Procedures
There were two aspects to data collection. First, upon receiving approval from the Institutional Review Board, hardcopies of the survey were dispersed to University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students in Communication Studies classes, who delivered them to parents or other professionals. The students then returned the surveys in a sealed envelope to the researcher. The students were instructed to give the survey to a full time employee in an organization with multiple levels of management. Before the surveys were distributed, permission to distribute the surveys was obtained from the Communication professors. The second aspect of data collection included an online survey created in the Qualtrics Survey Software. The online survey ensured complete anonymity because the responses were collected in the Qualtrics account. Both the online Qualtrics survey and hardcopy survey contained identical questions. The online survey was distributed using a snowball sampling due to the difficulty in obtaining participants. To distribute the Qualtrics survey, the researcher sent the link to family, friends, and other social contacts and asked them to take the online survey if they were a “professional” or to forward the link to a “professional.” Sixteen of the participants completed a hardcopy survey, and 58 of the participants completed the Qualtrics survey. It took approximately 15 minutes to complete the survey.