Communication Flow Research Articles

Music Administration in Ghana: Examining the Implications and Parameters for Delegating Authority

Contextually, this paper employed the principle of line and staff administrative structure by Henri Fayol and the bureaucratic management theory by Max Weber to critically examine communication flow in the administration of Cultural Education in the Ghana Education Service. Attention is also drawn to the parameters and implications for delegation of authority in the service. Discussions were by extension centered on: the organizational structure for Music Administration in the Ghana Education Service as well as the duties and responsibilities of the officers. An interview section with regional and district coordinators produced data for analysis. The study found that; 1. The Cultural Unit across the continuum is hierarchically structured with specific rules governing the exercising of authority at each level, and appointments to positions are grounded in absolute technical competence. 2. Power is vested in the official positions and not in the personalities in charge of these posts. 3. The activities of the Cultural Coordinators extend beyond the organization of cultural festivals for pre-tertiary schools to the monitoring of pedagogical practices in the first and second cycle schools. Culture solidarizes nations with diverse ethnic groups, it is an economic asset, and by extension offers a sense of responsibility that makes people feel connected to their communities. It is, therefore, necessary to have adequate attention paid to its generational transfer to ensure continuity

The contexts of science journalism in the Brazilian Federal Institutes: characterizing realities and possibilities of communication products

A public teaching and research institution can also be recognized for its scientific projection in society, as well as for interfering directly or indirectly in social dynamics through science. In this sense, this study intends to analyze how science communication is inserted in the communication of Federal Institutes of Brazil, characterizing the contexts in which science journalism develops in these places and the possibilities of products for publicizing science. To this end, we conducted a case study with a mixed approach — qualitative and quantitative methods. Interviews were directed to communication managers (n = 2), research managers (n = 5), and research dean (n = 2). We also applied a questionnaire to journalists and communicators (n = 23), research managers (n = 11), student researchers (n = 52), and researcher supervisors (n = 156). The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed through thematic analysis. We also use inferential statistics for the questionnaires to compare the opinions and assessments of the groups, contextualizing the dissemination of science, as well as drawing perspectives for improvements and the creation of communication products. The main findings indicate that, for science journalism to develop, it is necessary to a) establish guidelines for the dissemination of science, b) recognize and prioritize research publications, c) plan the work of science journalism and create routines, d) improve communication flow, and e) create journalistic products and processes. From these actions, it may be possible improve communication between Brazilian Federal Institutes and society through science.

Challenges in Tackling COVID-19

This study aimed to investigate the influence of mass media and interpersonal communication channels in the adoption of preventive measures against the Covid-19 pandemic (coronavirus). The study hypothesises that higher exposure to media content increases interpersonal communication and increased interpersonal communication is positively associated with the adoption of preventive behaviour. To test this hypothesis, this study used a quantitative research technique employing a survey method. The results, when assessed through Pearson correlation, elaborated that there was a stronger association between media exposure and increased interpersonal communication and the adoption level of Covid prevention measures. The result of the thematic analysis revealed that interpersonal communication was an important contributor towards changing behaviour. Hence, the two-step flow of communication showed strong support for accepting the role of interpersonal communication alongside the mass media. This study findings provide insights to communicators and planners for devising different communication strategies for combating the pandemic.

Инфлюенсеры как медиазначимые другие: современные тренды вторичной социализации

The article investigates the phenomenon of influencers from a sociological point of view. This concept of great current interest was defined in the article on the base of multiple sources. The study integrates the main concepts of literature on social media influencers, secondary research data and the results of interview conducted by the authors. The authors give a comparison between different approaches with highlighting common features of influencers. They emphasize the trend of domestic scholars to identify an influencer and an opinion leader, as well as to refer influencers to the promotion of goods and services only. This study proposes consideration of Lazarsfeld’s two-step communication flow theory as an alternative view regarding the foregoing approach to influencers and opinion leaders (the term initially set by Lazarsfeld in the framework of above indicated theory). Therefore, the paper proposes to use a more correct term «media significant other» which is explored in this article together with interrelation to the term «influencer». The authors also question the idea that influencers can have an impact in the field of sales only. The hypothesis of comprehensive nature of influence has been confirmed by the results of a sociological interview: 72 people were interviewed, and the results of the research demonstrate that the social impact of influencers is increasing and extending to various spheres of public life. The impact of the COVID issue on social network communications is also discussed. The authors conclude that the degree of exposure to influencers depends on the age of an individual and concerns almost all spheres of life.

