ETHOS AND COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR : AN EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AN ORGANIZATION'S IDENTITY AND ITS COLLABORATIVE REVIEW PROCESSES

ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Alexis Poe Davis (Creator)

Institution

East Carolina University (ECU )

Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/

Advisor

Wendy B. Sharer

Abstract: This dissertation explores the ways in which organizational identity actually functions within the day-to-day processes of an organization showing how organizational identity trickles down into collaborative writing processes and what the effects of this trickle-down are in terms of the document being produced the workgroup producing the document and the organization as a whole. Specifically the dissertation examines the organizational identity of the Employees Association of the State and discovers how identity traits or characteristics influence the collaborative review process of EAS's newsletter. First I examine the public-sector labor association to discover its organizational identity through the perceptions of its employees. I then examine the review and revise processes of the writing group which produces the organization's member-directed newsletter. Finally I make visible any connections that exist between the organization's identity and its review processes focusing especially on the effects on EAS's ethos and on the cooperative behaviors of its employees. 

Additional Information

Publication

Dissertation

Date: 2011

Keywords

Technical communication, Organizational Theory

Subjects

Corporate culture

Communication in organizations

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