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The relationship between supervisory communication style and ambiguity in superior-subordinate communication.
(The University of Oklahoma., 1982)
This study was designed to understand better the relationship among supervisory communication style, role ambiguity and communication ambiguity. In addition, an intervening variable, understanding, was expected to provide ...
Communication roles as predictors of motivation toward productivity under the conditions of groupness and organizationness.
(1980)
The rationale for this investigation suggests the dispersion of communication roles, ranging from the highly undispersed (organizationness) to the highly dispersed (groupness), may be distinguished in organizations. Ten ...
Communication equity and conversation in marital dyads :
(1982)
This study examined separate public conversations between twelve husbands and wives in an effort to relate conversation behaviors to their perceptions of context-free and context-specific communication equity. Couples were ...
Oral communication competency for teachers :
(1984)
What constitutes oral communication competency for teachers and how teachers should be assessed are often confusing issues. Therefore, the study presents a construct of oral communication competency and its implications ...
Effects of message order on memory for a request for help /
(1984)
Langer and Abelson (1972) hypothesized that the frequency in compliance to a "legitimate" request for help would be greater when the opening phrase was "victim-oriented" and also to an "illegitimate" request when the opening ...
The language of deception :
(1981)
In this study 20 subjects were placed in a situation designed to elicit a number of truthful and dishonest statements. Differences in these statements were examined by the SLCA III and LEXIC programs to uncover language ...
The use of verbal statements by college-level communication instructors during classroom interactions with students rated acceptable or unacceptable classroom communicators.
(1980)
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether college instructors use verbal statements with students they perceive as acceptable classroom communicators that are different from the verbal statements they use with ...
A case study in contemporary apologia :
(1981)
Although the rhetorical ritual of apologia has been practiced since ancient Greece, the study of the apologetic genre has been limited. Consequently, this study proposed to (1) establish the importance of the apologetic ...
Foundations for an interpersonal uncertainty construct and the relationships among attitude similarity, uncertainty and attraction /
(1984)
The newly developed Interpersonal Uncertainty Scale then was employed in an experimental study in an effort to (1) provide support for the construct validity of the scale and (2) assess the potential of uncertainty as a ...
The effects of visual spatial and visual numerical supplements on telephonic communication efficiency.
(1982)
This study examined the effects of two types of visual supplements on telephonic communication efficiency to determine if type of information (i.e., spatial relations and/or numerical chronology type of information) and ...