The Evolution of Public Relations Introduction In order for us to understand how public relations have evolved through history‚ we must first understand what public relations are. Public relations as defined by (Wilcox and Cameron 2004) that Professors Long and Hazelton believe it to be‚ “ a communication function of management through which organizations adapt to alter‚ or to maintain their environment for the purpose of achieving organizational goals”(p.5). With that said we could now go back
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PR Journals Journal entry 1: Role – Stakeholders Stakeholders are anyone who has a vested interest in a company. Stakeholders can be affected directly by the company’s actions. If a company wants to introduce a new policy‚ such as an eco-friendly policy‚ the effects of this policy will affect the loyalty and strength of those stakeholders. There are two different types of stakeholders‚ internal and external (Chia & Synnott 2012). The internal stakeholders are those within the company‚ such
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1.1 Describe the evolution of PR from its inception to today. Public relations can represent the needs‚ interests and desires of the organizations various publics/stakeholders to management and then back from management to them‚ explaining the management’s perspectives. It opens a dialogue between an organization and the publics it affects. The study of public relations has generally been led by the United States and can be viewed through five states: The beginning of PR (1600-1799)‚ Communicating/Initiating
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Week 1: Chapter 3- Role of the public relations practitioner Key roles for PR: Managerial Operational Reflective (role of analysing changing social values to adjust to organisations‚ standards and values of social responsibility and is aimed at influencing the dominant coalition). Educational (aims to increase communication competence of employees). • Systems theory works on a basis that everything in the social world is part of a system that interacts with other systems on that
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Functions of Public Relations MKT 438 Michael Raasch Functions of Public Relations An organizations image and reputation are dependent on the publics’ opinion. The goal of public relations is to be the communicator between an organization and its public. Public relations is a‚ “planned process to influence public opinion‚ through sound character and proper performance‚ bases on mutually satisfactory two way communication” (Seitel‚ p. 4). The role of public relations serves as a communicator
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Public Relations Paper Public relations means many different things to many different individuals‚ businesses‚ and marketing firms. The true definition of public relations will be determined based on the nature of the work being done and the targeted group for a company to provide its goods and services to. In this paper‚ a personal definition of public relations will be given. In addition‚ three extra definitions of public relations will be presented. A thorough comparison of those definitions
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DEFINING PUBLIC RELATIONS PAPER DEFINING PUBLIC RELATIONS PAPER The practice of Public Relations is very important in the business world. PR is a field that has grown both in numbers and respect. It is a multibillion-dollar business and it is practiced by 158‚000 professionals. I will be explaining my personal definition of PR as well as three other definitions from different sources. Then I will be contrasting the definitions and explaining why there are so many different definitions
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Public Relations What is public relations? There seems to be many different answers to that question. Merriam-Webster ’s online dictionary defines public as "of‚ relating to‚ or affecting all the people or the whole area of a nation or state." It defines relations as "the state of being mutually or reciprocally interested" (Merriam-Webster‚ 2005). These two definitions indicate that public relations affect all the people of a nation or state that are mutually interested. This paper will provide
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icDefinitions of Public Relations 1. MEXICO STATEMENT Public relations is the Art and Social Science of analyzing trends‚ predicting their consequences‚ counseling organizational leaders‚ and implementing planned programs of action which serve both the organizations and the public interest. 2. PUBLIC RELATIONS NEWS Public relations is the Management Function which evaluates public attitudes‚ identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or organization with the Public Interest‚ and
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The functions of Public Relations (PR) can be grouped into two loose categories: organizational and societal. Many viewpoints of the functions fall into both categories and are not mutually limited. The scope of organizational functions of PR involves actions concerning the company‚ and societal functions of PR interests ’ activities regarding society. Organizational functions of PR are activities that interact with or affect organizations while societal functions of PR have to do with actions that
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