Question

Using, if possible your own experience, essay is needed on the benefits and dangers of the grapevine (communication) in a large group of students in a university. Discuss also the ethical considerations. (please discuss in detail up to 500 words)

Answer 1

• Grapevine communication is an informal communication that happens with in group of people in any organization.
• This communication did not have any structure in forwarding information.
• In this communication , the information is forwarded from one person to another person and so on..
• This is like a chain form of communication which forwards the message from one person to another person.
• The information passed by this communication is generally called as "rumours" or "gossips".
• In this communication , the information is widely spread from one person to all persons in an organization or in any university etc.. This is common communication in every field.
• This Grapevine communication forward the information to all sides in the organization that means information is spreaded to all directions of organization.
• By this communication information is transmitted fastly than any other formal communication.

In above given question , asked that benefits and dangers of this Grapevine communication in a large group of students in an university. This type of communication is common in university that contains large number of students.

This communication benefits and dangerous effects that are discussed as below :

Benefits (advantages) :

• This communication creates unity among the students. Because while forwarding information from one person to another it makes the students to become unity as a group. By this unity among the students, everyone can became friends each other.
• It creates coherence in group and also develop the quality of communication of the group.
• This communication is faster transmission of information .It spreads the information fastly than any other communication.
• It creates strong bonds between the students because people like this way of talking openly with this communication.
• This communication helps in transferring the good ideas that boosts the students to learn and achieve success.

Dangers (disadvantages) :

• This communication can carry false information which is taken by Students easily. By this it can create disturbance in Students.
• This communication makes the students divert from important works.
• This communication can creates unnecessary meetings, fights among some students because they trust fake information also which is passed by this communication
• It can also break the bonds between the Students due to carrying this false information like rumours.
• It can't take control over the information that is spreading among the students in the university.

Being this is a communication which is widely spreading information to all sides of university. To prevent this dangers of this communication which impact on the students in university we should follow some ethics.The ethical considerations in this Grapevine communication are following as :

• Only positive and good ideas should consider in this Grapevine communication that makes the students to learn the good things.
• Carrying false and negative information by this communication is strictly prohibited
• Do not interfere in other person's personal things by trusting fake information received by this Grapevine communication.
• Do not trust the information received by this communication because it is not accurate. Make sure it is right information or not.
• Follow some ethics in forwarding information because it can break the bonds between the people.
• Neglect the carrying of bad information on someone or about anything because it is unnecessary to talk.

Thus the entire information is given as above about "Grapevine communication".