Search for the basic unit of organizationalcommunication
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https://doi.org/10.14513/tge-jres.00403Keywords:
Leader–Member Exchange (LMX), Leader–member communication, organization effectiveness, units of communication, managerial tasksAbstract
The aim of the study is to identify the basic units of the communication transaction appearing in the manager–subordinate relationship and their characteristics, and to designate research targets.
The authors also carried out a non–formal, non–systematic (research criteria was not built and comprehensiveness was not the goal) literature review in order to define the topic more precisely.
Research questions were defined by using the Grounded Theory (GT) theory–building methodology, which were derived from the data of literature research and field work. The main motivation was the failure to find satisfactory answers on how interactive manager–employee communication can be implemented and with what content in order to increase the efficiency of managerial
work. The study offers research questions and objectives that need to be further investigated in order to identify behavioral and specific transactional elements for achieving performance in the relationship between manager and subordinate.
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