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Updated On: 7-Feb-2026
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You are the public spokesperson for a large company which has recently experienced a scandal involving a key employee. When contacting radio stations to present the company's position on this situation, keep in mind they are interested in actualities or:

  1. a basic list of facts surrounding the incident
  2. a 30 or 60 second story
  3. exclusive rights to the story
  4. recorded comments by those involved for use on air

Answer(s): D



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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI) is a tool that can identify a person's basic preferences in a number of areas including communication styles. According to this tool, which type of personality is most likely to make decisions based on logic and reason, avoiding the influence of emotions, values, and attitudes?

  1. Introvert
  2. Thinking
  3. Perceiving
  4. Feeling

Answer(s): B



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An organization's lateral communications system is most likely to involve which of the following exchanging messages?

  1. supervisors and their direct employees
  2. employees with similar responsibilities in different departments
  3. employees with different responsibilities in the same department
  4. company media representatives and the media

Answer(s): B



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In order to convince your audience to support your proposed changes to the organization's structure, any speech to them must be of what type?

  1. informative
  2. persuasive
  3. entertaining
  4. impromptu

Answer(s): B



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You are giving a news brief to the media on your organization's response to a crisis situation that has emerged. One way to avoid miscommunication is to:

  1. use as many words a possible
  2. use abstract terms to avoid being committal
  3. define relative words
  4. use acronyms instead of entire organizational names

Answer(s): C






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