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| | Encyclopedia: Organizational behavior |
 | | Organizational studies departments are generally within business schools, although many universities also have industrial pyschology and industrial economics programs as well. | | | Organizational studies is the study of individual and group dynamics in an organization setting, as well as the nature of the organizations themselves. | | | Organizational Studies (also known as Industrial Organizations, Organizational Behavior and I/O) is a distinct field of academic study which takes as its subject organizations, examining them using the methods of economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and psychology. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Organizational-behavior
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| | Rohrbaugh.doc |
| | Studies of attitudinal commitment (see, for example, Buchanan, 1974; Sheldon, 1971) investigated an individuals affective attachment to and identification with an organization that might be distinguished from purely instrumental calculations; the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire validated by Mowday, Steers, and Porter (1979) became a frequently used measure of attitudinal commitment. | | | Affective commitment (attitudinal) is a reflection of the strength of belief in organizational goals, the shared sense of importance of organizational values, and a feeling of personal satisfaction derived from organizational involvement. | | | Tenure in the organization ranged from 1 to 37 years with a mean of nearly 16 years and a standard deviation of 8.5 years. |
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http://www.spea.indiana.edu/npmrc6/Rohrbaugh.doc
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| | OU School of Communication Studies - Undergraduate Program - Concentrations |
| | Former organizational communication students are now also pursuing graduate studies. | | | Students focused on organizational communication are aiming for professional careers in business, education, government, industry, or the nonprofit sector. | | | The courses comprising the related area can come from one department or school or from several, but all must be outside the School of Communication Studies. |
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http://www.coms.ohiou.edu/undergrad_ocom.php
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| | FUTURE FACES AND INTERFACES OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION |
| | Organizational studies, however, tend to view the culture of the organization as a describable, somewhat homogenous, set of characteristics, despite variation among members, clusters of members, and networks of meaning (with some notable exceptions, e.g., Bastien, et al. | | | By revealing assumptions through several layers of analysis, this method has the potential for examining the interfaces of multiple communication discourses, those expressed and those not expressed, and would serve well to critically assess how organizational, societal, and national cultures are variously enacted or hidden. | | | As to the contexts of change chosen to be highlighted in this essay--radical organizational change and shifting demographics--there may be others equally important. |
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http://www.public.asu.edu/~corman/scaorgcomm/larkey.htm
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| | Strategic and Organizational Communication |
| | Development of case studies, proposals and plans for a variety of public relations audiences, including investors, employees, the community, government, and consumers. | | | Students will examine the various reasons for and processes of organizational change. | | | Organizational communication is the study of the relationship between communicating and organizing. |
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http://www.temple.edu/bulletin/ugradbulletin/ucd/soc.htm
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| | ACJ Special: Ethics and Communication in Organizational Contexts |
| | Finally, a third trend within the larger paradigm of organizational culture is a small but growing body of work focusing on organizational critique. Deetz (2001) suggests that of the general orientations to organizational culture, critical studies have the most explicitly stated value commitments and most explicit attention to moral and ethical issues (p. | | | More recently, however, questions concerning the ethics and values of organizational communication have received more attention in the research literature (Seeger, 1997; Cheney, 1999; Conrad, 1993). | | | Ethical issues are often positioned in opposition to the more important questions of organizational profitability. |
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http://www.acjournal.org/holdings/vol5/iss1/special/seeger.htm
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| | A Nursing Home and Its Organizational Climate — www.greenwood.com |
| | Practitioners of long-term care, from the fields of administration, geronotology, nursing, nutrition, policy makers, occupational and physical therapy, social work, and therapeutic recreation will find the insights of this study of great value, as will graduate students, scholars, and others concerned with organizational studies and issues in gerontology. | | | The Organizational Climate of the Meadows of Madison | | | Identified Determinants of the Organizational Climate of the Meadows of Madison |
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http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/T262.aspx
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| | OU School of Communication Studies - Undergraduate Program - Concentrations |
| | The major in Communication Studies provides students with the best features of a liberal arts and a professional education. | | | Each concentration provides skills and competencies applicable to a variety of potential careers under the broader headings of health communication, organizational communication, and communication and public advocacy. | | | OU School of Communication Studies - Undergraduate Program - Concentrations |
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http://www.coms.ohiou.edu/undergrad_con.php
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| | One way of measuring dissimilarity is to examine how firms' organizational climates differ. | | | This is the approach chosen in this study, which focuses on the relationship between the dissimilarity in organizational climate between the parent firms and the joint venture organization (JVO) and the performance of the joint venture. | | | Results also indicate that it is important to create an organizational climate at the JVO that is similar to the foreign parent's organizational climate. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4339/is_5_22/ai_82493161
