Bypassing
Bypassing, miscommunication that occurs when two individuals think that they understand each other but actually they miss each other’s meaning. There are two types of bypassing that are the most common, the first is when two people use different words or phrases to represent the same thing. The second is when people give different meanings to the same word or phrase (Gamble and Gamble, 2013, pg85). Bypassing can cause many miscommunication problems that at times might be completely unnecessary. For example, when people say or use the word gay. One person might think its related to the sexuality of someone. There are others that say “that’s gay” to them, it might mean that’s sucks, or others might use the word gay as happy. That’s a word that can get people into problems and or arguments, there are many words like that in the English language, gay being one of many.
From personal experience working at home depot we constantly were changing the product around. So I told my associate to set the bay to planogram, he said well let me change it first to and see if it works for sales. That’s what setting it to planogram is giving top sellers more self-space and exposure for customers to buy, so we wanted the same thing in theory, I just called it by its name he called it by what he thought it was. There is constant bypassing communication issues in everyday life whether its work, school, home, and other daily interactions. All of which can be avoided if people elaborate on their thoughts or meaning behind their thought process. No one can assume that the other person knows what they mean.
Written by Alex Garcia
Gamble, T. & Gamble, M. (2013). Communication Works (11th ed.) New York: McGraw Hill
From personal experience working at home depot we constantly were changing the product around. So I told my associate to set the bay to planogram, he said well let me change it first to and see if it works for sales. That’s what setting it to planogram is giving top sellers more self-space and exposure for customers to buy, so we wanted the same thing in theory, I just called it by its name he called it by what he thought it was. There is constant bypassing communication issues in everyday life whether its work, school, home, and other daily interactions. All of which can be avoided if people elaborate on their thoughts or meaning behind their thought process. No one can assume that the other person knows what they mean.
Written by Alex Garcia
Gamble, T. & Gamble, M. (2013). Communication Works (11th ed.) New York: McGraw Hill