A Literature Review on Overcoming Business Communication Barriers

This literature review examines the barriers to effective business communication, focusing on psychological, emotional, and cultural influences within organizations. It identifies common challenges such as lack of planning, poor audience engagement, and not understanding employees. The review references various viewpoints and emphasizes the importance of clear communication for meeting organizational goals. Strategies for overcoming these barriers are also discussed, including active listening, constructive feedback, and using simple language. The review highlights the need for organizations to address communication challenges to foster a healthy environment that supports growth and expansion, particularly for companies like Mr. Fishy. The importance of preplanning and formal strategies before interacting with employees is emphasized, along with ensuring that employees are heard and understood. Overall, the review provides insights into improving communication to minimize risks and enhance employee engagement.

Literature review
Business Communication
Barriers to effective communication
Psychological barrier: It include various problems
such as speed disorder, phobia, depression etc. This may
cause barriers to effective communication which may cause
chaos within the organisation. This barrier must be removed
by the taking proper feedback for employees.
Emotional barrier: The emotional barrier depends
upon the personality of individual and the IQ of the person
determines the ease as well as comfort in which they can
communicate. While people with more emotional
personality have to low communication skills. This can be
overcome by interacting with more and more people within
the organisation.
Identify common challenges of effective barriers to
effective communication
Lack of plan: Effective communication requires
the preplanning and formal strategy before interacting
with the employees (Sutter and Kieser 2019). For the
manager of Mr. Fishy it is important to develop a
blueprint before speaking to employees.
Poor audience engagement: There must be
proper use of verbal and nonverbal communication which
help in engaging the audience in a well define manner.
Mr. Fishy manager must make sure that employees listen
them carefully which lead towards effective
communication.
Not understanding the employees: It is important
for management to make sure about the employee’s
problems and try to resolve it. Most of the organisation to
don't listen to workers which create ineffective
communication between the employees and management.
According to the view point of (Nagel 2019). Business
communication is the process of sharing information
between people within and outside the company.
Effective business communication is how employees
and management interact within the organisation to meet
the goals and objectives. Manager of Mr. Fishy must use
proper communication so that employee’s grievances
can be reduced. It helps in transmitting information and
thoughts between the various department in the
organisation and outside such as customers, investors.
Suppliers etc.

Demonstrate awareness of cultural influences on
communication
Culture is basically the set of values that group of
people holds and such value affect how individual thinks (Tang
2019). Every communication is influenced by the cultural
differences because each and every individual have different
culture backgrounds. Dealing with different type of people
requires lots of knowledge and experiences in communication
which leads toward success and growth. So it is important for
the organisation like Mr. Fishy to maintain high
communication challenge within the department as well as
employees to develop health environment which help in
growth and expansion.
Active listening: To avoid and overcome the
communication barrier employees must listen carefully
about the instruction and message given by the upper
level management. Hence this reduce the
communication inefficiency within the organisation of
Mr. Fishy.
Provide constructive feedback: Feedback
plays an important role in minimizing the
communication barrier. Further feedback session must
be carried by the manager of the Mr. Fishy to avoid
Device and develop strategies for overcoming the
barriers
There are various barrier which are faced by
employees and by the managers within the organisation
(Hill 2019). For the organisation like Mr. Fishy it is
crucial for the organisation try to reduce the barrier to
gain aims and objective.
Use of simple Language: Manager should
make use of simple language for developing healthy
relationship with employees. Management use clear
word and must avoid jargon in order to effective
communication.