Rebecca M. Chory

Frostburg State University · Management

Despite the widespread acceptance of executive coaching as a relational phenomenon, how these relationships play out in practice tends to be overlooked and under-researched. In this conceptual paper, we argue that the “caring, yet professionally distant” clinical approach to executive coaching is unrealistic. Challenging this approach, we propose a...

Relationships that cross the work–life domain have long been of interest to scholars in multiple disciplines, including Communication, Management, and Psychology. Close relationships that span work–life borders are called personal workplace relationships. Personal workplace relationships are voluntary informal relationships between two members of t...

This study’s purpose was to propose and test a model of workplace romance’s influence on coworkers’ perceptions of, and communication with, workplace romance participants. In testing hypotheses derived from our model, we examined workplace romance’s relational implications from the perspectives of workplace romance participants and third-party cowo...

Fairness in the higher education instructional context, i.e., classroom justice, is fast becoming a salient and widespread concern among scholars, instructors, and students alike. Drawing on research conducted in North America, Europe, Asia, and other world regions, the present article describes university students’ beliefs about what constitutes u...

The present study explored Iranian students’ perceptions of unfair instructor behavior in COVID-19 crisis-prompted online language education. Through an online open-ended questionnaire, 91 Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students reported their beliefs and experiences concerning instructor injustice in online classes. Results...

The purpose of this study was to empirically answer the longstanding question regarding industry differences in reactions to workplace romance. Departing from prior research designs, and employing the largest workplace romance sample to date, close to 1,000 adults in major US cities reported their workplace romance experiences and beliefs through a...

The present study explored Iranian students’ perceptions of unfair instructor behavior in COVID-19 crisis-prompted online language education. Through an online open-ended questionnaire, 91 Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students reported their beliefs and experiences concerning instructor injustice in online classes. Results...

The research reported here responds to two calls for research: 1) to study organizational communication in religious settings, and 2) to extend the study of communication beyond WEIRD samples (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic). In answering those calls, we examined aggressive superior-subordinate communication in ecclesiastical o...

Given the vast amount of time people spend communicating at work, relationships naturally develop. In addition, friends or romantic partners sometimes become coworkers. These interpersonal relationships involve work and life dimensions. We refer to them as personal workplace relationships: voluntary, informal, mutual, and consensual relationships b...

Long the staple or go-to technique in management education, instruction via the lecture has fallen on hard times. Dismissed as professorially heavy-handed and lacking creativity, the lecture has yielded considerable ground to experiential, service, applied, and active learning techniques. In this essay, we question this shift away from the lecture...

The Roman Catholic Church is one of the world’s largest and oldest organizations, yet communication among its members serving in ecclesiastical occupations (e.g., priests) remains relatively unexplored. The present study addresses this paucity of research by examining the relationship between 145 U.S. priests’ and sisters’ perceptions of their reli...

Workplace Romance

The present study examined workplace romance perceptions among Millennial employees who had participated in a workplace romance and those who had observed one. Two samples (workplace romance partners and coworkers) of 18- to 29-year-old employees completed questionnaires in which they reported their perceptions of workplace romance’s positive and n...

Professors are increasingly encouraged to adopt multiple role relationships with their students. Regardless of professor intent, these relationships carry risks. Left unexamined is whether student-faculty social multiple relationships impact student in-class behaviors. Provocatively, our exploratory study provides empirical support suggesting that...

The communication of power in instructional settings involves rhetorical and relational messages (Mottet & Beebe, 2006). McCroskey and colleagues initiated the study of power in the classroom in the 1980s. Today’s scholars have broadened their power conceptualization and their focus on its instructional communication manifestation. What follows, th...

Under higher education’s contemporary consumer model, students are treated as customers and professors are encouraged to increase student engagement through more personal out-of-class interactions, often in social settings. In the course of this more personal student-faculty involvement, students inevitably encounter or learn of their professors’ o...

We investigated college students’ perceptions of instructor unfairness and their emotional and behavioral reactions to perceived injustice. Results obtained from 397 under- Rebecca M. Chory1 & Sean M. Horan2 7 8 9 10 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 graduates from three universities in the United States indicate that anger and dissen...

Under higher education’s contemporary consumer model, students are treated as customers and professors are encouraged to increase student engagement through more personal out-of-class interactions, often in social settings. In the course of this more personal student-faculty involvement, students inevitably encounter or learn of their professors’ o...

