What is Communication
Communicationis the art of transmitting the
information, ideas, and attitudes from one person
to another. Communication is the process of
meaningful interaction among human beings.
Personal Process
Occurs between people
Involves change in behaviour
Means to influence others
Expression of thoughts and emotions through
words and actions
Tools for controlling and motivating people.
It is a social and emotional process
Different context ofcommunication
Settings or Environment: family, school,
workplace, and religious communities.
Social Relations: friends, husband and
wife, parent and child,
colleagues/boss/subordinate in the office.
Scene: place, time and
occasion
Culture: history, tradition,
beliefs, norms, values
Features of Communication
Two-wayProcess
Information Sharing and Understanding
Verbal and Non-Verbal
Circular Flow
Goal Oriented
Continuous Process
Pervasive Activity
Sender/Encoder
Is a personwho send the message. A
sender make use of symbols (words or
graphic or visual aids) to convey the
message and produce required response.
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Message
It is akey idea that the sender wants
to communicate. It is a sign that
elicit the response of recipient.
Communication process begins with
deciding about the message to be
conveyed. It must be ensured that
the main objective of the message is
clear.
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5 C’s inCommunication
Courtesy: Usage of polite words and tone means
one respect the receiver of the message.
Clarity: This involved correct word usage,
grammar, pronouciation, sentence construction
and delivery.
Conciseness: saying what needs to be said in a few
words as possible.
Concreteness: being specific, makes a message more
comprehensable.
Completeness: answers the questions What, Who,
When, Where, Why, and How questions.
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Encoding
Is the processwhere the information you
would like to communicate gets
transferred into a form to be sent and
decoded by the receiver.
Delivery of the message include good
voice projection, use of appropriate eye
contact, proper articulation of words, and
emphasis on important words.
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Channel
Channels are theway you convey your
message. These channel include verbal
such as telephone, and face-to-face
conversations as well as non-verbal such
as e-mail and text messaging.
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Receiver
Receiver is aperson for whom the
message is intended or aimed. The
degree to which the decoder understands
the messsage is dependent upon various
factors such as knowledge of recipient,
their responsiveness to the message, and
the reliance of encoder or decoder.
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Decoding
Decoding is onthe receiving end of
communication. This stage is as just as
important as encoding. Communication
can go downhill at this stage if the
receiver is not practicing active listening
skills or if they do not possess enough
information to accurately decode the
message.
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Feedback
Feedback is themain component of
communication process as it permits the
sender to analyze the efficacy of the
message. It helps the sender in
confirming the correct interpretation of
message by the decoder. Feedback may
be verbal (through words) on non-verbal
(in form of smile, sighs, etc.).
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Noise (Interference)
It refersto any obstruction that is caused
by sender that he has received the
message and understood it, the process
of communication is complete.
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Types of noisein Communication
Physical Noise: It is interference that is
external to both speaker and lister. It
hampers that physical transmission of the
signal or message.
Examples of physical noise include: other
talking in the background, background
music, a atartling noise, and
acknowledging someone outside of the
conversation.
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Types of noisein Communication
Physiological Noise: It is created by
barriers within the sender or receiver.
Psychological Noise: It is mentak
interference in the speaker or listener.
Psychological noise results from
preconceived notions we bring to
conversations, such as stereotypes,
reputations, biases, and assumption.
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Types of noisein Communication
Semantic Noise: It is a noise by the sender.
This type of noise occurs when grammar or
technical language is used that the receiver
(the decoder) cannot understand, or cannot
understand it clearly. It occurs when the
sender of the message uses a word or a
phrase that we don’t know the meaning of,
or which we use in a different way from the
speaker.
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Nature of Communication
Two-way Process: Communication is a
two way process of understanding
between two or more person – sender
and receiver. A person cannot
communicate with himself.
Continuous Process: Exchange of
ideas and opinion amongst people is
an ongoing process in business and
non-business organization.
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Nature of Communication
Dynamic Process: Communication
between sender and receiver takes
different forms and medium depending
upon their moods and behavoir. It is,
thus, a dynamic process that keeps
changing in different situation.
Pervasive Process: It takes place at all
levels (top, middle, low) in all function
areas (production, finance, personnel,
sales) of a business organization.
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Nature of Communication
Exchange: Communication involves
exchange of ideas and opinions. People
interact and develop understanding of
each other.
Means of unifying organizational
activities: Communication unifies internal
organization environment with its external
environment. It also integrates the human
and physical resources and converts them
into organizational output.
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Nature of Communication
Verbal and Non-verbal: Though words are
active carriers of information, gestures can
sometimes be more powerful than words. Facial
expression, sounds, sign and symbols are non-
verbal forms of communication.
Mutual Understanding: Communication is
effective when sender and receiver develop
mutual understanding of the subject. Message
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Nature of Communication
Goal-oriented: Communication is goal
oriented. Unless the receiver and
sender know the purpose they
intended to achieve through
communication, it has little practical
utility.
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Nature of Communication
Foundation of Management: Though
communication is a directing function,
it is important for other managerial
functions also. Designing plans and
organization structures, motivating
people to accomplish goals and
controlling organizational activities; all
require communication amongst
manager at various levels.
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Nature of Communication
A means, not an end: Communication
is not an end. Effective communication
is a means towards achieving the end,
that is goal accomplishment. It
smoothens managerial operations by
facilitating planning, organizing,
staffing, directing and controlling
functions.
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Nature of Communication
Human Activity: Since communication
makes accomplishment of
organizational goals possible, it is
essential that people understand and
like each other. If people do not
understand each other’s viewpoint,
there cannot be effective
communication.
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Nature of Communication
Inter-disciplinary: Communication is
the art of how communicators use
knowledge of different fields of study
like anthropology, psychology and
sociology. Making best use of these
disciplines makes communication
effective. It is, thus, an interdisciplinary
area of management.
