Supervisory Responses to Dissent Scale

The 14-Item Supervisory Responses to Dissent Scale measures how supervisors respond to dissent expressed over time. Delaying Responses include poor receptiveness, inaction and delayed responses to employee dissent expression. Unfavorable Responses entail aggravation, annoyance, and irritation in response to dissent expression. And Favorable Responses involve sympathetic, responsive, and receptive responses to employee dissent expression. Click on the highlighted text to download the Supervisory Responses to Dissent Scale, which originally appeared in Management Communication Quarterly (Kassing, 2009).