WorksheetsB.Comm 1B
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which of the following is the most accurate description of the role that communication will play in your career?
Ideas matter more than anything, so as long as you are creative and have strong business sense, you can hire people to take care of communication tasks.
No matter what other skills, connections, and attributes you have, your prospects will be limited if you don't have good communication skills.
In today's tough business world, performance is the most important differentiator; everything else is a distant second.
As a "soft skill," communication is important in some careers, such as sales and human resources, but not in technical, financial, or administrative careers.
Effective business messages are
Entertaining, blunt, direct, opinionated, and persuasive
Practical, objective, concise, clear, and persuasive
Personal, clear, short, catchy, and challenging
Which of the following is not a skill employers will expect you to have?
Communicating effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and experiences
Using communication technologies effectively and efficiently
Managing your time wisely and using resources efficiently
Commanding employees to follow orders
An audience-centered approach to communication
Starts with the assumption that the audience is always right
Improves the effectiveness of communication by focusing on the information needs of the audience
Is generally a waste of time because it doesn't accommodate the needs of the sender
Always simplifies the tasks involved in planning and creating messages
Sensitivity to business etiquette
Reduces the chance of interpersonal blunders that might negatively affect communication
Is considered by most companies to be a waste of time in today's fast-paced markets
Is now legally required in all 50 states
Always increases the cost of business communication
Which of the following pairs of attributes best describes the social communication model?
Interactive and conversational
Technical and instantaneous
Electronic and print
Relaxed and unrestricted
For the receiver of a message to respond in the manner desired by the sender, the receiver needs to
Remember the message
Be able to respond to the message
Have the motivation to respond to the message
Do all of the above
Which of these is a potential disadvantage of the constant connectivity enabled by mobile communication devices?
Blurring the lines between personal and professional
Losing contact with key business markets around the
globe
Making unethical choices more tempting
Reducing employee access to corporate data
Ethical communication
Is the same thing as legal communication
Costs more because there are so many rules to consider
Is important only for companies that sell to consumers rather than to other businesses
Includes all relevant information, is true in every sense,
and is not deceptive in any way
An ethical (a) exists when a person is faced with two conflicting but ethical choices or alternatives that are neither entirely right nor entirely wrong
An ethical (a) occurs when a person makes an unethical
choice.
