Understanding the human communication process will be extremely important throughout your career. This assessment provides a framework for you to analyze this process in the context of a specific situation you are familiar with.
As you take on additional responsibility in your career (particularly in managerial roles), you might be faced with situations where organizational communications don’t seem to be working, or where you perceive it’s particularly critical that it work optimally. In those future situations, you can reference this framework and analysis, and apply it to help achieve organizational effectiveness and success.
Complete the following:
Choose a communication situation you recently experienced within your workplace or another organization with which you are affiliated.
Use the materials provided in the Resources or other resources from the Capella library or the Internet to research David Berlo's model of communication or the information theory of human communication process as described by Shannon and Weaver to use as starting points to analyze the communication situation you experienced.
Summarize your experience and write an analysis that includes the following:
Identify the source (sender or transmitter) and the receiver (destination) in the situation and relate them to the overall communication situation.
Describe the message (including symbols, words, and ideas used to convey meaning), and what type of message function it was serving.
Explain how the message was encoded and explain the relationship to construction of shared meaning.
Explain how a channel or channels were used to transmit the message and explain the relationship to construction of shared meaning.
Describe the type of noise that was experienced and describe its impact on the meaning of the message. You may wish to review the materials in the Resources for a description of noise in a communication situation, since noise is more than auditory sounds.
Compare the intended effect to the actual effect of the message and explain its relationship to the creation of shared meaning. In other words, what did the sender hope would be understood and what did the receivers actually understand?
Assess whether a shared meaning or shared reality was constructed and explain its relationship to other human communication process concepts. For example, even if a message is understood, the sender and receiver may not be in agreement. If a shared meaning was not reached, what needed to change?
Additional Requirements
Your summary analysis should be well organized and written in clear, succinct language. Follow APA rules for attributing sources that support your analysis and conclusions.
Academic Integrity and APA Formatting
As a reminder related to using APA rules to ensure academic honesty:
When using a direct quote (using exact or nearly exact wording), you must enclose the quoted wording in quotation marks, immediately followed by an in-text ci ...
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Understanding the human communication process will be extremely
1. Understanding the human communication process will be
extremely important throughout your career. This assessment
provides a framework for you to analyze this process in the
context of a specific situation you are familiar with.
As you take on additional responsibility in your career
(particularly in managerial roles), you might be faced with
situations where organizational communications don’t seem to
be working, or where you perceive it’s particularly critical that
it work optimally. In those future situations, you can reference
this framework and analysis, and apply it to help achieve
organizational effectiveness and success.
Complete the following:
Choose a communication situation you recently experienced
within your workplace or another organization with which you
are affiliated.
Use the materials provided in the Resources or other resources
from the Capella library or the Internet to research David
Berlo's model of communication or the information theory of
human communication process as described by Shannon and
Weaver to use as starting points to analyze the communication
situation you experienced.
Summarize your experience and write an analysis that includes
the following:
2. Identify the source (sender or transmitter) and the receiver
(destination) in the situation and relate them to the overall
communication situation.
Describe the message (including symbols, words, and ideas used
to convey meaning), and what type of message function it was
serving.
Explain how the message was encoded and explain the
relationship to construction of shared meaning.
Explain how a channel or channels were used to transmit the
message and explain the relationship to construction of shared
meaning.
Describe the type of noise that was experienced and describe its
impact on the meaning of the message. You may wish to review
the materials in the Resources for a description of noise in a
communication situation, since noise is more than auditory
sounds.
Compare the intended effect to the actual effect of the message
and explain its relationship to the creation of shared meaning.
In other words, what did the sender hope would be understood
and what did the receivers actually understand?
Assess whether a shared meaning or shared reality was
constructed and explain its relationship to other human
communication process concepts. For example, even if a
message is understood, the sender and receiver may not be in
agreement. If a shared meaning was not reached, what needed to
change?
3. Additional Requirements
Your summary analysis should be well organized and written in
clear, succinct language. Follow APA rules for attributing
sources that support your analysis and conclusions.
Academic Integrity and APA Formatting
As a reminder related to using APA rules to ensure academic
honesty:
When using a direct quote (using exact or nearly exact
wording), you must enclose the quoted wording in quotation
marks, immediately followed by an in-text citation. The source
must then be listed in your references page.
When paraphrasing (using your own words to describe a non-
original idea), the paraphrased idea must be immediately
followed by an in-text citation and the source must be listed in
your references page.
