WorksheetsCommunication Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What are the three basic jobs of managers as mentioned in the text?
To design products, to analyze data, and to implement technology solutions
To collect and convey information, to make decisions, and to promote interpersonal unity
To create reports, to conduct meetings, and to hire employees
To manage finances, to develop marketing strategies, and to handle customer complaints
According to Hamilton and Parker (1987), how do they define communication?
The process of sending and receiving messages
The process of making common to many and sharing
The process of people sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings with each other in commonly understandable ways
The process of transferring ideas from one person to another
What is the correct way of defining communication according to the text?
The process by which people attempt to share meaning for some purpose through the transmission of symbolic messages
The process of transferring ideas from one person to another
The process of people sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings with each other in commonly understandable ways
The process of sending and receiving messages
What is the first step in the communication process according to the text?
The message is transmitted
The idea becomes a message
The sender has an idea
The receiver gets the message
What is the role of feedback in the communication process?
Initiates the communication process by having an idea
Enables the sender to evaluate the effectiveness of the message and provides guidance for the next message
Transmits the message from sender to receiver
Decodes the message and interprets the exact meaning
What are some physical barriers to communication mentioned in the text?
Feedback, encoding, and decoding
Language, semantics, and jargon
Noise, time, and distance
Culture, background, and environment
What is the process of changing the raw idea from its mental form into symbols called?
Receiving
Encoding
Decoding
Transmitting
What is the carrier of the message such as written words or spoken words in the form of communication?
Channel
Medium
Sender
Receiver
What is the targeted audience of the message known as?
Sender
Decoder
Encoder
Receiver
What is the act of translating symbols of communication into their ordinary meanings called?
Transmitting
Encoding
Decoding
Receiving
What is the final link in the communication chain that enables the sender to evaluate the effectiveness of the message?
Decoding
Transmitting
Encoding
Feedback
What is the process the receiver goes through in trying to interpret the exact meaning of a message called?
Decoding
Encoding
Receiving
Transmitting
What are the various elements of communication briefly described in the text?
Channel selection, physical barriers, semantics, interpretations
Sender, message, medium, receiver, feedback
Noise, time, distance, semantics, interpretations
Denotations, connotations, euphemisms, bypassed instructions
What is the means used to convey the message such as written words or spoken words in the form of communication?
Receiver
Channel
Medium
Sender
What is the process of putting a message into the form in which it is to be communicated called?
Transmitting
Decoding
Encoding
Receiving
