Barriers to effective communication

There are number of hindrance or barriers to effective communication especially in organizations where filtering occurs in the upward communication where sender's views have been modified in favor of the superiors in the organization so as to please them.Another barrier being the selective perception process where the recipient of information take only the points which benefits him based on his needs.Effective communication fails due to overload of information with respect to the processing capacity.Emotion also plays a vital role in effective communication.Language is another criterion to have impact on effective communication.Other factors such as age,education and background decide our communication effectiveness.