Managerial Communication Patterns

Use of time studies provide detailed information on organizational communication patterns, offering a rich base of data for identifying promising new targets for “groupwork”; support researchers. This article looks at use of time data that provide a detailed picture of communication patterns in the workdays of managers and some other knowledge workers.

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