An investigation into the joint effects of a leader’s use of nonverbal immediacy behaviors & symbolic aggression on workplace engagement behaviors

The current project was completed in two parts; the first part of the project sought to design and validate a measurement instrument concerning a set of participatory behaviors that, to date, do not possess a validated way of measurement. The results of this first part was the success of creating and validating a scale that measures participants information seeking behaviors, information provision behaviors, and assertive expressions (i.e., workplace participatory behaviors). The second part of the project sought to explore the direct and indirect effects of a leader’s use of verbally aggressive messages and nonverbal immediacy behaviors on various employee affective and behavioral outcomes. Additionally, the current project sought to investigate the mediating effects of organizational commitment on the relationship between employee overall job satisfaction and on-the-job behaviors & workplace participatory behaviors.