Effective Business Communication: Types, Models & Techniques
School of Communication
Types of Communication
No Return or One-Way Communication
This type of communication involves no response and flows in one direction. Examples include TV and newspapers.
Bidirectional Communication
This type of communication circulates in both directions between a sender and receiver. It helps clarify the meaning of the message and is more direct and complex.
Multidirectional Communication
This type of communication circulates in more than two directions and between more than two
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Software Testing
Advantages of Unit Testing
Unit testing isolates program components to verify correctness. Key advantages include:
- Encourages Change: Facilitates code improvements and refactoring with confidence.
- Simplifies Integration: Increases confidence in code functionality, easing integration testing.
- Documents the Code: Tests serve as practical examples of code usage.
- Separation of Interface and Implementation: Enables independent modification of interfaces and implementations.
- Error Isolation:
Critical Systems: Reliability, Availability, and Safety in Software Engineering
Introduction
Familiarization with system failure
- Systems collapse without an apparent reason
- Failures can cause damage
- We take steps to overcome the lack of confidence
- Backups
The higher the confidence level, the higher the cost.
The greater the trust, the lower the performance.
- Verification of the states
- Disaster Recovery
Trust is sometimes more important than performance.
Critical Systems
When a failure may cause:
- Economic losses
- Physical or environmental damage
- Risks to human life
The cost of a system failure
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Company’s Response: The Strategic Direction
Concept of Strategy
There are multiple definitions of strategy, but its formulation is based on five basic ideas:
- Strategy is an ongoing relationship between the company and its environment.
- Strategy is a response to the expectations of stakeholders, which are specified in the definition of a mission and long-term goals.
- Strategy is a decision model that establishes policies, short-term objectives, actions, and allocation of resources needed to fulfill the
Strategic Planning in Administrative Processes: A Guide
Customer Guidance and Administrative Processes
What is the Administrative Process?
The administrative process involves several stages essential to the functioning of any organization. These stages are:
- Prevision: Research, objectives, alternate courses of action.
- Planning: Policies, procedures, programs, budget.
- Organization: Functions, hierarchies, obligations.
- Integration: People, resources, technologies.
- Direction: Authority, power, delegation, supervision.
- Control: Standards, assessment.
Administrative
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How Can We Help Disadvantaged Children Achieve High School Success?
The answers are within reach. Schools have demonstrated the ability to overcome environmental challenges and provide students with access to a quality education that fosters meaningful learning.
Effective Schools: A Qualitative Study
A comprehensive qualitative study examined a sample of schools that serve students living in poverty. These schools, in the latter half of the 1990s, achieved exceptional SIMCE scores, comparable to the
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