Effects Of Social Media On Individual Voting,
2013
Gonzaga University
Effects Of Social Media On Individual Voting, Noel Albert Bermudez
Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses
In the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama established social media as an essential part of the campaign toolbox. Twitter, a widely-used social media site, provides a means of creating virtual communities that can instantly send messages and move "followers" to action. This thesis seeks to ascertain if Twitter messages - sent to known supporters by a presidential campaign asking a person to vote - can positively affect that person's likelihood to cast a ballot and, if so, would that vote be for the candidate whose campaign tweeted the message. Media ecology, as proposed by Marshall McLuhan and developed by Neil …
The Role Of Race In Marketing Communications,
2013
Gonzaga University
The Role Of Race In Marketing Communications, Brandice Patrice Saunders
Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses
Americans are living in an age ofadvertising and successfuJly marketing to the right groups at the right time can enhance a brands marketing edge. However, in order to consider marketing successful, the marketing communication's message needs to be created appropriately. Guided by Social Cognitive Theory and Stuart Hall's Encoding/Decoding theory, this thesis examined how marketing communications have been displayed to Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics via television commercials. Also examined were how marketing communications via television commercials were perceived by each ethnic group and whether that group identified with the communication or had a cultural affinity towards the message. Results of …
Generational Differences Within A Corporate Workplace,
2013
Gonzaga University
Generational Differences Within A Corporate Workplace, Marie Jakubek
Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses
The purpose ofthis study is to examine generational diversity issues within the corporate workplace in order to develop strategies that can be employed to increase intergenerational understanding, morale and, improve productivity. The theory used to frame this study is the Communication Accommodation Theory. This theory allowed for a better understanding of specific challenges and opportunities that can occur when working in a multigenerational workforce. It is important for corporations to effectively address these differences in generations and take advantage of the values and expectations of each generation to keep a happy and healthy workplace. Data for this study was collected …
Muted Women In American Political Discourse: Quieting The Loud Silence,
2013
Gonzaga University
Muted Women In American Political Discourse: Quieting The Loud Silence, Constance Michelle Skingel
Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses
This study examines the way women are denied an equal voice in American politics through disparities in our language structure and overt sexism. This thesis begins with a review of the literature which discusses the need for an equitable and just society and how the underlying structure of our language system is flawed in such a way that it subjugates women and inhibits the development of such a society. This is followed by a brief summary of why it is necessary for us to examine this societal disparity from the perspective of women themselves. This thesis uses a pentadic analysis …
Getting Thrown Under The Bus: The Impact Of Destructive Narcissistic Management On Group Sensemaking,
2013
Gonzaga University
Getting Thrown Under The Bus: The Impact Of Destructive Narcissistic Management On Group Sensemaking, Russell Allen Royston
Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses
Despite the vast research and scholarship on leaders with narcissistic traits and tendencies, little research has focused on the impact these leaders have on group communication. This thesis uses an ethnographic research methodology to explore a group under destructive narcissistic management. Karl Weick’s (1995) theory of organizational sensemaking is used to examine the affected group’s communication. The study was conducted from a phenomenological perspective of the group’s lived experience. Kierkegaard’s theory of communication is also applied to learn how the group made sense of was happening to them during a period of substantial change (Anderson, 1963). The results show that …
A Most Grievous Display Of Behavior: Self-Decimation In Indian Country,
2013
University of Richmond
A Most Grievous Display Of Behavior: Self-Decimation In Indian Country, David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
Vine Deloria, Jr., the greatest indigenous philosopher of his day, wrote Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto in 1969. It was a spirited polemic that both galvanized and inspired Native peoples at home and abroad. Simultaneously, the book's powerful and trenchant words sent shock waves through non-Indian society. Deloria articulated a resurgent indigenous-centered understanding of sovereignty that had largely been suppressed by federal policy and law for nearly a century. Why did he emphasize the word "sovereignty"? Because he knew that Native nations needed to employ such concepts since they were familiar to both federal and state …
Associative Duties And Immigration,
2013
University of Richmond
Associative Duties And Immigration, Javier S. Hidalgo
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
