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Mallett-Hamer, Beverly. "Communication within the workplace." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005mallett-hamerb.pdf.
Full textТурчина, Тамара Василівна, Тамара Васильевна Турчина, and Tamara Vasylivna Turchyna. "Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace." Thesis, Ukrainian Academy Of Banking, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/50957.
Full textRuddick, Gayle Elizabeth. "Intergenerational leadership communication in the workplace." Connect to this title online, 2009.
Find full textKolhatkar, Madhuri. "Web-mediated communication at workplace : a case study at US WEST Communications." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/MQ43614.pdf.
Full textMartins, Susanne. "Intercultural communication and cultural intelligence in the workplace." Thesis, Martins, Susanne (2013) Intercultural communication and cultural intelligence in the workplace. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2013. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/16881/.
Full textLien, Vy Ngoc. "Workplace culture, workgroup identification, and workplace conflict." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2334.
Full textRick, Jessica M. "The Communicative Construction of Workplace Flexibility Stigma." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13877163.
Full textWorkplace flexibility is becoming more and more common in American workplaces. However, most of these policies are created for professional and white-collar workers. Scholars have argued that the “missing middle,” that is, workers who are neither in the professional class nor low-wage workers, are often ignored in formal policies. Scholars have argued that workers experience a stigma for using these policies; however, little is known about how this stigmatization process occurs. This dissertation employs a grounded theory methodology to analyze 29 semi-structured interviews with missing middle workers to understand how they communicatively construct workplace flexibility and its attending stigma. Analysis of the data suggested the missing middle constructed workplace flexibility by drawing upon macro, meso, and micro-level D/discourses. In doing so, my participants communicated a fine line between use and abuse of workplace flexibility policies based on a) the perception of a worker as lazy, b) the perception of a worker using flexibility too frequently, and c) the perception of a worker having a non-acceptable rationale for using flexibility. Thus, workers become stigmatized for being perceived to abuse, not use, the policies. Based on the data, I offer a ground theory of this flexibility stigmatization process, that includes: a) organizational norms surrounding flexibility, b) the use of workplace flexibility, c) talk surrounding flexibility, and d) stigma perceptions. I then offer potential ways this communicative process can be reconstituted and transformed by human resource personnel, managers, and workers to disrupt the cycle of workplace flexibility stigma.
Caccia, Lewis E. Jr. "Risk Communication in the Workplace: An Analysis of Communication Toolkits as Rhetorical Practice." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1239226189.
Full textCaccia, Lewis E. "Risk communication in the workplace an analysis of communication toolkits as rhetorical practice /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1239226189.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 13, 2009). Advisor: Sara J. Newman. Keywords: labor relations, workplace, risk communication, occupational safety, safety communication, enthymemes, literacy, rhetoric, Communications Toolkits, Toolkits, topoi. Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-206).
Millner, Madison Sara. "Communication in the Workplace: Does Communicating Breastfeeding Needs Affect Breastfeeding Duration for Working Mothers?" Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28756.
Full textZhang, Yuejiao. "DEFINING WORKPLACE INFORMATION FLUENCY SKILLS FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION STUDENTS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2828.
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Fowler, Jamie. "Communication within the workplace a study at Westconsin Credit Union /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004fowlerj.pdf.
Full textWeyant, Jacob B. "Communicating organizational culture in the workplace through writing." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3149.
Full textVita: p. 83. Thesis director: Douglas Eyman. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 8, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-82). Also issued in print.
Hauksdóttir, Helga. "The Influence of Communication for the Future of the Physical Workplace." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385938.
Full textFullwood, Christopher. "Video-mediated communication : psychological and communicative implications for advice on good practice." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/932.
Full textPackery, Ronalda. "Change management and communication: factors influencing the successful communication of change at a workplace." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1009.
Full textChange management and communication have been studied by researchers in the past. In this case the researcher identified the need to investigate specific factors influencing the successful communication of change at a workplace. The organisation used in this study recently experienced a range of changes and was the perfect case for the study. The paper deals with the communication of change to employees of different (1) age groups, (2) levels of education, and (3) positions in the organisation. The planning for this study was presented in a research proposal to the higher degrees committee (HDC) of Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The researcher reviewed literature from previous studies and defined key concepts to be used in this study. The revised literature of previous studies, applicable to this study, can be found in Chapter 3 of this thesis. The researcher used the mixed method research design for the study. Data was collected through qualitative and quantitative research methods, using a questionnaire and interviews as data collection tools. The data collected with the questionnaire was analysed by use of the statistical package for social science (SPSS) to generate descriptive results. The data collected during the interviews was analysed qualitatively. The research findings indicate that the organisational change communication strategy does not provide for differentiation between age groups, varying education levels or positions in the organisation. The division, in which the research was performed, has its own internal ways of dealing with the differences in education levels and positions. Recommendations and suggestions are presented in Chapter 7. It is intended that this research will contribute to academic knowledge in the fields of change management and change communication fields. Further studies on this phenomenon will be required as the organisational environments are ever-changing.
