​Match Each of the Following Descriptions with the Type of Communication

question 108

Multiple Choice

​Match each of the following descriptions with the type of communication noise it most clearly illustrates.
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• A)Harry says to Sally, "They say girls like a guy with a sense of humor, but that's a lie.I'm hilarious, yet girls never want to date me." Sally, a logician, laughs and says, "It's not a lie; you're just confusing necessity with sufficiency." Harry doesn't understand what she means.
• B)Oscar writes his friend an email, but the internet crashes just as he's about to send it.
• C)Harriet texts Agnes, "Where are we meeting them for dinner?" Agnes texts back, "At the Takara." But there are two Takaras in town, so Harriet still doesn't know where to go.
• D)Tom told Lily he'd send her the report by end of day Thursday.To Lily, "by end of day" means by the end of the working day, but to Tom, it means "by 11:59 pm." When Tom is still working on the report at 7pm on Thursday, he thinks he's ahead of schedule, whereas Lily already thinks he failed to come through.

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Definitions:

Threat from Substitutes

The risk that alternative products or services may satisfy the same customer needs, potentially reducing demand for the current product.

Levels of Rivalry

Refers to the intensity of competition between firms in a market, ranging from monopolistic to perfectly competitive scenarios.

RBV Perspective

Resource-Based View (RBV) refers to a method of analyzing and identifying a firm's strategic advantages based on its internal resources and capabilities.

Competitive Advantage

A situation or factor that gives a business an advantage over its competitors, placing it in a better or more dominant position in the market.