This paper evaluates an argument for immigration restrictions that appeals to the costs that immigration imposes on the citizens of a recipient state. According to this argument, citizens have associative duties to protect each other’s interests, immigration can damage these interests in certain cases, and the associative duties between compatriots justify immigration restrictions in these cases. Call this: the partiality argument for immigration restrictions. I argue that the partiality argument is unsound. Immigration restrictions violate negative duties to refrain from interfering with people’s liberties and these duties silence compatriots’ associative duties to one another. Furthermore, I argue that compatriots lack …
Queen Elizabeth’S Leadership Abroad: The Netherlands In The 1570s,
2013
University of Richmond
Queen Elizabeth’S Leadership Abroad: The Netherlands In The 1570s, Peter Iver Kaufman
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
In 1576, after Edmund Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury, presumed to lecture Queen Elizabeth on the importance of preaching and on her duty to listen to such lectures, his influence diminished precipitously, and leadership of the established English church fell to Bishop Aylmer. Grindal’s friends on the queen’s Privy Council, “forward” Calvinists (or ultra-Protestants), were powerless to save him from the consequences of his indiscretion, which damaged the ultras’ other initiatives’ chances of success. This paper concerns one of those initiatives. From the late 1560s, they urged their queen “actively” to intervene in the Dutch wars. They collaborated with Calvinists on …
The Effectiveness Of The United States Air Force Developmental Teams,
2013
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
The Effectiveness Of The United States Air Force Developmental Teams, Jason Michael Newcomer
Aeronautics
The Results-Based Leadership Group surveyed 470 companies and discovered that the top 25companies with effective leadership practices dedicated twice as much effort to leadership development as did other companies, indicating a strong relationship between success and leadership development. The problem explored in the current study was the lack of qualitative analyses of the U.S. Air Force Development Team processes. The purpose of the case study was to survey Development Teams at the U.S. Air Force in Washington, DC to explore how effectively the teams’ processes resulted in identification, selection, and/or development of leaders who meet strategic needs of the service. …
Confirmed,
2013
Gonzaga University
Confirmed, Mary Jane Nealon
International Journal of Servant-Leadership
A poem by Mary Jane Nealon.
Choices,
2013
Spokane, Washington
Choices, Ketema Ross
International Journal of Servant-Leadership
A poem by Ketema Ross.
Servant-Leadership Characteristics, Personality Type, And The Hierarchy Of Functions,
2013
Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis
Servant-Leadership Characteristics, Personality Type, And The Hierarchy Of Functions, Beth A. Lafferty, Ralph Lewis, Larry C. Spears
International Journal of Servant-Leadership
The 2008 International Journal of Servant-Leadership featured a groundbreaking dialogue on Myers Briggs and Servant-Leadership written by Larry Spears and Ralph Lewis. In the intervening years, it has generated considerable interest among readers and researchers alike. Near the end of that dialogue, Larry asked Ralph this question: "I am wondering if there is something here for servant-leaders that might be explored over time as a developmental tool, or as a piece of writing that would address the sixteen types in relation to servant-leadership?"
A Servant-Leader Meditation,
2013
The Spears Center for Servant-Leadership
A Servant-Leader Meditation, George Sanfacon, Larry C. Spears
International Journal of Servant-Leadership
This guided meditation is about opening your heart to all beings-including yourself-and wishing them well. It is an antidote to contracting around the pain and suffering of life, which separates us from others. The meditation can be read aloud or silently. Most importantly, it needs to be done slowly and in a quiet setting. So be sure to pause in the spaces indicated(...). Beyond that, there is no right way or wrong way to do the practice.
Teaching Corporate Governance In Mba Programs: The Servant-Leadership Test,
2013
Kutztown University
Teaching Corporate Governance In Mba Programs: The Servant-Leadership Test, Martha M. Geaney
International Journal of Servant-Leadership
Despite the fact that it has been ten years since scandals such as Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia, accountability and ethical leadership issues in business organizations continue to occur. Legislative and regulatory compliance mandates such as Sarbanes Oxley have not stemmed some of these ethical breaches. Recent examples include the Madoff, Rothstein, and Stanford Ponzi schemes and the mortgage-backed securities perpetration that has rocked world markets. As a result, corporations are under renewed pressure from regulators, stockholders, and stakeholders to demonstrate that they have a moral conscience. In response to this pressure, some companies, whether they have been caught cheating, lying, …
Amazing Grace: Seeking Grace And Forgiveness In Law Enforcement,
2013
National Park Service
Amazing Grace: Seeking Grace And Forgiveness In Law Enforcement, Lena I. Boesser-Koschmann
International Journal of Servant-Leadership
AMAZING GRACE Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found Was blind, but now I see ... T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far, And Grace will lead us home.
