Rhetorical Styles in Knowledge Communication

Leadership = Communication? The Relations of Leaders’ Communication Styles with Leadership Styles, Knowledge Sharing and Leadership Outcomes

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between leaders' communication styles and charismatic leadership, human-oriented leadership (leader's consideration), task-oriented leadership (leader's initiating structure), and leadership outcomes. METHODOLOGY: A survey was conducted among 279 employees of a governmental organization. The following six main communication sty...

Report Communication Styles Inventory

Communication Styles among Organizational Peers

Communication styles are representative of the individuals and identifying the communication styles of an individual allows the understanding of individual background, the way of thinking and perception of social reality. In the organizational context, studying the communicator styles of a group of organizational employees can be equated with learning the organizational culture. The purposes of...

Love styles, criteria of pre and post marriage and communication styles in couples

Marriage is one of the most important social institutions in all cultures and today societies. The relationship between couples is a permanent exchange of information and messages. Faulty communication is a major cause of the disintegration of a marriage. The purpose of this study was to investigate couples' communication styles with pre-marriage familiar, criteria of choosing spouse in pre and...

Students’ Reasoning and Rhetorical Knowledge in First-Year Chemistry

A case-based introductory chemistry course at Rice University tests students’ reasoning with essay questions. A protocol analysis project investigated the relation between successful and unsuccessful students’ reasoning about chemistry and their rhetorical knowledge. We observed that (1) students’ writing processes were affected by several constraints (time, accessibility of information in memo...