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management employees in the company. It was found that smallcompanies were associated with more need fulfdment than bothmedlum - arzed and large cornpanlea.Supe~sor). behanour and attitudes of role-senders to the~rliubordinates has an Important ~nfluence In causing role confictSlote (1971) In hls study explored two aspects of role confl~ct, jobconfl~ct and ~nterpcrsonal confllct It was found that whlle roleconfl~ct and communlcatlon patterns d~d show s~gn~ficant Inverserclat~onsh~ps the\ urrc based on the critlcall!.d~fferent andd~yuncttvc pcrceptlons of the d\ad partnersBevr Vctonn and .Alien ll98J) In thelr stud! matched themk expectations of 887 lndustnal managers to percel\.ed andactual expectatlona held for subjects by thew unmedmte supcnorsAll the vanance was found to come dvectly from the managersprrrptlon of the supenor s exprctatlons.