MBA 1st Year Group Communication Very Short Question Answers Notes Study Material Notes Sample Papers Study Notes Chapter Wise Syllabus Study Notes Unit Wise Division of the content.
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VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
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Q.1. What do you mean by group communication?
Ans. Group communication is an important aspect of business life and is basically a verbal or non-verbal message that is sent and received within a group for the purpose of mutual understanding and acceptance. Effective group communication requires great interpersonal skills.
Q.2. What are the goals of group communication?
Ans. The goals of group communication are:
1. To disseminate ideas and to avoid duplicate work.
2. To eliminate confusion among workers.
3. To monitor progress of the project.
4. To provide feedback from project manager to worker.
5. To take efficient action.
6. To encourage dynamic change.
Q.3. Define meeting.
Ans. Meeting may be defined as the formal or informal deliberative assembly of individuals called to debate certain issues and problems and to take decisions.
A meeting is typically headed by a chairperson and its deliberations are recorded in a written form called minutes.
Q.4. What are minutes of meeting?
Ans. Minutes also known as protocols, are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing. They typically describe the events of the meeting, starting with a list of attendees, a statement of the issues considered by the participants, and related responses or decisions for the issues. Minutes may be created during the meeting by a typist or court recorder, who may use shorthand notation and then prepare the minutes and issue them to the participants afterwards. Alternatively, the meeting can be audio recorded or a group’s appointed or informally assigned. Secretary may take notes with minutes prepared later.
Q.5. Give the importance of meetings.
Ans. The importance of meetings are:
1. Participation improves group performance.
2. Meetings encourage support of decisions.
3. Creative thinking in groups.
4. Brainstorming:
A deferred judgement method.
Q.6. What do you understand by press release?
Ans. Written, audio taped, or video taped matter about a book, event, person, or program, presented by its promoters or principals to the media for editorial comment and free coverage is called media release or news release. In other words, a press release, news release, media release, press statement
or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at me ourpose of announcing something extensibly newsworthy.
communication directed at members of the news media for
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Q.7. What are the elements of a press release?
Ans. The elements of a press release are:
1. Press release label.
3. Contact information.
2. Release date statement.
5. Lead and boilerplate.
4. Headlines, subheads and body.
6. Conclusion.
Q.8. Define press conference.
Ans. Press conference is defined as a meeting organised for the purpose the media and answering questions from renorters. It gives the company
cing organised for the purpose of distributing information it wants to make public and prepare lots of literature.
n reporters. It gives the company time to decide exactly what
Q.9. Give any three characteristics of a seminar.
Ans. The three characteristics of a seminar are:
1. In a seminar, discussions are held only in small groups.
2. Topic of discussion in generally of high academic taste.
3. It is an oral form of business communication.
Q.10. What is the meaning of business etiquette?
Ans. The work ‘etiquette’ means conventional rules of social behaviour. These rules are generally unwritten and are passed on from one generation to another. They serve as norms of behaviour for the member of an organisation or a profession.
Q.11. What do you mean by netiquettes?
Ans. Netiquettes is the combination of the words-network and etiquette. It means internet etiquette and is the culture of how we communicate digitally through networks. It is centred on data and its use.
Q.12. What are the advantages of etiquettes in business communication?
Ans. The advantages of etiquettes in business communication are:
1. It provides a standard framework.
2. It is easier to diverse individuals to work together.
3. It plays a large role in the business cultures of different countries and geographic regions.
4. Communicating with clients make them feel respected and valued.
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Q.13. What do you mean by a workshop?
Ans. Workshop: A workshop is a room or a building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Apart from the larger factories, workshops were the only places of production in the days before industrialisation.
In other words, a workshop may be defined as shop floor or facility where actual physical work (such as machining) is performed or also as a training class or seminar in which the participants work individually and/or in groups to solve actual work related tasks to gain hands-on experience.