Effects of bad communication resulting in poor organisational outcomes

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Effects of bad communication resulting in poor organisational outcomes
Annotated Bibliography
Article 1.
Adu-Oppong, A. A., & Agyin-Birikorang, E. (2014). Communication in the workplace:
Guidelines for improving effectiveness. Global Journal of Commerce & Management
Perspective, 3(5), 203-213.
The authority of this article can be claimed by the article publication itself and authors
who are educators in a renowned University in Ghana. This article majorly discusses reasons
behind ineffective communication in businesses and thus illuminates this bibliography by
highlighting significant points that can assist business managers who are responsible for
managing big organisations. The conceptual framework presented by the authors reflects
common factors that are related to business communication exchange and is been discussed
in the paper after considering individual and environmental concerns. The article suggests
that effective communication strategies needs to adopted by organisations to realise positive
outcomes and therefore, provides various recommendation and theoretical foundations that
can help its readers in overcoming issues related to ineffective communication. As compared
to the viewpoints presented by Odine (2015), this article also justifies the proposed
bibliography topic concerning effective communication skills and knowledge that can
potentially enhance organisational executives’ abilities required to lead an organisation
successfully.

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Article 2.
Agarawal, A. (2012). Lack of Communication a Stumbling Block to the Development of an
Organisation. International Journal of Social Science & Interdisciplinary Research,
1(10), 121-130.
This article written by an assistant professor in an Indian University finds that present
competitive world organisations have to face many challenges while taking critical decisions
and to overcome issues related to it, effective communication is very essential. Like the
viewpoints presented by Kelvin-Iloafu (2016), this article also suggests business managers to
poeses communicational skills to handle intense situations like conflicts between
management and employees. The managers also need to be proficient enough so that they are
able to communicate any observed internal and external changes within business environment
and thus requires integrating knowledge management strategies along with other business
communication frameworks to reduce poor communication and its negative effects. The
author identifies various gaps associated with effective communication along with ways that
can eliminate them so that business managers are able to take efficient and moral decisions
for generation of positive outcomes through good communication skills.
Article 3.
Almutairi, A. A., Alhaddad, M. A., & Alqahtani, A. A. (2015). Cultural Diversity and
Effective Organizational Communication. Journal of Business and Economics, 6(3),
1136-1140.
This article claims that cultural diversity is gaining prominence within debatable
topics among business researchers and authors. The writers of this article belongs to
‘Educational Management College’ and states their argument concerning diversified people

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contributions resulting in cultural diversity and communication barriers within workplaces.
The authors define communication and cultural effects as a common behaviour within
organisational behaviour context and reveals that information’s exchanged through effective
communication are one of the most significant factor behind organisational relationships and
positive outcomes. The article utilises content analysis method to review related articles that
reflects themes associated with effective communication and cultural diversity that
illuminates this bibliography effectively. Unlike research made by Evans, Suklun, & Nunn
(2017), this article reveals an in-depth analysis and assists organisation’s managers through
its findings related to different processes involved in cultural-oriented communication along
with training and education required for enabling positive organisational outcomes.
Article 4.
Evans, A., Suklun, H., & Nunn, S. (2017). Workplace diversity and intercultural
communication: A phenomenological study. Cognent Business and Management,
4(1).
This research article from ‘Cogent Business and Management’ conducts a
phenomenological assessment that examines workplace diversity impacts along with finding
how they can result in bringing poor communication in businesses. In this article, the authors
revealed that in US, women with English speaking origin enjoyed more autorotative powers
that the ones who were not proficient with English speaking. After selecting and
interviewing 16 participants, the authors finds that their individual as well as professional
experiences were closely affected due to communication gaps realised by them. This further
resulted in taking place of various violation, including physical ones also and criticism due to
miscommunications. This article illuminates the bibliography topic by signifying