Barriers To Effective Communication

Abstract

In any discussion on the failure of communication, the writer usually bears the burden of criticism. But when writers have an opportunity to discuss problems of communication among themselves, one hears of uncoordinated material handed to them, unrealistic deadlines, and poor supervising personnel. Barriers to elective technical communication apply to prepar ation, language, time and dis tance, and the human element. Many professional communicat ors feel that there should be more company indoctrination of new writers and constant re training of older writers. The human element is still most im portant in communications. A professional writer will be bet ter trained if he acquires some knowledge of the psychology of communication and of motiva tion, and if he works for a large corporation he is in an essential way integrated into the scheme of things.