Essentials of Business Communication (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337386494
Author: Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 12, Problem 12.6AAC
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To Determine: How oral communication is important in the professional field.
Introduction/Case Summary (Question Specific): In the field of Project Management oral communication is taking a major place since this field is all about communicating with customers, vendors, sponsors and so on. Delivering the right message at the right time will be important when it comes to these professions.
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Textbook: Organizational Communication: Approaches and Processes By: Katherine Miller
Chapter 13
1. Use key terms/concepts from the textbook to engage similarities with Medtronic.
Asynchronous communication Task ambiguity
Memory, storage, and retrieval features Media richness
Filtering of social cues Channel expansion theory dual
Critical mass Dual capacity model
Media richness model Media synchronicity theory
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Distributed work Telework
Flextime Virtual organization
Utopians Luddites
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