This document defines communication barriers and identifies several types of barriers that can impede or disrupt the communication process. It discusses physical and environmental barriers like uncomfortable settings or noise. Semantic barriers involve issues with language use like jargon or poor sentence structure. Cultural barriers arise from differences in interests, knowledge, values or traditions between communicators. Physiological barriers relate to listening skills, information overload, emotions or retention. Social barriers involve conformity pressures and demographic factors. Organizational barriers include technological failures, time pressures, and complex hierarchies.
2. BARRIERS ARE INFLUENCING FACTORS
- WHICH IMPEDE OR BREAKDOWN THE
CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATIONS LOOP.
- THEY BLOCK, DISTORT, OR ALTER THE
INFORMATION.
Definition
3. Communication Barriers
Physical and Environmental Barriers
Semantic Barriers
Cultural Barriers
Physiological Barriers
Social Barriers
Organizational Barriers
8. SocialBarriers
Phenomenon of conformity
a process in which the norms, values,
and behaviors of an individual begin to
follow those of the wider group.
Social factors such as
age,
gender,
socioeconomic status, and
marital status
may act as a barrier to communication in
certain situations
9. Organizational
Barriers
Technological Failure
Message not delivered due to technical failure
Time Pressures
Targets have to be achieved within a specified
time period,
in a haste to meet deadlines,
formal channels of communication is shortened
Leading to confusion and misunderstanding
Complexity in Organizational Structure
Greater the hierarchy in an organization (i.e.,
the more the number of managerial levels),
more are the chances of communication
getting destroyed.
