Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Strategies to promote identification

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 05:38, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strategies to promote identification (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

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Reads like a personal essay, not quite sure what this 'article' is all about. E. Fokker (talk) 19:50, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:33, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I recommend editing the linguistic style and developing the content of the article. More importantly, I recommend merging this article's content with (i.e., into) the entry on organizational identification. The content of this entry represents a significant theoretical area of organizational communication studies. In the interest of full disclosure: I am a professor associated with the individuals who authored this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brendenkendall (talk • contribs) 15:48, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 11:11, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete I agree that some of this should be incorporated into the article organizational identification, in a much shorter form. Short verison is that one gets persons to identify with an organization through (1) Expression of concern for the individual; (2) Recognition of individual contributions; (3) Espousal of shared values; (4) Advocacy of benefits and activities; (5) Praise by outsiders; and (6) Testimonials by employees; then enhances the "us" with an "us vs. them" approach. This is an oversimplification, of course, but the current version misses the point of an encyclopedia article, which is to help other persons understand what's being referred to. Mandsford 19:54, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.