Kavan, Danielle. "Closing the Divide: communicating with millennials in the workplace." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9097.
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William Schenck-Hamlin
Although some literature exists to describe the difference between Millennials and other generations in the workplace, I have developed my own ten steps that will help match what Millennials want from their bosses and workplace with what the company needs from them based on the research available and my own personal experience in a a workplace that did not cater to Millennials.
Stark, Patricia Pullin. "An investigation into social cohesion in workplace meetings : issues concerning communication and social cohesion in the workplace." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442639.
Full textWillemyns, Michael. "Communication accommodation in the workplace : status, sex, goals and strategies /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17771.pdf.
Full textBarnardt, Gerard Louis. "Electronic communication in the workplace : employer vs employee legal rights." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49942.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The monitoring of electronic communication is likely to face all employers sooner or later. The rapid advancement in technology aimed at helping to monitor electronic communication, makes it easier than ever before for employers to monitor the electronic communications of their employees. There are important questions to consider when dealing with the topic of monitoring electronic communication. Examples include "mayan employer legally monitor electronic communications?" and "how does monitoring affect the employee's right to privacy?" This thesis is an attempt to answer these and other related questions by analysing, inter alia, South African legislation, the Constitution and case law, as well as comparing the law as it applies in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The analysis and conclusion offered in this thesis aim to provide theoretical consideration to academics and practical application for employers that are faced with the reality of monitoring electronic communications.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Alle werkgewers sal waarskynlik die een of ander tyd met die monitering van elektroniese kommunikasie gekonfronteer word. Die snelle voortuitgang in tegnologie wat daarop gemik is om te help met die monitering van elektroniese kommunikasie, maak dit vir werkgewers makliker as ooit tevore om sodanige kommunikasies van hulle werknemers te monitor. Daar is egter belangrike vrae wat oorweeg moet word wanneer die onderwerp van monitering van elektroniese kommunikasie ter sprake kom. Voorbeelde hiervan is "mag 'n werknemer regtens elektroniese kommunikasies monitor?" en "hoe raak monitering die werknemer se reg tot privaatheid?" Hierdie tesis is 'n poging om hierdie en ander verwante vrae te beantwoord deur die ontleding van, onder andere, Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing, die Grondwet en die reg soos deur hofuitsprake ontwikkel, sowel as vergelyking van die reg soos wat dit van toepassing is in die Verenigde Koninkryk en die Verenigde State van Amerika. Die ontleding en gevolgtrekking wat in hierdie tesis aangebied word, is gemik op die verskaffing van teoretiese oorweging aan akademici en praktiese toepassing vir werkgewers wat met die realiteit van die monitering van elektroniese kommunikasies gekonfronteer word.
Brown, Joanne. "Through the looking glass : clinical communication in the clinical workplace." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020802/.
Full textMiyazoe-Wong, Yuko. "Conversational negotiation in Chinese-Japanese interaction : an analysis of workplace communication." Monash University, School of Asian Languages and Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8528.
Full textMak, Chun-nam, and 麥震嵐. "Language and communication: a sociolinguisticstudy of newcomers' socialization into the workplace." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43224209.
Full textGrassman, Kelsey N. "Single and Working: A Content Analysis of Workplace Romance Policies." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1430489925.
Full textEickholt, Molly S. "The Effect of Superiors' Mentoring on Subordinates' Organizational Identification and Workplace Outcomes." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10789351.
Full textThis dissertation investigated the relationships between subordinates’ perceptions of the mentoring they receive from their superiors and their reports of organizational identification and workplace experiences. Specifically, the relationships between (1) career development and psychosocial mentoring functions and organizational identification, (2) organizational identification and job satisfaction, communication satisfaction, and organizational commitment, (3) and career development and psychosocial mentoring functions and job satisfaction, communication satisfaction and organizational commitment were examined. Furthermore, the indirect effect of mentoring functions on job satisfaction, communication satisfaction, and organizational commitment through organizational identification was examined. Paid, fully-employed adults completed an online survey measuring their perceptions of mentoring from their direct superior, organizational identification, job satisfaction, communication satisfaction with their superior, and organizational commitment. Results showed significant positive relationships between (1) the career development and psychosocial mentoring functions and organizational identification, (2) organizational identification and job satisfaction, communication satisfaction, and organizational commitment, and (3) mentoring functions and job satisfaction, communication satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Results also indicated evidence of an indirect effect of mentoring functions on subordinates’ job satisfaction, communication satisfaction, and organizational commitment through subordinates’ increased organizational identification. These results suggest that organizational identification is an important factor in enhancing employees’ workplace experiences and that organizational leaders may consider fostering workplace environments in which employees are likely to identify with the organization.
