Sender
This is the originator of the message. He is the person who releases the information for the intended recipient from one end of the communication system. He is the one who conceives the message: The sender should consider the recipient carefully and aim the message to suit the recipient’s specific needs.
Before releasing the message, it has to be encoded. This involves putting the information into an appropriate form suitable to the sender, the recipient and the purpose. This means choosing whether words will be sufficient, whether a printed record and/or graphics are necessary.
In selecting the appropriate channel aspects such as speed, cost, quick receipt, printed record, confidentiality, etc must be considered while choosing the telecommunication method.
Receiver
This is the intended recipient of the message. At his end the message will be decoded. This involves putting the message in a format that will be understood by the receiver. The same rules used in encoding it are the same ones that will be used to decode the message. When a message arrives in the office, it is important to ensure that they are routed promptly and are given the attention they deserve. It is also important for the Sender to have ensured that the recipient will understand the language and vocabulary used.
Interpret the message: This is where the recipient interprets the message. It is important to ensure that the correct message is received. Distortion of the message may occur if the sender has not carefully encoded the communication, in which case the recipient will interpret the message differently from how it was intended.
Feedback: Feedback must be provided from the Recipient. For successful communication, the response of the recipient must be the one intended by the sender.
Channels
For people to be able to communicate with each other there must be some sort of communication between them - a path through which the medium can travel. Such connections between people, making communication possible, are called channels of communication.
In olden days, the communication channel was a path. This is a track along which a messenger would walk or run to deliver a message. From paths, there developed roads, railways, sea, air routes, Post Office services etc.
Channels of communication are not just over distances. When two people are in the same room a channel of communication opens as soon as one starts to speak. If the person you are talking to considers that the matter you are raising is not his concern, your attempt to open up a channel of communication will fail.
francis1897 answered the question on
March 15, 2023 at 08:24