13-7 The Elements of Communication Communicator Medium . Employee with ideas Carrier of the message intentions, information, and Decoding-Receiver a purpose Interpretation of the Encoding message e Translate the Feedback communicator 's ideas into a Channel to determine language expressing the whether the message was purpose Message received and produced the intended response What the individual hopes Noise to communicate o verbal and nonverbal Factors that distort the eNtended and unintended intended message McGraw-HlllIrwvin Copyright o2002 by The McGraz-Hill Companies, Inc. All rg/its reservedMcGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13-7 The Elements of Communication Communicator ⚫Employee with ideas, intentions, information, and a purpose Encoding ⚫Translate the communicator’s ideas into a language expressing the purpose Message ⚫What the individual hopes to communicate ⚫Verbal and nonverbal ⚫Intended and unintended Medium ⚫Carrier of the message Decoding-Receiver ⚫Interpretation of the message Feedback ⚫Channel to determine whether the message was received and produced the intended response Noise ⚫Factors that distort the intended message