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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"workplace communication"”.
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"Dilbert": A rhetorical reflection of contemporary organizational communication
… in mirroring contemporary organizational communication. This historical case study utilized the methods proposed by Kathleen J. Turner (1977) to provide a rhetorical perspective of "Dilbert" and to demonstrate the reciprocal relationship between the comic and society. A three-pronged …
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Multilingual medical communication: Staff with different language repertoires in an intensive care environment
… and local skill shortages have created a workplace context in which English is the dominant language of a linguistically diverse site. This research explored how registered nurses, whose first languages include Afrikaans, isiXhosa and languages indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, such …
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Exploring The Teaching Interventions And Assessment Tools For Communication Skills In Higher Education For Accounting Students
… role to ensure relevance in the future workplace. Communication skills are among the most important competencies for future professional accountants. However, recent accounting graduates' communication skills are lacking, indicating the need to develop communication skills at a higher …
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Investigating organizational communication between top management and academic staff in Malaysian Technical University Network (MTUN)
… are there because of their organizations. Communication is a basic element which increases harmony among individuals and organizations for achieving goals at the workplace. Communication is a fundamental skill for organizational development, whereby a lack in communication efficiency leads …
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Beyond Words: A Post-Process Business Writing Pedagogy
… business writing pedagogy, examine 105 business communication syllabi from U.S. colleges, and perform a close textual analysis of the five textbooks most commonly used in these courses. I then perform a communication audit of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network as an exemplar of how …
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Practice and Efficacy of Peer Writing Feedback in a Large First-Year Engineering Course
… communicators, yet the effective teaching of communication remains a persistent contemporary issue, with studies continuing to indicate that engineering graduates are insufficiently prepared for workplace communication. Despite compelling arguments that that writing should be treated as a …
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Employee reactions to management communication: a study of operations personnel in the oil industry.
… team of operations personnel who work in a telecommunications company within the oil industry, this thesis examined employee reactions to management communication. Employee interpretations and reactions after each communication from the management team were analysed as the organisational story …
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Social media in manufacturing workplaces
… between the use of social media for learning, communication and collaboration in a manufacturing environment and improved performance in quality and delivery metrics in those organizations. As the competition throughout the world becomes more challenging, organizations, small and large, are …
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Testing a Multi-Level Mediation Model of Workgroup Incivility: The Role of Civility Climate and Group Norms for Civility
… Specifically, it was proposed that predictors of workplace incivility at the individual, group, and organizational level would be related to each other and negative individual outcomes. It was also proposed that the relationship between these predictors and outcomes would be mediated by workplace …