BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION BY JIBIN MATHEW SRIKANTH ANAND KUBERAN VIJAY RAMAKRISHNAN

Communication What is a Barrier? The barrier interrupt the flow of communication from the sender to the receiver, thus making communication ineffective. Communication Communication is a process beginning with a sender who encodes the message & passes it through some channel to the receiver who decodes the message

BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION Barriers to communication are defined as, “aspects of or conditions….. that interfere with effective exchange of ideas or thoughts.” Barriers to communication can be anything that distorts or prevents a message from being properly sent or received.

TYPES OF BARRIERS Semantic Barrier Wrong Choice of Medium Physical Barrier Semantic Barrier Different comprehensions of reality Socio-Psychological Barriers

Wrong Choice of Medium Each communication must be transmitted through an appropriated medium. We have variety of medium to choose. Properly chosen media. Unsuitable medium may act barrier to communication

Physical Barrier Noise. Time & Distance. Physical Barriers consist of any sound that prevents a person from being heard. Physical noise interferes with a speaker's ability to send messages and with an audience's ability to receive them. Noise. Time & Distance.

SEMANTIC BARRIER Misunderstandings that occur by people trying to communicate an idea, but simultaneously having completely different meanings in mind for the words. Interpretation of words By passed instruction Denotation & connotations

DIFFERENT COMPREHENSIONS OF REALITY Reality of an object, an event, or a person is different to different people. Its not a fixed concept, they complex infinite & continuously change . Abstracting Slanting Inferring

SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS EMOTION ATTITUDE & OPINIONS CULTURE DIVERSITY SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS CONFLICTING GOALS CLOSE MIND FRAME OF REFERENCE SOURCE OF COMMUNICATION

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