The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between communication satisfaction of
employees with co-workers, supervisors, and upper management, job satisfaction and selfreported
absenteeism. It is hypothesized that communication satisfaction has a positive influence
on job satisfaction. Job satisfaction and self-reported absenteeism were explored as well as the
relationship of job satisfaction playing a mediating role between communication satisfaction and
absenteeism. Results were analyzed with correlations, multiple regressions and t-tests. It was
that found communication satisfaction with co-workers, supervisors and upper management have
significant positive relationships with job satisfaction. The study found job satisfaction had no
significant relationship to performing the mediating role between communication satisfaction
and absenteeism. This paper also presents limitations and directions for further research.