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exam 4

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Communication   the process of transmitting information from one person or place to another  
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Perception   the process by which individuals atten to, organize, interpret, and retain information from their environments  
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Perceptual filters   the personality, psychology, or experience-based differences that influence people to ignore or pay attention to paricular stimuli  
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Selective perception   the tendency to notice and accep objects and information consistent with our values, beliefs, and expectations while ignoring or screening out or not accepting inconsistent stimuli or information  
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Closure   the tendency to fill in gaps of missing information by assuming that what we don't know is consistent with what we already know  
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Attribution theory   a theory that states that we all have a basic need to understand and explain the causes of other people's behavior  
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Defensive bias   the tendecy for people to perceive themselves as peronally and situationally similar to someone who is having difficulty or trouble  
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Fundamental attribution error   the tendency to ignore external causes of behavior and to attribute other people's actions to internal causes  
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Self-serving bias   the tencency to overestimate our value by attributing successes to ourselves (internal causes) and attributing failures to others or the environment (external causes)  
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Encoding   putting a message into a written, verbal, or symbolic form that can be recognized and understood by the receiver  
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Decoding   the process by which the receiver translates the written, verbal, or symbolic form of a message into an understood message  
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Feedback to sender   in the communication process, a return message to the sender that indicates teh receiver's understanding of the message  
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Noise   anything that interferes with the transmission of the intended message  
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Jargon   vocabulary particular to a profession or group  
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Formal communication channel   the system of official channels that carry organizationally approved messages and information  
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Downward communication   communication that flows from higher to lower levels in an organization  
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Upward communication   communication that flows from lower to higher levels in an organization  
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Horizontal communication   communication that flows among managers and workers who are at the same organizational level  
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Informal communication channel ("grapvine")   the transmission of messages from employees to employee outside of formal communication channels  
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Coaching   communication with someone for the direct purpose of improving the person's on-the-job performance or behavior  
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Counseling   communication with someone about non-the-job performance or behavior  
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Nonverbal communication   any communication that doesn't involve words  
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Kinesics   movements of the body and face  
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Paralanguage   the pitch, rate, tone, volume, and speaking patter (i.e. us of silences, pauses, or hesitations) of one's voice  
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Communication medium   the method used to deliver an oral or written message  
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Hearing   the act or process of perceiving sounds  
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Listening   making a conscious effort to hear  
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Active listening   assuming half the responsibility for successful communication by actively giving the speaker non-judgemental feeback that shows you've accurately heard what he or she said  
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Empathetic listening   understanding the speaker's perspective and personal fram of reference and giving feeback that conveys that understanding to the speaker  
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Destructive feedback   feedback that disapproves without any intention of being helpful and almmost always causes a negative or defensice reaction in the recipient  
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Constructive feedback   feedback intended to be helpful, corrective, and/or encouraging  
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Collaborative discussion sites   web or software-based discussion tools taht allow employees to ask questions and share knowledge  
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Televised/videotaped speeches and meetings   speeches and meetings originally made to a smaller audience that are either simultaneously broadcast to other locations in the company or videotaped for subsequent distribution and viewing  
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Organizational silence   when employees withhold information aobut organizational problems or issues  
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Company hotlines   phone numbers that anyone in the company can call anonymously to leave information for upper management  
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Survey feedback   information that is collected by surveys from organizational members and them compiled, disseminated, and used to develop action plans for improvement  
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Blog   a personal website that provides personal opinions or recommendations, news summaries, and reader comments  
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