Superior and subordinate communication profiles: Implications for independent‐mindedness and upward effectiveness
Central States Speech JournalPublished 1 June 1987
Dominic A. Infante, William I. Gorden
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Abstract
A framework is explained that maintains corporate productivity is enhanced when organizations nurture employee independent‐mindedness. An argumentative‐low verbally aggressive organizational communication climate is believed to create the freedom which nurtures independent‐mindedness. A study of 131 superior‐subordinate dyads in a large number of organizations investigated some of these assumptions.
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