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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Grace Muncada I Public Relations‚ what they call "PR"‚ has always played a tremendous part of our daily lives. It is present in many simple ways such us riding a public vehicle‚ buying from stores‚ and even doing simple tasks at home. Public Relations (PR) as defined by Wikipedia is the practice of managing the spread of information between an individual or organization and the public. It is comprised of two bodies‚ which are the organization and the public. Without the presence of
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Desire‚ Vision & Dreams : "An Image Is Not Simply A Trademark‚ A Design‚ A Slogan Or An Easily Remembered Picture. It Is A Studiously Crafted Personality Profile Of An Individual‚ Institution‚ Corporation‚ Product Or Service." – Daniel Boorstin The future probably belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious. It belongs to those very travelers who pierce through the clouds of oblivion with the force of their determination. I’ve always believed that the answer to my destiny
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The History of Public Relations The act of public relations dates back to 52 B.C.E. in ancient Rome and continues on today all around the world. Public relations is defined as the controlling factor that searches to form and maintain relationships between organizations‚ profit or non-profit and the public that are beneficial for both parties (Bates). The age of public relations as a profession evolved in the 20th Century‚ mainly in the United States‚ but its foundation can
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Functions of Public Relations Functions of Public Relations The functions of public relations take many forms in different organizations. Public relations specialists handle organizational and societal functions such as media‚ community‚ consumer‚ industry‚ and governmental relations as well as political campaigns‚ interest-group representation‚ conflict mediation‚ or employee and investor relations. They help an organization and its public become accustomed and adapt to each other (U.S. DOL
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The Role of Public Relations A career in public relations consist of a broad range of ethics all for the sole purpose of communicating with other people‚ companies and to inhibit a better working environment. Public relation workers deal with numerous ways of getting the message out to organizations and to the public where one will realize whether or not they have created publicity for a specific trademark or person. Public relations is a beneficial system that uses communication processes to
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Public Relations The purpose of this paper is to help the student identify and analyze various definitions of the subject matter of the course MKT438. The topic at hand is the term public relations. Upon conclusion the student and both the reader should have a keen understanding of what the purpose of public relations. Firstly‚ the student will attempt to define what public relation is and what it seeks to achieve with no basis on text aptitude. Public relations seek to identify the link between
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Public Relations Interview University of Phoenix Marketing for Health Care HCS 539 Public Relations Interview Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium based located in Oakland‚ California. Kaiser Permanente evolved from industrial health care programs for construction‚ shipyard‚ and steel mill workers for the Kaiser industrial companies during the late 1930s and 1940s ("Kaiser Permanente‚" 2013‚ para. 1). Kaiser Permanente is consists of three distinct entities‚ the
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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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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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