...College of Economics and Management 85 COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Libornio S. Cabanilla, Dean Jose V. Camacho, Jr., Associate Dean Agnes T. Banzon, College Secretary Reynaldo L. Tan, Chair, Dept. of Agribusiness Management Cesar B. Quicoy, Chair, Dept. of Agricultural Economics Amelia L. Bello, Chair, Dept. of Economics The College of Economics and Management (CEM) was formally created in the 996th UP-BOR meeting, February 1987. However, the College traces its roots to the Institute of Agricultural Development and Administration (IADA)which was established in 1975, with three departments – Agricultural Economics (DAE), Economics (DE), and Management (DM), and was elevated to the College of Economics and Management from the merger of IADA with the Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Studies and the Agrarian Reform Institute in 1978. At present, CEM is composed of three departments – the Department of Agricultural Economics, the Department of Economics and the Department of Agribusiness Management. The college sees itself as a center of excellence in undergraduate and graduate instruction, research and extension in economics, agricultural and applied economics, and agribusiness management in Asia. It envisions to be an institution of higher learning that can serve as an active catalyst for economic and social transformation. Its two-fold mission is to produce graduates and future leaders with strong training in economics, agricultural and applied economics, and in agribusiness...
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...PR Public relations (PR) is the art and social science of analyzing trends, predicting their consequences, counseling organization leaders, and implementing planned programs of action which will serve in terms of building, directing and maintaining a company’s public image. As opposed to advertising, PR is an unpaid form of communication traditionally but that has begun to change in the present scenario. PR practice is an art since it involves the element of specialized skill, knowledge and methods. PR practice is not completely objective, as there are subjective factors involved. PR practice deals with the human element, which is by nature unpredictable; therefore not completely objective. PR practice also considers the inputs which social sciences (e.g. psychology, sociology, anthropology, and statistics) can contribute. For example, a PR practitioner would have to consider cultural factors when planning a program or campaign for its targeted publics so that there would be less risk of unintentionally offending other segments of the society. Public relations is also internal and external communication to inform or influence specific publics using press and media. Some public relations specialists work as full-time employees of companies, politicians, nonprofit organizations, or governments; while others work for PR agencies or as free-lance PR consultants that contract their services to clients (usually corporations, wealthy individuals or other special interests) who pay...
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...Running head: MANAGING A CRISIS USING PR SIMULATION SUMMARY Managing a Crisis Using PR Simulation Summary University of Phoenix MKT/438 – Public Relations Managing a Crisis Using PR Simulation Summary The following paragraphs present an interesting scenario of a most peculiar mishap regarding one of the turbines used by an environmentally safe electric company named Greenergy. The concepts in this summary give insight into proactive planning, feedback mechanisms, examples of ineffectual deployments, when to use proactive crisis management, and reactive crisis management as is associated with PR. Most importantly, by the end of this report a clear understanding of how to manage a crisis will have been acquired. Proactive Planning Proactive planning is a concept designated to the sole purpose of being prepared prior to an action or occurrence. The ability to cope with and endure an event is always in the company’s best interest as well as all publics involved. Proactive planning is merely the thoughts and actions taken in order to forecast and deal with crisis situations in a positive manner by way of a variety of tools available to Public Relations (University of Phoenix, 2010). Feedback Mechanism The situation Greenergy found itself in affects many publics at every level. An ideal...
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...PR notes Ch1 PR is a leadership and management function that helps achieve organizational objectives, define philosophy, and facilitate organizational change. Public relation is a two way communication between organization and publics; PR practitioners communicate with all internal and external public to create positive relationship between the firm’s goals and societal expectations. Moreover, PR tries to affect public opinion through its persuasive communication. The question is who are the publics? A public is a group of people who have a common interest in a specific situation. When the interests and values of particular publics meet with the interests and values of particular organizations, relationships are born; including 1- Media 2- Employees 3- Governmental officials 4- Community leaders 5- Financial analysts Publics are important to the organization because those publics have resources that those organizations need to fulfil their values-driven goals. They become a public once they recognize an issue, understand its relevance to them, and then talk about it or even organize to do something about it. What PR practitioners do? PR practitioners bring such a diversity of skills and programmatic capabilities to their jobs, PR do a lot of activities such as writing press releases, speeches, news letters, and announcements. They also do 1- Research 2- Counceling/ advising 3- Government affairs 4- Investor relations 5- Development or fund...
