An Executive Returns from a Business Trip and Tells Colleagues

question 135

Multiple Choice

An executive returns from a business trip and tells colleagues how the airline lost his luggage and how a late arrival on one flight resulted in waiting half a day at a foreign airport for the next available flight.While retelling his experience,colleagues grimace and make sounds that the executive might make when experiencing this ordeal.The verbal and nonverbal activities of the colleagues represent:

• A)extremely rude communication behaviour.
• B)a lack of media richness.
• C)emotional contagion.
• D)evidence that they have difficulty encoding their feedback message.
• E)The verbal and nonverbal activities of the colleagues represent all of these.

---

Definitions:

Language Development

The way in which kids acquire the ability to understand and verbalize language during their early childhood.

Reaction Range

The potential variability in the expression of a trait due to environmental influences, given genetic constraints.

Obesity

Excess body fat accumulation that presents a risk to health, defined by a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or higher.

Monozygotic Twins

Twins that result from one fertilized egg splitting and developing into two embryos, genetically identical.