Semantic and Personal Barriers to Communication

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What are semantic barriers of communication?

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What is a language processor? What are its various types?

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Which of the following are personal barriers.

1. Lack of proper incentives

2. All of the above

3. Fear of challenge to authority

4. Unwillingness to communicate

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Which of the following is not an element of communication process?

Decoding

Communication

Channel

Receiver

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Explain briefly any three personal barriers to communication.

Q. barriers are concerned with problems and obstructions in the process of encoding and decoding of a message into words or impressions.

1. Psychological
2. Semantic
3. Organisational
4. Personal

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___ is the process of translating the encoded message into the effective language by the receiver.

1. Decoding

2. Coding

3. Encoding

4. None of these

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Which of the following are semantic barriers to communication in an organisation?

1. Messages originally drafted in one language may be misunderstood due to faulty translation

2. All of the above

3. A badly expressed message

4. Symbols with different meanings may be perceived differently by the receiver

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Rajat is a sales manager who achieved his sales target one month in advance. This achievement was displayed on the notice board and a certificate for the best performance was awarded to him by the CEO of the company. ___ is the incentive provided to Rajat?

Q. Fear of challenge of authority is an example of barrier to communication.

1. personal
2. organisational
3. psychological
4. semantic

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There are some barriers in communication, which are concerned with organisational structure and rules and regulations. State any three such barriers.

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In an organisation employees always feel they are under stress. They take least initiative and fear to express their problems before the manager. What do you think is wrong with the manager?

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Neeraj, a sales representative of 'Omida Ltd' has changed seven jobs in the last one year. He is a hard working person but is not able to finalise deals with the customers due to his inadequate vocabulary and omission of needed words. Sometimes he uses wrong words because of which intended meaning is not conveyed. All this creates a misunderstanding between him and his clients. State the category of this communication barrier.

1. Semantic barrier

2. Psychological barrier

3. Organisational barrier

4. None of the above

Q. Rajat is a sales manager who achieved his sales target one month in advance. This achievement was displayed on the notice board and a certificate for the best performance was awarded to him by the CEO of the company. ___ is the incentive provided to Rajat?

1. Monetary
2. None of the above
3. Non monetary
4. Both of the above

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Explain briefly any three semantic barriers to communication.

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What is a sales return example?

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What are semantic barriers of communication?

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Meera and Ajay completed their MBA and started working in a multinational company at the same level. Both are hardworking and are happy with their employer. Ajay had the habit of backbiting and wrong reporting about his colleagues to impress his boss Salman. All employees knew about Ajay's behaviour and attitude. At the time of performance appraisal, their boss man decides to promote Ajay stating that being female Meera will not be able to handle the complication of a higher post.
(i) Identify and explain the principles of management (of Fayol's) which were not followed by this multinational company.
(ii) Identify the values which are being ignored quoting the lines from the above paragraph.

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Select The Most Appropriate Antonym Of The Given Word: Criticize. (A) Judge. (B) Analyse. (C) Denounce. (D) Appreciate.

Q. An advertisement to pay reward to anyone who traces the missing boy of the advertiser is _____________.

1. an express offer
2. an implied offer
3. a general offer
4. None of these

Q. Choose the one which best expresses the meaning of
GREGARIOUS

1. Sociable
2. Turbulent
3. Pugnacious
4. Clumsy

Q. Choose the correct option to complete the sentence in indirect speech:
Uncle Ram said to Tom, "Do you know me?"
Uncle Ram asked Tom if ______.

1. He knew him
2. Did he know him
3. He knows me
4. You knew him

Q. Five Marks Questions :
Blue Birds Ltd. offers to its employees issue of shares at a price which is less than the market price.
(i) Name and explain the type of incentive offered to the employees.
(ii) Explain one more incentive of the same category.

Q. Mansi took her niece, Ridhima, for shopping to 'Mega Stores' to buy her a bag for her birthday. She was delighted when on payment of the bag she got a pencil box along with the bag free of cost. Identify the technique of sales promotion used by the company.

Q. The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. Choose the word or phrase that must be changed for the sentence to be correct.

The ways of communication has changed dramatically since the last century.

1. communication
2. has
3. dramatically
4. since

Q. Change the following statement into indirect speech.

1. Mohit ordered with joy that they had got the shield.
2. Mohit exclaimed with joy that they had got the shield.
3. Mohit exclaimed that they have got the shield.
4. Mohit exclaimed with joy that he had got the shield.

Q. Do you think the title of the story ‘The Rattrap’ is appropriate? Give reasons to support your answer.

Q. Write a word or phrase or a term which can substitute each one of the following:

An electronic letter through which the messages can be exchanged on the computer

Q. Find the synonym of the underlined word.
He has always been too obstinate to admit he had been wrong.

1. Stubborn
2. Frightened
3. Selfish
4. Cautions
5. Inert

Q. Why might individuals resist organizational change?
(i) Lack of interest
(ii) Pessimism
(iii) Anxiety
(iv) Irritation
(v) Opposing strategy proposals
(vi) Personal ambitions
Select the correct answer from the options given below-

1. (ii), (iii), (v) and (vi)
2. (i), (ii) and (iv)
3. (ii), (iv), (v) and (vi)
4. All (i) to (vi)