Condon, Matthew Alan. "Communicative Strategies Used in the Introduction of Spirituality in the Workplace." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-12162009-134759/.
Full textJia, Moyi. "Emotion and Communication Behaviors in the Workplace: Supervisor Nonverbal Immediacy, Employee's Emotional Experience, and Their Communication Motives." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1374872247.
Full textMiller, Marisa Jean. "Inclusion and Assimilation: Including Change in the Workplace." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4539.
Full textChen, Zheng. "Cultural hybridization in a multicultural uniersity workplace : how rapport management works in intercultural communication." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1554.
Full textWhicker, Leanne, and n/a. "Interpersonal Communication and Appraisal : The Application of Cognitive Appraisal Theory to Difficult Communication at Work." Griffith University. School of Applied Psychology, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030808.150552.
Full textWhicker, Leanne. "Interpersonal Communication and Appraisal: The Application of Cognitive Appraisal Theory to Difficult Communication at Work." Thesis, Griffith University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366193.
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Descardeci, Maria Alice Andrade de Souza. "Resources of communication : a study of literacy demands in a Brazilian workplace." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019772/.
Full textLee, Hye Eun. "Communication network approaches to conflict management at the workplace and job satisfaction." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
Find full textMak, Chun-nam. "Language and communication a sociolinguistic study of newcomers' socialization into the workplace /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43224209.
Full textNober, Michelle. "The effects of workplace restructuring on job satisfaction." University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4727.
Full textThis study has been conducted before when the company in question underwent a restructuring (name change) but did not threaten the loss of jobs. This study is being conducted again because another restructuring has taken place over the period of 2011/2012 and involved the retrenchment of employees nationally. The company represented in the study is one of the largest cleaning companies in South Africa and has a very broad and influential client base. They are in high demand in the cleaning industry and have positively impacted many companies and organisations over their many years of existence. Because of the magnitude of the workplace restructuring this time around, more people have been affected (both those who were retrenched as well as those who were left behind). According to Vermeulen, 2002, “Downsizing” is a term that emerged in managerial circles and was used in the business press, but no precise theoretical formulation underpins any clear definition of the term. When hearing the term downsizing, one often will use this together with the term “laying-off” interchangeably. However, some authors will focus on different elements of downsizing for example in reporting on a comprehensive study of downsizing in American industry, Cameron, Freeman and Mishra (1993) limited the term's use to a programme which is an intentional process. This process involves an overall reduction in personnel with a view to improving the efficiency of the organisation. The process wittingly or unwittingly affects work processes at the organisation concerned. According to Hellgren, et al (2005), the attitudinal constructs investigated in this study were job satisfaction, job involvement, organisational commitment, and turnover intention. Job satisfaction represents a general affective response to the overall job situation. Following Locke (1976, p. 1300), we define job satisfaction as “a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experience”. ...employees who survived downsizing were likely to experience high levels of stress and decreased levels of organizational commitment and motivation. These individuals are often known as the "victims" of downsizing due to research that documents the devastation of job loss, focusing on negative consequences in terms of psychological and physical well-being (Bennett, Martin, Bies, & Brockner, 1995; Cappeili, 1992; Fallick, 1996; Leana & Feldman, 1992). This study inevitably aimed to prove that workplace restructuring very well has an effect or impact on an employee’s job satisfaction, whether these effects were positive or negative. The findings of the study highlighted significant positive correlations between the two variables and highlights strong relationships between employees’ career advancement opportunities and job satisfaction; trust and job satisfaction, communication and job satisfaction, as well as employee commitment and loyalty and job satisfaction whereas trust (2) or employee morale seem to have no significant relationship with job satisfaction.
Röcker, Carsten. "Awareness and informal communication in smart office environments." Taunusstein Driesen, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2864347&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
Full textde, Blois Sarah. "Older Workers’ Perspectives on Age and Aging: Exploring the Predictors of Communication Patterns and Knowledge Transfer." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26107.
Full textKelley, Joshua Hall. "Strategic integration workplace design for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-3/r1/kelleyj/joshuakelley.pdf.