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| | Master of Arts in Communication Online Degree Information - eLearners.com |
| | The Master of Arts in Communication is a 30-credit graduate degree designed to serve those just emerging from baccalaureate studies in communication, as well as seasoned professionals already in the workplace. | | | Need-based financial assistance is available for matriculated students in the form of loans, grants, and scholarships. | | | Those that aspire to careers in corporate communication, human resources, business management, consulting, professional coaching, corporate synergies, public relations, or related fields would benefit fully from Marist's Master of Arts in Communication. |
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http://www.elearners.com/online-degree/5623.htm
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| | Walter E. Helmke Library: COM 574 Organizational Communication |
| | Abstracts and indexes research literature from the fields of sociology and related disciplines such as anthropology, community development, demography, political science, social psychology, welfare services and women's studies. | | | A Dictionary of Communication and Media Studies, 4th ed. | | | Users with an Internet service provider not based in Indiana (AOL, MSN, EarthLink, etc.) must first register for an Inspire password account. |
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http://www.lib.ipfw.edu/1169.0.html
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| | Staff at Work, Organizational Climate Assessment |
| | The Quality Values organizational climate assessment can be customized to fit an individual school design such as the one in our example or an organization may choose to use their pre-validated and comprehensive online organizational climate survey. | | | Organizations may want to develop their own instrument which may survey other specific issues besides organizational climate. | | | The existing Quality Values On line Organizational Climate Survey |
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http://www.qualityvalues.com/research/edu_4.htm
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| | OUP: Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge: Dierkes |
| | The next sections examine the development of learning practices and provides case studies to illustrate Organizational Learning and knowledge creation. | | | In an era of far-reaching changes, issues of Organizational Learning are high on the agenda of social scientists, managers and consultants worldwide as they seek to adapt to new environments. | | | The Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of how the concept of Organizational Learning emerged, how it has been used and debated, and where it may be going. |
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http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-829583-9
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| | Perceptyx, Inc.: Organizational Climate Assessment |
| | Employee climate studies should be customized to meet the needs of an individual organization and Perceptyx works to tailor each dimension to the employees’ jobs. | | | Employee climate surveys are studies of employees’ perceptions of the organization in which they work. | | | Identify root causes for poor productivity (such as poor communication or poor process efficiency). |
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http://www.perceptyx.com/solutions/climate.html
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| | SFB 504 glossary: Organizational learning |
| | Generally, one can distinguish between two different processes of organizational change that are associated with OL: | | | See also: organization studies: behavioral, organization studies: cognitive, standard operating procedures | | | Thus, it is not only the scholars of organization studies who are interested in the phenomenon of OL but also the practitioners who have to deal with the subject of OL. |
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http://www.sfb504.uni-mannheim.de/glossary/orglearn.htm
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| | Communication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | "Communication studies" is the academic discipline focused on communication forms, processes and meanings, including speech, interpersonal and organizational communication. | | | Small group communication takes place in settings of between three and 12 individuals creating a different set of interactions than large groups such as organizational communication in settings like companies or communities. | | | In virtual management an important issue is computer-mediated communication. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication
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| | CRITICAL APPROACH- Organizational Communication Context |
| | Mumby, D.K. The problem of hegemony: Rereading Gramsci for organizational communication studies. | | | Clair, R. Resistance and oppression as a self-contained opposite: An organizational communication analysis. | | | Deetz, S. Critical interpretive research in organizational communication. |
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http://www.uky.edu/~drlane/capstone/orgcomm/critical.htm
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| | Department of Psychology : Undergraduate : Industrial/Organizational Psychology Programs in Illinois |
| | This program consists of course work in organizational and personnel psychology, including studies in leadership, motivation, organizational change and systems, OD, group dynamics, employee selection, EEOC law and issues, and much more. | | | Students undertake a balanced education in personnel and organizational topics, disciplines and research. | | | The emphasis in I/O Psychology is designed to prepare students as scientist-practitioners involved in the development and application of psychological theory and methodology to the problems of industrial, business, and government organizations, as well as to the problems of individuals and groups in these organizational settings. |
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http://www.psychology.ilstu.edu/undergrad/I-O-ProgramsIL.html
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| | Readership Institute Newspaper Culture and Management Practices Main Index |
| | Learn more about the organizational culture at newspapers and its important relationship to readership. | | | The finding echoes results from hundreds of studies in other businesses that link the culture of the workplace to business outcomes. | | | There are two basic types of organizational culture, constructive and defensive. |
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http://www.readership.org/culture_management
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| | Organizational Communication |
