Please help me find studies comparing good communication skills to
other skills. I want to know how much higher communication skills rate
among employers. I need NUMERICAL data, such as "90% of employers
value good communication skills more than any other skill (other
skills scored so-and-so)" and "85% of all jobs in the USA require good
communication skills, 45% require excellent communication skills, and
only 15% do not mention communication skills as a requirement." I need
five to ten studies highlighting the value of good business
communication skills. It would be nice if one of them would show
correlation between bad communication skills and layoffs. Thank you!!!
All data is needed prior to April 25, 10:00 AM EST. Otherwise,
disregard this post, please.

From personal experience I would say that communication skills are no
longer important anywhere anytime. Spelling, grammar, and proper
English have been replaced by video games and press #2 if you want to
continue in Spanish.

I mostly disagree with redhoss, but I will conceed that good
communications skills in Spanish instead of English will help you get
good employment in a very few situations.
 I suspect the numbers you want will be mostly educated guesses as
most employers do not give tests to evaluate communications skills,
but instead expect the personel department and section heads to make a
subjective evaluation of communications skills.
 Try this logic on for size: The purpose of a corporation is to
increase the wealth of the share holders. Essentially all activity is
aimed at this purpose either directly or indirectly. With rare
exceptions, only employees with good communications skills enhance the
wealth of the share holders and chief exexcitives. Medium
communications skills may result in financial break even, but bad
communications skills typically cost the share holders dearly. Why
would anyone want to hire or retain a person with poor communications
skills, even if they do other things very well? Typically you can
compensate for poor spelling and grammer by saying/writing the
important parts of the communication in two different ways. If the two
seem to conflict, the recipient will typically ask for clarification.
If you say it one way, but wrong, costly errors can result.
 Also other employes will try to bypass you if they are frequently
only 99% sure they understand what you are saying after several
attempts at clarification. In some activities, being correct 99% of
the time is grounds for separation from your employment.    Neil

Ha-ha, redhoss, a hilarious comment. And Neil, thank you for your
suggestions and thoughts!

Alex