BA 205 Business Communication Using Technology Assignment- Portland State University
1. List the advantages and disadvantages of working in teams, describe the characteristics of effective teams, and highlight four key issues of group dynamics.
2. Offer guidelines for collaborative communication, identify major collaboration technologies, and explain how to give constructive feedback.
3. List the key steps needed to ensure productive team meetings.
4. Identify the major technologies used to enhance or replace in-person meetings.
5. Identify three major modes of listening, describe the listening process, and explain the problem of selective listening.
6. Explain the importance of effective communication to your career and to the companies where you will work.
7. Describe the communication skills employers will expect you to have and the nature of communicating in an organization by using an audience-centered approach.
8. Describe the communication process model and the ways that social media are changing the nature of business communication.
9. List four general guidelines for using communication technology effectively.
10. Define ethics, explain the difference between an ethical dilemma and an ethical lapse, and list six guidelines for making ethical communication choices.
11. Identify seven steps you can take to improve your intercultural communication skills.
12. List four general guidelines for adapting to any business culture.
13. Explain the importance of recognizing cultural variations and list eight categories of cultural differences.
14. Discuss the opportunities and challenges of intercultural communication
15. Define culture, explain how culture is learned, and define ethnocentrism and stereotyping.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.