Week 2: Communication Processes, Principles and Ethics

Communication

(came from the Latin term, ‘communicare’ which means to share) is the act of conveying meaning meaning to a person or group of people using a mutually understood symbols, gestures, behaviors and semiotic rules.

Communication

It plays a significant role in a day to day basis since it is used to persuade, inform, entertain and motivate. Knowing your audience and understanding how they need to recieve information is equally important as knowing ourselves.

Communication

The goal of this is to transmit information and the understanding information - this is done from one person or group to another person or group.

A sender conveys a message through a channel to the reciever.

What is the communication process divided into?

Sender, Messages, Transmission, Recipient, Reciever

What is the correct order of the communication process?

Encoding

Developing a message is known as?

Decoding

Interpreting the message is referred to as?

Feedback cycle

When two people interact, communication is rarely one-way only because its 2 way. When a person recieves a message, she responds to it by giving a reply. Otherwise, the sender can’t know whether the other parties properly interpreted the message or how they reacted to it. Thus this cycle is called?

Communication

It is clearly defined as sending and recieving messages.

Communication Process

In this process, there must be a sender who sends the message and a listener who listens or recieaves the message.

Acquired skill

Communication is an ______ or something that you can learn about as you go through the process of development. But not everyone is skilled knowing that there are some factors that affect s the development of one’s individual.

Principles of communication.

To attain such an effective communication, it is important to know the ___________?

Principle of Clarity

What principle of communication is the following:

• The thought or idea that needs to be communicated should be spelled properly.

• The word should be arranged so that the reciever understands the same word that the sender conveys.

• Pronounciation should be clear as possible, including the enunciation (the act of pronouncing words clearly and distinctly, ensuring every syllable and consonant is fully articulated.) to avoid misconception

Principle of Attention

What principle of communication is the following:

• Attention is very important in communication. One should pay attention to every single detail in communicating.

• To understand what the sender means, the recieaver should be drawn towards the message by

  • paying attention to the emotion,

  • behaviour,

  • manner,

  • and gestures to respond properly to the message.

Principles of Feedback

What Principle of communication ios the following:

Feedback signifies that communication is effective. Therefore, it is important to provide feedback once communication takes place.

Principle of informality

What Principle of communication is the following:

• There are major distinctions between formal and informal communication. To emphasize, there are times that formal communication may not accomplish and desire results, hence informal communication can be handy sometimes.

• Thus, informal communication can be effective and efficient in some situations

• It is valid to convey a message informally because it is as important as formal communication

• Hence, we should adapt to whoever is the reciever so that they may understand the message properly.

Principle of Consistency

What Principle of communication is the following:

• Consistency always matters in communication. To achieve consistent results, one must be consistent in the way they communicate.

• It contributes to the reputation of both sender and reciever and strengthens a relationship.

• It is crucial to have consistency in communication to avoid mixed messages

Principle of Timeliness

What Principle of communication is the following:

• This principle states that communication should be done at an accurate time as much possible.

• To attain this principle, the sender who conveys the message should take safety measures when delivering the message

• Timing is very important; when the reciever is not ready to accept or hear the message, it is not the right time to convey it.

Principles of Adequacy

What Principle of communication is the following:

• This principle is important in communication. An inadequate message creates confusion to the reciever, but an adequate message build rapport with both parties.

• So it is important to deliver adequate message at all times in all respect.

Ethics

It is the moral system or judgement of what is right from wrong and refers to the values, conduct, manners, and behaviour with respect to the rightness and wrongness of an action.

Communication Ethics

If ethics is used in communication, we then define this as the governing principles of communication that have to do with the rightness and wrongness as well as appropriateness relevant to the dimension of communication.

Ethical Communication

It advocates truthfulness, accuracy, honesty and endorses freedom of expression with its diversity of perspective that leads to the respect of other communicators before evaluating and responding to their messages

Connected

Communication and globalization are usually ________ with each other.

Communication

What plays an important part in attaining globalization?

Globalization

It is the process by which people in the world are unified and act as one society; in order to have this a person has to know a universal language - most cases which is english.

Globalization and Intercultural communication.

State which of the following are two things that impacted the types of communication skills needed in dramatic ways.

Cultural differences

In a global environment, communicating effectively can be achallnge. Even if both persons speak the same language, there still can be a misunderstanding because of their ________?

differences

Research on cross-cultural communication often focuses on understanding how individual ______ influence our ability to communicate with others.

Cross-cultural/intercultural communication

This is one of the factors that contribute and hinder communication in achieaving globaliztion. This is why it is important to know the purpose of communication, in that way one can develop their skilles in communicating with people with different cultures and languages. what is this factor?