For years, many predicted Higher Education was ripe for disruption. Today it seems that future has arrived. The forces disrupting and challenging faculty and administrators are substantial, structural, and strong. For instance, higher education institutions in developed economies with shrinking populations are left competing for fewer students. Als...

The present study examines instructors’ attempts to increase student satisfaction through what we predict to be destructive communication tactics. Results indicate that business majors reported being more likely to engage in incivility and academic dishonesty in courses taught by professors who attempted to gain student favor through gossiping, sel...

Over the past 30 years, several management educators have urged faculty to reexamine their relationships with students. To do this, many have proposed novel metaphors to reconceptualize the faculty-to-student relationship. These include embracing students not as pupils to be taught but rather as clients, consumers, and even employees. At the heart...

Issues of gender and sexuality enhance and complicate organizational life in part through our pre-conceived notions of what is “normal” or “appropriate” for men, women, and male-female workplace relationships. The present study addresses this issue by examining perceptions of and responses to coworkers’ cross-sex workplace friendships, i.e., platon...

Email, social media, and other types of computer-mediated workplace communication tools can enhance flexibility in how employees perform their jobs, expand networking opportunities, increase profits, cut costs, and enable collaboration among diverse groups across the globe. Despite their advantages, these technology tools can also cause security br...

High risk and high reliability organizations found in high hazard industries deserve rigorous scholarly and applied attention as the consequences of failure are often catastrophic. Given the ramifications of poor performance, at best, or failure, at worst, it is surprising that inquiry into these special organizations is rather muted compared to th...

Purpose – This study aims to offer insights into the contextual and situational variables that influence volunteering choices. Design/methodology/approach – An analysis of European and US business students’ volunteering experiences is performed. Cross-cultural and experiential outcomes are compared and contrasted at both the undergraduate and grad...

For a host of reasons, professors are increasingly adopting dual role relationships with their students. The forces behind these dual relationships include altruistic, selfish, and, even, prurient motives. Regardless of the intention, these relationships carry risks. In fact, these relationships may work against the growing sentiment that professor...

Professors are increasingly charged with developing more than just knowledge. Increasingly, they are charged with developing students who are ethical, professional, and ready to assume roles of responsibility within the workplace. Most of the scholarly and pedagogical research on this topic centers on the influence of programmatic initiatives, curr...

Classroom justice refers to student perceptions of fairness in the instructional context. The purpose of this study was to further validate extant classroom justice theorizing, measures, and findings, and to empirically examine the relationship between students’ emotional and behavioral responses to injustice. Results support the validity of prior...

Previous literature has established the widespread use of frames that contrast athletes’ physical (i.e., the “brawn” frame, often used for Black athletes) and mental abilities (i.e., the “brain” frame, often used for White athletes) in mediated sports content, particularly oral commentary, which tends to be more spontaneous in nature. The current s...

This study examined the relationships between organizational and task socialization and employee organizational commitment, job involvement, role ambiguity, and work alienation. Participants were 318 working adults from a variety of organizations who had been working at their current job for less than one year. The findings demonstrated that organi...

Guided by emotional response theory, we examined students’ emotional reactions to perceptions of classroom injustice. Undergraduates from three universities participated by completing questionnaires. Students most frequently reported procedural injustice, but experienced the most severe and most negative emotional responses to violations involving...

The purpose of this study was to test whether leader–member exchange theory (LMX) offers an explanatory lens for the program of classroom justice research. To that end, relationships among justice, LMX, and antisocial communication were explored. Findings indicated that perceptions of justice and LMX were positively related. Likewise, perceptions o...

This study investigated television viewer involvement by examining its occurrence with liked, disliked, and neutral characters. Results indicated that viewers reported more identification (ID) with and attraction to characters they liked versus disliked, and that the relationships among and between ID and attraction did not change based on characte...

This study examines the relational implications of same-sex workplace romances (WRs) and compares results with findings for heterosexual WRs. Working adults (N = 147; M age = 30.87 years old) read a scenario describing a same-sex WR and completed measures of deception, trust, and credibility. Results indicate that employees trust gay and lesbian pe...

This study examined organizational members' perceptions of and responses to workplace romance. In this 2 × 4 experimental design, 212 working adults reported their beliefs and communication-related responses to a hypothetical male or female coworker dating an organizational peer, superior, subordinate, or individual unaffiliated with the organizati...

