Studying the Relationship between Managers’ Communicative Styles and Employees’ Counterproductive in Shahrbabak Copper complex

Communicative style and method among people are of effective factors on their behaviors. Managers’ communication method by which they behave workers can affect on employees’ behavior. This research studies the relationship between managers’ communicative styles and employees’ counterproductive in Shahrbabak copper complex. Statistical society of the research includes formal employed employees in Shahrbabak copper complex containing 746 people from which 186 people were selected as the sample by Cochrane formulation. Data gathering instruments were two questionnaires. Communicative styles standard questionnaire for which validity was obtained 0.92 by Hashemi (2013). Also to measure employees’ counterproductive behaviors a certain questionnaire by validity of 0.93 was used. Every questionnaire’s validity was obtained by Cronbache Alpha method 0.90 and 0.87 respectively. To test hypotheses Pearson & Spearman correlation coefficient was used. All statistical analyses were done by SPSS statistical software. According to obtained results it is determined that there is a positive meaningful relationship between control and avoidance communicative styles; but there is a reverse relationship between equity, dynamic, entrusting and avoidance communicative styles with counterproductive behaviors. By the way there is no relationship between structuralism communicative style and counterproductive behaviors. Regarding the results from research hypotheses managers are suggested to use inclined dynamic communicative styles more to decrease counterproductive behaviors.