The effect of formal and informal communication on managerial satisfaction and performance

128 middle-managers working for 1 different organisations supplied data about their communications with different persons in their organization. From this data measures were developed for each manager of (a the frequency of his scheduled (formal) communications, and (b) the frequency of his unsched...

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Main Author: Christopher Orpen
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Language:English
Published: University of Johannesburg 2022-11-01
Series:Communicare
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Online Access:https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/2031
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description 128 middle-managers working for 1 different organisations supplied data about their communications with different persons in their organization. From this data measures were developed for each manager of (a the frequency of his scheduled (formal) communications, and (b) the frequency of his unscheduled (informal) communications with superiors (upward communication), with peers (horizontal communication) and with subordinates (downward communication). Significantly positive relations were formed between unscheduled communications and job satisfaction, especially horizontal communication None of the relations between scheduled or unscheduled communications and job performance were significant
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spelling doaj-art-5ccc7384dfb54cf2a6ba3bc8480f452e2025-01-20T08:45:01ZengUniversity of JohannesburgCommunicare0259-00692957-79502022-11-0110110.36615/jcsa.v10i1.2031The effect of formal and informal communication on managerial satisfaction and performanceChristopher Orpen0Boumemouth Polytechmc 128 middle-managers working for 1 different organisations supplied data about their communications with different persons in their organization. From this data measures were developed for each manager of (a the frequency of his scheduled (formal) communications, and (b) the frequency of his unscheduled (informal) communications with superiors (upward communication), with peers (horizontal communication) and with subordinates (downward communication). Significantly positive relations were formed between unscheduled communications and job satisfaction, especially horizontal communication None of the relations between scheduled or unscheduled communications and job performance were significant https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/2031communicationsorganizationpositive relationsjob satisfaction
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The effect of formal and informal communication on managerial satisfaction and performance
Communicare
communications
organization
positive relations
job satisfaction
title The effect of formal and informal communication on managerial satisfaction and performance
title_full The effect of formal and informal communication on managerial satisfaction and performance
title_fullStr The effect of formal and informal communication on managerial satisfaction and performance
title_full_unstemmed The effect of formal and informal communication on managerial satisfaction and performance
title_short The effect of formal and informal communication on managerial satisfaction and performance
title_sort effect of formal and informal communication on managerial satisfaction and performance
topic communications
organization
positive relations
job satisfaction
url https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/2031
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