Language use plays an important part of the communication process. Therefore, how we choose to use our diction, and to who we use our words, could affect the way people perceive what we are trying to say. Status, or a person's social rank, makes another barrier to effective communication. As we move up the ranks of an organization, a person's status symbolizes how successful or arrogant the person is. To effectively communicate with employees, supervisors need to make sure that the message they are sending is clear and concise.
Conflicting assumptions are another individual barrier to effective communication.
Again this goes back to the diction choice that a supervisor uses with his employees. If the supervisor says jump for instance, and the employee jumps in the air, the supervisor might have meant for the employee to jump forward instead of up. We need to be clear and concise when delegating duties to employees. Semantics is the study of the way words are used and the meaning they convey. Emotions are subjective reactions or feeling.