The Basic Communication Model
To try and help us understand the basic principle of communication, we can look at a diagrammatic representation of communication as follows:

Explain the following within the communication process
The source
The source will provide the information for the receiver, for example the management can get a mystery shopper to evaluate their cashiers in a supper market.
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The medium
The medium is the method that is used by the source to the receiver, in my example if the mystery shopper has finalized he’s/her report and decided to have a face to face meeting, the medium would be face to face meeting.……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
The Receiver
The receiver is the person who receives the message in my example the receiver would be the management who hired the mystery shopper.……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Feedback
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'Noise' and Barriers to Communication
The problem is that communication is rarely as simple as this model would suggest. There are lots of different types of medium to send a message in and the way that the receiver perceives the message might be very different to that which the sender intended. Have you ever received a text message from a friend that you thought meant something different to what your friend intended?
When messages are sent, the