Effect of Communication Barriers in
Business Communication
An organization is an individual’s first home as one spends the maximum time here only. No organization
runs for charity, it is really important that the organization achieve its goals. How does an organization
become successful? How will an organization achieve its goals?.
The employees are the assets for any organization and the profitability of any organization is directly
proportional to the labour put by its employees. Putting labour does not mean getting involved in hard
physical work or digging the gold mines, it actually refers to the smart work done by employees,
transparency between the team members, free flow of information from the superior to the subordinates.
How does free flow of information happen? How is the transparency between the team members
achieved? - Through Communication and not only through communication but effective communication.
In organizations the barriers in communication go a long way in distortion of the message and the
information does not reach in its desired form.
Imagine a situation where you want some report from your team members which needs to be forwarded
to the managing director of the organization. What if your team misinterprets your information, screws up
the project and fails to submit it within the deadline. The managing director will literally sit on your head
and make your life miserable. The poor communication can actually cost you your job.
Let us now understand how barriers in communication effect business communication.
Noise acts as a devil in business communication. Any information downloaded at a noisy place is
bound to get distorted and result in a complete mess.
Preety wanted to go through the complete budget of the sales, marketing and the operations
team. She passed on this information to Harish at his workstation around which lots of other
employees were shouting, the base phone was constantly ringing and the photocopier machine
was making a terrible noise. At the end of the day, Harish submitted the report but the budget for
the operations team was missing in the report.
Harish actually had heard only about sales and marketing department and thus skipped the report
of the operations team. Preety fired Harish and even stopped his appraisal. Unwanted
distractions, noise, chit chats of the other employees etc played the culprit and poor Joe missed
out on his promotion.
Noise reduces the chances of the correct flow of information from the sender to the receiver. If the office
is noisy, errors are bound to happen and thus increasing conflicts among the team members and
decreasing the efficiency of the employees.
Unorganized and Haphazard thoughts also lead to ineffective communication in organizations.
Business communications are bound to suffer due to ineffective communication. If any individual wants
something from his team members, he first must be himself very clear what actually he expects from his
team. The boss must clearly mention his team member’s key responsibility areas in clear words to avoid
wastage of manpower, duplicacy of work, effective time management and more output from them.
Business Communication
An organization is an individual’s first home as one spends the maximum time here only. No organization
runs for charity, it is really important that the organization achieve its goals. How does an organization
become successful? How will an organization achieve its goals?.
The employees are the assets for any organization and the profitability of any organization is directly
proportional to the labour put by its employees. Putting labour does not mean getting involved in hard
physical work or digging the gold mines, it actually refers to the smart work done by employees,
transparency between the team members, free flow of information from the superior to the subordinates.
How does free flow of information happen? How is the transparency between the team members
achieved? - Through Communication and not only through communication but effective communication.
In organizations the barriers in communication go a long way in distortion of the message and the
information does not reach in its desired form.
Imagine a situation where you want some report from your team members which needs to be forwarded
to the managing director of the organization. What if your team misinterprets your information, screws up
the project and fails to submit it within the deadline. The managing director will literally sit on your head
and make your life miserable. The poor communication can actually cost you your job.
Let us now understand how barriers in communication effect business communication.
Noise acts as a devil in business communication. Any information downloaded at a noisy place is
bound to get distorted and result in a complete mess.
Preety wanted to go through the complete budget of the sales, marketing and the operations
team. She passed on this information to Harish at his workstation around which lots of other
employees were shouting, the base phone was constantly ringing and the photocopier machine
was making a terrible noise. At the end of the day, Harish submitted the report but the budget for
the operations team was missing in the report.
Harish actually had heard only about sales and marketing department and thus skipped the report
of the operations team. Preety fired Harish and even stopped his appraisal. Unwanted
distractions, noise, chit chats of the other employees etc played the culprit and poor Joe missed
out on his promotion.
Noise reduces the chances of the correct flow of information from the sender to the receiver. If the office
is noisy, errors are bound to happen and thus increasing conflicts among the team members and
decreasing the efficiency of the employees.
Unorganized and Haphazard thoughts also lead to ineffective communication in organizations.
Business communications are bound to suffer due to ineffective communication. If any individual wants
something from his team members, he first must be himself very clear what actually he expects from his
team. The boss must clearly mention his team member’s key responsibility areas in clear words to avoid
wastage of manpower, duplicacy of work, effective time management and more output from them.
