Communication Barriers

Course title: communication skills

Addressed by : Saira Bano
INTRODUCTION
Communication will be effective only when the recipients
understands,accepts & acts upon the information that has
been transmitted to him .communication barriers causes
breakdown of communication process leading to many
managerial problems.
It may be caused by many reasons such
as poor vocabulary, poor communication skill ,lack of
good judgement, wrong choice of medium, lack of
knowledge about that topic etc. A properly selected media
can add to the effectiveness of communication .At the
same time a wrong choice of medium may acts as a
barrier to it.
 Types of barrier

1.Physical or mechanical barrier.

2. Semantic or language barrier.

3. Personal socio-psychological barrier.

4. Cross cultural .
PHYSICAL OR MECHANICAL
BARRIER.

1. Noise

2. Time & distance

3. Defects in the organization’s communication

system.
SEMANTIC & LANGUAGE
BARRIER
 Communication consist of interpretation of
symbols.
 Many words commonly used in communication
carry quite different meanings for different
person.
 To avoids semantic barriers we should prefer
words which are familiar to receiver .
 We should make its meaning clear for the first
time we use it.
PERSONAL SOCIO-
PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIER
• Communication interference that arises from
human emotion ,values & poor listening.
• They are common in work place.
• All the personal feelings, desires, fears & hopes
are formed by family background & social
environment.
• Problems of understanding communication
arises from socially learn attributes & personal
attributes.
CROSS CULTURAL
BARRIER
• Culture is a shared set of values & attributes of
a group.

• Culture is so much a part of an individuals

manner of talking, behaving & thinking.

• In business ,skill of communicating is very

important for success.
CONCLUSION
• Different perception..
• Lack of mutuality between sender & receiver.
• Language or perception difference.
• Noise.
• Organizational barrier.
• Barrier due to resistance to change.
• Lack of confidence
• Cultural difference
• jargons