NMIMS Global Access.
School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE).
Course: Business Communication.
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2024 Examination.
Instructions:
• All Questions carry equal marks.
• All Questions are compulsory
• All answers to be explained in not more than 1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for question 3 in not more than 500 words for each subsection. Use relevant examples, illustrations as far as possible.
• All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.
• Students are free to refer to any books/reference material/website/internet for attempting their assignments, but are not allowed to copy the matter as it is from the source of reference.
• Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from other students is not allowed.
• Students should follow the following parameter for answering the assignment questions.
1. John is ready to travel for his new assignment to India. While he had been visiting India often during last 3 years of company expansion, he had been communicating primarily with his colleagues. But in his new role as a business head in Hyderabad, his responsibilities include being directly involved in customer and distributor communication. John will be delivering some formal presentations to the customers and will be conducting some semi-formal meetings with potential distributors. All these interactions will be in mixed groups. John obviously does not know the language spoken by these people and hence is worried about the difference in his accent being understood by those people and vice versa.
Please share some tips and insights for communicating across cultures. (10 Marks)
2. Malti is a manager with Taraasha Inc. A high-end jewelry designer company. The company is more into exporting and customizing jewelry for celebrity customers, Malti thinks, it will help them to make more ready to wear sets, jewelry pieces and participate in high end exhibition events. Her boss asks her to submit a report for the same idea. Malti knows that while she will have to present an objective report about her findings based on her observations, she must make this document more in the form of a proposal. Please help Malti with some clarity on drafting the content for a report and proposal. (10 Marks)
3. Saanvi is appointed to conduct writing workshops for teenage students. The participants come from a good understanding of literature studies and understand linguistics very well. While checking on the students’ previous work, Saanvi understands that the students’ level of use of language is very well developed, there are some weak spots in how they develop ideas. Answer two questions given below based about developing messages.
a. Describe in detail five techniques for developing paragraphs. (5 Marks)
b. List five techniques for writing effective messages for mobile devices. (5 Marks)
• All Questions carry equal marks.
• All Questions are compulsory
• All answers to be explained in not more than 1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for question 3 in not more than 500 words for each subsection. Use relevant examples, illustrations as far as possible.
• All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.
• Students are free to refer to any books/reference material/website/internet for attempting their assignments, but are not allowed to copy the matter as it is from the source of reference.
• Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from other students is not allowed.
• Students should follow the following parameter for answering the assignment questions.
1. John is ready to travel for his new assignment to India. While he had been visiting India often during last 3 years of company expansion, he had been communicating primarily with his colleagues. But in his new role as a business head in Hyderabad, his responsibilities include being directly involved in customer and distributor communication. John will be delivering some formal presentations to the customers and will be conducting some semi-formal meetings with potential distributors. All these interactions will be in mixed groups. John obviously does not know the language spoken by these people and hence is worried about the difference in his accent being understood by those people and vice versa.
Please share some tips and insights for communicating across cultures. (10 Marks)
2. Malti is a manager with Taraasha Inc. A high-end jewelry designer company. The company is more into exporting and customizing jewelry for celebrity customers, Malti thinks, it will help them to make more ready to wear sets, jewelry pieces and participate in high end exhibition events. Her boss asks her to submit a report for the same idea. Malti knows that while she will have to present an objective report about her findings based on her observations, she must make this document more in the form of a proposal. Please help Malti with some clarity on drafting the content for a report and proposal. (10 Marks)
3. Saanvi is appointed to conduct writing workshops for teenage students. The participants come from a good understanding of literature studies and understand linguistics very well. While checking on the students’ previous work, Saanvi understands that the students’ level of use of language is very well developed, there are some weak spots in how they develop ideas. Answer two questions given below based about developing messages.
a. Describe in detail five techniques for developing paragraphs. (5 Marks)
b. List five techniques for writing effective messages for mobile devices. (5 Marks)