OBJECTIVE I am an experienced communication professional with over two decades of leadership in strategic communications, eager to contribute to an organization committed to improving the human condition while I pursue doctoral training. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Partner LEVICK | Washington, DC – February 2009 – September 2021 Specialized in crisis management…
“The creeping progress of artificial intelligence (AI) places the notion of the human in crisis. There are many things that AI already does better and more efficiently than humans, and it is increasingly easy to imagine a world in which machines are better diagnosticians than doctors; wittier than comedians; more…
Introduction In the United States Criminal Courts, the government bears the burden of proving the cases it prosecutes, beyond a reasonable doubt (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, n.d.-a). This standard requires that a reasonable person would see the evidence as so strong that there is no reasonable doubt that…
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Domain-Level Scales Honesty-Humility Persons with very high scores on the Honesty-Humility scale avoid manipulating others for personal gain, feel little temptation to break rules, are uninterested in lavish wealth and luxuries, and feel no special entitlement to elevated social status. Conversely, persons with very low scores on this scale will…
This lecture explores leadership from two intertwined perspectives, though addressed separately: Can leadership be purchased, or is it created through shared meaning? Organizational communication scholars and psychologists have developed varying interpretations of leadership. Psychological thought guided this inquiry for “many years” by framing leadership as stemming from charismatic traits inherent…
According to Miller, conflict contemplates “The interaction of interdependent people who perceive opposition of goals, aims, and values, and who see the other party as potentially interfering with the realization of these goals” (Miller & Barbour, 2020, p. 159). At the center of FCSA is a subsystem, the YESS school,…
Socialization is a lens communication scholars study organizational discourse through evidence of individual interactions during the process of “joining, participating in, and leaving organizations” (Kramer & Miller, 2014 p. 525 as cited in (Lamb, 2024). Generally, communication scholars view this process through the lens of assimilation, which concerns the “ongoing behavioral and…
Emotional approaches to the study of organizational communication seem to be of high value to scholarship concerned with communication dynamics within organizations. One specific connection, in approach and study, is the view of systems theorists and their unique approach to studying the presence of emotion within organizations. Miller (2020) offers…
We now turn to the application of power by organizations for the various reasons organizations apply power, further, from a feminist critique, the we examine the context of women as disciplined bodies and how organizational communications can be studied from that point of view. Finally, we will address the insight…