Full textSalzberg, Shaun (Shaun David). "Fostering innovation : designing technological solutions to proactively encourage informal communication in the workplace." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82433.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107).
I have designed, built, and evaluated three devices to encourage informal interactions in the workplace. Previous research has found that such interactions can lead to increased idea cross-flow, creativity, productivity, and innovation at large, though few attempts to design architectural, organizational, or technological solutions have succeeded in achieving this. I believe this is because these approaches tended to focus too much on fostering an "ambient awareness" of fellow coworkers with hopes that it would indirectly lead to increased informal interactions. My hypothesis is that proactively creating such interactions as intermediated by a smart artifact in the office space would be more effective. For this thesis, I have built two versions of a device called Food Groups, as well as another one called Media Lab Mixer; Food Groups matches coworkers up to get lunch or dinner together, while Media Lab Mixer uses game dynamics to encourage them to spend more time socializing in a common space. After an initial study, the Food Groups devices received little use and were largely ineffective at fostering informal interactions. Media Lab Mixer, however, showed greater engagement and was more effective at creating the desired results, though it did not have a lasting effect after it was removed.
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Aringunram, Ravichandran. "Secure communication services for distributed conference system." [Gainesville, Fla.]: University of Florida, 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000505.
Full textMessenger, Mackenzie Rae. "Millennials and the Changing Workplace: The Process of Organizational Learning." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37041.
Full textGerber, Lise. "Perceptions of office gossip amongst diverse groups in the workplace." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24854.
Full textDissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
Human Resource Management
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Poltavtchenko, Elena. "Engineering design reports in upper-division undergraduate engineering courses and in the workplace." Thesis, Northern Arizona University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3562160.
Full textThe workplace success of new engineering graduates is ultimately affected by their oral and written communication skills. However, engineering students' academic preparation for industry's needs in terms of written communication has been widely acknowledged as inadequate. The present study is intended to improve our understanding of a prominent engineering genre, the engineering design report (EDR), and provide support for students learning to write this genre. The goals of this study are to (a) conduct a corpus-based register comparison between student and professional EDRs and (b) provide a more detailed description of professional EDRs, by determining their rhetorical organization and identifying linguistic features associated with this organization.
This research is based on two EDR corpora (N of texts=262, with approximately 1,119,186 words), one with upper-division engineering students' EDRs and the other with professional engineers' EDRs. The study examines both non-linguistic and linguistic features of student and professional EDRs. First, non-linguistic characteristics of EDRs are examined using the EDR situational framework developed for the study. Then, corpus-based methodologies are used to analyze core grammatical features and features associated with grammatical complexity in both corpora. Finally, to determine conventional discourse structures of professional EDRs, the study draws on the English for Specific Purposes tradition of genre analysis and then uses register analysis to investigate linguistic features associated with particular rhetorical structures.
The register analyses revealed complex patterns of linguistic variation, frequently influenced by the registers' situational characteristics. The results of these analyses indicate that two EDR registers fill different positions on the spoken-to-written continuum, with reports produced in the workplace being closer to professional written registers and student reports using more speech-like features. The genre analysis of professional EDRs uncovered the highly variable nature of this genre. Despite considerable variation in EDR rhetorical organization, 12 common moves were identified that cluster in specific ways to form EDR organizational units and rely on particular sets of linguistic features. A streamlined template of the EDR genre is introduced as are linguistic features associated with its organization. Study results may have pedagogical implications for teaching features of professional EDRs to students.
Watts, Christina. "Exploring Experiences of Information Overload: The Influence of Computer-Mediated Communication in the Workplace." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35062.
Full textKurtz, David. "A qualitative analysis of Indianapolis banks' crisis communication in the aftermath of workplace homicide." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1191711.
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Dennis, Frampton Bethany R. "Managing Facebook Friend Requests in Workplace Relationships: An Application of Communication Privacy Management Theory." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1278864834.
Full textKawana, Sanae. "Communicating gender equity in the public sector workplace in Hokkaido, Japan." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36365/1/36365_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
Full textJoubert, Yvonne Trijntje. "Organisation team sport interventions to minimise diversity constraints in the workplace." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30564.
Full textDissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
Human Resource Management
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Cassidy, Lauren. "Collaborative writing across distances an ethnographic study of workplace writing across coasts and cultures /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3021.
Full textVita: p. 61. Thesis director: Susan Lawrence. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed June 30, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-60). Also issued in print.
Karlsson, Johanna. "Nomadic Computing : Security assessment of remote access to workplace systems." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik och datavetenskap, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-4845.
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