El feedback correctivo de los profesores nativos de ELE en el aula universitaria coreana

Corrective (or negative) feedback consists of pointing out an error and providing instructions for students to modify their academic behavior. The key of the corrective feedback process in foreign language teaching is to provide the correct form of the target language, not excessively interfere in the communicative flow of the didactic activity. This study analyses the discourse strategies that native Spanish teachers use to correct the errors of university students in Korea. In total, 84 sequences of error productions and 129 statements issued for corrective feedback were analyzed. The classification of corrective feedback strategies proposed by Lyster and Ranta (1997) has been adopted for the analysis, including the paralinguistic signals. According to the result of quantitative research, self-repair strategies (request for clarification, metalinguistic feedback, elicitation, repetition) were used 84 times, which is a little more than double that of resolutive strategies (explicit correction, reformulation of the response), which were used 40 times. The preferred strategies turn out to be giving a metalinguistic feedback and making an explicit correction.

Communication and organizational learning in adaptation of the Radio Republik Indonesia

Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) had been the state media during the New Order era. However, since the fall of that regime in 1998, followed by the ratification of the Broadcasting Law Number 32 of 2002, RRI’s status changed to a public broadcasting institution (LPP). The change requires an organizational adaptation process which is not easy in practice. This study finds that communication can be both a driving factor and an obstacle to the adaptation process within the RRI organization. This research aims to explore the operationalization of communication in the adaptation process of the RRI and reveal how the flow of communication builds the relationship between members of the RRI organization; how organizational communication works in the learning process within the organization; and the dynamics of organizational learning in the adaptation process of the RRI organization. The results indicate that the dynamics of communication flows affect the organization’s communication climate. Meanwhile, organizational communication operates in several ways, namely: communication is a means to acquire as well as to conceal knowledge among RRI employees; communication helps the members of the organization understand a phenomenon from different perspectives; communication flows affect the distribution of communications; communication can be an accelerator as well as a barrier to organizational learning abilities. This study suggests further research on the role of communication to promote the internalization values of an organization into strategic decisions and concrete actions and the research on the roles of organizational culture and local culture in organizational adaptation.

Analisis Insiden Keselamatan Pasien di Rumah Sakit Berdasarkan Pendekatan Beban Kerja dan Komunikasi

Patient safety incidents at Ahmad Yani Islamic Hospital Surabaya increased by 0.3% in 2019. If not addressed immediately, these problems can give a negative image to hospitals and patients. An error that appears and has an impact on increasing patient safety incidents, stems from a high workload and poor communication. The purpose of this study was to analyze the role of workload and communication on the occurrence of patient safety incidents in hospitals. This study uses a unit of analysis as many as 18 work units that directly provide services to patients. Participants include the head of the work unit, the person in charge of the work unit and the person in charge of the quality of the work unit with a total of 90 people. The data was obtained primarily using the instrument contained in the google form. The communication measurement tool uses the Communication Openness Measurement (COM) and the workload uses the WISN calculation. Patient safety incident data was obtained from the PMKP RS team. The analysis was carried out by means of a simple cross tabulation with interpretation using the Pareto concept. The results showed that most work units (83.3%) had a low workload, most of the work unit communication (61.1%) was not good and 33.3% of work units had a high patient safety incident rate. In the Pareto concept, the results showed that workload had no effect on patient safety incidents, while communication influenced the number of patient safety incidents. Therefore, hospitals need to fix the pattern and flow of communication as well as the need for information disclosure so that the flow of information becomes more adequate, transfer of knowledge becomes better and employee understanding of the importance of patient safety in hospitals becomes better.

Civil Servant Performance Development Policy in the Regional Government of Bone Regency

Globalization poses positive impacts such as advances in science and technology, facilitating the flow of information, communication, and distribution of goods and services. The negative impact of globalization in the form of a threat to the nation's culture, the loss of national identity, the dissolution of national borders, and the threat of other organizations. The purpose of this study is to find out how the performance of State Civil Apparatus, organizational culture concept framework, and efforts to improve the performance of Civil State Apparatus. The issue of Civil Servant performance will be accomplished and fulfilled if several factors influence it. One of the factors in question is organizational culture. The type of research is qualitative, where the data collection techniques are observation, interviews and documentation. Data analysis techniques were carried out by means of data reduction, data presentation and conclusions. Efforts to maintain the positive atmosphere of organizational culture will be able to improve employee performance, in other words the better the organizational culture the higher the high level of performance, otherwise the worse the existing organizational culture the lower level of employee performance becomes low.

