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Cultural Influences on Strategic Communication (Kim A Johnston & James L Everett) Referred to
Alveson M (2002) Understanding organizational Culture
Strategic Communication is a central device, organizations use to respond to environmental uncertainTy. The inherent nature of strategic response is premised on 2 key internal activities
1. Management to monitor and interpret environmental conditions.
2. Formulation of an appropriate response to that interpretation.
Scholars need to take a cultural perspective to understand the process and influences on decision making.However, there has been shortfall on exploring these factors from strategic communication angle.
Q: What are the likely cultural influences on organizational process of environmental interpretation and expectations and what are the implications of these cultural influences on implementation of strategic communication?
Q: Is it a reliable study and if affirmative, can this study fall under exploratory research?
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Without specific details about the research methodology and findings, it's difficult to definitively assess the reliability of the study. However, studies that explore cultural influences on organizational behavior often rely on qualitative methods, such as case studies, interviews, and ethnography. These methods can provide rich insights but may be limited in terms of generalizability.
While the study may not be a definitive, large-scale quantitative study, it can still contribute to our understanding of the complex relationship between culture and strategic communication. As an exploratory study, it may generate hypotheses for future research.
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Remark_1: a PDF of this draft has been added to this discussion to allow the readers to have access to the hyperlinks.
Remark_2: this discussion is aimed at drawing attention to the seriousness of the current man-made global warming in which science has much to do in order to avoid the uncertainty spreading.
Last November 17 and 18 a very concerning fact took place for the first time in modern recorded history. The global surface air temperature exceeded in 2-degree Celsius the pre-industrial average temperature taken between 1850-1900 prior to extensive and widespread use of fossil fuels. Despite scientists assure that the observed exceeding, that happened for a limited number of days, does not mean that the Paris Agreement targets are already compromised, it is urgent and mandatory to keep a precautionary tracking of the atmosphere to dilucidated if a threshold is gaining momentum pushing the atmosphere to start working around the 2-degree Celsius atmospheric overheating, and becoming the main feature of the anthropogenic climate warming within the next ten years.
What happened last November 17 is a serious issue that cannot be overlooked nor discarded by the irresponsible "optimism" which tells things will get better because of technology-based fairy-tales, and by the institutional denialism that exist around the seriousness of the human-sparked global warming and all that has to do with its speed (or if you prefer, its rate of advancement). For those reasons, a conservative perspective will not be helpful keeping in mind the last twenty years trends in CO2 global emissions.
As expected, COP 28 was unable to leave behind its 1.5-degree Celsius goal as nothing serious is taking place with regards how fast the human-boosted warming is going to exceed the 2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial average.
Almost in parallel, the tipping points narrative has been warning humans cannot exceed the 1.5-degree Celsius, despite it is being also said that humans are "near climate tipping points". The bad news is humans still have not developed the hard models and measurements to obtain an accurate metrics of who far humans are to reach that tipping points. Furthermore, the "tipping points" discourse is too vague, and it is becoming another meaningless concept that too many in the world talk about, without having yet available any measurable parameters nor a quantifiable perception of those potential thresholds.
For decades it has been told that remote sensing and all that comes from Earth Observation (EO) systems would help to achieve a sustainable path while planning for a sustainable development (SD), and for a tough future under severe climate strikes. Tonnes of papers using satellite-provided data have been published and, no doubt of it, will keep a high rate of publishing being, so far, unable to show evidence of an overall improvement of the global situation as human dynamics seems unstoppable.
Despite the lack of a decisive global and integrative climate action will persist as one of the main features and drivers of the international system in the near term, to start thinking about implementing a global coverage alert system to inform globally when and how often the global mean Earth temperature gets closer or exceeds the 2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial average. That alert system should also have a straightforward design to display the information to obtain trends (the speed of atmospheric overheating is crucial) and frequency of that events.
That alert system should be very "sonorous". It does mean it should, among other means and devices, reach the cell phones of the people in a similar way as, for instance, earthquakes alarm systems work. In few words, each time the global mean temperature gets closer and/or exceeds the 2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial average people must know.
