Communication Barriers

/ Barriers in Each Communication process

Sender Receiver

CHANNEL
Notion Encoding (MEDIUM) Decoding Notion

• Cultural Difference • Cultural Difference

• Personal Experience • Personal Experience
• Educational Background • Educational Background
•. •.
•. •.
•. Feed Back •.
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Difference in Encoding/Decoding Decoding

Encoding
Process according to

• Cultural Difference

?
• Personal Experience
• Educational Background
My girl friend is “Blonde” Blonde = Dumb

PS2 port Playstation 2

sungyeoblee@yahoo.com @ = at
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Inappropriate Channel(Medium)

My name in Chinese letters

“ 李 成 燁”
Verbal ?

Chinese has 4 different tunes

Non-Verbal ?
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Lack of “Feed Back”

Conversation on the Phone

Without “verbal Cues”

“is it disconnected?”

Buscom class

“no more questions?

“…silence…”
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OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO
COMMUNICATION

Bernard L. Erven
Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
Ohio State University
From http://www-agecon.ag.ohio-state.edu/people/erven.1/HRM/communication.pdf

-Buscom Group 1-
Sung-yeob Lee
Henry G. Hung
Kristine Sto. Domingo
Edda Rea Abarintos
Maann De Jesus