Industry 4.0 smart technologies in workplace safety logistics

Safety logistics in the age of digitization of industrial plants is complex because it embodies the technologies of Industry 4.0 by integrating people and machines and individual processes. New technologies allow them to manage machines and equipment based on communication and mutual data flow. This creates a network of connections between products, value chains and business models. The activities associated with the implementation of the Industry 4.0 concept include human interaction and occupational safety logistics in addition to technology. Digitalization creates new options for the organization of work areas and thus new opportunities for work safety logistics. Modern digitalization has an extremely positive impact on occupational safety and productivity. Intelligent work safety management requires the use of new Industry 4.0 technologies and solutions developed for the work environment area. The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic literature review covering the area of intelligent Industry 4.0 technologies in occupational safety logistics, including an indication of the importance of safety in the work environment, in the context of the continuous digital transformation of enterprises

Evaluation of Spanish Health System during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Accountability and Wellbeing Results

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a challenge for health systems. For this reason, it is essential to evaluate the management of health systems in the face of the pandemic, identifying the factors that may contribute to its failure or success. This management is more difficult in decentralized countries, since in them, health competencies are distributed among different levels of government. This is the case in Spain, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. Therefore, the aim of this article is to evaluate how the Spanish health system has managed the COVID-19 pandemic. Four factors related to health management are analyzed: transparency, communication, reputation and well-being generated. For this purpose, a quantitative analysis is used with the contrast of secondary sources, such as the Merco rankings or survey data from the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Sociological Research Center). The results show that although the flow of communication about the health system increases considerably, such information comes mainly from the media, with a deficit in the transparency of health management. Likewise, although the reputation of the health system increases at the beginning of the pandemic, as it progresses, there is a deterioration in citizen satisfaction with the healthcare management and the services provided, as well as in the well-being generated by them. This study may have implications for decision making by public authorities regarding the different factors of health management.

Social media use in government health agencies: The COVID-19 impact

Government communications typically use social media for federal agencies, national policies, and emergency cases. However, it is crucial to understand the use of these platforms within local government agencies. This investigation fills this gap and includes social media data during three months of the COVID-19 pandemic and compares it with previous trends. The research question that leads this research is: How has government social media use and communication behavior changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic? This research analyzes a study case applied to a local Mexican government agency named ISSEMyM. We analyze the data during the period between October 2017 and June 2020. Findings reveal a consistent use of Twitter and Facebook for communication by the ISSEMyM government agency. Also, it indicates an increase in engagement and communication flow over three years. We found that official local government communications remained unchanged during the whole period. We found no change in interaction, number of followers, and message structure during this period; however, the COVID-19 pandemic radically alters interactions, followers, and user engagement.

Business Trust and Communication as Predictors of Business Growth

Increased globalization and competition in most industries has greatly changed the execution of different duties and responsibilities most especially the flow of communication in businesses. This has further affected the level of trust in most businesses most especially among the employees and between the business and customers. The main objective of the study was to investigate the effect if business communication and business trust on business growth. Data was collected using an online survey questionnaire from 100 employees of Intrasoft International in Greece. Data collected was analyzed using SPSS and Pearson’s rank correlation coefficient was based on to establish the relationship between variables. The level top which the independent variables predict the dependent variables was established using regression analysis. The study established a positive relationship between business communication and business. A significant and positive relationship was also confirmed between business trust and business growth.

Influence of enlightenment literature on Indian and Kazakh society

Literature is the writer's ink manifestation of the art of expression. Fiction is the most important form of art. In the flow of communication, the synthesis of culture and literature has always been present. The influence of the concept of enlightenment in literature on culture is the subject of this article. The concept of enlightenment ushered in a period of cultural modernization in society, which was accompanied by advances in scientific, metaphysical, and social thought. The Enlightenment is regarded as one of the most pivotal times in Western and Eastern history. It was a time of intellectual movement, of liberation from darkness, of liberation from oppression by revolution, and of a shift in the social category based on rationalism and free thought. The aim of this article is to compare the harmony in the artistic heritage of Indian and Kazakh authors, who are great representatives of national culture in the dialogue of civilizations, to examine the manifestation of the concept of enlightenment in society in literature, and to demonstrate that this time brought significant social changes. Keywords: enlightenment period, enlightenment idea, literature, revolution, intellectual movement, modernization, society, realism.

