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Social support of supervisors and colleagues is thought to enable people to cope better with the demanding work situations. More specifically, supportive, supervisory communication has been found to reduce uncertainty, promote discussion, build self-esteem, clarify role expectations and inculcate meaning in the job among employees. In an attempt to help educators explore the full benefits of supervisory social support in academic institutions, this article examines the satisfaction of teachers with their supervisors' interpersonal communication skills in relation to job burn-out and growth satisfaction in the job in southern India. Data were collected from 140 educational professionals of schools, colleges and universities located in southern India. The findings reveal that teachers' satisfaction with supervisors' interpersonal communication skills is positively related to their growth satisfaction in the job and negatively related to burn-out. The interview data that substantiated the findings of this study also highlight important interpersonal communication skills that need to be practiced by supervisors in the educational institutions in southern India. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Communication satisfaction with the leaders has been researched in the past to have great impact on job satisfaction and job performance of employees in the organisations. However, researchers indicate that techniques and methods to promote communication satisfaction in the organisations are hard to pin down. This study therefore offers to bring clarity in this regard by studying the relationship between transformational leadership behaviours and followers' interpersonal communication satisfaction in the Indian organisational setting. The data were collected from 924 respondents belonging to service, I.T., manufacturing, healthcare, educational and hospitality sectors. The findings reveal that transformational leadership behaviours significantly contribute towards the promotion of followers' interpersonal communication satisfaction, thus challenging the assumption of elusiveness attributed towards the promotion of communication satisfaction. Moreover, this study is unique because the research of this nature is the first one on date in identifying the relationship between Indian transformational leadership behaviours and followers' interpersonal communication satisfaction in the Indian organisations. Refereed/Peer-reviewed