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Internal Communication In Organizations And Employee Engagement, Lynn Kalani Terumi Hayase University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Internal Communication In Organizations And Employee Engagement, Lynn Kalani Terumi Hayase

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Employee engagement is a fairly new phenomenon that continues to gather the attention of and implementation into organizations. While communication has been identified as a factor affecting engagement, no scientific research has concentrated solely on the relationship between the two. Taking this into account this study sought to find whether there is a relationship between internal communication and employee engagement.

Results indicated that there is a positive relationship between factors of internal communication and factors of employee engagement. The current research found that internal communication is linked to commitment, discretionary effort, and meaningful work; all factors of engagement. In addition ...

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Effective Change Communication In The Workplace, Amy Lynn Harp University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Effective Change Communication In The Workplace, Amy Lynn Harp

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate effective change communication in the workplace by utilizing goal setting theory. Due to potential validity issues with previous organizational communication audit research, a multi-methods study was devised to investigate and construct a new measure for effective change communication in the workplace. Preliminary interviews along with previous research were utilized to construct a survey questionnaire gauging effective change communication in the workplace. Over 1,000 employees at a large, health-services companies participated in the study. The results from the study yield a framework for evaluating effective change communication on individual (i.e. behavior ...

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Organizational Use Of Social Media: The Shift In Communication, Collaboration And Decision-Making, Dhruvi A. Naik James Madison University

Organizational Use Of Social Media: The Shift In Communication, Collaboration And Decision-Making, Dhruvi A. Naik

Masters Theses

Organizational use of social media: The shift in communication, collaboration and decision-making

Social media has driven organizational communication, collaboration and decision-making in recent times. This thesis focuses first on the popularity and widespread usage of social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and how it has provided businesses with platforms to collaborate and communicate virtually. It then explores how organizations can implement social media for the purpose of external marketing and advertising, to connect to consumers and for the purpose of internal communications. For example, how can organizations tap the potential of social media and connect with consumers? Social media ...

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Organizational Communication: Perceptions Of Staff Members’ Level Of Communication Satisfaction And Job Satisfaction, Priti R. Sharma East Tennessee State University

Organizational Communication: Perceptions Of Staff Members’ Level Of Communication Satisfaction And Job Satisfaction, Priti R. Sharma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research study was to explore the topic of organizational communication in higher education and examine staff members’ perceptions about their level of communication and job satisfaction in their workplaces. This study was also designed to test the relationship between communication satisfaction and job satisfaction by analyzing the significance of different dimensions of Communication Satisfaction with the view that satisfaction is multifaceted.

A total of 463 non-faculty staff members from different units of a single higher education institution participated in this study. This study included non-teaching staff, including student workers and both full-time and part-time staff members ...

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Youthbuild Providence: Public Relations Plan, Madeline Armater, Clayton Durant, Michelle Ryder, James Paternostro, Kaiwen Zhu Roger Williams University

Youthbuild Providence: Public Relations Plan, Madeline Armater, Clayton Durant, Michelle Ryder, James Paternostro, Kaiwen Zhu

Marketing and Communications

Understanding what incentives drive businesses to partner with non-profits, as well as understanding what media business owners will pay attention to can help our firm get YouthBuild Providence’s name and message in the correct places that will have a higher probability of being consumed by these higher level managers or small business owners. To get the message out correctly, we are going to leverage the use of social media and local media to push our message out to small businesses.

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Improving The Patient Experience By Implementing Patient-Centered Care In A Community Hospital, Richard A. Billingsley DNP, MHA, RN The University of San Francisco

Improving The Patient Experience By Implementing Patient-Centered Care In A Community Hospital, Richard A. Billingsley Dnp, Mha, Rn

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects

Health care is a complex business currently undergoing extensive reform. These changes require new methods of care deliver and ways in which health care organizations are operating. At the forefront of this change effort is the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is transforming health care from a volume-based, fee-for-service process to the delivery of services that have value, improve quality outcomes, increase satisfaction, elicit greater efficiency, demonstrate improved safety outcomes, show cost-effectiveness, promote better access to services, and result in high reliability between providers and organizations. The goal of providing a more positive health care experience is ...