Utility Maximization for Multihop Wireless Networks Employing BATS Codes

BATS (BATched Sparse) codes are a class of efficient random linear network coding variation that has been studied for multihop wireless networks mostly in scenarios of a single communication flow. Towards sophisticated multi-flow network communications, we formulate a network utility maximization (NUM) problem that jointly optimizes the BATS code parameters of all the flows and network scheduling. The NUM problem adopts a batch-wise packet loss model that can be obtained from the network local statistics without any constraints on packet loss patterns. Moreover, the NUM problem allows a different number of recoded packets to be transmitted for different batches in a flow, which is called adaptive recoding. Due to both the probably nonconcave objective and the BATS code-related variables, the algorithms developed for the existing flow optimization problems cannot be applied directly to solve our NUM problem. We introduce a two-step algorithm to solve our NUM problem, where the first step solves the problem with nonadaptive recoding schemes, and the second step optimizes adaptive recoding hop-by-hop from upstream to downstream in each flow. We perform various numerical evaluations and simulations to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the algorithm.

Organizational Communication of Miftahul Jannah Raya Badan Kenaziran Masjid (BKM) in Management of in Mosque Padang Lawas Regency

This study aims to analyze (1) organizational communication of the nazirite agency of the Miftahul Jannah grand mosque in the management of mosque in Padang Lawas regency, (2) communication activities of the mosque’s nazirite agency (BKM) in the Miftahul Jannah Grand Mosque in Padang Lawas Regency, (3) communication barriers to the organization of the mosque nazir mosque (BKM) Raya Miftahul Jannah in the management of mosque in the district of Padang Lawas. This researcher uses a qualitative approach method. Data collecniques used are interviews, documentation, field notes. The information consisted of the chairman of the miftahul jannah mosque, the secretary of the miftahul jannah mosque, the advisor of the miftahul jannah mosque, the mifthaul jannah mosque staff. The results of the study are the first organizational communication interaction format, interpersonal communication, interpersonal communication goals, interpersonal relationships, small group communication, public communication, organizational communication climate, mosque management. Second, the communication activies of the BKM organization are very effective with this communication among BKM. By referring to the ideas, ideas and creativity possessed by organizational communication activities, by maintaining the cohesiveness of fellow BKM in any case. Activities used are formal communication success factors, organizational communication flows. Third, communication barriers of the BKM organization in managing the mosque. The obstacle is not too communication, BKM is very effective, and in terms of mosque facilities, it is supported by the surrounding community.

Социальные сети в современных политических коммуникациях: контент-анализ научных статей в зарубежной периодике

Over the past two decades, Russian and foreign researchers have documented the growing influence of social networks on political communication. The Internet has become a new mass media. In Russia, bloggers with more than 3,000 subscribers acquire a mass media status. Internet users are not passive recipients of messages: they distribute them and generate their own content. The Internet is a different kind of reality, where anything is possible. Traditional mass media are less efficient than the Internet in providing news. As a result, the Internet and social networks have become a new means of political interaction. The COVID-19 pandemic boosted the digitalization of mass communications and made this process irreversible. The present article reviews 250 foreign research papers published by Taylor and Francis, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publications in 2020–2021. The objective was to determine the attractiveness of political communication in social networks as a research topic. 12 % of the articles featured the role of social nets in political communication, Facebook being the most popular research material. A similar amount of papers focused on the behavior of network users and the role of the state in the management of social networks. Foreign terms used to describe the research topic appeared to be different from those used by Russian linguists. For instance, foreign authors use "social media" as a synonym for "sites of social networks", while Russian scientists prefer a much broader interpretation. Some terms and acronyms, such as SNSa, are absent from Russian works. Foreign authors exploit classical political science theories to study the issues of political content, the effect of social networks on protest movements and racial conflicts, and the use of new media in election campaigns. They are unfamiliar with Russian approaches to empirical data analysis, e.g. theory of "weak ties", "close world", two-stage flow of communication, the concept of "third place", etc.

