER c. helping local, state, national, and
international agencies coordinate their activities to cope with the human consequences
of global warming
Contemporary organizational communication theory specifies that "formal
communication" within the organizational communication occurs when communicators
are professionally dressed (i.e., "business casual" or greater) within the confines of the
workspace or related organizational settings
a. true
b. false - ANSWER b. false
formal communication deals more with communication structures (e.g.,
upward/downward flowing communication, form of address) than attire or setting
Weber's notion of bureaucracy has six major facets. Which of the following is NOT one of
Weber's facets of bureaucracy?
a. a clearly defined hierarchy
b. clear divisions of labor