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The Relationship Between Management And Financial Accounting As Professions And Technologies Of Practice., Alan J. Richardson University of Windsor

The Relationship Between Management And Financial Accounting As Professions And Technologies Of Practice., Alan J. Richardson

Odette School of Business Publications

This Chapter explores the suggestion to unify financial and management accounting both as professions and technologies of practice. I argue that drift in professional jurisdictions and cognitive domains encourages consolidation of the profession but there remain distinct social roles for each information technology. The challenge for the profession is to maintain the integrity of management accounting as a technology of practice in the face of renewed professional hegemony of financial accounting.

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Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study Of The 2010 Bp Gulf Oil Spill, Aubrey Nichole Villines Butler University

Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study Of The 2010 Bp Gulf Oil Spill, Aubrey Nichole Villines

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Crisis communication is an integral aspect of public relations that can have either positive or negative repercussions based upon the action that an organization responds. The manner in which an organization handles a crisis determines financial implications that may ensue, public perception and reputation of the organization, as well as the overall success or failure of the organization in the future. Consequently, Timothy Coombs asserts that the best crisis communication practice is to respond quickly, accurately, and consistently (Coombs, 2010: 28). Other scholars concur and add supplementary techniques which emphasize preparedness and responsibility. The present study was conducted to identify ...

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Family Communication Patterns: Can They Impact Leadership Styles?, Suthida Prasitthipab Western Kentucky University

Family Communication Patterns: Can They Impact Leadership Styles?, Suthida Prasitthipab

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A plethora of studies has worked on family communication and leadership separately. Little research has combined these two components although they both relate to personality characteristics and communication styles. Therefore, this thesis investigated correlations between leadership styles and family communication patterns during childhood. Two hypotheses were proposed representing the relationship between conformity orientation and task leadership, and between conversation orientation and relation leadership.

Faculty, non-academic staff, and students in leadership positions from Western Kentucky University were samples of this study. They completed a questionnaire voluntarily. Family communication pattern scale and Leadership Behavior Descriptive Questionnaire were used in the survey. Pearson ...

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The Bison: 1929, Howard University Howard University

The Bison: 1929, Howard University

Howard University Yearbooks

This digital object was funded in part through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The digitalization of this object was part of a collaborative effort with the Washington Research Library Consortium and George Washington University.

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Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao 2017 University of Central Florida

Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao

Sai Deng

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) currently uses three social media channels, CALA Facebook, WeChat, and YouTube. In order to improve their presence and better serve the CALA members, CALA's first social media survey was conducted at the end of 2016 to seek feedback from its members and friends. This poster will present the background information for the survey, its methodology, findings, recommendations and follow-up. 18 questions were compiled, added to LimeSurvey and distributed to the CALA members via its Listserv. These questions attempted to address the users' social media usage, participation level, time spent on the CALA's ...

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Cedarville Missions Team Visits Hurricane-Damaged Haiti, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Cedarville Missions Team Visits Hurricane-Damaged Haiti, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

This summer, 11 Cedarville students traveled to Les Cayes, Haiti, where Hurricane Matthew left widespread damage in October 2016. They helped lay the foundation for a hospital and for a much bigger work that God is doing in Haiti.

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Cedarville Named Best Christian College In Ohio For Law-Related Degrees, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Cedarville Named Best Christian College In Ohio For Law-Related Degrees, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Christian Universities Online (CUO) recently named Cedarville University as the top Christian school for law-related degrees in Ohio. CUO assembled its 2017 Top Ten Christian Law School list based on reviews of majors such as political science, government and criminal justice.

