formal communication network, business and finance homework help

1.  Describe the formal communication network in your current or past place of employment, if not employed discuss an organization, division, or department with which you have been a member. Discuss why you think the communication network has taken this form and how successfully it seems to meet the business’s needs.What is the grapevine? Is it a formal form of communication? How reliable do you feel the information is that comes from the grapevine?

2. Using the Internet, find a company that has a corporate social responsibility program and study what the company’s website says about that program.  What kind of image as a corporate citizen is the company trying to project, and how?  How convincing is this effort, in your opinion, and why?Choose a certain national or regional culture, or generation and find out what values and communication styles the people in this demographic are generally known for. How might working or doing business with a person from one of these groups require you to adapt your own values and communication style?

3. Letters, memorandums, and email messages can differ more than in their physical make up. Explain and discuss.

4. How does Twitter, Facebook and email differ from one another? Does one form of communication lead itself to being able to include more information over another? What might be the advantages of one medium over another?