Functions of Communication
Communicationas a human activity
always serves a function. Functions of
communication refer to how human
language for different purposes.
Theoretician such as Roman Jakobson,
Michael Halliday, and Bronislaw Malinowki
have categorized the different uses or
functions of communication.
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Roman Jakobson
According toRoman Jacobson,
communication functions on six levels:
referential, emotive, conative, phatic,
metalingual, and poetic. Each function
highlights a different purpose and relationship
within the communication process, focusing
on the context, sender, receiver, channel,
code, and message.
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Roman Jakobson
•Referential: Focuseson the
context or situation being
described in the message.
•Emotive: Reveals the speaker's
feelings or attitude towards the
message.
•Conative: Aims to influence the
receiver's behavior or actions.
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Roman Jakobson
maintain contactwith the
receiver, often through small talk
or greetings.
•Metalingual: Focuses on the
code or language itself,
clarifying meaning or checking
understanding.
•Poetic: Emphasizes the aesthetic
or artistic qualities of the
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Michael Halliday
According toMichael Halliday, language, and
therefore communication, serves seven key
functions. These functions are instrumental,
regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic,
imaginative, and representational. These
functions help children satisfy needs, influence
others, build relationships, express themselves,
explore their environment, and express their
imagination.
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Michael Halliday
1. Instrumental:Language used to fulfil needs,
like asking for something or expressing a
desire. For example, a child saying “I want
juice”
2. Regulatory: Language used to control or
influence the behavior of others. For example,
a child saying “Go away”
3. Interactional: Language used to interact with
others and build relationships. For example,
saying “Love you, mommy”
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Michael Halliday
4. Personal:Language used to express feelings,
opinions, and individual identity. For example,
a child saying “I’m a good girl”
5. Heuristic: Language used to learn about the
environment by asking questions. For
example, a child asking “Why is the sky blue?”
6. Imaginative: Language use to create
imaginary worlds and explore possibilities. For
example, through play, stories, or jokes.
Bronislaw Malinowski
Malinowski classifiedthe function of language
into the two broad categories of pragmatic and
magical.
Pragmatic: was subdivided into active and
narrative. Thus, to create and maintain social
bond.
Ritual/Magical: associated with ceremonial or
religious activities in the culture.
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5 major functionsof communication
Control: Communication can be used to
regulate behavoir through verbal and non-
verbal cues, such as giving instruction, setting
rules, or providing feedback.
Social Interaction: Communication is crucial
for building and maintaining relationships,
fostering a sense of connection, and engaging
in social activities.
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5 major functionsof communication
Motivation: Communication can be used to
inspire, persuade, or encourage others to take
action, change their behavior, or adopt a
particular viewpoint.
Emotional Expression: Communication allows
individuals to express their feelings and
emotions, fostering empathy and
understanding.
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5 major functionsof communication
Information Dissemination: Communication
is essential for sharing knowledge, ideas, and
facts, ensuring that peoples have the
information they need to understanding to
world around them.
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a. Informative Function
Wewant to inform other people of what we
know – facts, information, and knowledge.
In school, most of our speaking activities are
directed to get and give information to
develop or improve our knowledge and
skills.
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b. Instructive Fuction
Manytimes, older people who hold
important information, and those in higher
rank communicate to instruct people on what
to do, when and where to do them, and on
why and how to do them.
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c. Persuasive Function
Youmay find yourself wanting to influence
the opinion of others to believe and accept
your stand or claim on an issue or problem;
so you think of strategies on how to
persuade them to change their perspective
or opinion.
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d. Motivation Function
Wecommunicate to entice and direct people
to act and reach their objective or goals in
life.
In the process, we use positive language to
make them realize that their actions leads
them to something beneficial for their being.
f. Therapeutic Funstionor Emotional
Expression
Communication is curative and serves to
maintain good health.
Sometimes, talking to a person does not
mean asking for his help; we talk to another
person merely to vent our feelings. After we
talk we find ourselves in a much better
condition.
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g. Regulation orControl
People use communication to maintain
control over other people’s attitude and
behavior.
Your parents use it to guide, inspire, or
reprimand you when you seem to lose
control over your schedule, studies, and
relationships, among others.
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h. Social Interaction
Communicationhelps us start, maintain,
regulate, or even end relationships with
other people.
We usually establish a positive climate at
home, in school, and in the workplace by
greeting the people around us and by
exchanging pleasantries with them.
The Six Stagesof Intercultural
Sensitivity
Denial: Individuals in this stage do not
recognize cultural differences or view them
simplistically, such as categorizing people as
“foreigner” or “minorities”. They may be
disinterested or hostile towards intercultural
communication.
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The Six Stagesof Intercultural
Sensitivity
Defense: Individuals acknowledge cultural
differences but perceive them as threatening
or negative. They might use stereotype to
distinguish between “us” and “them”.
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The Six Stagesof Intercultural
Sensitivity
Minimization: While acknowledging some
differences, individuals focus on universal
human similarities, often minimizing the
importance of cultural nuances. They may
believe that “deep down, we’re all the same”.
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The Six Stagesof Intercultural
Sensitivity
Acceptance: Individuals recognize and
accept behavioral and value differences
between cultures. They understand that their
own cultural worldview is not the only valid
one.
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The Six Stagesof Intercultural
Sensitivity
Adaptation: Individuals are able to shift
their perspective and behaviors to better
interact and communicate in another culture.
They can empathize with and understand
different cultural viewpoints.
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The Six Stagesof Intercultural
Sensitivity
Integration: Individuals can move fluidly
between cultural perspective and integrate
aspects of different cultures into their own
worldview. They can navigate intercultural
situations with ease and are comfortable
with cultural ambiguity.