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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Excellent leadership in Public Relations: A question of experience and the PR practitioner

Oldenbanning, Roelof 01 January 2013 (has links)
To better understand excellent leadership in public relations (PR) of developing and experienced PR practitioners, this study focuses on the important qualities and dimensions of excellent leadership practitioners. This study continues on the work of Meng, Berger, Gower, and Heyman (2012) in their attempt to advance understanding of leadership in the PR field. According to the study's participants (N = 72): strategic decision-making capability, problem-solving ability, and communication knowledge and expertise are the three most important qualities of excellent leadership. Moreover, respondents rated that communication skills training, individual initiative and desire, and on-the-job experiences lead to excellent PR leadership. About half of the respondents indicated that PR leadership differs in three ways from leadership in other fields: ability to strategically construct messages, possession of comprehensive vision of how communication connects an organization to its publics in the larger social system, and the possession of an unwavering belief in the importance of honest and ethical organization communications and actions. Minimal differences between the importance levels of excellent PR leadership variables are noted; all the excellent PR leadership variables clustered around the "very important" score. It is presumed that one's stance toward excellent PR leadership reflects the current deficiency or the lack of experience one is experiencing in the realm of PR leadership.

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