Listening to the buzz: Exploring the link between firm creation and regional innovative atmosphere as reflected by social media

This paper presents a novel approach to capture ‘buzz’, the vibrancy and knowledge exchange propensity of localised informal communication flows. Building on a conceptual framework based on relational economic geography, we argue the content of buzz may allow to probe into the character of places and investigate what is ‘in the air’ within regional entrepreneurial milieux. In particular, we analyse big data to listen for the presence of buzz about innovation – defined by discursive practices that reflect an innovative atmosphere – and explore how this may influence regional firm creation. Using information from 180 million geolocated Tweets comprising almost two billion words across NUTS3 regions in the UK for the year 2014, our results offer novel evidence, robust to different model specifications, that regions characterised by a relatively higher intensity of discussion and vibrancy around topics related to innovation may provide a more effective set of informal resources for sharing and recombination of ideas, defining regional capabilities to support and facilitate entrepreneurial processes. The findings contribute to the literature on the intangible dimensions in the geography of innovation and offer new insights on the potential of natural language processing for economic geography research.

Who’s talking to whom in agribusiness? And should anyone listen? The network of intellectual influence in agribusiness research

PurposeTo develop an understanding of communication among agribusiness journals and to examine patterns of citations that allow the measurement and description of the structure of communication flows among those journals in a network.Design/methodology/approachThe data for this study were gathered from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Scientific (Philadelphia). The authors conducted a bibliometric analysis, based on an international trade analogy to explain the network of agribusiness journals and how these journals communicate with business and economics journals.FindingsBusiness and economics journals and, particularly the traditionally major ones, surprisingly were scarcely every used. However, the British Food Journal stood out with 50 citations to marketing and strategic management journals.Research limitations/implicationsThere are predominantly four such limitations: only 33 journals were studied, only one 5-year time period was involved, that time period is a few years old and the journal characteristics were derived using data from the “Scopes” and “Information for Authors” text on the website of each journal.Practical implicationsExchanges of agribusiness knowledge and information among diverse stakeholders (consumers, suppliers and public agencies) in a complex environment require a better understanding of the network of agribusiness journals and their relation to traditional business and economics journals.Social implicationsNetworks of journals facilitate cooperation and interactions to improve developments in the field.Originality/valueExamining citations from and to the field of agribusiness is interesting and important because knowledge is transferred through networks comprise those who contribute to journals, read them and learn from them, i.e. by “talking” to each other as well as by practitioners who also read and learn from those journals.

Witches, Business & Culture: Anthropologists as Professional Strangers in the Boardroom

This article collates personal insights from 30 years of research and consultancy in organisational anthropology. It has two target groups in mind: on the one hand, students who, after completing a degree in anthropology with a more classical focus, are wondering what they can do with and how they could ‘sell’ their professional skills outside the academy, in the field of organizational consulting or organizational development. On the other hand, it wants to open the black box of anthropological methods and procedures for decision makers in organizations, enabling them to decide whether and when the use of anthropological expertise in their own company is worthwhile, especially in times of global flows of people, goods and communication. Here, the free-flying witch stands as a metaphor for the anthropological position as a professional stranger at the interface of the corporate world.

Exploring the critical nexus between authoritarian leadership, project team member's silence and multi-dimensional success in a state-owned mega construction project

State-owned mega construction projects are greatly driven by the top-down authoritarian leadership that ironically restricts two-way communication and free flow of ideas. Prominent studies have highlighted various critical success factors of project success; however, the effects of authoritarian leadership and project team member's silence have been completely overlooked, especially in mega construction projects. The present study makes a pioneering effort to address this critical research gap and investigate the effects of authoritarian leadership and project team member's silence on the multi-dimensional success (including project management success, project ownership success and project investment success) in a mega construction project. Drawing on data from 357 project professionals directly associated with the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and covariance based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) with Mplus, the findings provide new empirical evidence that authoritarian leadership has a significant negative influence on the multi-dimensional success in the CPEC mega construction project. The findings also establish that project team member's silence negatively mediates the relationship between authoritarian leadership and the multi-dimensional mega construction project success. The study implications offer new strategic insights for managing mega construction projects, especially in transition economies that still have deep roots of authoritarian cultures.