Organizational Behaviour – II Week 4 NPTEL Assignment Answers 2025

NPTEL Organizational Behaviour – II Week 4 Assignment Answers 2025

1. Noise in communication can be present in the ______.

a. Sender
b. Channel
c. Receiver
d. All of these

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2. Which of the following is one of the 7Cs in communication?

a. Collaboration
b. Coordination
c. Complexity
d. Consideration

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3. Communication that takes place among people in the same work group/team, across other groups/teams at the same, and different levels is known as __________ communication.

a. Lateral
b. Horizontal
c. Vertical
d. Perpendicular

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4. The sender in communication must take into account the ___________setting.

a. Physical
b. Human
c. Both of these
d. None of these

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5. Video conferences and Web casts are examples of ___________ computer mediated communication.

a. Synchronous
b. Asynchronous
c. Symptomatic
d. Asymptomatic

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6. Which of the following are forms of grapevine?

a. Wheel and Single strand
b. Wheel and Cluster
c. Gossip and Cluster
d. Probability and Inverted

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7. According to the Channel Richness Theory, _________ media is used to communicate clear/routine messages.

a. Lean
b. Rich
c. Weak
d. Strong

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8. Which of the following is/are cause(s) of organizational barriers in communication?

a. Structure and size of the organization
b. Status of relationships
c. Power and authority
d. All of these

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9. The choice of an appropriate channel for effective communication depends on the __________.

a. Target audience
b. Nature of the message
c. Both of these
d. None of these

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10. In order to overcome organizational barriers of communication, companies must use _________ channels of communication.

a. Formal
b. Informal
c. Both of these
d. None of these

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