“Communication serves as the lubricant, fostering for the smooth operations of the management process.”

Communication is the nerve system of an enterprise. It is said to be no.1 management problem today. Thus, it is crucial for the management to maintain proper flow of communication in all directions.

But in practice, all messages are not successfully channeled or received. Various obstacles, blockades, difficulties, stoppages or constrictions, known as barriers to communication, disfigure the message and make communication ineffective. These communication barriers cause confusion and conflict between persons living in the same society, working on the same job and even persons living in different parts of the world who even do not know one another.

A large number of managerial problems are the result of unproductive or defective communication. Substantial melioration in managerial competence can be made if communication barriers are dampened or minimized. There are various barriers that made communication ineffective, and some of them are explained below: -

- A communication is a two-way process, distance between the sender and the receiver of the message is an important barrier to communication. Noise and environmental factors also block communication.

- Personal factors like difference in judgment, social values, inferiority complex, bias attitude, time pressure, communication inability, etc. broaden the psychological distance between the sener and the receiver.

- Semantic is the science of meaning. The same words and symbols have different meanings to different people. Difficulties in communication take place when the sender and the receiver of the message make use of words or symbols in different senses. The meaning intended by the sender may be dissimilar from the meaning followed by the receiver. People understand the message in terms of their own behavior and experience.