MIDTERMS: BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION

There are 5 considered barriers to communication and here are the following:

• Structural barrier is based more on the organization’s design and bureaucratic patterns, the number of employees and managers and supervisory layers. From the term itself, it is more focused on the structure of one particular target receiver.

• Semantics barrier is the branch of communication science that studies aspects of words and messages.

•  Technical barrier is affected by the defect in equipment, in the environment and in the medium being used.

•  People barrier is more on how the receiver interprets the message received. Communications is affected by differences in background and perception. It embodies the quote “ Say what you mean and mean what you say”.

• Outcome barrier is when the receiver cannot perform the requested task, then that means the communication has not been entirely successful.

All of these represent almost all of the often experienced barriers when it comes to communication, that is why being aware and doing something to make that barrier be built into a bridge, then successful communication will be attained.

*Everything that I listed and pointed out here are all based from my notes given and discussed to us by our lecturer on Laboratory Management. We were given a task to choose three topics from both our preliminary term and midterm, to which we all get to share and express all the things that we’ve learned for this second semester. *