This article investigates the relationship between organizational communication and job satisfaction. Data were collected from 380 employees at junior, middle and top level management from various telecom and banking sectors. Results reveal that there is a significant correlation between organizational communication and job satisfaction. It was observed that trust and communication satisfaction predicted significantly pay, promotion, supervision and fringe benefits. Job satisfaction differed significantly across hierarchy. However, organizational communication did not differ across hierarchy. Thus, it can be implicated that there are some aspects of communication like trust and communication satisfaction that can be given more priority in order to get high levels of job satisfaction in Indian organizations.
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