The Office
This type of office layout features partitions or cubicles, promoting both privacy and teamwork.
What is an open-plan office?
Define “barriers to communication.”
What is Anything that distorts or prevents understanding between sender and receiver.
Name one source where job vacancies can be found.
What is a newspaper or employment agency?
This is the central unit of a business responsible for collecting, processing, and disseminating information.
what is the Office.
The person who originates and sends a message is called this.
Who is the sender?
List one factor to consider when applying for a job.
What is location, salary, or qualifications?
The office serves as the central point for collecting and processing this type of raw material.
What is data?
This is the medium through which a message travels from sender to receiver.
What is a communication channel?
Identify one document commonly used when applying for a job.
What is a résumé or curriculum vitae?
Offices are often represented by diagrams showing authority and relationships.
What are organisational charts?
State two factors that influence the selection of a communication channel.
What are urgency, confidentiality, cost, or audience size?
This is a formal meeting between an employer and job applicant.
What is an interview?
This type of office layout uses enclosed spaces to give privacy to individual employees.
What is a traditional (cellular) office layout?
Give one advantage of written communication over oral communication.
It provides a permanent record of the message.
A job application letter should include three main parts. Name them.
What are introduction, body, and conclusion?