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...Impact of Public Relation on Marketing Promotion Activities Abstract: Advertisement is one of the most popular media for marketing of products all over the world. Companies allocate and spend huge amount of money on advertisement to inform and attract customers. But advertising is losing its effectiveness because of growing advertising clutter, the increasing number of channels, the availability of zapping mechanisms, and reduced watching of television by certain groups. In promoting the products or services as well as companies concerned, the major challenge today is getting people's attention. As a result, market experts are considering other methods of getting consumer attentions. Now consumers are pressed for time, and many work hard to avoid advertising messages. Companies are facing challenges to find new ways to capture consumer’s attention and public relations can play a growing role within the marketing promotional mix to build and maintain brands. Consumers are now learning about products and brands through means other than advertising and in this context public relations are gaining momentum. Even public relations can establish and maintain a positive image of the company among its various stakeholders. This reality is consistent with our perception that public relation is an important part of the Integrated Marketing Communication(IMC) process, contributing in its own way but also in a way consistent with marketing goals. This study attempts to find out comparative...
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...RELATIONS AND ITS EFFECTS ON ORGANIZATIONAL PUBLICS: A CASE STUDY OF MOI TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL LIVINGSTONE WERE MUNYWELE MOI UNIVERSITY, KENYA DECLARATION Declaration by the candidate This research project is my original work and has not been presented to any other examination body. No part of this research project should be produced without my consent or that of the Kenya Institute of Management. Livingstone Were Munywele Signature……Livingstone Were Munywele……………………… Date………… i ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Without the help and support of the Kenya Institute of Management, I could not have completed this project. I wish to express my gratitude to the supervisor, Mr. Joseph Lelan for his time and support through the study. I also thank him for encouraging me to develop a new area of study. I must also thank my friends and colleagues in the institute, who made me, sit down and finally produce a text after months of collecting materials and thoughts in files and boxes: Irene Nasimiyu, Eunice Focus and Helen Wafula. I would also like to thank the PR manager for allowing me to test new ideas with top managers at their organization. In addition, I thank my many colleagues in the office of the president where I have been honored to work for the last two years. I cannot imagine ever having a letter team in place to work on a project like this. The reviewers who helped me to make the project fully complete also deserve special thanks for their helpful ...
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...discusses the challenges being faced by the technology managers at Indian Railways (IR) in the current scenario of a resurgent national economy coupled with increasing customer expectations. In the face of growing competition from road and low-cost airlines, to retain its customers, IR has responded by changing its business rules. The Railway Ministry expects a rapid response from Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) to incorporate all these changes in the passenger reservation system (PRS). The old PRS, which is time-tested and reliable, and has been serving the customers’ needs for nearly two decades, is now proving to be relatively inflexible to match the rapidly changing business requirements. Although the current scenario of a constant need to change the programming logic of PRS has been making maintenance tougher for CRIS officials, they have realized that PRS is a time-tested, proven, and reliable technology. Though they would be happy to replace the old PRS with a new state-of-art system that would provide them greater maintenance flexibility, the repercussions associated with...