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Cedarville Tops In Ohio In Pharmacy Research Competition, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Cedarville Tops In Ohio In Pharmacy Research Competition, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

The Cedarville University School of Pharmacy earned top honors among Ohio schools of pharmacy, and was named among the best in the nation, in the 2017 American College of Clinical Pharmacy Clinical Research Challenge.

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Cedarville Named One Of The Best Schools For Worship Ministry, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Cedarville Named One Of The Best Schools For Worship Ministry, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

ShareFaith, a media and technology resource for churches, recently named Cedarville University’s worship major as one of the top 20 programs in the nation. The national ranking is based on on program reputation, campus facilities, faculty, location and offerings.

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Truth In Advertising: “If You Build It, They Will Come”, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Truth In Advertising: “If You Build It, They Will Come”, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

One of the most popular sports movies of all time is “Field of Dreams,” where one man’s passion for baseball was transformed into a baseball field for legends of his day.

In the movie, Ray, an Iowa farmer, hears a mysterious voice one night in his cornfield saying, "If you build it, they will come." The voice was so compelling that Ray acted upon the words and built a baseball field on his land.

For Mark D. Weinstein, Cedarville University’s executive director of public relations, this voice rings true. He’s been attending major league baseball games for ...

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Paralympic Medalist Grace Norman Nominated For Espy Award, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Paralympic Medalist Grace Norman Nominated For Espy Award, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Cedarville University’s Paralympic gold medalist, Grace Norman, has been nominated for an ESPY award after her performance at the 2016 Paralympics. She is a finalist in the category for Best Female Athlete with a Disability.

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Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao 2017 University of Central Florida

Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) currently uses three social media channels, CALA Facebook, WeChat, and YouTube. In order to improve their presence and better serve the CALA members, CALA's first social media survey was conducted at the end of 2016 to seek feedback from its members and friends. This poster will present the background information for the survey, its methodology, findings, recommendations and follow-up. 18 questions were compiled, added to LimeSurvey and distributed to the CALA members via its Listserv. These questions attempted to address the users' social media usage, participation level, time spent on the CALA's ...

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Research, Strategy Drives Cedarville To New Website, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Research, Strategy Drives Cedarville To New Website, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

For nearly the past 18 months, Cedarville University's web team has been conducting research and creating a strategy for a new website for the university. On Thursday, June 22, at 9:30 a.m. the website went live, and many believe the impact will be noticeable to the people who visit the site (cedarville.edu).

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Cedarville's Olympic Champion Nominated For Espy Award, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Cedarville's Olympic Champion Nominated For Espy Award, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

An ESPY award could be the next accomplishment for Cedarville University sophomore Grace Norman. The 2016 Paralympic triathlon champion was nominated for the Best Female Athlete with a Disability award, which will be awarded on July 12 in Los Angeles' Microsoft Theater. Former two-time NFL Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning will host the event.

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Walgreens Donates $5,000 For Pharmacy Diversity Scholarship, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Walgreens Donates $5,000 For Pharmacy Diversity Scholarship, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

The Cedarville University School of Pharmacy has received a $5,000 donation from the Walgreens Corporation as part of the company’s Diversity Donation program.

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Cedarville Math Students Excel At National Exam, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Cedarville Math Students Excel At National Exam, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Cedarville University mathematics seniors earned the highest possible score in the ETS Major Field Test in Mathematics, a national exam measuring content knowledge in undergraduate mathematics. Students took the national test at the end of the spring semester.

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Ouachita Riley-Hickingbotham Library's Special Collections Earns National Award, Trennis Henderson 2017 Ouachita Baptist University

Ouachita Riley-Hickingbotham Library's Special Collections Earns National Award, Trennis Henderson

Press Releases

The Arkansas Baptist History Collection of Ouachita Baptist University’s Riley-Hickingbotham Library Archives and Special Collections has been honored with the Baptist History and Heritage Society’s 2017 Davis C. Woolley Award for Outstanding Achievement in Assessing and Preserving Baptist History.

