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Office Signs: Reflectors Of Organizational Culture, Melvin Leon Jeppson
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 …
A Guide In Working With Elementary-Aged Navajo Children Of Alcoholic Parents, George Ray Henry
A Guide In Working With Elementary-Aged Navajo Children Of Alcoholic Parents, George Ray Henry
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Programs which provide intervention services for children of alcoholics are very new and in their developing stages nationwide. Despite this, the need for such programs exists, particularly on the Navajo Reservation. All available literature was reviewed that relates to the state-of-the-art in programming for intervention with children of alcoholic parents. Programs in use with children are described and the rationale for adapting such programs for use with Navajo children is discussed. A Navajo intervention pilot program for children of alcoholics is outlined.
Bilingual Education: What It Could Mean On The Navajo Reservation, Berniece A. Blackhorse
Bilingual Education: What It Could Mean On The Navajo Reservation, Berniece A. Blackhorse
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
It provides the learner the advantage of participating and functioning in two cultures , socially and academically. Amid all the controversy, the educational system is attempting to provide meaningful education for the limited English proficient students. 'The primary recommendation of this paper is that bilingual programs focus on the needs of the second language learner, with cautions regarding the use of experimental programs.