Using rhetorical/relational goal theory as a guiding frame, we examined relationships between instructor misbehaviors (i.e., indolence, incompetence, and offensiveness) and the likelihood of students communicating antisocial behavioral alteration techniques (BATs). More specifically, the study focused on whether students' perceptions of instructor...

This study investigated students’ perceptions of their instructors’ argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness, classroom justice, and effectiveness of and likelihood of communicating student antisocial behavior alteration techniques (BATs). Results indicate that student perceptions of instructor argumentativeness were not related to their percept...

This study examined the credibility implications of employees who date at work. A 2 (status dynamic of the romance) × 2 (sex of the peer) design was used to examine effects of workplace romance on perceptions of credibility. One hundred and forty full-time working adults assessed the credibility of a hypothetical coworker who was involved in a work...

Based on the uses and gratifications perspective, personality was expected to relate to violent video game play frequency and game preferences. Participants completed measures of personality and frequency of violent video game play, and identified their most frequently played video games. Results indicate that individuals higher in openness but low...

The purpose of this study was threefold: to (a) identify students' experiences of distributive, procedural, and interactional injustice; (b) to examine students' emotional responses to these unjust experiences; and (c) to investigate students' behavioral reactions to perceived injustice. Participants were 138 undergraduate students who provided wri...

This study examined full-time employees' perceptions of a coworker's credibility, power, and trustworthiness after the coworker engaged in organizational deception or truth-telling. Participants read one of three scenarios, each of which differed in the type of message (honest, withholding deceptive, distortion deceptive) the coworker communicated....

Workplace romances are a contemporary and pervasive phenomenon with implications for interpersonal and organizational communication scholars. The present study aimed to discover how an organizational peer (male or female) dating another organizational member (another peer or superior) impacted employee perceptions of and responses to the peer. Full...

This study examined the relationships between the four dimensions of negative feedback (clarity, constructiveness, cognizance, and consistency) and perceptions of organizational justice. In doing so, a measure to assess negative feedback dimensions was developed and examined for reliability and construct validity. Results indicated that the negativ...

This study explored the relationships between dependence on video games and television and relational maintenance strategy use. One hundred and sixty-three male and female undergraduate students completed self-report measures of media dependence and relational maintenance. Results indicate that higher levels of media dependence predicted lower use...

This study examined the relationships between perceptions of organizational justice and enacting organizational dissent. Participants were 107 full-time employees working in various organizations. Results indicated that employee perceptions of distributive and interpersonal justice negatively predicted latent dissent, while perceptions of informati...

This study examined the relationships between employee perceptions of organizational justice and trust and employee antisocial organizational behavior and communication. Participants from organizations representing two geographic regions were surveyed regarding their most recent performance appraisal. Results indicated that perceptions of justice a...

The current study presents the results of a content analysis of the verbal aggression found in 36 hours of televised professional wrestling. The coding scheme was adapted from the National Television Violence Study and past research on television verbal aggression. Results show that an abundance of verbal aggression occurs in televised professional...

This study sought to investigate argumentative and aggressive communication and to test for conceptual/methodological equivalence in the Bulgarian culture. One hundred and twenty six Bulgarian residents completed short forms concerning argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed support for conceptual and meth...

The present study examined the relationships between self-reported exposure to television makeover programs and viewer self-esteem, perfectionism, and body dissatisfaction. Results indicated that frequency of exposure to television makeover programs was negatively related to self-esteem and positively related to perfectionism and body dissatisfacti...

This study examined the relationship between self-reported video game play and players' trait verbal aggressiveness within the framework provided by The General Aggression Model (GAM). Results indicate that frequency of video game play and players' trait verbal aggressiveness were positively correlated. Furthermore, video game play and player sex i...

The present study investigated the relationships between college students' perceptions of instructor credibility (competence, character, and caring) and their perceptions of classroom justice (distributive, procedural, and interactional justice). Results indicate that perceptions of instructor credibility positively predicted perceptions of classro...

This study examined students’ perceptions of instructor interactional justice as a predictor of students’ self-reported likelihood of using teacher-owned resistance strategies. Interactional justice refers to the fairness and quality of interpersonal treatment students receive from their instructors. Results indicate that students’ perceptions of i...

