Sunday, February 7, 2010

Nonverbal Communication / Other communications in organizations

Nonverbal Communication
Simply stated, nonverbal communication is speaking without words.
It can expressed by body languages, dress, time, space and material things.

Body language:
body language such as gestures, body movements, facial expressions are important to communication because it can conveys around 55% what we are communicating.

Dress Style: Communicating by appearance
Dressing appropriately communicates a lot of our competencies and us.

Time: the waiting game
The longer you have to meet someone, the higher the organizational status he or she commands in the organization.

Space:
The greater space one commands, the more powerful he or she is likely to be in the organization. Such as size of office room, personal parking space.

Symbols and facilities:
Normally the higher status person in organization, the better facilities and benefits. E.g. he/she may has latest version computer, luxury of the company-sponsored car etc..

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