Communication serves five major functions: managing behavior, providing feedback, emotional sharing, persuasion, and information exchange. The communication process involves encoding a message by the sender, transmitting it through a channel, decoding it at the receiver, and providing feedback. Key components are the sender, encoding, message, channel, receiver, decoding, noise, and feedback. Communication can flow vertically between levels of an organization or laterally within the same level. There are three basic methods: oral, written, and non-verbal communication, each with advantages and disadvantages. Barriers like filtering, selective perception, information overload, emotions, language differences, silence, anxiety, and lying can distort the intended message.
Communication serves five major functions: managing behavior, providing feedback, emotional sharing, persuasion, and information exchange. The communication process involves encoding a message by the sender, transmitting it through a channel, decoding it at the receiver, and providing feedback. Key components are the sender, encoding, message, channel, receiver, decoding, noise, and feedback. Communication can flow vertically between levels of an organization or laterally within the same level. There are three basic methods: oral, written, and non-verbal communication, each with advantages and disadvantages. Barriers like filtering, selective perception, information overload, emotions, language differences, silence, anxiety, and lying can distort the intended message.
Communication serves five major functions: managing behavior, providing feedback, emotional sharing, persuasion, and information exchange. The communication process involves encoding a message by the sender, transmitting it through a channel, decoding it at the receiver, and providing feedback. Key components are the sender, encoding, message, channel, receiver, decoding, noise, and feedback. Communication can flow vertically between levels of an organization or laterally within the same level. There are three basic methods: oral, written, and non-verbal communication, each with advantages and disadvantages. Barriers like filtering, selective perception, information overload, emotions, language differences, silence, anxiety, and lying can distort the intended message.
Managing behavior - communication helps manage member behavior. Feedback - communication creates feedback by clarifying to employees what they need to do, how well they are doing it, and how they can improve their performance. Emotional sharing - communication within the group is a fundamental mechanism by which members show satisfaction and frustration, thereby providing for the emotional sharing of feelings and fulfillment of social needs. Persuasion - persuasion can be good or bad depending on if, say, a leader is trying to persuade a workgroup to commit to the organization’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives or to, conversely, persuade the workgroup to go against their core beliefs to meet an organizational goal. Information exchange - one of the purposes of communication is information exchange to facilitate decision making. Communication process involves the steps between the sender and the receiver, resulting in transfer and interpretation of a message. The message to be communicated is encoded (converted to a symbolic form) and passed by way of some medium (channel) to the receiver, who retranslates (decodes) the message. Successful communication results in the transference of meaning from one person to another. Key components of communication process are as follows: Sender: the person who initiates a message by encoding a thought. Encoding: converting the thought into symbols and language. Message: the actual physical product the sender is encoding. It is the encoded thought to be transferred. Channel: the sender-selected medium through which the message travels. Receiver: the person to whom the message is directed. Decoding: converting a message from symbols and language back into thought. Noise: communication barriers that distort the clarity of the message, such as perceptual problems, information overload, semantic difficulties, or cultural differences. Feedback: information sent from the receiver back to the sender to indicate how successful the transference was. Communication can flow vertically or laterally. Vertical communications can be upward or downward from a person's position in an organization. Upward communication: moves upward through the organization's hierarchy. It is used to provide feedback to organizational superiors, inform superiors of progress toward goals, to relay current problems, and solicit employee suggestions. It keeps managers in the loop regarding employee thoughts and perceptions. Downward communication: flows from one level of a group or organization to a lower level in that organization. Typically used by leaders and managers to assign goals, provide job instructions, inform employees of policies and procedures, point out problems that need attention, and offer feedback about performance. It can be an effective means for managers to explain the reasons why a decision was made. Downward communication tends to be one way, i.e. from manager to employee. Lateral communication takes place among members of the same work group, among members of work groups of the same level of the hierarchy, among managers at the same level, or between any horizontally equivalent personnel. Such communications help to facilitate coordination and save time. These lateral relationships may be formally sanctioned or, more often, they are informally created to short-circuit the vertical hierarchy and expedite action. There are three basic methods of communication - oral, written, and non-verbal. They are discussed below: Oral communication is the chief means of conveying messages. Advantages of oral communications include speed of sending message and feedback that can be received quickly, making corrections relatively simple. However, oral communications are subject to personal interpretation, and when passed through a number of people, the message received at the final destination may not be the one that was originally sent. Written communication includes any method that conveys written words or symbols. It is useful because it provides a tangible and verifiable record of the communication, message can be referred to for future purposes, and it allows the sender to communicate a well thought-out, logical and clear message. Non-verbal communication includes body movements, the intonations or emphasis given to words, facial expressions, and the physical distance between the sender and the receiver. It supports other channels of communication and helps to express emotions and feelings. However, it is often ridden with misperception and can greatly influence the receiver’s interpretation of the message. There are a number of barriers to effective communication that can distort the message being sent. Some of them are as follows: Filtering is a common barrier where the sender sorts the information shared so that it will be seen as more favorable by the receiver. Selective perception distort messages when people selectively interpret what they see based on their own experiences and attitudes. Information overload occurs when the information people receive exceed their capacity to process it all. This leads to barriers to receiving the complete message. A receiver’s emotions can influence interpretation of the message. When communicating, words mean different things to different people, especially when they are not fluent in the language being used to communicate. This can influence the message significantly, thereby causing confusion between the sender and the receiver. Silence may be misinterpreted by people, thereby affecting communication. Some people are nervous about oral or written modes of communication. Their anxiety impacts clear communication. Some people lie. The frequency of the lies combined with the difficulty of detecting exactly when it is occurring also contribute to poor communication.
As The Sending and Receiving of Messages Among Interrelated Individuals Within A Particular Environment or Setting To Achieve Individual and Common Goals