Common challenges and barriers in effective communication

BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
MR.FISHY RESTAURANT
Common challenges and barriers in effective communication
There are multiple kinds of barriers which hinders effective communication. They can be broadly categorised into:
Linguistic barriers: In any kind of communication language acts as a key factor and different languages used in different regions are the reason
behind this communication barrier. Dialects change with different regions. There are 20 employees in Mr. Fishy and they belong to different
regions giving birth to linguistic barriers.
Psychological barriers:Staff members while communicating can face this barrier, there could be chances that one employee have fear from
talking to another employee, speech disorders, depression and phobia giving rise to psychological barrier.
Emotional barriers: There are difference in emotional balance and intelligence quotient of one employee from another giving rise to emotional
barrier. They may find problem of communicating with ease and comfort from one another. Emotions affect effectiveness of communication
and affect decision making.
Physical barriers:These are barriers which can be removed, they can be noise during communication, non performing equipments which are
used for communicating, large separation between employees etc.
Cultural barriers: There are different number of British and non British employees as London is a perfect example of effect of globalization
there are people all over the world working n London and this difference in culture gives rise to cultural barrier as there are different meanings
of different acts in different cultures.
Organizational structure barriers:There are chances of growing barrier in effective communication growing out of lack of transparency in
organizational structure and misinformation.
Attitude barriers:These barriers arise out of attitude and personality of each employee working in an organization there are introverts,
extroverts, employees with attitude problems like ego and inconsiderate behaviour etc. These all acts as barriers in communication.
Perception barriers:Every employee has different perception patterns and perceives things differently. Knowledge regarding perception levels
acts as a barrier in communication and can lead to to difference in understanding.