To make concrete progresses concerning the sense of urgency and the situational awareness among global citizens, to end with the self-deceiving attitude that can be witnessed not only in rich but middle income and poor countries too. The warming is being faster than predicted and expected. Humans lost this war twenty years ago when it was, finally, accepted that the warming was faster the previously accepted. Unfortunately, despite the huge amount of data, and the quantity of satellites orbiting Earth, it is rather an impossible task yet to provide any measure of that speed and nor agree on how humans should measure that rate of change.
It is time to end the over discussing time and get serious. It is quite advisable to carry out a sustained observing effort on what is going on in Brazil and in the middle of the Amazonia, while following the situation over there all along the summer 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere. It is important to be able to know how many times it could happen during the next six months.
It is also advisable that science make its best effort in avoiding publishing papers that provide grounds for time ambiguity. It should be a mandatory attitude to be quite clear in validating the scope and conclusions of any paper in concrete time-frames. To leave the door open for speculation regarding the timing that can be inferred from those publications exerts a very negative impact in all that pertain to figure out the right time scales for climate action globally speaking.
An explicit acknowledgment of what version, the weak or the strong, of the sustainable development (SD) concept is being framed as the main analytical tool is a complementary publishing strategy that could be of great assistance when evaluating the reach and strength of the conclusions. It is worth mentioning that the “weak” version has been adopted for so long and can be the explanatory root for the aggregate failure of both, to accomplish higher levels of sustainability and give shape to the urgent human collective self-restrain to ameliorate the response to the climate and ecological crisis.
Science is not free of being submitted to any governance regime which should be vigilant of the undesired and counterproductive effects of scientific papers on the political process that, regrettably, took the control of all that concerns to the climate discussion, and the institutions designed to institutionalize a, supposedly thought, collective action.
The bottom line is nineteen years have been lost. In December 2015 it was projected the world would reach the 1.5-degree Celsius by March 2045. Reassessed estimations are suggesting the world risk breaching that benchmark by February 2034.
Remark_3: as always I am willing to build network capabilities aimed at publishing papers with policy-implications, participate in workshop, and/or find the paths for setting the structure of a good well-funded research project.
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Alexander Kolker I imagine that the Daily mean absolute temperature was calculated from the hourly values by summing them and dividing by 24. The annual average surface air temperatures were calculated by summing the daily temperature and dividing by 365 or 366 for leap years.
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We perceive a different form of content production on Instagram of universities since the Covid-19 pandemic to the present day. Is it a legacy of strategic communication odopted by communicators from that period?
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I am afraid of perhaps not fully understanding Samuel's question or not fully appreciating the ideas behind his observation.
From a purely fundamental perspective of everyday communication, my humble idea would be that 'formal', 'strategic' communication is gradually on the way out.
'We' centricism and inclusive, empathetic register, which keeps the message simple, straight forward and crisp is the way forward.
If anything, the legacy of post-Covid communication is that there remains little difference between Business/Strategic/Formal communication and those that feature on social networking sites.
All organizations, including Universities (perhaps particularly so) find the focus on brevity, clarity and legitimacy to be the core principles of any media engagement.
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The public administration is the real institution to provide service to the country's population, but planners face difficulty in analyzing the internal and external environment to identify opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses, to build a strategic plan that can meet the needs of the people.
So, how can we analyze the internal and external environment of the public administration institution in the country from your point of view?
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make with SWOT analysis.
SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and so a SWOT analysis is a technique for assessing these four aspects of your business.
SWOT Analysis is a tool that can help you to analyze what your company does best right now, and to devise a successful strategy for the future. SWOT can also uncover areas of the business that are holding you back, or that your competitors could exploit if you don't protect yourself.
A SWOT analysis examines both internal and external factors – that is, what's going on inside and outside your organization. So some of these factors will be within your control and some will not. In either case, the wisest action you can take in response will become clearer once you've discovered, recorded and analyzed as many factors as you can.
SWOT seems simple, but, if used carefully and collaboratively, it can be very revealing. For example, you may be well aware of some of your organization's strengths, but until you record them alongside weaknesses and threats you might not realize how unreliable those strengths actually are. Equally, you likely have reasonable concerns about some of your business weaknesses but, by going through the analysis systematically, you could find an opportunity, previously overlooked, that could more than compensate.
In this article, video and infographic, we explore how to carry out a SWOT analysis, and how to put your findings into action. We also include a worked example and a template to help you get started on a SWOT analysis in your own workplace.
