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Excellence In Business Communication 6th Canadian Edition John Thill, Courtland Bovee, Wendy Keller, K. M. Moran - Solutions
4. As a manager, how can you impress on your employees the importance of including both negative and positive information in messages?
5. Ethical Choices Because of your excellent communication skills, your supervisor always asks you to write his reports for him. When you overhear the CEO complimenting him on his logical organization and clear writing style, he responds as if he’d written all those reports himself. What kind of
6. Search for the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy website and examine its resources section. How can these tools be used to help an organization create an ethical corporate culture? What can an individual employee do to influence a corporate culture that adopts ethical practices?
1 Explain the advantages and disadvantages of working in teams, including the characteristics of high-performing teams
2 Explain how group dynamics can affect team effectiveness
3 Outline an effective approach to team communication
4 Explain the benefits of collaboration technologies
5 Describe the key steps needed to ensure productive meetings
6 Describe the listening process, and explain how good listeners use active listening to overcome barriers at each stage of the process
7 Clarify the importance of nonverbal communication, and list six categories of nonverbal expression
1. What are three ways in which an organization’s decision making can benefit from teams?
2. What are the main activities that make up the listening process?
3. What questions should an effective agenda answer?
4. How do self-oriented team roles differ from teammaintenance roles and task-facilitating roles?
5. What is groupthink? How can it affect an organization?
2. Under what circumstances might you want to limit the feedback you receive from an audience of readers or listeners?Explain.
1. Why do you think good communication in an organization improves employees’ attitudes and performance? Explain.
2 Identify eight communication skills that successful employers expect from their employees
3 Describe the five characteristics of effective business communication
4 Discuss six factors that make business communication unique
5 Describe five strategies for communicating more effectively on the job
6 Explain five strategies for using communication technology successfully
7 Discuss the importance of ethics in business communication, and differentiate between an ethical dilemma and an ethical lapse
1. Define stakeholders and explain why they are important.
2. How is globalization changing communication in the workplace?
3. How does effective communication help employees interact with customers and colleagues in this age of technology?
4. How does internal communication differ from external communication?
5. In what directions can information travel within an organization’s formal hierarchy?
6. What is the grapevine? Why should managers know how it works?
7. In which of the eight steps of the communication process do messages get encoded and decoded?
8. Why should communicators take an audience-centred approach to communication?
9. How does corporate culture affect the communication climate within an organization?
10. Define ethics. Explain the ethical responsibilities of communicators.
6. How can team members successfully resolve conflict?
7. How does content listening differ from critical listening and empathic listening?
8. What are the benefits of wikis and web-based meeting systems as meeting technologies?
5. What is ethnocentrism? How can it be overcome in communication?
6. Why is it a good idea to avoid slang and idioms when addressing a multicultural audience?
7. When should you use interpreters and translators?
8. What are some ways to improve oral and listening skills when communicating with people of other cultures?
9. What are some ways to improve writing skills when communicating with people of other cultures?
10. What is the purpose of back-translation when preparing a message in another language?
1. Does a company that has no business dealings outside Canada need to concern itself with intercultural communication issues? Explain your answer.
2. What are some intercultural communication issues to consider when deciding whether to accept an overseas job with a firm whose headquarters are in your own country?A job in your own country with a local branch of a foreign-owned firm? Explain.
4. Why is it important to understand your own culture when attempting to communicate with people from other cultures?
1 Describe the three-step writing process
2 Explain why it’s important to define your purpose carefully, and ask four questions that can help you test that purpose
3 Describe the importance of analyzing your audience, and identify the six factors you should consider when developing an audience profile
4 Discuss gathering information for simple messages, and identify three attributes of quality information
5 List factors to consider when choosing the most appropriate medium for your message
4. In addition to contextual differences, what other categories of cultural differences exist?
3. How do high-context cultures differ from low-context cultures?
9. How is nonverbal communication limited?
10. What is the purpose of using parliamentary procedure?
2. Your boss frequently asks for feedback from you and her other subordinates, but she blasts anyone who offers criticism, which causes people to agree with everything she says. You want to talk to her about it, but what should you say? List some of the points you want to make when you discuss this
3. Is conflict in a team good or bad? Explain your answer.
4. At your last department meeting, three people monopolized the entire discussion. What might you do at the next meeting to encourage other department members to participate voluntarily?
5. You have been invited to a meeting to provide an update on one of your projects. You did not receive an agenda, nor do you know anything about the attendees. What can you do to optimize your time and that of other attendees?
6. Ethical Choices Strange instant messages occasionally pop up on your computer screen during your team’s virtual meetings, followed quickly by embarrassed apologies from one of your colleagues in another city. You eventually figure out that this person is working from home, even though he says
1 Discuss the opportunities and challenges of intercultural communication
2 Define culture, and explain how culture is learned
3 Define ethnocentrism and stereotyping, and then give three suggestions for overcoming these limiting mindsets
4 Explain the importance of recognizing cultural variations, and list six categories of cultural differences
5 List seven recommendations for writing clearly in multilanguage business environments
6 Outline strategies for speaking and listening when communicating with people of other cultures
2. Why is cultural competency important?
6 Explain why good organization is important to both you and your audience
1. What are the three steps in the writing process?
10. When giving a negative review to an employee, what guidelines should you follow?
9. What are the characteristics of effective crisis communication?
8. What are the ethical considerations for delivering bad news?
7. What are the techniques for de-emphasizing bad news?
6. When using an indirect approach to announce a negative decision, what is the purpose of presenting your reasons before explaining the decision itself?
5. What is a buffer? Why do some critics consider it unethical?
4. What is the sequence of elements in a bad-news message organized using the indirect approach?
3. What are the advantages of using the direct approach to deliver bad news at the beginning of a message?
2. What are the main goals in delivering bad news?
1. Why is it particularly important to adapt your medium and tone to your audience’s needs and preferences when writing a bad-news message?
6 Describe successful strategies for sending negative employment-related messages
1. Why is it important to end negative messages on a positive note, whenever possible?
7 Identify steps you can take to avoid ethical lapses in marketing and sales messages
6 Explain how to modify your approach when writing promotional messages for social media
5 Explain why it is important to identify potential objections before you start writing persuasive messages
4 Distinguish between emotional and logical appeals, and discuss how to balance them
3 Describe the AIDA model for persuasive messages
2 Identify seven ways to establish credibility in persuasive messages
1 Apply the three-step writing process to persuasive messages
6. Ethical Choices Is intentionally de-emphasizing bad news the same as distorting graphs and charts to deemphasize unfavourable data? Why or why not?
5. Why is choice of medium important when delivering performance reviews?
4. How do social networks make the practices of requesting and granting or denying recommendations both easier and more difficult?
3. If your purpose is to convey bad news, such as refusing a request, should you take the time to suggest alternatives to your reader? Why or why not?
5 List the important points to consider when conveying negative organizational news
4 Explain the importance of maintaining high standards of ethics and etiquette when delivering negative messages
2. When is a request routine?
1. What is an effective strategy for writing a routine request?
5 Describe the importance of goodwill messages and explain how to make them effective
4 Explain how creating informative messages differs from responding to information requests
3 Discuss the importance of knowing who is responsible when granting claims and requests for adjustment
2 Describe an effective strategy for writing routine replies and positive messages
1 Outline an effective strategy for writing routine requests
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