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Human communication:
It allows you to establish who you are to others. You reveal yourself as you
communicate.
It can help you attain your goals, establish relationships, and develop your identity.
Studying human communication can benefit you by leading you to a new career path.
Communication occurs when a sender encodes a message (puts ideas into words and
symbols)
Sent to a receiver who decoded (interpreted)
Process reversed (receiver becomes sender, sender becomes receiver)
Noise and channel also used
Communication is transactional:
Communication Ethics:
Communication Ethics- The standards of right and wrong that one applies to
messages that are sent and received.
Why are communication ethics so important?
They sustain professional success. Your reputation as a person of integrity impacts
whether others want to hire you, work for you, or conduct business with you.
Consequently, communicating and behaving ethically is just good business.
2) Communication ethics are vital to personal relationships.
Maintaining intimate and caring relationships can be difficult if not impossible if one
communicates unethically. Far too many people have learned the hard way that a lack
of ethics destroys relationships.