Abstract
This study examined whether employment status affected the amount and type of dissent employees expressed to management. To address this full-time and part-time employees in separate data collections completed the Upward Dissent Scale. A comparison of participant scores indicated that full-time employees used comparatively more prosocial (direct-factual appeals and solution presentation) and repetition upward dissent tactics compared to part-time employees. Contrastingly, part-time employees relied more heavily on upward dissent expressions that involved circumventing their bosses and threatening to quit their jobs. The findings indicate that employment status has a notable effect on the expression of upward dissent—with full- and part-time employees relying on differing tactics.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 455-465 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | International Journal of Business Communication |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2018 |
Keywords
- employee dissent
- employment status
- full- and part-time workers
- organizational dissent
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)