Advantages and disadvantages of oral communication?

Answer 1

The advantages of oral channels of communication are that they:

• are fast - useful for obtaining very recent unpublished information
• are based on two-way communication and therefore promote an understanding of the real information need(s) and the communication of relevant information
• are flexible
• simplify and facilitate the transmission of information between people working in different subject areas (useful in interdisciplinary studies)
• are easy and pleasant to use

The disadvantages of oral channels of communication are that they:

• are not open to everyone - established researchers have access to good networks of contacts, but these usually take time to cultivate
• can lead to misconceptions because the information is sometimes incomplete (lack of detail etc.)
• are difficult to maintain and therefore unstable
• it can also lead to mis belief,as oral promises do not lend any where
• as a human nature one can make mistake in spelling something different which can sometimes leads to major mistake