The rate and delay in overload: An investigation of communication overload and channel synchronicity on identification and job satisfaction

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-54

  Cho, Jaehee ^a   Ramgolam, Dina Inman ^a   Schaefer, Kimberly Mary ^a   Sandlin, Anu Nadina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication channels; Communication synchronicity; Information overload; Job satisfaction; Organizational identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251499681     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2010.536847     Document Type: Article

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