The document defines communication and provides definitions from various scholars. Communication is defined generally as a two-way process of mutual understanding where people exchange information, ideas, and feelings to share meaning. Several scholars define communication as the exchange of facts, ideas, opinions or emotions between two or more people. Another defines it as the transmission and interchange of facts, ideas, feelings or actions. Communication involves telling, listening, and understanding to create understanding in others. Communication techniques largely determine the structure and scope of organizations.

1. COMMUNICATION :
MEANING AND
DEFINITIONS
BY : PRIYANKA PARSANA
MBA MU SEM-1
ROLL NO.: 91900323081

6. GENERAL MEANING :
Two-way process of reaching mutual
understanding, in which participants not
only exchange (encode-decode)
information, news, ideas and feelings but
also create and share meaning. In general,
communication is a means of connecting
people or places.

12. DEFINITIONS BY DIFFERENT SCHOLARS :
■ According to Newman and Summer,
“communication is an exchange of facts,
ideas, opinions or emotions by two or more
persons”

17. ■ According to Charles E. Redfield
"communication is the bread field of
human interchange of facts and opinions
and not the technologies of telephone,
telegraph, radio etc.”

22. ■ According to Leland Brown,
“communication is the transmission and
interchange of facts, ideas, feelings or
course of action.”

27. ■ According to Allen Louis, “communication
is the sum of all the things one person
does; when he wants to create
understanding in the mind of another. It
involves a systematic and continuous
process of telling, listening and
understanding.”

32. ■ Chester Barnard believes that “in the
exhaustive theory of organization,
communication would occupy a central
place because the structure, extensiveness
and scope of organizations are almost
entirely determined by communication
techniques.”