CMST 240 Test 1 Questions with Verified
Correct Answers
Ethics
often viewed as a set of values and beliefs that provide guidelines for behaviors and influence
judgments as to what is right or wrong.
Plagiarism
involves using the work of others and representing it as your own
Workforce diversity
An increasingly accepted feature of the business environment
Communication technologies
new technologies continue to enter the marketplace at an increasing rate.
1st - increase the speed of communication between people in organizations.
2nd - new technologies offer ways to access people in situations and locations previously
unimagined.
3rd - new technologies allow for almost immediate access to and sharing of information from
most any point on Earth.
4th - new communication technologies have the potential to make existing business models
obsolete.
Ethical credo
questions of right or wrong arise whenever people communicate. It is fundamental to
responsible thinking, decision making, and the development of realtionships and communities
with and across contexts, cultures, channels, and media.
, Global competition
products from different countries. increased dramatically
- require high-speed, accurate communication with customers and co-workers from a variety
of cultures.
Turbulent business
caused by technology (blockbuster, magazines) to meet the demands of a turbulent business
environment, communicators must possess the appropriate communication skills. It requires
business communicaters to scan or "read" the business environment so as to adapt their
messages to changing circumstances.
- flexibility and adaptiveness are keys
Intention
a difficult issue to resolve in definitions of communication
Source
speaker
Message
the speaker encodes a message that is considered the content of what he or she is attempting
to communicate.
Channel
the particular medium (face to face, televison) that is used by the speaker to convey the
message
Receivers
Correct Answers
Ethics
often viewed as a set of values and beliefs that provide guidelines for behaviors and influence
judgments as to what is right or wrong.
Plagiarism
involves using the work of others and representing it as your own
Workforce diversity
An increasingly accepted feature of the business environment
Communication technologies
new technologies continue to enter the marketplace at an increasing rate.
1st - increase the speed of communication between people in organizations.
2nd - new technologies offer ways to access people in situations and locations previously
unimagined.
3rd - new technologies allow for almost immediate access to and sharing of information from
most any point on Earth.
4th - new communication technologies have the potential to make existing business models
obsolete.
Ethical credo
questions of right or wrong arise whenever people communicate. It is fundamental to
responsible thinking, decision making, and the development of realtionships and communities
with and across contexts, cultures, channels, and media.
, Global competition
products from different countries. increased dramatically
- require high-speed, accurate communication with customers and co-workers from a variety
of cultures.
Turbulent business
caused by technology (blockbuster, magazines) to meet the demands of a turbulent business
environment, communicators must possess the appropriate communication skills. It requires
business communicaters to scan or "read" the business environment so as to adapt their
messages to changing circumstances.
- flexibility and adaptiveness are keys
Intention
a difficult issue to resolve in definitions of communication
Source
speaker
Message
the speaker encodes a message that is considered the content of what he or she is attempting
to communicate.
Channel
the particular medium (face to face, televison) that is used by the speaker to convey the
message
Receivers
