Affects of Filtering - 6
Background
- There may be special "environment" conditions
- Such as fear of exposure, down-sizing or dismissal
- Which colors or distorts the message
- Resulting in irrational or dysfunctional behavior, at odds with the original intent
Preoccupation
- The recipient may already be heavily engaged
- With little time to properly decode the message
- Or spatial separation may render the message apparently obsolete on arrival