Process Of Interpersonal Communication Elements of the Process -mexge-expresses the purpose of the communication encoding-converting the message in symbolic form affected by the skills,attitudes,and knowledge of the sender,and by the culture of the organization chaanel-medium for conveying the message decodfing-retranslating symbols into a message affected by personal characteristics of the receiver aoke-disturbances that interfere with the transmission, receipt,or feedback of a message message itself and channel can distort communications feedback also subject to same sources of noise ©Prentice Hal,2002 11-5Process Of Interpersonal Communication Elements of the Process – message - expresses the purpose of the communication – encoding - converting the message in symbolic form • affected by the skills, attitudes, and knowledge of the sender, and by the culture of the organization – channel - medium for conveying the message – decoding - retranslating symbols into a message • affected by personal characteristics of the receiver – noise - disturbances that interfere with the transmission, receipt, or feedback of a message • message itself and channel can distort communications • feedback also subject to same sources of noise © Prentice Hall, 2002 11-5