| | Maintained by the Communication Studies Web Committee | | | Seek a general orientation to the field of organizational communication, especially those who intend to pursue a terminal degree in the area. | | | Students who desire a general orientation or who plan to further their education after completion of the M.A. should pursue the thesis option. |
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http://www.chfa.uni.edu/comstudy/graduate/oc.asp
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| | Industrial and organizational psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Many industrial and organizational psychologists specialize in one of the following aspects: psychometrics; time and motion studies; labor law; personnel selection; training; leadership selection, coaching and development; organizational design and change. | | | Industrial and organizational psychologists use psychological testing to measure the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics of people for a variety of employment-related purposes, such as selection for hiring or promotion, training and development, or measuring employee satisfaction. | | | Industrial and organizational psychology (or I/O psychology) is also known as occupational psychology (in the United Kingdom) and work psychology (from the German, Arbeitspsychologie). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_and_organizational_psychology
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| | Dos and don'ts of an IT org chart |
| | After interviewing more than 200 IT organizations, Marc Cecere of Forrester Research recommends how to deploy staff in a report "The Structure of IT: Midsize Shop Case Studies." This organizational chart of a real company he analyzed highlights good practices and points out possible weaknesses. | | | IT shops in midsize businesses need carefully thought out organizational hierarchies to function efficiently and effectively, but often they lack careful planning. | | | Forrester defines midsize IT shops as 60 to 800 members, which Cecere acknowledges sounds arbitrary, but departments of that size have similar organizational patterns. |
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http://www.networkworld.com/careers/2005/060605man.html
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| | Industrial/Organizational Psychology |
| | Almost all students retain their fellowship or assistantship for their entire period of graduate studies (four or five years). | | | However, in addition to academic positions, our graduates are qualified for positions in research organizations, government agencies, corporations, and consulting firms. | | | All graduate students admitted to the Department of Psychology are provided a fellowship or assistantship that pays a competitive monthly salary. |
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http://psychology.tamu.edu/AOS.php?ID=5
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| | Organizational learning - definition of Organizational learning in Encyclopedia |
| | Organizational learning is an area of knowledge within organizational theory that studies models and theories about the way an organization learns and adapts. | | | The work in Organizational Learning must be distinguished from work in a related concept, the learning organization. | | | In Organizational development (OD), learning is a characteristic of an adaptive organization, i.e., an organization that is able to sense changes in signals from its environment (both internal and external) and adapt accordingly. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Organizational_learning
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| | ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION |
| | In doing so, organizational communication brings together the conceptual and applied areas of two major disciplines: communication and management studies. | | | The main topics discussed will be communication processes and activities in today’s organizations, theoretical foundations for understanding organizational communication, communication implications of major organizational theories, and professional communication skills for organizational effectiveness.. | | | to identify and assess organizational communication patterns and networks and evaluate their effectiveness |
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http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~klimow/3Q03Outline.html
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| | Essay or Coursework : Organizational Culture. |
| | Coursework and Essays: By Level: GCSE: Business Studies: Organizational Culture | | | Rather it will have been probably changed, managed or manipulated, based on the values of the top management or core people who build and/or direct that organization. | | | Over time individuals (particularly the organization's leaders) attempt to change, manage or manipulate the culture of their organizations to fit their own preferences or changing marketplace conditions.Then this culture influences the decision-making processes, it affects styles of management and what everyone determines as success. |
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| | Comm 244--Seminar in Organizational Communication information page |
| | BUS/COMM 244, Seminar in Organizational Communication, is a graduate course offered jointly by the Department of Communication Studies and the College of Business at San José State U. The course is an elective for the Master of Art in Speech Communication and the Master of Business Administration. | | | BUS/COMM 244 focuses on current trends in theoretical and methodological approaches in the study of organizational communication, leadership, power, culture, and politics. | | | Welcome to BUS/COMM 244, Seminar in Organizational Communication! |
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http://sjsu.webct.com/public/comm244sc
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| | Master's Degree in Industrial / Organizational Psychology |
| | Kansas State University's Psychology Department is nationally and internationally known as a provider of quality graduate education in industrial/organizational psychology. | | | During their studies students have the opportunity to apply new human resource concepts and analytical tools to on-the-job decisions. | | | The Industrial/Organizational Psychology Masters degree is offered via distance education. |
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| | University of Virginia's Organizational Chart |
| | U.Va.'s online organizational chart is maintained by the Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies. | | | If you would like to submit any edits to this site or have any questions, please contact George Stovall (Email: gas5a@virginia.edu, Tel: 434-924-6431) | | | Chancellor, The University of Virginia's College at Wise |
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