Summary of Learning Outcomes
12.1 The Process of Managerial Communication
- Understand and describe the communication process.
The basic model of interpersonal communication consists of an encoded message, a decoded message, feedback, and noise. Noise refers to the distortions that inhibit message clarity.
12.2 Types of Communications in Organizations
- Know the types of communications that occur in organizations.
Interpersonal communication can be oral, written, or nonverbal. Body language refers to conveying messages to others through such techniques as facial expressions, posture, and eye movements.
12.3 Factors Affecting Communications and the Roles of Managers
- Understand how power, status, purpose, and interpersonal skills affect communications in organizations.
Interpersonal communication is influenced by social situations, perception, interaction involvement, and organizational design. Organizational communication can travel upward, downward, or horizontally. Each direction of information flow has specific challenges.
12.4 Managerial Communication and Corporate Reputation
- Describe how corporate reputations are defined by how an organization communicates to all of its stakeholders.
It is important for managers to understand what your organization stands for (identity), what others think your organization is (reputation), and the contributions individuals can make to the success of the business considering their organization’s existing reputation. It is also about confidence—the knowledge that one can speak and write well, listen with great skill as others speak, and both seek out and provide the feedback essential to creating, managing, or changing their organization’s reputation.
12.5 The Major Channels of Management Communication Are Talking, Listening, Reading, and Writing
- Describe the roles that managers perform in organizations.
There are special communication roles that can be identified. Managers may serve as gatekeepers, liaisons, or opinion leaders. They can also assume some combination of these roles. It is important to recognize that communication processes involve people in different functions and that all functions need to operate effectively to achieve organizational objectives.
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