Towards greater integration in media planning: Decision-making insights from public relations practitioners

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Lisa Tam ◽  
Amisha Mehta ◽  
Hayley Goodlich
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Media Planning ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
Planning Decision

Provocations in Public Relations: A Study of Gendered Ideologies of Power-Influence in Practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 735-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Aldoory ◽  
Bryan H. Reber ◽  
Bruce K. Berger ◽  
Elizabeth L. Toth
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Influence Tactics ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
The Right ◽  
Gendered Ideologies ◽  
Do The Right Thing

Responses from 869 public relations practitioners were examined to see how female and male practitioners perceive and enact power-influence in public relations, including perceptions of power-influence, resources, preferred influence tactics, constraints on power, persuasive appeals, and what it means to “do the right thing” in public relations. Male and female practitioners shared similar definitions of power-influence in practice and similar beliefs in the value of personal advocacy and ethical appeals to influence decision making. Practitioners illustrated differences in the value of influence resources, choice of influence tactics, perceptions of constraints on practice, and style and vocabulary of dissent.

How dominant coalition members’ values and perceptions impact their perceptions of public relations participation in organizational decision making

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Organizational Decision Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Dominant Coalition

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the extent to which dominant coalition members’ values and perceptions influence their perceptions of public relations participation in organization-level decision making. Research in this area has largely focussed on the relationship between practitioner roles and decision-making inclusion. Design/methodology/approach – The population of interest was dominant coalition members of for-profit, government, and nonprofit organizations in the USA. Data were collected through a national survey to a nonrandom sample of 201 dominant coalition members. Findings – Results indicate that dominant coalition members’ values of organizational openness to the environment and perceived substantive autonomy of the organization positively predicted perceptions of public relations participation in organizational decision making. Perceived manager role potential of the public relations department also had significant predictive power. Originality/value – While research has focussed primarily on the characteristics that public relations practitioners can develop to earn a seat at the management table, little is known about the characteristics of dominant coalition members that influence whether or not a seat is made available or the degree to which public relations is perceived to participate in decision making.

Toward Involving the Total Community in Career Education

1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (9) ◽  
pp. 415-423
Author(s):  
Robert J. Weishan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Career Education ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
School Staff ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Total Community ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
Adult Roles

Because of the importance of career education to the future of today's children, parents, businessmen, and others who are sensitive to the needs of the community should be involved in comprehensive career education programs. Such interest in changing the thrust of our educational system can be achieved through public relations campaigns. In addition to explaining the program, however, it is necessary to help each segment of the community to identify the roles it can play in the program, including planning, decision-making, and helping to teach about jobs, life styles, and adult roles. To achieve this goal, a department of community relations should be established; this component of the school staff spearheads the effort, but all other staff must also be involved.

scholarly journals Women’s empowerment for abortion and family planning decision making among marginalized women in Nepal: a mixed method study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heera KC ◽  
Mangala Shrestha ◽  
Nirmala Pokharel ◽  
Surya Raj Niraula ◽  
Prajjwal Pyakurel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Modern Contraceptives ◽  
Marginalized Women ◽  
Planning Decision

Abstract Background Women’s empowerment is multidimensional. Women’s education, employment, income, reproductive healthcare decision making, household level decision making and social status are vital for women’s empowerment. Nepal is committed to achieving women empowerment and gender equality, which directly affects the reproductive health issues. This can be achieved by addressing the issues of the poor and marginalized communities. In this context, we aimed to find the association of women’s empowerment with abortion and family planning decision making among marginalized women in Nepal. Methods A cross sectional study was conducted at selected municipalities of Morang district of Nepal from February 2017 to March 2018. A mixed method approach was used, where 316 married marginalized women of reproductive age (15–49 years) and 15 key informant interviews from representative healthcare providers and local leaders were taken. From key informants, data were analysed using the thematic framework method. Findings obtained from two separate analyses were drawn together and meta inferences were made. Results Women’s empowerment was above average, at 50.6%. Current use of modern contraceptives were more among below average empowerment groups (p 0.041, OR 0.593 C.I. 0.36–0.98). We could not find any statistically significant differences among levels of women’s empowerment, including those women with abortion knowledge (p 0.549); family planning knowledge (p 0.495) and women’s decision for future use of modern contraceptives (p 0.977). Most key informants reported that unsafe abortion was practiced. Conclusions Women’s empowerment has no direct role for family planning and abortion decision making at marginalized communities of Morang district of Nepal. However, different governmental and non-governmental organizations influence woman for seeking health care services and family planning in rural community of Nepal irrespective of empowerment status.

scholarly journals Concordance, communication, and shared decision-making about family planning among couples in Nepal: A qualitative and quantitative investigation

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-376
Author(s):  
Carol R. Underwood ◽  
Lauren I. Dayton ◽  
Zoé Mistrale Hendrickson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Partner Communication ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Couple Communication ◽  
Spousal Concordance ◽  
Planning Decision

Couple communication and joint decision-making are widely recommended in the family planning and reproductive health literature as vital aspects of fertility management. Yet, most studies continue to rely on women’s reports to measure couple concordance. Moreover, the association between communication and decision-making is often assumed and very rarely studied. Arguably, associations between dyadic communication and shared decision-making constitute a missing link in our understanding of how communication affects fertility-related practices. Informed by Carey’s notions of transmission and ritual communication, this study sought to address those gaps with two complementary studies in Nepal: a qualitative study of married men and women and a quantitative study of 737 couples. To assess spousal concordance on matters of family planning-related communication and decision-making in the quantitative study, responses from the couple were compared for each question of interest and matched responses were classified as concordant. Quantitative results found that more than one-third of couples reported spousal communication on all measured family planning-related topics. Nearly, 87% of couples reported joint decision-making on both family planning use and method type. Partner communication was significantly and positively associated with concordant family planning decision-making in both bivariate and multivariate models. Couples communicating about three family planning topics had more than twice the odds of concordant family planning decision-making than did those not reporting such communication. The qualitative findings provided insights into discordant as well as concordant interactions, revealing that decision-making, even when concordant, is not necessarily linear and is often complex.

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