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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"organizational crisis"”.
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Ethical responses to organizational crisis: lessons from three successful cases
… examples of successful and ethical approaches to organizational crisis management. Much of this research determines the effectiveness of organization's post-crisis responses by examining obvious failures. This dissertation takes an alternative approach by examining ethical post-crisis …
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A Case Study of NASA's Columbia Tragedy: An Organizational Learning and Sensemaking Approach to Organizational Crisis.
… This thesis takes a case study approach using organizational learning and sensemaking theories to investigate crisis communication within NASA's 2003 Columbia tragedy. Eight participants, who in some capacity had worked for NASA during the Columbia tragedy in a communication centered position, …
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Responding to organizational crisis: The role of crisis communication message framing and communication information processing to protect organizational credibility
… processing system (systematic vs. heuristic) on organizational credibility during a crisis. The different emotions induced by different message framings influences consumers’ information processing and the credibility towards the company differently. It established a fit between …
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Voicing Our Concerns and Being Heard: Social Service Employees' Communication Experiences of Crisis
Research on organizational crisis has consistently ignored internal factors in managing a crisis event (Adams & Roebuck, 1997). This project explored the impact of organizational crisis on employees at a social service agency in the Midwest. Using system and turning-point perspectives, participants …
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CRISIS COMMUNICATION IN THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA CONFLICT: USE OF FACEBOOK BY UN HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS
… platforms as a means for managing their crisis responses. Through a content analysis of 355 posts concerning the Ukraine-Russia conflict made by five large UN humanitarian organizations between February and May, 2022, on their official Facebook pages, this study investigated …
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Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Triage Assessment Survey: Organizations
… after reading mild, moderate, marked and severe organizational crisis scenarios. Statistical analyses were performed on the data to determine the instrument's reliability and validity. The overall Cronbach's alpha and Spearman-Brown reliability tests were both .93. An item total correlation …
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Cultural change : a comparative study of the change efforts of Douglas MacArthur and Carlos Ghosn in Japan
… a changing environment and struggles through an organizational crisis, its organizational culture is sometimes challenged. At such a time, a leader who can change current culture and embed a new culture is needed for the organization to survive. Dealing with cultural changes is one of the most …
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Exploring the concept and application of crisis-induced uncertainty in organizational crises
… stakeholders’ feelings of uncertainty during an organizational crisis and how such feelings influence stakeholders’ relationship with the organization and change their information-seeking behaviors. Through reviewing current theories about uncertainty in risk communication and interpersonal …
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An examination of decision-making during organizational crises: a case study of the 2017 Northern California Firestorm
… examined a phenomenon central to minimizing crisis-related harm: decision-making. More specifically, this study examined the ways in which decision elements interact to influence decision processes and behaviors during crises. The significance of this study stems from a steady increase in the …
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The Dynamics of Violent Escalation and De-escalation: Explaining Change in Islamist Strategies in Egypt and Indonesia
… the organization, public norms of resistance and organizational dynamics.</p> <p>The analysis relies on process-tracing and counterfactual analysis to examine four case studies from Egypt and Indonesia: the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyyah, the Darul Islam, and al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah. …
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The Head and the Heart in Crisis: The Temporal Dynamics of the Interplay Between Team Cognitive Processes and Collective Emotions During Crisis Events
… team. As a result, effective team functioning in crisis events involves handling each dimension of the crisis through distinct, yet concurrent, types of responses, namely team cognitive processes and collective emotions. Research on groups also suggests that cognitive processes and collective …
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The Pandemic Olympics: A Thematic Analysis of COVID-19 and the Tokyo Olympic Games from a Canadian Perspective
… during the COVID-19 pandemic presented a major crisis for the Olympic movement, both in Canada and around the world. The Pandemic led to an unprecedented postponement of the games and to widespread concern that the Tokyo Olympics could become a mega-spreader event. The purpose of the present …
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Sony Pictures and the U.S. Federal Government: A Case Study Analysis of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack Crisis Using Normal Accidents Theory
… Entertainment (SPE), a serious national security crisis of cyberterrorism. I utilize Normal Accidents theory as a lens, to help explain how the accident within one system (SPE) and later crisis lead to the interaction with a second system (U.S. Federal Government), the development of a new crisis, …