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Communicated commitment and conversational voice: Abbreviated measures of communicative strategies for maintaining organization-public relationships

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Pages 217-231 | Received 03 May 2015, Accepted 12 Sep 2016, Published online: 03 Oct 2016
 

ABSTRACT

Guided by relationship theory, this study develops and tests abbreviated operational definitions of communicated commitment and conversational voice as communicative strategies in maintaining organization-public relationships (OPRs). Researchers first identified 25 relational maintenance items from 12 prior published studies. Then surveying three independent subsamples of an organization’s key public (N = 1,169), the distilled list revealed two univariate concepts measured with a total of 11 items. The shorter scales make the measurement and evaluation of communication online and real-world activities more accessible and manageable for practitioners and academics focused on organization-public relationships.

在关系理论的引导下,本研究开发并测试了沟通承诺和会话声音作为组织公共关系(OPR)维护沟通式战略的简短操作定义。研究者首次从12项先前发表的研究中识别出25种关系维护项目。随后又研究了一个组织的关键公关(N=1,169)的三个独立子样本,通过对11个项目的研究,精选出的列表揭示了两个单变变量概念。更短的量表让在线沟通的现实世界活动的测量和评估对于关注组织公共关系的从业者和学者变得更加可控、可操作。

Orientado por la teoría de las relaciones, este estudio desarrolla y prueba definiciones operacionales abreviadas de compromiso comunicado y voz conversacional como estrategias comunicativas en el mantenimiento de las relaciones entre la organización y el público. Los investigadores primero identificaron 25 elementos de mantenimiento de relaciones de 12 estudios publicados previamente. Después se examinaron tres sub-muestras independientes del público clave de una organización (N = 1.169), la lista filtrada reveló dos conceptos univariados medidos de un total de 11 puntos de estudio. Las escalas más reducidas hacen que la medición y la evaluación de la comunicación online y las actividades reales en la práctica sean más accesibles y manejables para los profesionales y académicos centrados en las relaciones entre la organización y el público.

Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Valerie Barker for her exceptional counsel and assistance on this project. Additionally, the data collection would not have been possible without the support of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, and specifically, Diane Murray.

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