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Leader-to-member trust model: On the pervasiveness of doubt in effective leadership communication
(2011)
The purpose of this research was to explore how effective leaders report trusting and doubting their members. Specifically, this investigation: (a) described how effective leaders reported making predictions of the certainty ...
AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS: THE ROLE OF NETWORK STRUCTURES AND BOUNDARY SPANNER BEHAVIORS AS RELATED TO COLLABORATION IN INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS
(2011)
Using data collected as part of a grant project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF# 0538924), an exploratory analysis of the latent organizational structures and boundary spanner behaviors that impact perceived ...
AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF STUDENT-TO-STUDENT BENCHMARKING COMMUNICATION
(2011)
Almost certainly, students communicate with each other about course-related material, particularly about exam performance. However, what is less well understood is how often student-to-student communication occurs, when ...
DWI: Drinking While Indian. The Impact of Culture and Context on American Indian Drinking Behavior
(2011)
American Indians have long been characterized as particularly susceptible to alcohol misuse and alcohol-related problems. Soon after initial contact with the indigenous populations of North America, European explorers and ...
Social Capital Networks of Media NGOs in Peru: A Public Relations Approach to Explicating Relationships in Civil Society
(2011)
Civil society is created and sustained through the relationships of interconnected organizations such as NGOs and donors. Social capital is created via these relationships, providing civil society actors with the tangible ...
Lebanese Subjectivities and Media Use: Post/Global Contexts
(2011)
Media use is neither socially determined nor socially determinative outside of subjectivity, the process by which the self makes meaning of its place in the world. To further our understandings of media and social change, ...
Political Humor and Third-Person Perception
(2011)
Political humor shows like The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are not only very popular, they are also increasingly becoming a legitimate news source for certain audiences (particularly young people). The purpose of ...
Confronting and Defending Unethical Behavior: Communication and Ethical Sensegiving
(2011)
The purpose of this two-study dissertation was to investigate the role of communication in confronting and defending unethical organizational behavior. Utilizing two language production experimental designs, results reveal ...
Confronting and Defending Unethical Behavior: Communication and Ethical Sensegiving
(2011)
The purpose of this two-study dissertation was to investigate the role of communication in confronting and defending unethical organizational behavior. Utilizing two language production experimental designs, results reveal ...
EXPANDING LANGUAGE EXPECTANCY THEORY: THE SUASORY EFFECTS OF LEXICAL COMPLEXITY AND SEMANTIC COMPLEXITY ON EFFECTIVE HEALTH MESSAGE DESIGN
(2011)
This research seeks to fill a gap concerning screening for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) by using language expectancy theory (LET; Burgoon, Jones, & Stewart, 1975; Miller & Burgoon, 1979) and regulatory focus theory ...