Optimizing millennials' communication styles

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-44

  Hartman, Jackie L ^a   McCambridge, Jim ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

communication skills; millennials; style flexing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952092582     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: 15524191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569910395564     Document Type: Article

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