MGMT2002- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Lecture 1 week 1: foundations of communication. Communications : employers top 10 skills & attributes. Interpersonal and communication skills, drive and commitment/industry knowledge, critical reasoning and analytical skills/technical, calibre of academic results, cultural alignment, teamwork skills, leadership skills, emotional intelligence. Academic life, professional life people who apply academic/scientific theory or technical skills to their work, adhere to guidelines of ethical practice, combine theoretical tertiary studies with professional practice social life, civic life. Definition: communication is: transmission of messages, social interaction through messages, and reciprocal creation of meaning in a context. The environment in which the communication occurs: occasion, society. Physical the tangible environment of the communication. Temporal time of day, time in history. Cultural beliefs, values and attitudes v interchangeable & simultaneous roles v encoding/decoding v metacommunication v response/feedback may be real time or delayed v feed forward. Channels as the medium through which messages pass: sight, sound, smell, touch, taste.
