Analysis of Effective Communication: Barriers, Ethics, and Strategies

This essay delves into the complexities of effective communication, highlighting common barriers such as physical hindrances, attitudinal issues, cultural and linguistic differences, and physiological factors. It emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and active listening in overcoming these obstacles. The essay also addresses the challenges of cross-cultural communication, emphasizing the need for sensitivity and adaptability in diverse settings. Furthermore, it explores the role of ethics in communication, advocating for decisions that prioritize the well-being of society. The essay concludes by reinforcing the significance of effective communication in daily life and the potential for self-awareness and ethical considerations to enhance communication practices. Desklib offers more resources for students seeking to improve their understanding of communication and related topics.

EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION

ESSAY: Effective communication
Effective communication sounds like it should be natural but it is not the case. It has been
analyzed that most of the time when some people communicate or interact with other person; this
communication may take a wrong turn if the things are not clear between them. It is not the
person who is speaking is involved in making the communication effective but it can be made
effective only if the response from the other person is also correct. We say something, the one on
other side listens something and feel frustrated of the communication is misunderstood, this
generates issues and this misunderstanding takes place because of the barriers of communication.
This essay focuses on some of these related aspects of effective communication (Austin &
Pinkleton, 2015).
Effective communication is not only about exchanging the information but it is more than that.
It's about accepting the feeling and meanings behind the information. Along with this, in order to
clearly transfer a message, it is required to accept the message in a way it is said and also to gain
the full meaning of what’s being said and makes the other person feel heard and understood.
As discussed that making effective communication is not just in the hands of the sender of the
message or the receiver of the message, it depends on various other factors as well. Thus, there
are many barriers that affect the effective communication or we can say that restrict the effective
communication (Arnold & Boggs, 2015). As far as my concern is considered, I have faced many
barriers. One of the major barriers that I used to face is physical barriers. This is the type of
barrier that is faced by each and every person. Physical barriers includes the factors such as
noise, the device used to communicate, poor lightening, temperature, other weather issues etc. I
usually face the issues of background noise whenever I make conversation on phone (Shockley-
Zalabak, 2014). The noises from the background restricted my voice to reach properly to the
receiver. Other barriers that are also very much popular and faced by many individuals are
attitude issues. This is the issue that is inside the person and it is personal nature of the individual
that affects the communication. There are many emotions that the individual face at different
times and these emotions change the nature of communication that ate individual made (King,
Desmarais, Lindsay, Piérart & Tétreault, 2015). As far as my nature is considered, I am little bit
angry and short tempered and thus lack in making effective communication at times because of
many anger. This is because that emotion dominates me. Cultural and language can also act as

the barriers for making effective communication. If two people with different culture meet then
they try to communicate with each other on their cultural and linguistic language which may not
be understood by the other person. This results in bad communication. Physiological barriers are
another barrier that can affect the communication. It has-been analyzed that if the person is not
fit either mentally or physically, it affects their ability to communicate with other person.
Self-awareness is another concept that is very important for effective communication.it has been
analyzed that if the person is aware about his own flaws and improve its capabilities to make the
communication accordingly the communication can be made effective. Listening is one of the
aspects that are very important. If the person speaks and the other person does not listen properly
than the communication cannot be effective even if the speaker is speaking correctly. It has been
analyzed that it is required to listen the thing open mindedly to make the conversation effective, I
name experienced many cases where I tried speaking things to some person but the other person
has some assumptions in their mind regarding a subject and thus they won’t try to listen to the
things open mindedly. This also leads to improper communication and thus self-awareness is
very much required to have effective communication (Thomson, Outram, Gilligan & Levett-
Jones, 2015).
As most of the companies these days operate overseas, thus they have to make cross cultural
communication. This is also a very big challenge. Cross cultural communication means
interaction between the people having different culture or language. This makes it difficult for
the person to communicate because both have different cultural background and thus different
understanding and experiences regarding the similar situations and thus both understand things
differently (Sonntag, et al. 2016). It is not necessary that saying hello without nodding the face is
justified in every culture some culture believes in nodding face. It has been analyzed that when
cross cultural communication is made people have may have different languages and thus finds it
difficult to convey the message to other person effectively. Here, nonverbal gestures also play
their role. It is required to be repressive I nature in terms of communicating with other culture
people (Mira, Guilabert, Pérez‐Jover & Lorenzo, 2014).

Ethics can be defined as the feeling of the person to bifurcate the doings into right and wrong.
Ethics can vary person to person. This is because it is about the perception of the people. Being
ethical is not the same as doing "whatever society accepts." In most of the societies, the people
accept the standards that are ethical in nature, but these standards can vary and deviate from the
ethics. This makes the entire society corrupt. Nazi Germany is a good example of a morally
corrupt society. Moreover, if being ethical were doing "whatever society accepts," then to find
out what is ethical, one would have to find out what society accepts (Prasad, 2015).
Therefore being ethical means listen to our own insights and make the decision that does not
harm self as well as the society. This is considered as most ethical in nature. If any of the
decision needs to be made, it is required to analyses the after effects of the decision and should
try to take the decision that harms very few people in the society (Toomey, et al.2016). This is
because of the person wants to be ethical it is required to be ethical towards the society rather
than to e ethical for self. Ethical cannot be taught to the person but this came from inside the
persona his upbringing. As far as my ethics are considered, I am the person who cannot
disrespect elders even if they are wrong and this sometimes pulled me into trouble as I used to
agree it the people who are elder to me are saying even if there are wrong. It is the insight of the
people that makes ethics (Bishop, & Lee, 2017).
The overall discussion suggests that communication is the aspect that is very important in day to
day life of people and thus it needs to be effective in nature. This is because the negative impact
of an ineffective communication is very worse. It is required to remove the barriers such as
physical barriers, attitude barriers, physiological barriers etc. That restricts the person to make
effective communication. Cross cultural communication is also the type of communication that is
challenging for the people because of the obstructions of language, culture, etc. Self-awareness
is the tool that can be sued to remove the obstacles in communication and integrating ethics with
decision among can make things even better.
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