This study examined the effects of playing a violent video game on aggressive thoughts and behaviors and the moderating role of affective orientation in the violent video game-aggression relationship. Approximately 2 weeks after having their affective orientation measured, 59 participants (plus 5 additional participants) played a violent or nonviol...

The study investigated the relationships between student perceptions of instructor power and classroom justice. Partial correlations controlling for student grade expectations indicated that student perceptions of their instructors’ use of coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert power were related to perceptions of fairness in the classroom. Stu...

This study examined the relationships between television viewers’ empathy and affective orientation and their identification with their favorite television characters. Results showed that viewers’ perspective taking and affective orientation positively predicted cognitive-emotional identification and group identification, and affective orientation...

This study examined viewer involvement by investigating the relationships between parasocial interaction, wishful identification, identification, and interest, and hopelessness and loneliness among older participants (M age = 63 years). Results indicate that parasocial interaction and interest in favorite performer were closely related and that wis...

Research on trust in organizations shows that it facilitates relationships, cooperation between individuals and organizations, organizational commitment, and employees’ motivation to innovate. Organizational justice, which refers to perceptions of the fairness of workplace outcomes or processes, is often considered an antecedent to managerial and o...

The goal of the present study was to provide a comprehensive approach to the study of organizational deception. Logic based on McCornack's (1992) Information Manipulation Theory (IMT) was applied to measuring and theorizing about organizational deception, and a new approach for researching deception in organizational contexts was validated. Results...

This study examined the effects of exposure to verbally aggressive television sitcoms on the accessibility of aggressive cognitive responses within the framework provided by the General Aggression Model (Anderson & Bushman, 2002). Participants viewed either a sitcom or a crime drama and then completed a thought‐listing task and measures of affectiv...

The present study examined the relations between students' perceptions of distributive and procedural justice in college classes and student aggression and hostility toward their instructors and resistance of their instructors' requests. Although perceptions of both distributive and procedural justice were negatively correlated with student aggress...

The present study investigated potentially destructive instructor and student communication. In particular, it examined the relationships between instructor use of antisocial behavior alteration techniques (BATs), student perceptions of instructor interactional justice, and students' likelihood of indirectly aggressing against their instructors. Re...

Past fictional television has tended to portray doctors in an extremely positive manner, while more recent fictional programming appears to portray physicians less positively. Based on Pfau, Mullen, and Garrow's (1995) suggestion that exposure to television's newer medical shows may lead to more negative feelings toward doctors, the present study e...

This study examined the predictive validity of Infante and Wigley's (1986) 20‐item Verbal Aggressiveness Scale (VAS) and the 10‐item aggression and 10‐item benevolence components of the VAS proposed by Beatty, Rudd, and Valencic (1999). Individuals’ scores on the 20 self‐report VAS items were obtained and approximately four weeks later their aggres...

The present study examined the relationship between students’ perceptions of distributive and procedural justice in a college course and student motivation concerning the course, affective learning in the course, and aggression toward the course instructor. Although student perceptions of both distributive and procedural justice were positively cor...

Although fictional television traditionally has portrayed doctors positively, recent fictional programming appears to portray physicians in a less positive manner. It has also been suggested that these images may conflict with depictions of doctors found on non-fictional television. A content analysis conducted here indicates that television's phys...

The present study extends Baxter and Wilmot's (1984) research on secret tests (strategies used to acquire information about interpersonal relationships) in romantic potential relationships to deteriorating romantic relationships, and it examines self‐esteem's role in this information seeking process. It was hypothesized that deteriorating relations...

This content analysis examines portrayals of Whites, African Americans, and Latinos in the criminal justice system as representatives of the court and as criminals. Results indicate that African Americans and Latinos were similar to White characters in their roles, personalities, and aggressive behaviors. Most African Americans and Latinos were dep...

An examination of the relationship between Teacher Management Communication Style (TMCS) and affective learning revealed that TMCS and affective learning were significantly positively correlated. TMCS and nonverbal immediacy were also positively correlated, as were nonverbal immediacy and affective learning. A multiple linear regression analysis pe...

Two samples of working and college adults reported on their communication apprehension and health behaviors and communication. Specific communication apprehension as measured by a modified version of the Form State scale showed moderate to large negative effects on health communication (talking with physician, seeking health information) and almost...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Communication, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-104).