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Communication Patterns and Team Spirituality of Academic Staff of Private Secondary Schools in Bayelsa and Rivers States, Nigeria
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Business Communication, Co-worker support, Extrapersonal Communication, Intrapersonal Communication, Mentoring, Supervisor Support, Selflessness
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ABSTRACT Organizational team spirit should not be regarded as an end in itself for as old employees leave an organization and are replaced with new ones, organizational team spirit dynamics changes. Organizations should rather strive for team spirituality - an organization-wide consciousness to continuously cultivate, nurture and sustain team spirit within the organization. Hence the need to understand factors that affect and are affected by team spirituality within organizations. As misunderstanding among organizational members occasioned by miscommunication can have adverse organizational consequences, this study examined the correlation between communication patterns and team spirituality. Intrapersonal communication and extrapersonal communication constituted communication patterns dimensions while supervisor support, mentoring, co-worker support and selflessness were measures of team spirituality, with corporate culture as a moderating variable. The study population comprised private secondary school teachers in Government-approved private secondary schools in Bayelsa and Rivers States of Nigeria. Using stratified random sampling technique, copies of researcher-designed questionnaire were distributed to a total sample size of 561 teachers from private secondary school teachers in Bayelsa and Rivers State, which was determined with the Taro Yamane (1967) formula. Nine research questions and nine hypotheses were posed for the study in line with the study objectives; descriptive statistics were used to analyze the responses to the questionnaire questions while Pearson Product Moment correlation co-efficient (r) was employed as the inferential statistics to test the research hypotheses. Findings of the study showed that Intrapersonal communication positively and significantly correlated to team spirituality dimensions of supervisor support, mentoring, co-worker support and selflessness; that extrapersonal communication positively and significantly correlated to team spirituality dimensions of supervisor support, mentoring, co-worker support and selflessness ; and that corporate culture does moderate the relationship between communication patterns and team spirituality. Hence the need for organizations to increase interactions amongst employees and between employees and supervisors so as to engender team spirituality.
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Elia Ernest Omiloli (November-2024). Communication Patterns and Team Spirituality of Academic Staff of Private Secondary Schools in Bayelsa and Rivers States, Nigeria. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(11), 359-420. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRDTH00206.pdf
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Volume 9 Issue 11, November-2024
Pages : 359-420
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Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_214398
Published Paper Id: IJNRDTH00206
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Research Area: Management
Author Type: Foreign Author
Country: YENAGOA, BAYELSA STATE, Nigeria
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