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Cultural themes in messages from top Air Force leaders, 2005-2008 / Carolyn Chu, Brandon Dues, Laura L. Miller.

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Chu, Carolyn [author]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Documented briefing ; DB-583-AF | Documented briefing (Rand Corporation) ; DB-583-AF.Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2010Description: xv, 46 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780833047908 (pbk)
0833047906 (pbk)

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Electronic books

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UG633 C85 2010

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Summary: "An organization's senior leadership can create, embed, and transmit an organization's culture. To help the Air Force ensure that senior leader messages aimed at its personnel reinforce stated cultural goals, RAND researchers conducted an analysis of themes within these communications. This analysis revealed that the senior leaders clearly defined the Air Force's organizational identity and regularly emphasized the Air Force's core values. They also consistently promoted a shared identity, the Airman, and highlighted the importance of varied contributions from across the service. All three leaders emphasized the importance of caring for Airmen's well-being and readiness but took appropriately different approaches to doing so. Future messages should highlight current Air Force heroes and families, recognize the historical predecessors of space and cyberspace missions, explain the meaning of Service Before Self, clarify whether civilians are Airmen, and emphasize the importance of Wingman Day. Also, messages should be disseminated more routinely and more directly to all Air Force personnel."--RAND web site.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	UAE Federation Library \| مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection \| المجموعات العامة	UG633 C85 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.1	Library Use Only \| داخل المكتبة فقط		30010000018491

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"RAND Project Air Force."--Cover.

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"An organization's senior leadership can create, embed, and transmit an organization's culture. To help the Air Force ensure that senior leader messages aimed at its personnel reinforce stated cultural goals, RAND researchers conducted an analysis of themes within these communications. This analysis revealed that the senior leaders clearly defined the Air Force's organizational identity and regularly emphasized the Air Force's core values. They also consistently promoted a shared identity, the Airman, and highlighted the importance of varied contributions from across the service. All three leaders emphasized the importance of caring for Airmen's well-being and readiness but took appropriately different approaches to doing so. Future messages should highlight current Air Force heroes and families, recognize the historical predecessors of space and cyberspace missions, explain the meaning of Service Before Self, clarify whether civilians are Airmen, and emphasize the importance of Wingman Day. Also, messages should be disseminated more routinely and more directly to all Air Force personnel."--RAND web site.

Also available in electronic form via the RAND Corporation Web site.

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