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Today is going to present a presentation on barriers of communication.

BARRIERS OF COMMUNICATION

WHAT ARE

 ANYTHING THAT INTERFERES WITH A SIGNAL SENT TO A RECEIVER IS A BARRIER OF COMMUNICATION. BARRIERS OR PROBLEMS CAN ARISE AT ANY STAGE OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATIONS. WHICH ARE AS FOLLOWS : WRONG CHOICE OF MEDIUM PHYSICAL BARRIERS SEMANTIC BARRIERS DIFFERENT COMPREHENSION TO REALITY SOCIO-PHYCHOLOGICAL BARRIER ORGANISATIONAL BARRIERS SOCIAL BARRIERS CULTURAL BARRIERS ETHICAL BARRIERS PHYCHOLOGICAL BARRIER

WRONG CHOICE OF MEDIUM

THE VARIOUS MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION ARE ORAL WRITTEN VISUAL AUDIO-VISUAL COMPUTER-BASED e.t.c.

An unstable medium may act as a barrier to effective communication. For example- A manager want to compliment an employee for a distinguishable performance. Shall he send a peon? Here the manager select a medium that transits his compliment with a personal touch. So, he needs to select the right kind of medium of communication.

PHYSICAL BARRIERS PHYSICAL BARRIERS ARE NOISE- Noise is quiet offen a barrier to communication. In factories, oral communication is rendered difficult by the loud noise of machine

 TIME AND DISTANCE- If telecome and network facilities are not available. It takes a lots of time to send message to people who are at a far distance from the sender.

SEMANTIC BARRIERS Semantic is the science of meaning. Word seldom mean the same thing to two persons. Symbols and words usually have variety of meanings. The sender and receiver have to choose one meaning among many. If both of them choose the same meaning the communication will be perfect.

The semantic barrier may occure if there is problem in -

Interpretation of words Bypassed instructions Denotation and connotation

INTERPRETATION OF WORDS
Words are capable of communicating a variety of meaning. It is quiet possible that the receiver of the message does not assign the same meaning to the word as the transmitter has intended. This may lead to Miscommunication.

BYPASSED INSTRUCTION
The transmitter and receiver assign different meaning to the same words for the same meaning. Example. - An office manager handed to a new assistant one letter with the instruction take it to our stockroom and burn it. In the office managers mind the word burn meant to make a copy on a company machine which operated by a heat process. As the letter was extremely important, she wants an extra copy. However ,the puzzled new employee ,afraid to ask questions, burn the letter with a lighted match and destroyed the only existing copy .

DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION

Words have two types of meaning DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION DENOTATION- Literary meaning of a word Example- books, accounts e.t.c.

CONNOTATION- Meaning arouse qualitative, judgment and personal reaction. Example- honest, competent, cheap e.t.c.

DIFFERENT COMPREHENSION OF REALITY

No two persons perceive reality in identical manner. On account of different abstractions, inference and evaluations, they comprehend reality in a different way. This may sometimes leads to miscommunication. They are Abstracting Slanting Inferring

ABSTRACTING
Abstracting may be defined as the process of focusing attention on some details and omitting others. We know only a part and are ignorant of the rest, but we think that we know the whole. Abstracting poses a grave barrier to communication, for detail which look pertinent to one report may look insignificant or trivial to another.