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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Organizational rhetoric"”.
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From Sisters to CEO's: Defining Organizational Rhetoric in a Case Study of Social Sorority Bylaws
<p>Organizational Rhetoric is typically used in the fields of Communication and Mass Communication to examine the communicative strategies that animate businesses and corporate organizations. This study aims to give a more rhetorically focused definition of organizational rhetoric by emphasizing …
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Wrestling With Crisis Communication: WWE's Scandals and Public Relations Strategies in 2015
This project examines an intersection of organizational rhetoric, professional wrestling and social media. Professional wrestling, like many other sports, is rich with scandal. Steiner makes a scholarly inquiry into how World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and in particular Seth Rollins, Bill …
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Green Employees: Organizational Identification in an Environmentally Friendly Company
… the use of a directed mission statement and organizational rhetoric. Utilizing individual interviews, the findings suggest that by building organizational identification, more environmentally-friendly practices amongst organizational members may be achieved.
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How a secondary school as an organization defines and embeds the term college readiness
… readiness, understanding how organizations use rhetoric to determine and define what college readiness is and what it looks like can either reinforce dominant institutional structures and practices, or create new definitions and understanding leading to institutional change. Through a rhetorical …
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STAKEHOLDER VOICES IN INTEGRATING EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION AS A STRATEGIC UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE
… as part of the curriculum represents an organizational change, or a shift in strategic initiatives, at many universities. Zorn, Christensen, and Cheney (1999) define such change as “any alteration or modification of organizational structure or processes” (p. 10). Utilizing the University …
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Seizing the Catholic Moment: Kairos and the Rhetoric of Diocesan Administration
… administrations in the United States learn from rhetorical studies in the postmodern moment? This dissertation attempts to help American dioceses to respond to a postmodern moment of increasing secularization, changing human resources, and declining institutional trust. In this moment of …