Socialization, Communication, and Role Performance*

Communication behavior of professional disseminators of scientific agricultural knowlege: a study of the Iowa Cooperative Extension Service

“…The degree and nature of performance in information processing will differ with roles. years (see Mulford et al, 1968;Mulford et al, 1972;Klonglan et al, 1966). It may be that high degree of boundary maintenance-a high degree of professional orientation through organizations-contributes to participation in the system.…”

“…The theoretical framework for this study drew heavily upon the work of Havelock et al (1976), Etzioni (1975); Mulford et al (1968Mulford et al ( , 1972, and Beal and Meehan (1977). It sought to merge organizational (Etzioni and Mulford) and knowledge dissemination and utilization (Havelock et al, Beal and Meehan) theories.…”

Causal model analysis of local coordinator's building roles in community and complex organizational systems

“…Etzioni's hypothesis is similar to that developed by Jackson (1960:453), who has hypothesized that, "The effect of any particular communication will depend largely upon the prior feelings and attitudes that the parties con cerned have towards one another." Mulford et al (1972) A facility (Loomis, 1960:15) is "a means used within a system to attain the members' ends." These means may include any or all physical, financial, individual human and social resources that might be used to attain the goals of the system.…”

A theoretical explication and empirical examination of a general systems model of organizational effectiveness

“…Most research has focused on the relationships between compliance concepts (e.g., social ization, communication) and effectiveness, rather than upon the rela tionship between congruent compliance structures and effectiveness. Etzioni (1975:392) reports that the most comprehensive efforts to eval uate his theory are contained in the Iowa State Compliance Studies (e.g., Mulford et al, 1968;1972a;1972b;Warren et al, 1976). This series of studies, which investigated both normative and utilitarian organiza tions, found a positive relationship between socialization and effec tiveness and between communication and effectiveness in nearly every case.…”