Chap 1

Communication skills

• are not as important as technical skills for career success.

• are not necessary in today's competitive job market.

• are ranked by recruiters at the top of qualities they most desire in job seekers.

• cannot be learned; they are innate.

2. Which of the following statements is most accurate?

• Because today's workers are more geographically dispersed, the need for well-written messages has declined.

• Employers rank oral and written communication skills as less valuable than hard skills such as mathematical computation, computer literacy, and troubleshooting.

• Communication skills are critical to your job placement, performance, career advancement, and organizational success.

• Business letters and interoffice memoranda remain the top forms of business correspondence.

3. On the job you are more likely to be taken seriously and promoted if you

• look and sound professional.

• frame your degree or certificate and hang it on your office or cubicle wall.

• appear to be busy even when you're not really doing anything.

• attend office parties.

4. Communication is defined as "the transmission of information and meaning from one individual or group to another." The crucial element of this definition is

• transmission

• information.

• meaning.

• individual

5. Converting ideas into words or gestures to convey meaning is called

• feedback

• decoding

• encoding.

• nonverbal communication.

6. The communication process begins when the sender

• determines the appropriate communication channel.

• has an idea.

• encodes an idea into a message.

• plans for feedback.

7. Translating the message from its symbol form into meaning involves

• feedback.

• decoding.

• encoding

• nonverbal communication.

8. Which of the following statements about feedback is most accurate?

• Feedback is the verbal response from the receiver.

• Senders should provide as much information as they can to their receivers to show their intellectual capabilities.

• Paraphrasing a speaker's message is a waste of time.

• Feedback can include both nonverbal and verbal responses.

9. Communication noise

• includes anything that disrupts the transmission of a message.

• is also called feedback.

• describes only externally produced sounds.

• occurs only during the encoding process.

10. Many of us are poor listeners because

• the brain can process information at least three times as fast as people talk.

• we tend to "tune out" speakers whose ideas run counter to our own.

• we would rather talk than listen.

• All answer choices are correct.