Melungeon Portraits: Lived Experience And Identity,
2013
Antioch University - PhD Program in Leadership and Change
Melungeon Portraits: Lived Experience And Identity, Tamara L. Stachowicz
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
The desire to claim an ethnicity may be in response to an institutional and systemic political movement towards multiculturalism where ethnic difference is something to be recognized and celebrated (Jimenez, 2010; Tatum, 1997). Those who were a member of a dominant or advantaged group took that element of their identity for granted (Tatum, 1997). Identity work has included reflections and congruence between how individuals see themselves and how they perceive others to see them, including Optimal Distinctiveness Theory where one determines the optimal amount of individual distinctiveness needed to feel a healthy group and personal identity (Brewer, 2012). When most …
[Introduction To] The Navajo Political Experience,
2013
University of Richmond
[Introduction To] The Navajo Political Experience, David E. Wilkins
Bookshelf
Native nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fourth edition of David E. Wilkins' The Navajo Political Experience, political developments of the last decade are discussed and analyzed comprehensively, and with as much accessibility as thoroughness and detail. The Diné people and their governing leaders have recently experienced a host of events that dramatically affected the shape of the nation—a plethora of effective grassroots organizations that had a profound impact on the structure of …
A Women's Talking Circle: A Narrative Study Of Positive Intergenerational Communication,
2013
Antioch University - PhD Program in Leadership and Change
A Women's Talking Circle: A Narrative Study Of Positive Intergenerational Communication, Pamela Ferris-Olson
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
Narrative inquiry was used to understand how women’s experiences with their mothers, grandmothers, and daughters and as mothers, grandmothers, and daughters contribute to their meaning making of communication and connectedness with unrelated women. A purposeful sample of nine women aged 31-69 from a small Midwestern city was studied. Six African American and three white women were chosen for their membership in a group that has regularly engaged in positive intergenerational communication for nearly two years. The women’s narratives of personal communicative experiences within their families and with the other women were recorded and interpreted to gain a deeper understanding of …
Emerging Forms Of Awareness About Forgiveness: An Analysis Of What High Profile Leaders Think,
2013
Antioch University - PhD Program in Leadership and Change
Emerging Forms Of Awareness About Forgiveness: An Analysis Of What High Profile Leaders Think, Stephen Bauman
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
Over the last several decades forgiveness research has exploded across a wide array of scholarly disciplines from psychology and sociology to political theory, medicine and the arts, but it has not yet captured the full attention of researchers concerned specifically with leadership. This situation is further complicated by the lack of an agreed-upon definition/understanding of forgiveness both within and across disciplines. This study explores what high profile leaders think about forgiveness and begins to fill the gap in leadership studies concerning the meanings and applications of forgiveness among leaders. Data was gathered through responsive interviewing of 13 high profile leaders …
I'Ll Choose Which Hill I'M Going To Die On: African American Women Scholar-Activists In The White Academy,
2013
Antioch University - PhD Program in Leadership and Change
I'Ll Choose Which Hill I'M Going To Die On: African American Women Scholar-Activists In The White Academy, Muriel Elizabeth Shockley
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
This study explored the complexities of African American women scholar-activists' lived experiences in predominately white institutions of higher education. Existing scholarship on African American women's experiences in the academy locates these academicians in predominately white research universities and liberal arts colleges (PWI's) as well as historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU's) and focuses on the tenure process, recruitment and retention, evaluation, student relationships, career satisfaction, mentoring, survival strategies, and administrative leadership. Overwhelmingly the foci of the research are the challenges African American women scholars face and the concomitant strategies employed to militate the consequences. Less apparent are the ways African …
