%0 Journal Article
%T Full
%A Jeffrey W. Kassing
%A Laasya Chakravarthy
%A Shea A. Fanelli
%J International Journal of Business Communication
%@ 2329-4892
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2329488415597518
%X 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¡ªwith full- and part-time employees relying on differing tactics
%K employee dissent
%K employment status
%K full- and part-time workers
%K organizational dissent
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329488415597518