Overcoming Communication Barriers in Business Organizations

This article discusses the common challenges and barriers to effective communication in business organizations, including physical, cultural, perceptual, emotional, and interpersonal barriers. It also provides effective strategies to overcome these barriers, such as providing concise and clear communication, creating an environment that supports collaboration between diverse cultures, and overcoming emotional barriers. The article includes references to books and journals on the topic.

Business Communication

TABLE OF CONTENT
Leaflet 1:......................................................................................................................................3
Leaflet 2:......................................................................................................................................4

Leaflet 1:
Common challenges and
barrier to effective
communication:
Physical barrier: after
COVID-19 impact, social
distancing is one of the
common term which means
people have to maintain
distance that stop spread of
COVID-19. Brit-tech company
will going to face issue in
smooth management of people
because of this barrier,
employee are not ready to
come office. Due to this
employee's retention will be
impacted resulting in loss of
productivity.
Emotional barrier: emotional
area of people simply means
employee have fear of vaccine
and this leads to insufficient
productivity because
emotionally they are not ready
Organizational structure
barrier: sometimes structure
of business does not fit with
demand of employee simply
means employee will resign
and impact company. Brit-tech
will going to face talent losing
problem because of structure,
for example lack of ventilation
will reduce employee
retention.
Perceptual barrier:
vaccination is very important
for every employee and those
employee who are not
vaccinated might face
discrimination from their
subordinate. Brit-tech
company's cultural
togetherness and
understanding of employee
will allow them to face this
barrier.
Interpersonal barrier: lock
Demonstrating importance
of cultural awareness:
Cultural awareness play vital
role, during time of COVID-19
awareness helped in managing
rising issue or cases. Every
business organization have
their own cultural that allow
them to work collaboratively
with diverse culture, employee
who belong to different culture
may have different taste and
preference. This is important
in breaking cultural barrier,
after COVID-19 people are
facing cultural barrier that is
impacting their productivity.
Importance of cultural
awareness in organization;
Self-confidence: self-
confidence of employee
become every important when
it comes to productivity and
retention, simply means
cultural barrier like
discrimination will impact
confidence of employee
resulting in less effective
work.

to work from office. Brit-tech
company face lack of
emotional touch which boost
productivity of employee.
down was beneficial for some
employee but some employee
have lost interpersonal skills
that impact productivity. Brit-
tech company is facing issue
with employee's productivity
due to losing interpersonal
skills.
Collaboration: every business
organization want their
employee to work
collaboratively with each other
avoiding cultural barrier,
discrimination is only can be
solved if company create that
environment that support
collaboration between diverse
culture.
Leaflet 2:
Effective strategies to
overcoming communication
barrier:
Concise and clear
communication:
communicator have to be clear
about message there are
conveying, this simply means
to overcome any kind of
barrier for example; physical
barrier may impact smooth
flow of message, both
communicator and listener
Nomination strategy:
nomination strategy means
communicator have to
collaboratively and
productively have to start and
topic in the public, later people
will provide their point of view
which will make
Place and time: place and
time play crucial role when it
comes to overcoming
communication barrier, this
means employee need to
decide the best place where
they can communicate with
each other effectively.
REFERENCES
Books and journal:
Keyton, J., 2017.
Communication in
organizations. Annual Review

have to provide concise and
clear communication.
Employee's of Brit-tech
company need to focus on
providing concise and clear
communication.
communication more effective.
Brit-tech company's employee
have to use this strategy to
overcome emotional barrier
because emotion play vital role
in this strategy.
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and Organizational
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Samovar, L.A., Porter, R.E.,
McDaniel, E.R. and Roy, C.S.,
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Yusof, A.N.A.M. and Rahmat,
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