Physical barrier is the environmental and natural condition that act

as a barrier in communication in sending message from sender to

receiver.

FAULTY ORGANISATION STRUCTURE

 Large working area

 Closed office doors
 Separate areas for people of different status

NOISE

 Physical noise (Outside disturbance)

 Psychological Noise(inattentiveness)
 Written noise (bad handwriting/typing)
 Visual noise (late arrival of employees)
TIME AND DISTANCE

 Improper time
 Defects in medium of communication
 Network facilities
 Mechanical breakdowns

INFORMATION OVERLOAD

 Piling up of tasks due to improper time management

 Excess number of people assigned for same work
 Work overload/ Information duplication.
Semantics is the study of meaning, signs and symbols used
for communication . They may be interpreted wrongly in a
communication process

 Two types : Denotative & Connotative

 DENOTATIONS : Literal meaning of a word

 CONNOTATIONS: Emotions and associations connected to
a word- Favorable, Unfavorable

Eg: They give us cheap things

At this shop, they sell things cheap.
Homophones
 Same pronunciation
 Different meaning and spelling.
For example: buy, by and bye.
Homonyms
 Same pronunciation
 Different Spelling and meaning .
For example: the noun "bear" and the verb "bear"
Homographs
 Same spelling
 Different pronunciation and meaning
 For example, "The research lead to the
discovery of lead.
 The difficulties in communication
experienced by people or groups speaking
different languages, or even dialects in some
cases.

 No clarity in Speech or Not being specific.

 Using Jargons- Special words or expressions that are

difficult for others to understand.
 The psychological barrier of communication
is the influence of psychological state of the
communicators (Sender and Receiver) which
creates an obstacle for effective
communication.
 Communication is highly influenced by the
mental condition that the communicators are
in and is disturbed by mental disturbance
 Attitude and opinion
 Emotions
 Status difference
 Inattention
 Closed mind
 Distrust
 Poor retention
 Premature evaluation
 Definition: The Organizational Barriers refers to the hindrances in
the flow of information among the employees that might result in a
commercial failure of an organization.

Organisational Communication

 Studies show that managers spend over 70% of their time

communicating

 If this is so, why do most managers identify communications as

their #1 challenge?

 There is a big difference between doing it, and doing it well

1. Organizational Rules and Policies
2. Status or Hierarchical Positions in the Organization
3. Organizational Facilities
4. Complex Organizational Structure
Cross cultural communication is a field of
study that looks at how people from different
cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar
and different ways among themselves, and how
they endeavour to communicate themselves.
 Language barrier
 Hostile Stereotype
 Behavioural differences
 Emotional display.
 Have clarity in your thought

 Understand the needs of your audience

 Seek the advice of others before communication

 Take adequate care of your tone, language, and the way

you speak

 Have a feedback from the receiver

 Retain consistency about the message

 Keep a routine check on the communication system

 Make use of body language

 Avoid overloading too much of information

 Reduce the level of noise as far as possible

 Communication chain should be short

 Keep your anger in control