3. Recognize barrier
• Lack of Sensitivity to Receiver
• Lack of Basic Communication Skills
• Insufficient Knowledge of the Subject
• Information Overload
• Emotional Interference.
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.
6.
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
