What is the importance of having effective communication and negotiation in the workplace? What happens when they are not effective or break down? How do things like culture and gender affect communication?

sounds like sombody needs help with a pointless homework question.

my advice is to get a real job in the real world and then youll learn how things work.Although its good to think ahead

Well obviously its important because if you couldnt communicate effectively, people wouldnt understand you or they can misinterpret you and do a shitty job.

effective negotiation in the workplace would be, well, getting what you want, most times to get what you want requires that people like you to some degree, so when they like you and you look out for there interests they will in turn look out for yours as well. if you are a self serving indulgent you have very little negotiating power, nobody wants to help you if nothing is in it for them. Give and invest now so you can reap the rewards tomorrow, thats how you negotiate.Also make your limits known as to what youll accept and what you wont accept, in a calmly assertive manner, so people know they cant fuck with you, then you will avoid uneeded negotiations for people getting what they want from you, let them know right off the bat-this is off limits even if you have to manipulate to get your needs met.

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Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market.

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a. Lack of leadership and direction by upper management
b.Poor communication between all levels of the organisation
c.No clear job responsibilities and good HR practices

Hi Omob, my first question before answering is, what are your objectives for the specific job function/title that you currently have? Are you just an employee or part of management? The reason I ask is that if you are just an employee and has no say to any changes for the company then you might as well find another job. However, if you are part of management and is seriously in need of alternatives and opportunities to better your organization then here are my suggestions.
for questions:
1) lack of leadership and direction from upper management-well here if you are part of management and is higher enough in the hierarchy levels you must look at the root cause of why there is a lack of leadership? Obviously there is some kind of leadership but its not enough to lead employees to the direction your company has envision themselves right? Most of the time lack of leadership stems from not knowing or having a clear and concise vision and objectives of the company. Leadership are learned and normally some people ask (WIFM-what is it for me?). Offer a reward system of some sort i.e. if your employee meets productivity goal for the week or the month treat them with a donuts for breakfast on payday something.
2) poor communication between all levels of the organization- this happens on any organization but mostly you have to have a good foundation for the channels of communication. Meaning, if leadership from upper management is in line, communication throughout all levels of management will slowly become part of the process. Using emails to communicate what the objectives are sometimes can lead to poor communication as well because its not a two way communication.
3) no clear job responsibilities and good HR practices- again this is present to almost all companies at one point or another or still in existent to some but job responsibilities, title codes, pay grades are the responsibility of HR. My suggestion is to hire a subject matter expert/consultant on Human Resources or even do a benchmarking data analysis on your key issues and look at how other companies whether its your industry or other industry to look at how companies like yours are tackling and improving as well as implementing certain philosophy or methodology such as Six Sigma or ISO 9000 to help them create a strategic plan that aligns with its stakeholders and shareholders vision.

I hope this helps a little bit. It could take hours to discuss this issue.

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"Is able to communicate to people clearly, concisely and with a high level of integrity so that people know where they stand on a wide range of issues".

You seem to be having some difficulty filling out this application, are you sure it's the job for you? They want YOUR application, not answers from people you don't know.

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