Graduate Program
Communication Studies
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Semester of Degree Completion
2009
Thesis Director
Mark Borzi
Thesis Committee Member
Melanie Mills
Thesis Committee Member
Brian Sowa
Abstract
The Hadwiger Communication Laboratory is an important space within the Department of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University. Over the years, the lab manager manual and lab assistant training program have been "lost in translation" which ultimately affects the lab manager's ability to work effectively and the Hadwiger Communication Laboratory itself. A needs analysis, combining reflections from my personal experience in the lab, led me to create a new lab assistant training program and lab manager manual. Consistent with social construction theory, organizational culture and organizational assimilation, this program introduces a new lab manager manual and training program that not only benefits the needs of the lab manager, lab assistants and assistant lab managers, but also benefits the Hadwiger Communication Laboratory as a whole.
Recommended Citation
Strong, Ramey, ""Remodeling" the Hadwiger Communication Laboratory: The lab manager manual and lab assistant training program" (2009). Masters Theses. 4.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/4