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I am studying The Role of Strategic Communication in the Prosecution Stages of the Biafra Revolution from 1967-1970(Nigeria civil war) .The crux of the argument is that apart from the use of weapons, strategic communication helped the Biafran side to sustain the war for three years. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
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I am conducting a qualitative content analysis research that wants to prove that the Nigeria civil war of 1967-1970 was a social revolution sustained by strategic communication. Do I need a qualitative data to back my findings? Must I use the Nvivo metrics procedure to do the analysis?
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If you have a hypothesis, it is typical to count codes in content analysis to show a pattern that either does or does not support your prediction. If this is what you want to do, then counting codes makes your analysis a quantitative rather than a qualitative content analysis.
If you are counting codes, then any process that helps you accurately keep track of those codes and counts would be highly desirable. NVivo or any other qualitative data analysis program could be useful in this regard, especially if you have a large data set.
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Could anyone provide me with more scholarly work on authenticity that would be applicate to the PR/Communication/ non.profit sector? I am currently writing my PR and Strategic Communication Master's dissertation on authenticity in the non-profit sector. I have issues finding any more authors in the field than Juan Carlos Molleda (PR & Strategic Communication) and Camilleri (Corporate communication). I am researching how Burning Man strategically communicates with authenticity and I am looking for more authors who use the concept and talk about its relevance for corporate communication/ PR. 
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Corporate social responsibility, theories of social change, development com theories, civil soceity nework, social marketing, participatory communication model
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I'd agree with Anabela that you need to treat internal and external communication as closely interconnected - though in practice the integration is often missing, both in published work and in organisational practice. Good luck!
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Depending on the project user experience, designers get a strategic definition of a brand, branding goals, value propositions of their "products" or "services", customer focus and similar stuff.
But i see a enormous challenge to transfer this into processable insights for the discipline of user experience design. Therefore, i just wonder if there are any kind of experiences or concrete documents out there which address this type of inquiry.
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The quantification of brand values is certainly interesting and could also be an fundamental approach. Actually i think at least it can help to get a better understanding how brand values are exactly defined as principle to build by.
But, what I mean with the transfer of strategic definitions of a brand into user experience design or communication design is presumably something different.
As a example: You know Tesla Motors Inc. and maybe as well their website or other communication media of Tesla. E-Mobility is on everyone's lips. But spontaneous enthusiasm, it does not fire. But the Tesla brand is different. Tesla managed it to give the entire automotive market a new perspective. Innovation & sportsmanship are compatible. Teslamotors.com enters this on the emotional (by the image of a quite fast driving elegant S 70D Model on a street out in a natural park) and factual evidence (by different claims like - 240 Miles Range. All-Wheel Drive Standard - or Autopilot and All-Wheel Drive Standard).
Tesla therefore made it up as a model to the top of this "movement" that inspires. You can call that form a marketing perspective a kind of "Role model".
So i am interested in the approach to transfer strategic brand definitions to the development of communication design, visual and conceptional design, interactive design, interface design.
Maybe to quantify the value of Tesla could help to understand at least this example. So what are your thoughts?
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The management of silence is a form of the management of communication.
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Absolutely! Often we rush to give the public an answer in order to placate the public's need for information. Transparency with the public is best handled by formulating an appropriate answer with appropriate amounts of information as the situation warrants. Complete silence is never warranted. The public at the very least has the right to a response. This is where tone is critical. The public is not always entitled to the whole picture in particular with regard to sensitive information. But they are entitled to the truth. And Sometimes the truth is you don't have all the answers yet. Reassuring the public that you wish to give them the facts as they emerge and are verified sends the proper message that we care about the truth and not our image. It is okay not to have the answers. It is never okay to give the public what they want to hear at the cost of organizational integrity. Timely but truthful is the best course. Respond in a timely fashion and keep the public continually informed as information is uncovered. Continue to respond as questions arise. In this way trust is built the public will remember you for.
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I am interested on how social imaginaries can emerge from the web-mediated discouse of third sector organizations and will like to follow their social media. Shall I create a new profile for myself just for research purposes, or will that be perceived as "hiding" myself and being dishonest with the organizations followed? What do you think about this?
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Yes Veronica, Henna has given a good idea. This way you will not be hiding yourself and your more personal stuff will also be protected.