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Obstacles to Upward Communication:


Bits and Pieces, May 1990, p. 9

Many employees fear that expressing their true feelings about the company to their boss could be dangerous. The fairly wide-spread belief that disagreeing with the boss will block promotion still holds. There is a wide-spread conviction that management is not interested in employee problems. Some have the feeling that employees are not rewarded for good ideas. There is a lack of supervisory accessibility and responsiveness. The conviction is widespread that higher management doesn't take prompt action on problems.