Business Communication?

Business Communication?

• You are a secretary in a company called Cartech. One Monday you return from lunch to find a memo on your desk from your boss. The memo reads as follows: Have to go out - chmn called urgent meeting. Unlikely back for 2.30 - cancel Johnson, try Thu am. Global Ind. need fax confirm last order - details out-tray. Letters to Obiwan & Telmos draft in file, must go today, pp them if not back in time. Put Allbright file on desk - need later. Clear Fri pm indiary + no appts Mon, change at discretion. Expect back abt 4. Required: 1. Write out this memo in full, in correct English, making its meaning fully clear. 2. Does the presentation of this memo create any potential barriers to communication? If so, what are they, and how can they be overcome? (if you cannot find any, you should consider any potential barriers to communication that memos in general can contain. 3. Identify one possible barrier to communication in each of the following methods and in each case say how you would overcome it. a. telephone b. fax c. letter d. e-mail

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