Business Communication 1

Business Communication

1. What is communication?

            Communication is from Latin language, commūnicāre, the meaning is “to share”. According to an oxford dictionary, communication is activity of expressing ideas and feelings or of giving people information. Another meaning, communication is methods of sending information. The discipline of communication focuses on how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels, and media.

            Communicating with others involves three primary steps:

·         Thought: First, information exists in the mind of the sender. This can be a concept, idea, information, or feeling.

·         Encoding: Next, a message is sent to a receiver in words or other symbols.

·         Decoding: Lastly, the receiver translates the words or symbols into a concept or information that a person can understand.

2. What is Business?

            Business  is an organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are prevalent in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services to customers in exchange of other goods, services, or money. Businesses may also be not-for-profit or state-owned. A business owned by multiple individuals may be referred to as a company.

The etymology of "business" stems from the idea of being busy, and implies socially valuable and rewarding work. A business can mean a particular organization or a more generalized usage refers to an entire market sector, i.e. "the music business". Compound forms such as agribusiness represent subsets of the word's broader meaning, which encompasses all the activity by all the suppliers of goods and services.

1.    According to Ricks and Gow, “Business communication is a system that affects change within the total organization.”

2.    According to W. H. Meaning, “The exchange of ideas, news and views in connection with the business among the related parties is called business communication.”

3.    According to Prof. J. Haste, “Communication occurred between two or more businessmen for organizing and administering business efficiently is called business communication.” Meaning of Business communication definition.

3. Business Communication is?

            Business communication is a term that can be defined as the contact between the people in an organisation for the intention of carrying out the business such topics as marketing, brand management, customer relations, consumer behavior,advertising, public relations, corporate communication, community engagement, reputation management, interpersonal communication, employee engagement, and event management. It is closely related to the fields of professional communication and technical communication.

             It is used to promote a product, service, or organization as well as pass on information within a business or work as an official statement from a company.

4. Good communication chart :

According to me, the good communication is when the person have an information an telling the other with symbols or word, and the second is the person send the information to another person, And finally the receiver translate the word that received.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Encoding_communication.jpg

Name : RITA APRILIANI H

NPM : 16611286

Class : 3SA04

Business Communication

Gunadarma University