CASE STUDY POORLY INFORMED WALRUS

The Walrus-Fable

The fable about the walruses gives a distinctive approach on what really happens especially in one 's work place . There are a few barriers of communication that are evident from this short interesting story of the walrus , lets look at some of them

Barriers to communication

Highly noticeable is that Basil the walrus couldn 't communicate the changing situations in the herd , although not his fault , neither did the other smaller walruses gather enough courage to let the older wiser walrus known of the situation among them

There

were a lot of changes that took place in the herd , like a new herd invaded the area that was being occupied by the smaller walruses . Partly because they were wary of the big old walrus , which is a common mistake that smaller new ones make . At every incident like the receding waters the dwindling herrings in the area and the invasion of their space , the smaller walruses did have the opportunity to inform the older walrus It 's probably since the older walrus extruded authority and was their boss , that they found it difficult to approach him fearing an outburst

Communication lessons at a new workplace

This is also a common situation that can be noticed in ones new workplace . If someone has newly joined an organisation , firstly he is either too shy to walk up to his boss and inform him about the issues that he probably faces . A new comer will never gather enough courage to walk...