The national award honors the work of Dr. Wendy Richter, Ouachita professor and archivist, and her staff who coordinated the Special Collections project. The award was announced recently at the annual conference of the Baptist History and Heritage Society, hosted by First Baptist Church of Augusta, Ga., in partnership with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Georgia.

“It is indeed ...

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Health Care Administration New To Mba Program, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Health Care Administration New To Mba Program, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Health care in the United States is an ever-changing environment, and is expected to be for many years to come. Health care leaders who serve the best interests of patients with compassion and truth are needed now more than ever. To meet that need, Cedarville University is launching a new health care administration track in its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program.

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Prestigious Honor Society Comes To Cedarville, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Prestigious Honor Society Comes To Cedarville, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

One year after graduating its first class of students in its Doctor of Pharmacy program and receiving full accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, Cedarville’s school of pharmacy established the Rho Chi Society, Epsilon Mu chapter. Thirty-seven students from the classes of 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016 were inducted into the organization.

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Ouachita Professor Detri Brech Named To Endowed Chair By University Trustees, Ouachita News Bureau 2017 Ouachita Baptist University

Ouachita Professor Detri Brech Named To Endowed Chair By University Trustees, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University trustees addressed a number of personnel-related actions during their summer board meeting June 8 on Ouachita’s Arkadelphia campus, including naming a professor to an endowed chair and approving several faculty and staff positions.

Trustees named Dr. Detri Brech, professor of dietetics in the Patterson School of Natural Sciences, to the Charles S. and Elma Grey Goodwin Holt Chair of Dietetics and Pre-Medical Studies. The endowed chair was established in 1987 through a generous bequest from the estate of Dr. Charles S. Holt, a 1930 Ouachita graduate. Dr. Brech, who has taught at Ouachita since 2000, is ...

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Ouachita Trustees Adopt 201718 Budget, Five-Year Enrollment Goals, Ouachita News Bureau 2017 Ouachita Baptist University

Ouachita Trustees Adopt 201718 Budget, Five-Year Enrollment Goals, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Hearing positive reports about a projected increase in fall enrollment and significant growth in fundraising, Ouachita Baptist University’s Board of Trustees also adopted a 2017-18 budget and approved five-year enrollment goals during their June 8 summer meeting on campus.

Noting that “we’re continuing to think about the future of Ouachita,” President Ben Sells emphasized that “growing and strengthening the university – dreaming a larger dream for Ouachita – requires considerable work by faculty, staff and trustees and significant support by alumni and friends.”

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Cedarville Aims To Raise Veteran Graduation Rate, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Cedarville Aims To Raise Veteran Graduation Rate, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Across the country, universities see a high dropout rate among their veteran populations. Upon arrival, veterans face numerous hardships on college campuses including loneliness and isolation. Their unique experiences divide them from the community atmosphere of college life. Cedarville University is addressing this issue by creating a military support group, led by professional pharmacy student and veteran Ankit Pandav.

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Six-Year Pharmacy Option Offers Quicker Path To Increased Earnings, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Six-Year Pharmacy Option Offers Quicker Path To Increased Earnings, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

This fall, students at Cedarville University’s School of Pharmacy will have the option of finishing with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree in six years instead of seven, with an expected savings of about $20,000--with the opportunity to begin earning a salary 12 months earlier.

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Cedarville Grad Helps Build Winning Race Cars, Mark D. Weinstein 2017 Cedarville University

Cedarville Grad Helps Build Winning Race Cars, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Gordon Austin dreamed of working with race cars since the sixth grade, but it wasn’t until his freshman year at Cedarville University that he realized his dream could become reality. Austin, a 2016 Cedarville mechanical engineering graduate, is an electrical engineer at Richard Childress Racing (RCR).

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Popular Authors

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Amy Lynn Harp University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Mark Weinstein Cedarville University

Dhruvi Naik James Madison University

Priti Sharma East Tennessee State University

Richard Billingsley The University of San Francisco

Alan Richardson University of Windsor

Suthida Prasitthipab Western Kentucky University

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