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

Lawrence R. Wheeless Professor of the Department of Speech Communication, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409
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Virginia Eman Wheeless Assistant Professor of the Department of Speech Communication, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409
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Richard D. Howard Director of Institutional Research at the Office of Institutional Research, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27650
Pages 222-232 | Published online: 21 May 2009

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