Communication is becoming an important factor for the overall functioning and success of an organization (Rajhans, 2012). There is no organization without communication (Spaho, 2011). It is therefore that employees of the manufacturing businesses would have to communicate among each other in order to exchange the needed information that is pertinent to their specific work so that they can achieve the desired level of performance. However, in order to achieve the required level of performance, the communication among employees should be so effective because employee performance couldn't be enhanced without effective communication or interactions with one another in manufacturing businesses (Nwata, Umoh & Amah, 2016). One of the elements of communication that promote or hinder to have effective communication is the communication climate of an organization. As Pace (as cited in Nordin, Sivapalan, Bhattacharyya, Hashim, Wan Ahmad& Abdullah, 2014) stated that communication climate is conceptually consisting of employees' perceptions of the information flow and the climate in which the communication occurs. This implies that communication climate can determine the flow or exchange of the required and pertinent information among employees. This is because, according to Poole (as cited in Ahsanul, 2013), communication climate links the organizational context to the concepts, feelings, and expectations of members of an organization and helps explain the behavior of the organization's members. It is therefore that through knowing about the climate of an organization, employees can better understand what impels organization members to behave in particular

Introduction Communication is the most important aspect of an organization. It is thus, there is no organization, including the manufacturing businesses, without communication (Spaho, 2011). Employees of an organization communicate among each other in order to exchange the relevant and pertinent information that enable them to carry out their duties and achieve their given tasks as required. It is therefore that communication is becoming an important factor for the overall functioning and success of an organization (Rajhans, 2012).However, there are patterns in which information flows within an organization. Employees send and receive information or message through various layers of authority using various message systems or patterns (Shonubi & Akintaro, 2016). This implies that information flows in an organization through certain communication patterns. These communication patterns need to be so effective so that employees get the needed information on time and achieve what it should be achieved. This is because effective communication patterns improve the communication flow within the entire organization for smooth and better functioning of the business and for better employee performance. Thus, according to Nwata, Umoh & Amah (2016), employee performance couldn't be enhanced without effective communication or interactions with one another in an organization, which requires effective patterns of communication. This indicates that communication patterns have their own importance in organizations and hence they can have an influence on employee performance.