TALK IS CHEAP: Top corporate executives say...

TALK IS CHEAP: Top corporate executives say they favor plenty of personal communication with rank-and-file employees, but few actually engage in it, according to a new study by a Cal State Fullerton researcher. . . . David Pincus, associate professor of communications, queried more than 300 CEOs and discovered that they communicated more often with other companies’ CEOs than with their own workers. . . . And while virtually all said they thought employees could provide them with useful information, more than half wanted their employees to listen, not talk.