2. 1.The Linear Concept
• The earliest conceptualization of communication involved the
following five basic questions
• Who?
• Says What?
• On Which Channel?
• To whom?
• With what effect?
6. Example
An organization's policy to be circulated among all
Ideation employees through news bulletin.
The editor/person who writes the policy.
Encoder
The content (policy details) and the words/pictures
Message
used to convey the policy to the employees.
The medium – in this case the news bulletin.
Channel
The audience of the message – for whom the
Receiver policy is intended and who read the bulletin.
Employee’s reaction to the policy communicated.
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