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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Test Bank: Business Communication: A Problem-Solving Approach,
2nd Edition
Authors: Paula Lentz, Kathryn Rentz, Kristen Getchell
Part One: Communication in the World of Work
1. Solving Communication Problems in the Workplace
2. Getting Positive Responses to Your Communication
3. Communicating with Culturally Diverse Audiences
Part Two: Essential Components of Business Communication
4. Designing the Right Type of Message: From Letters to Social Media
5. Communicating Your Messages Visually
6. Crafting Effective Sentences and Paragraphs
Part Three: Structures and Strategies for Common Business Documents
7. Writing Good-News and Neutral Messages
8. Writing Bad-News Messages
9. Writing Persuasive Messages and Proposals
10. Researching and Writing Reports
11. Creating the Right Type of Report
Part Four: Strategies for Oral Communication and the Job Search
12. Delivering Business Presentations and Speeches
13. Using Interpersonal Communication Skills in Conversations and Meetings
14. Communicating in the Job Search
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Chapter 1 Solving Communication Problems in the Workplace
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1) Poor communication has a negative effect on career progression but has little effect on the
morale of employees.
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2) Researchers have found that poor communication often erodes customer loyalty.
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3) It is now more important for employees to have visual literacy than verbal literacy.
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4) Poor communication negatively affects big businesses, but not small businesses.
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5) The term social intelligence refers to the ability of people to quickly assess the emotions of
those around them and adapt their tone, words, and gestures accordingly.
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6) The ability to interact with data, see patterns in data, make data-based decisions, and use data
to design for desired outcomes is known as artificial intelligence.
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7) The widespread use of the internet has increased companies' attention to social responsibility.
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8) When two employees of a business communicate in order to complete a project, they are
engaging in internal-operational communication.
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9) Personal communication interferes with productivity and should be prohibited in the
workplace.
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⊚ false
10) The most formal structure of an organization is the traditional hierarchy.
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11) Darius, a CEO, sends an email to Anja, a project manager, asking for a progress update on
one of the company’s latest projects. This an example of external-operational
communication.
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⊚ false
12) The kind of communication a business does is independent of the nature of the business.
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⊚ false
13) It is much more difficult for outsiders to break into a multicultural organization than one that
is culturally homogenous.
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⊚ false
14) The workplace context is complex, often presenting a person with many ways to handle a
situation.
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