Barriers

Examples of Barriers in the following topics:

• The Nature of Effective Communication

  • Physical barriers like distance, inferior technology, or staff shortages that reduce information processing capacity.
  • Attitudinal barriers presented by individuals.
  • Physiological barriers like ill health, poor eyesight, or hearing difficulties.
  • Communications have to take the potential barriers of an audience into account and tailor the message to reach them.
  • Define effective communication in the context of organizational challenges and barriers

• Barriers to Managing Control

  • Barriers to managing control include lack of resources, inaccurate measurements, improper information flow, and incorrect analyses.
  • There are sometimes barriers to testing, measuring, communicating, or observing how effectively a system or process is running.
  • A particularly complex barrier to offset is information flow.
  • Managers should be aware of these barriers and do their best to avoid them through training and accuracy.
  • Outline the most common barriers encountered by managers working to manage control within an organization

• Barriers to Organizational Diversity

  • Despite various trends towards a more diverse workplace, some barriers still limit progress.
  • Resistance to change is a slightly different barrier to assimilating more diversity in work groups, as it pertains more to the momentum of company culture.
  • The barriers discussed so far support the idea that opportunities, particularly at the higher level, are not equally distributed.
  • The glass ceiling represents an invisible barrier to employees of minority backgrounds, one that keeps them from achieving executive positions in corporations.
  • The consistency of the gap between wage and education levels in males and females offers concrete evidence that the barriers to diversity in the workplace still exist.

• Time Pressure as a Barrier to Decision Making

  • While time pressure is generally perceived as being a barrier to effective decision making, it may also have the exact opposite effect.

• Noise as a Barrier to Communication

  • Every organization faces certain barriers to communication.
  • Poorly structured messages can also be a barrier.

• Gender and Diversity

  • Barriers to effective communication can distort a message and its intention, which may result in failure of the communication process or damage to a relationship.
  • These barriers include filtering, selective perception, information overload, emotions, language, silence, communication apprehension, gender differences, and political correctness.

• Horizontal Communication

  • Some barriers to horizontal communication are differences in style, personality, or roles amongst co-workers.
  • Finally, corporations that operate in different geographic locations, particularly internationally, may struggle with horizontal communication across time zones as the confront the barriers of local idioms, customs, and languages.

• Team Communication

  • There are several barriers to effective communication within teams.

• Group Conflict as a Barrier to Decision Making

• Cognitive Biases as a Barrier to Decision Making