Communication Barriers in Organization

Table of Contents

The Barriers to Communication in a Company1

Obstacles Related to the Structure1

Socio-Cultural Barriers1

Obstacles related to the Content of Information Provided2

Obstacles related to the Conduct of Communication2

Causes Problems with Communication2

Mechanical Causes and Systemic Causes3

The Formal Mechanisms & Aggravating Factors4

The Consequences of Problems4

Solving Problems Related To Organizational Communication5

Communication Barriers in Organization

The Barriers to Communication in a Company

Whatever the size of the company and its industry is, communication contributes to the achievement of its objectives, and it improves the quality of products and services, promotes motivation, contributing to employee loyalty and creates value shared. There are communication problems specific to the company, namely: structural problems and other socio-cultural (Wood, 2007).

Obstacles Related to the Structure

Business operation requires a horizontal and vertical division of labor (notion of Adam Smith) which created entities in the business of management necessary for the differentiation that sees problems coordination and communication. Besides this, other problems related to firm size is also critical, the larger the company is growing tendency to become bureaucratic and structural problems are increasing (light control, slow communication, lack of filtering), i.e. focus on formal written communication, direct communication and relational language) (Deetz, 2005).

Socio-Cultural Barriers

This category of obstacles reference to considerations of human communication in a company which originates from the lack of analysis of the composition of the employee, the examinations of the various business functions, modes of communication and acceptable level of language, hence the necessity of trade unionism that protects the interests of employees. Thus, conflicts of power and strategies of leaders to keep their flexibility create communication problems. In short, the culture of the organization is effective communication (Erez, 2002).

Obstacles related to the Content of Information Provided

The topics most requested by employees concerning the financial and asset situation of the company and its competitive position but, what their concerns more directly is their rights, internships, training, wage policy, the work organization, the movement of staff (hiring, terminations, and changes). Employees want a professional, but the seriousness is often top secret. While most executives recognize, that there is no strategic or confidential information. Thus, the conditions under which employees are informed are not fixed in the agreement and pay specific communication topics of interest to the employee no longer practiced (Drucker, 2004).

Obstacles related to the Conduct of Communication

Freedom of expression, even if it is considered beneficial by managers see desirable, is often incompatible with the deep structures of the enterprise: the internal communication can be boosted without altering the practices specific to the own company representation (leaders seek to alter the management of others) (Roy, 2010).

Causes Problems with Communication

These barriers are a priori very numerous and of varying importance. They do not prevent most organizations operate. When failures are observed, diagnosis of the problems can often remedy. We analyze at first the main root causes of malfunctions and secondly how the formal mechanisms of the organization can sometimes exacerbate these failures.

Mechanical Causes and Systemic Causes

There are two families of root causes of current difficulties in communication within the ...