For an organization in order to ensure that it is
running smoothly, and its goals are being met to the best of the organization
ability, there must be a solid communication between the management and
employees involved. Therefore, communication is supposed to be effective and
efficient when it is being used in the organization. Management should ensure
that there are less jargon words that are being used in the daily communication
with the employees in order to avoid miscommunication that may be detrimental
to organizational success. This is also to make sure that communication is
still serving its purpose in the organization, of information or ideas sharing.
In situations where insufficient communication occurs, it tends to hamper the
effective and efficient communication, as a result it leads employees to being
demoralized and having a high employee turnover, relationships between employees
and employers being tarnished, wastage of organizational resources and as well
as negatively impact the organization productivity. Employees should be treated
with care as they form a very integral component of the organization. In this
paper, the impact of using many jargon words, while communicating with the
organization employees is being investigated.
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