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...PUBLIC RELATIONS AND ITS EFFECTS ON ORGANIZATIONAL PUBLICS: A CASE STUDY OF MOI TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL LIVINGSTONE WERE MUNYWELE MOI UNIVERSITY, KENYA DECLARATION Declaration by the candidate This research project is my original work and has not been presented to any other examination body. No part of this research project should be produced without my consent or that of the Kenya Institute of Management. Signature…………………………… Date………… Livingstone Were Munywele i ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Without the help and support of the Kenya Institute of Management, I could not have completed this project. I wish to express my gratitude to the supervisor, Mr. Joseph Lelan for his time and support through the study. I also thank him for encouraging me to develop a new area of study. I must also thank my friends and colleagues in the institute, who made me, sit down and finally produce a text after months of collecting materials and thoughts in files and boxes: Irene Nasimiyu, Eunice Focus and Helen Wafula. I would also like to thank the PR manager for allowing me to test new ideas with top managers at their organization. In addition, I thank my many colleagues in the office of the president where I have been honored to work for the last two years. I cannot imagine ever having a letter team in place to work on a project like this. The reviewers who helped me to make the project fully complete also deserve special thanks for their helpful comments and advice. iii ABSTRACT Many organizations...
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...Public relations officer:Job description Public relations (PR) is about managing reputation. This career field aims to gain understanding and support for clients as well as to influence opinion and behaviour. PR officers use all forms of media and communication to build, maintain and manage the reputation of their clients. These range from public bodies or services to businesses and voluntary organisations. They communicate key messages, often using third party endorsements, to defined target audiences in order to establish and maintain goodwill and understanding between an organisation and its public. PR officers monitor publicity and conduct research to find out the concerns and expectations of an organisation's stakeholders. They then report and explain the findings to its management. Typical work activities A PR officer often works in-house and can be found in both the private and public sectors, from the utility and media sectors to voluntary and not-for-profit organisations. Some PR officers may be based in consultancies. The role is very varied and will depend on the organisation and sector. Tasks often involve: * planning, developing and implementing PR strategies; * liaising with colleagues and key spokespeople; * liaising with and answering enquiries from media, individuals and other organisations, often via telephone and email; * researching, writing and distributing press releases to targeted media; * collating and analysing media coverage; * writing...
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...Corporate and Ethical Social Responsibility Assignment Question: Is CSR just another form of PR for companies wishing to get an edge on their competitor? Discuss with primary reference to IKEA. Student Name: Pui Tung CHIU Submission Date: 3 April 2015 Introduction A business activity generates both positive and negative influence for both the corporate as well as the society. The growing expectations of social, environmental and legal responsibility gradually rise in the past decades for corporate. Organizations use corporate social responsibility (CSR) to set up activities in order to achieve and respond these expectations. Jamali and Mirshak (2007) state that CSR approach helps to attract global attention and acquire a new resonance in the worldwide economy. However, Frankental (2001) claims “Do CSR is a public relations (PR) invention?” and company focus on promoting itself, getting an edge on its revivals rather than being ethic to protect the environment or maintain human welfare. Therefore, in this essay, author is going to discuss about the different between CSR as well as PR. Moreover, it will apply an example of IKEA to examine the effectiveness of its CSR in supply chain and analyze CSR as a business strategy to maintain the sustainability of business, financial control and risk management. Afterwards, author will highlight the limitations of CSR policy and finally provide some recommendations to improve the CSR strategy for...
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...1. BUSINESS FUNCTIONS 2.1 General management The general manager is responsible for effective planning, delegating, coordinating, staffing, organizing, and decision making to attain desirable profit making results for an organization. The general manager is responsible to see that all the other managers are doing what they are suppose to do, when they are suppose to do it. In Suni Oil the general manager is also the owner. I found that as one of the strong points of Suni Oil because he knows what he wants done, and he knows how to do that. Another important task of the general manager is to keep everyone motivated and focused. I learnt that it’s very important to have a good relationship with your co-workers. The general manager plan, delegate, organize and control. 2.2 Human resource management Human resource management is the process by which an optimal fit is made among the employee, job, business and environment so that employees reach their level of satisfaction and performance and the business meets its goals. Suni Oil is still a relative new business and doesn’t have a HR yet. There are talks to appoint a HR within the next year. The HR will be responsible to see that all the workers are satisfied and that they will reach their goals. In short the HR will be like a “compliment and complaint box” for Suni Oil’s workers. 2.3 Operations management Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and redesigning...
