Tuesday 11 October 2011

LIMITATIONS OF ORAL COMMUNICATION



Oral communication has many advantages but oral communication is not always the best approach. It suffers from the following dis advantages.


1. NO EVIDENCE - There is no documentary proof of oral communication and as such the impact of oral communication is purely temporary.


2. NOT SUITABLE IN CERTAIN CASES - When the message to be delivered is too lengthy or complex, oral communication may not be suitable.




3. EXPENSIVE AND TIME CONSUMING - The biggest drawback of personal contact is the difficulty in arranging the communicators. When the people who meet are separated by longer distance  personal contact is expensive and time consuming.




4. NOT APPROPRIATE WHEN THE MATTER IS CONTROVERSIAL - A personal contact might also be unproductive if the contact antagonize one or more of th participants. If the personalities or subject is likely to make someone angry or defensive, then less confrontational forms of communication might be better.




5. SERIOUS DELIBERATION IS NOT POSSIBLE - Serious thought is not possible on the subject  because the receiver has to take an immediate derision in response to the  communication received.




6. MORE PRONE TO PHYSICAL NOISE - An oral message is more probability of getting distorted because of physical noise like inaudibility of speech, somebody interfering in between and likewise.


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