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LOCALWednesday 30 September

First Graduate With Honors From OGM Program at the University of Aruba

ORANJESTAD - On Friday    program Organization,          of the different views that
August 21, Ms. Kimberly   Governance and Man-            management and em-
van Loon graduated with   agement (OGM). Ms. Van         ployees experienced.
honors from the Bachelor  Loon proudly presented         The main findings of the re-
                          her thesis in front of the     search showed that verti-
                          graduation committee           cal communication is gen-     dress colleagues and how     particular the Department
                          and a mixed audience of        erally perceived as more      employees communicate
                          family, students and lectur-   challenging than horizontal   with each other.             of Organization, Gover-
                          ers of the University of Aru-  communication. Reasons        The student re-worked
                          ba in the Aula.                for this have to do with bu-  theories of organizational   nance and Management
                          During her presentation        reaucracy, ineffective use    communication into tai-
                          Ms. Van Loon explained         of communication instru-      lored recommendations        is very proud of this excel-
                          the importance of employ-      ments and differences in      for the organization under
                          ees’ perceptions on inter-     culture of the employees.     study. The added value       lent graduate and wishes
                          nal communication within       Horizontal communica-         of the recommendations
                          a healthcare institution in    tion is generally perceived   in the research is that the  her success with her pro-
                          Aruba. This significant, in-   positively, with the excep-   suggestions for improve-
                          teresting and challenging      tion of certain challenges    ment of internal com-        fessional career and fu-
                          topic gave an in-depth         predominantly regarding       munication stem directly
                          view of the internal com-      culture such as linguistics,  from the employees in the    ture endeavors.
                          munication and especially      mannerism like how to ad-     organization, and are also
                                                                                       connected to different
                                                                                       theories.                    For more information on
                                                                                       The University of Aruba, in
                                                                                                                    the OGM program visit the

                                                                                                                    website of the University

                                                                                                                    of Aruba at http://www.

                                                                                                                    ua.aw/OGMand     the

                                                                                                                    Facebook Page of OGM

                                                                                                                    https://www.facebook.

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