Understanding and addressing the gaps: Generational perspectives on public relations leadership development in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele E. Ewing ◽  
David L. Remund
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
The Public ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Public Relations Education

This qualitative study is the first known effort to define the differing perceptions of public relations leadership at three distinct career points, and explore the leadership development gaps and needs from these varied perspectives. Semi-structured interviews with senior public relations practitioners, young professionals and current students in the United States bring needed depth and clarity to prior scholarship on leadership development, a growing concern within the public relations industry around the world. Additionally, the findings pinpoint leadership development best practices for better infusing leadership development into undergraduate public relations education, and into training and development programs for young professionals.

Correlates and Predictors of Self-Reported Ethics among U.S. Public Relations Practitioners

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius B. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regional Study ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Belief Statements

This regional study used a two-factor solution from responses to 12 five-point belief statements to investigate the correlates and predictors of public relations practitioners' self-reported beliefs about and behaviors in unethical situations. Responses from 307 practitioners from the mid-Atlantic district of the United States indicate that practitioners' self-reported beliefs and behaviors correlate significantly with gender, accreditation by the Public Relations Society of America, age, and income, which are also significant predictors of practitioners' self-reported beliefs and behaviors. The implications of these results for the public relations practice are discussed within the context of the Ajzen and Fishbein behavioral-intentions model. Suggestions for research are offered.

Public Relations Evaluation in Sport: Views From the Field

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Clayton Stoldt ◽  
Lori K. Miller ◽  
Mark Vermillion
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Common Method ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
The Public

The purposes of this study were to gain insights regarding how sport public relations practitioners in the United States define public relations goals, identify linkages between the public relations function and overall organizational goals, and evaluate public relations’ effectiveness. Using a modified approach to a method first employed by Hon (1997, 1998), the investigators queried 30 public relations professionals in diverse sport settings. Findings indicated that achieving some sort of outcome with an intended audience, although those outcomes varied, was the most common goal. Respondents also indicated that there were linkages between public relations and organizational goals, although the nature of those linkages was not always specified. The most common method of evaluating public relations was tracking media coverage.

scholarly journals Public Relations Education at the Crossroad: Trend and Realities.

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamilah Hj. Ahmad FIPR, PhD. ◽  
I Gusti Ngurah Putra, MA
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Curriculum Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
Study Materials ◽  
The Us ◽  
Public Relations Education ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Teaching Modules

Abstract: This paper explores the issues of public relations academics credentials on teaching public relations at undergraduate level. Generally, most Asian universities look to the United States education system as the ideal model in developing their own curricula, and frequently invite American professors as visiting fellows to help set up their programmes. In addition, Asian universities, including those in Malaysia and Indonesia still harbour the view that the US offers the best public relations education and practices, and therefore follow the US model regarding any matters related to curriculum, study materials, teaching modules, learning resources and the structure of exam papers. Whilst seeming efficient, as the US leads the fields of public relations, it appears to be done blindly without considering such variables as the encompassing political, economic, legal, media and cultural factors of the society adapting these curricula that should determine the roles and functions of public relations practitioners in any given country. This paper concludes that US still offers the best public relations education in comparison to any Asian universities due to lack of academic credentials.

scholarly journals The Politics of Botched Executions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Barrett Lain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Lethal Injection ◽  
Cultural Construct ◽  
State Responses

In this symposium essay, I explore the politics of botched executions, discussing state responses to the latest round of executions gone wrong and the ways in which those responses matter. Part I recounts four botched executions in 2014 and the state responses that accompanied them. Part II makes three observations about those responses-one about states' fealty to the death penalty, one about backlash politics and the scope of the public relations problem, and one about the changing cultural construct of lethal injection in the United States. Part III explores how state responses to botched executions (or the lack thereof) might impact the constitutionality of lethal injection itself. In the end, the recent spate of botched executions may prove true the old adage about politics making strange bedfellows. The inept executioner may prove the abolitionist's best friend.

Informal Learning Contributes to the Leadership Development of Nurse Managers

2018 ◽  
pp. 356-376
Author(s):  
Rebecca McGill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Nurse Managers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Role Transitions ◽  
Nurses Role

This chapter aligns with this book's purpose to highlight the incidents of informal learning in a variety of settings. The focus of this chapter is on the experiential and informal learning that emerged from a recent study of the workplace leadership development of nurse managers in the United States. This study used a grounded-theory methodology and was based on 19 semi-structured interviews of current and previous nurse managers in two healthcare organizations. The findings focus on the informal learning of nurse managers and how these findings fit into and contribute to the existing literature in adult education on informal workplace learning. Subsequently, the author describes a proposed theory of the informal/experiential learning aspects that contributed to the nurses' role transitions in this study. This chapter will shed new light on the healthcare context as a place of immense informal learning and the informal learning of nurses.

Informal Learning Contributes to the Leadership Development of Nurse Managers

2015 ◽  
pp. 121-139
Author(s):  
Rebecca McGill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Nurse Managers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Role Transitions ◽  
Nurses Role

This chapter aligns with this book's purpose to highlight the incidents of informal learning in a variety of settings. The focus of this chapter is on the experiential and informal learning that emerged from a recent study of the workplace leadership development of nurse managers in the United States. This study used a grounded-theory methodology and was based on 19 semi-structured interviews of current and previous nurse managers in two healthcare organizations. The findings focus on the informal learning of nurse managers and how these findings fit into and contribute to the existing literature in adult education on informal workplace learning. Subsequently, the author describes a proposed theory of the informal/experiential learning aspects that contributed to the nurses' role transitions in this study. This chapter will shed new light on the healthcare context as a place of immense informal learning and the informal learning of nurses.

Effects of Gender on Professional Encroachment in Public Relations

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Lauzen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
Systematic Sample ◽  
Public Relations Practitioner

Using a systematic sample of 166 public relations practitioners in the United States, this study tests a model that explains the effects of gender on professional encroachment, which is the assignment of non-public relations professionals as top public relations managers. Organizations in which the top public relations practitioner is a woman are likely to have higher levels of encroachment than organizations where the top practitioner is male. Women are less likely to have worked long enough to obtain the skills and perspectives of management.

scholarly journals Analisis Isi Skripsi Kehumasan di Perguruan Tinggi

ARISTO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Rachmat Kriyantono
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Excellence Theory ◽  
Practical Dimension ◽  
Student Thesis

This study aims to prove three hypotheses, namely public relations theories have been widely adopted in the theses of public relations students, the theory that dominates public relations studies is the Theory of Excellence, and the most widely used of the method is qualitative. The researcher conducted a content analysis on student thesis in universities in Surabaya and Malang City in 2015 until 2019. The samples of this study were 388 theses of the students majoring in the Public Relations study. This study has proven the three hypotheses, namely the theses have applied Public Relations theories, the most widely used of the theory is Excellence theory, and the Qualitative method is the most widely used of the method. This research has also confirmed that the public relations field is not only focused on practice, but also theoretical studies. This study also confirms that the development of public relations in Indonesia is in line with the development of public relations in the United States, that is, from the practical dimension to the dimension of theoretical study.

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