The relationships of communication with supervisor and decision‐participation to employee job satisfaction

Communication satisfaction: Its role in church membership satisfaction and involvement among Southern Baptist churches

“…In testing this assumption, researchers have created various models explaining the role of communication in organizations. These models show communication satisfaction to be a significant predictor of organizational satisfaction and commitment (Gordon & Infante, 1991;Koike, Gudykunst, Stewart, Ting-Toomey, & Nishida, 1988;Roberts & O'Reilly, 1974) and of job satisfaction (Lamude, Daniels, & Graham, 1988;Pincus & Rayfield, 1989;Wheeless, Wheeless, & Howard, 1984). While communication has been studied extensively in these secular organizational settings, it has not been researched thoroughly in religious settings.…”

Test of a communication model of organizational commitment

“…How distinct the free speech factor is from previous conceptionalizations of voice, organizational citizenship, and openness (Dansereau & Markham, 1987;Jablin, 1978;Pincus, 1986;Wheeless L. R., Wheeless V. E. & Howard, 1984) poses questions for further investigation and measurement development.…”

“…In order to keep the questionnaire's length manageable, a procedure developed by Wheeless, L. R., Wheeless, V. E., & Howard (1984) was used. 6 Respective coefficient alphas in the present study were .78, .75, .82, .69, and .70.…”

Employee perceptions of corporate partnership: An affective-moral quid pro quo

“…Alphas for the satisfaction dimensions were: work (0.85), pay (0.83), promotion (0.89), superior (0.70), and co-workers (0.75). This adaptation of the JDI was used in prior research (Wheeless et al, 1984). A YES, yes, ?, no, NO response format was used.…”