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...portray your message. Purpose- what do you want your audience to do and you are doing it. Presentation- is almost always a physical thing. What is public relations? Public Relations- is the management function that identifies, established and maintains mutually beneficial relationships between an organization and the various publics on whom its success or failure depends. * Communication can be external and internal. Keywords: Deliberate Planned Performance Public Interest Two-way Management function Challenges * PR is multifaceted Global * An estimated 3 million people practice public relations world wide Definitions * A number of definitions; often defined as publicity in a newspaper, television interview, or red carpet events Learning the ROPES Research-identifying and learning the client, what their problem is, and what there is. Objectives- Setting objectives to solve your problem. Programming- Planning out how you’re going to do the project. Evaluation- how you adjust and making sure you are addressing the objectives. Stewardship- Making sure it all flows together. Areas of public relations: Counseling Research Media relations Publicity Employee/member relations Community relations Public affairs Government affairs Issues management Financial relations Industry relations Development Multicultural relations Special events Marketing communications Comparing Public relations to: Journalism * Objective observer...
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...* Sharpe’s 5 Principles * Honest communication for credibility * Openness and consistency for confidence * Fairness of actions for reciprocity, goodwill * Two-way communication to build relationships * Research and evaluation to determine actions and to adjust for social harmony * Roles of PR * 1. Management * To succeed, public relations must report to top management, unimpeded by any other group. * 2. Action * True public relations cannot take place without ethical, consistent action. No amount of persuasion will cover up for poor performance. * PR as a management interpreter * Public relations professionals interpret these roles of management to the public * Philosophies * Policies * Programs * Practices * PR as public interpreter * To management, public relations practitioners interpret the public’s: * Opinions * Needs * Desires * Management needs to know what the public thinks about an organization and its practices * PR professional key knowledge areas: * The field * The communications process *...
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...functions are those distinct advantages that a good PR campaign provides to an organization such as brand building, creating public awareness, providing feedback, etc. Public Relations Public relations are a constantly evolving and dynamic profession. It has come a long way from its image as a glamorous but anyone can do it job. In fact, as little as 20 years ago, it was highly recommended that to enter the profession, one needed nothing more than secretarial training. But public relations have grown beyond this image. Today, public relations are a sophisticated industry that needs individuals who are confident in their abilities and skills and are aware that they are well suited to a highly demanding profession. Today’s public relations practitioners have a range of tertiary qualifications and constantly try to improve and expand their knowledge and skills. “ Public relations specialists handle organizational functions such as media, community, consumer, industry, and governmental relations; political campaigns; interest-group representation; conflict mediation; and employee and investor relations” (.Freitag, 2009). They do more than "tell the organization's story." They must understand the attitudes and concerns of community, consumer, employee, and public interest groups and establish and maintain cooperative relationships with them and with representatives from print and broadcast journalism. Societal functions of a PR campaign are those functions...
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...IS PUBLIC RELATIONS IMPORTANT 5 HOW DOES PUBLIC RELATIONS WORKS 7 IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS IN AN ORGANISATION 8 CONCLUSION 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 INTRODUCTION Public relations is the way organisations, companies and individuals communicate with the public and media. A public relations specialist communicates with the target audience directly or indirectly through media with an aim to create and maintain a positive image and create a strong relationship with the audience. Examples include press releases, newsletters, public appearances and other public relations tools. An organisation is a social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals. All organisations have a management structure that determines relationships between the different activities and the members, and subdivides and assigns roles, responsibilities, and authority to carry out different tasks. Organisations are open systems that is they affect and are affected by their environment and public relations is important for the functioning of an organisation. The world of business is characterised by severe competition and in order to win new customers and retain the existing ones, the organisations have to distinguish themselves from the competition. But they also need to create and maintain a positive public image. A public relations specialist or firm helps them both create and maintain a good reputation among both the media and the customers by...
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