Abstract
The relationship between supervisor accessibility and role clarity has been established. Previous organizational analyses have underscored the importance of structural determinants of accessibility. It has long been assumed that these formal organizational designations were among the most important determinants of access to supervisors. The structural orientation excluded the contributions of shared normative and dyadic expectations to the accessibility of supervisors. This study examined the significance of each of these components in the role assimilation process. The Supervisor Accessibility Measure and formal work group size were used to estimate supervisor accessibility. Two hundred and forty‐six civil service personnel at a midwestern university completed these scales along with the Rizzo, House, if Lirtzman (1970) measure of role ambiguity. The results suggest that structural aspects of the work environment contribute little to the ease of communication between superior and subordinate, while norma...
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