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Office Signs: Reflectors Of Organizational Culture, Melvin Leon Jeppson May 1989

Office Signs: Reflectors Of Organizational Culture, Melvin Leon Jeppson

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Social scientists widely believe that symbols can reveal important information about personalities, values, beliefs and characteristics of the communicator. Although scholars from fields such as semiology, psychology, sociology and anthropology have analyzed symbols and the messages they reveal as cultural indicators, few communication researchers have studied organizational symbols as organizational cultural indicators. In an article entitled, "Organizational Symbolism: A Topic to Expand Organizational Analysis," Dandridge, Mitroff and Joyce chastened communication researchers for overlooking a wealth of organizational data available through the study of organizational symbols. Stephen R. Barley supported these claims when he wrote that culture is embodied in and …


Cornerstone For Growth: How Minorities Are Vital To The Future Of Newspapers, Ted Pease Apr 1989

Cornerstone For Growth: How Minorities Are Vital To The Future Of Newspapers, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

A comprehensive newspaper industry report on minority demographics recommends that American newspapers turn to minority readers, employees and advertisers to improve readership rates and stimulate stagnant circulation growth.


Kerner Plus 20: Minority News Coverage In The Columbus Dispatch – Acomparative Content Study, Ted Pease Apr 1989

Kerner Plus 20: Minority News Coverage In The Columbus Dispatch – Acomparative Content Study, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

An examination of news content about minorities in the Columbus Dispatch finds little change in amount of coverage between 1965 - three years before the Kerner Commission Report - and 1987 but some improvement in the kind and tone of minority coverage.


One Daily Shows Virtually No Change In Coverage Of Minorities Since 1965, Ted Pease Jan 1989

One Daily Shows Virtually No Change In Coverage Of Minorities Since 1965, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

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