ADM 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Interpersonal Communication, Spamming, Fax

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 1300
• Professor: Gerard Brathwaite- Sturgeon

Document Summary

Identify barriers to effective interpersonal communication and ways to overcome them. Explain how communication can flow most effectively in organizations. Discuss contemporary issues in communication: define the nature and function of communication. Communication - the transfer and understanding of meaning. communication involves the understanding of meaning. For communication to be successful, the meaning must be conveyed and understood. A letter written in portuguese addressed to a person who does not read. Portuguese cannot be considered communication until it"s translated into a language the person does read and understand. Chapter 12 managers and communication1: compare and contrast methods of interpersonal communication. Before communication can take place, a purpose, expressed as a message to be conveyed, must exist. It passes between a source (the sender) and a receiver. The message is converted to symbolic form (called encoding) and passed by way of some medium (channel) to the receiver, who retranslates the sender"s message (called decoding).