This document discusses various barriers to effective communication. It identifies individual barriers such as differences in personality and perception, as well as organizational barriers like a negative climate or excessive bureaucracy. Barriers are also caused by a lack of basic communication skills, insufficient knowledge, information overload, and emotional interference. Language and semantic barriers can arise when people from different cultures have different meanings for words. Other barriers include physical and channel distractions, conflicting messages, and noise.

1. Barriers to effective
communication

2. Step 1 :Recognize Barrier

3. Recognize barrier
• Lack of Sensitivity to Receiver
• Lack of Basic Communication Skills
• Insufficient Knowledge of the Subject
• Information Overload
• Emotional Interference.

4. Transmitting Barriers
• Physical Distractions
• Conflicting Messages
• Channel Barriers
• Long communication chain

5. Types of barriers…
• Ricky W. Griffin has classified the
communication barriers into two broad groups
such as
• (a) Individual barriers and
• (b) Organizational barriers.

7. (a)Individual Barriers
• Barriers created by the sender and receiver
• Types :
• Differences in personality
• Perceptual differences
• Fear
• Stereotyping
• Halo Effect
• Inattention

8. Organizational Barriers
• The barriers that generate form within the
organization
• Types :
• Negative organizational climate
• Absence of communication policy
• Excessive authority layers
• Filtering

9. Language or Semantic Barrier
• Semantic barrier presents difficult challenge
when people from different cultures
communicate with each other.
• Semantic problem arises when words and
symbols have different meanings for different
people that lead to a misunderstanding.
• For examples, an advertisement states, “we sell
for less.”

10. Other Barriers
• Information Overload
• Faulty expression (fails to convey exact
meaning )
• Status or power difference
• Negative attitudes to change
• Noise