Mgt 530 Business and Professional Communication Assignment

Chapter 1

1. Why is it important to study business and professional communication?

Business and professional communication is very important for our daily life in workplace. It will provide interaction between different people while communication. Communicating in business is one of the many important aspects of developing a strong organizational culture. The organizational culture will influence how we communicate with each other at the work place. Everywhere need to communicate with other people. We need to learn how to communicate with different kind of peoples in order for us to work in teams and make public presentations.

2. What is unique about workplace communication compared to other areas of communication in your life? What is similar?

Communication in a workplace will be more formal, and cautious. We need to provide some professional ideas and communication while we are working especially in the group. Communicating with each other is very important. Communication in life is somewhat different than workplace communication, we just say what we want and don’t need to be formal when we communicate with our friends or family. No matter in a work place or daily life, we all need to communicate with others. Every word that comes out of our mouth is communication or even our gestures.

3. How does the model presented in Figure 1.1 illustrate the “big picture” of communication? What would you add to the model? Why?

Participants interpreting information by interacting through sending and receiving messages across a channel in an organizational context. We first have the participants which they can use communication to send out message to the other person. Then thru the channel, they will have a conversation at the office or maybe thru email or the internet. So interaction with each other is a big picture for the model Figure 1.1.

I would add feeling, because during the communicate people’s feeling can be effect the result. We can also add some...