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Heald, Maureen R.; Contractor, Noshir S.; Koehly, Laura M.; Wasserman, Stanley – Human Communication Research, 1998
Examines several factors that are hypothesized to influence the perceptual congruence of organization members (extent to which members agree on their perceptions of the organization's social structure). Proposes that employees' congruence on the organization's social structure is influenced by similarities in formal structure, demographic…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Congruence (Psychology), Employee Attitudes, Organizational Communication

Miller, Katherine I. – Communication Research, 1988
Proposes that cultural and role variables within organizations will predict the extent to which individuals hold a collective or individualistic approach to organizational life. Finds that effects of participation and allocation on organizational participants is moderated by the culture of the organization and the roles individuals play within the…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Group Behavior, Models, Organizational Communication

Pettit, John D., Jr.; Goris, Jose R.; Vaught, Bobby C. – Journal of Business Communication, 1997
Presents results of a study in which organizational communication received strong support as a predictor of job satisfaction and weak support as a moderator of the job performance-job satisfaction relationship. Shows that communication dimensions with the greatest support as predictors were accuracy of information, desire for interaction,…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Employer Employee Relationship, Higher Education, Job Performance
Rogers, Donald P. – 1978
Many research studies have revealed links between open communication and organizational success. A correlational study was conducted to determine whether that relationship is indirect, rather than direct. To simplify the analysis only one intervening variable--innovativeness--was employed. The subjects in the study--94 members of six…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Correlation, Employee Attitudes

Poole, Marshall Scott; Roth, Jonelle – Human Communication Research, 1989
Tests a model of the factors that influence groups to follow various paths as they make decisions. Uses three panels of contingency variables to predict properties of the group's developmental path. Finds that group decision paths and their properties can be predicted as a function of task and relational contingencies. (MS)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Developmental Stages, Group Dynamics, Group Testing
Petelle, John L.; Garthright-Petelle, Kathleen – 1984
A study examined a contingency model involving the factors of task characteristics, structural characteristics, organizational relationships, and communication processes and their respective components in regard to their relationships to job performance and their ability to predict job performance. Data were gathered from approximately 190 members…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Job Skills, Models
Pavlik, John V.; And Others – 1980
A survey of 320 employees of Honeywell, Inc., was conducted to collect data on interactions between employees' levels of integration into the organizational hierarchy, amount and type of employee newsletter reading, and purposes for reading newsletters (keeping track of friends, finding out what was going on in the company, improving one's…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Communication Research, Employee Attitudes, Employment Level
Miller, Pete – Journal of School Public Relations, 2005
This article proposes a critical theoretical paradigm for the evaluation of university-community-school partnerships. Although numerous models have been posited for assessing these collaborative endeavors, few of them have granted adequate attention to the voices of community partners, and none have centered on systemic issues of power and…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Universities, Evaluation Methods
Bavendam, James M.; Harper, Nancy L. – 1980
In a study of turnover in a midwest trucking firm, the files of 199 terminated drivers were used in a statistical analysis of 19 variables that might have been correlated to length of service. A series of interviews with drivers and key management personnel supplemented the statistical data. It was found that previously identified biographical…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavioral Science Research, Career Change, Communication Problems
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The nine titles deal with the following topics: (1) small group interaction within effective and ineffective decision making groups; (2) vertical communication as perceived by administrators and teachers; (3) communication roles as…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Communication Research, Decision Making