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Evaluating the impact of a communication exercise in an industrial works

Alistair Ostell, +2 more
- 01 Jun 1980 - 
- Vol. 11, Iss: 2, pp 37-48
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Ostell et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the impact of communicating business information to a large industrial workforce and found that the exercise was successful in terms of informing employees but it apparently failed to motivate them to act or think differently.
Abstract
In this article Alistair Ostell and his colleagues discuss a study which evaluated the impact of communicating business information to a large industrial workforce. The results indicated that the exercise was successful in terms of informing employees but it apparently failed to motivate them to act or think differently.

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Imparting Information and Influencing Behaviour: An Examination of Staff Briefing Sessions

TL;DR: The authors conducted a case study of staff briefing sessions in a large retail chain based in the United Kingdom, where company policy required managers to start the day's business by conducting a staff briefing session.
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Problems with Team Briefing in Practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the problems and tensions which arose in three different establishments with their systems for team briefing are presented and a number of concerns about the way in which it is practised are highlighted.
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Influences on Public Opinion of Unions and Industrial Relations

TL;DR: The authors explored the complex question of media influence on public opinion of unions and industrial relations by using social survey techniques and found that a general acceptance of unionism and the worker's right to withhold labour coupled to the view that this right is exercised too frequernly.
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TL;DR: In this article, the structural organization of material influences the way in which it is learned and recalled by the person, including relational rules and perceptual-conceptual groupings as these appeared in various laboratory learning tasks.
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A question of disclosure

TL;DR: In this paper, the purposes and problems of disclosure of corporate information to employees for both general and collective bargaining purposes are examined, and the type of information under consideration includes that relating to labour, financial statistics and matters affecting future plans and prospects.
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