An Explication and Test of Communication Network Content and Multiplexity as Predictors of Organizational Identification.

Bullis, Connie; Bach, Betsy Wackernagel

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Publication Date: 1991

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An Explication and Test of Communication Network Content and Multiplexity as Predictors of Organizational Identification.

Bullis, Connie; Bach, Betsy Wackernagel

Western Journal of Speech Communication, v55 n2 p180-97 Spr 1991

Examines the relationship between identification and communication using organizational identification (OI) as a theoretical framework for studying communication networks among incoming graduate students in three university departments of communication. Concludes that, irrespective of initial OI, stronger initial multiplexity predicts the growth in OI over the first academic year. (RDS)

Descriptors: Communication Research, Departments, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology), Organizational Communication, Social Networks, Speech Communication

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Language: English

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