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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY.
Public relations have become a potent marketing tool in
modern business management in recent times. Its influence is
being felt on both big and small firm with the influence of even
greater expansion. It is important for the management of an
organization including tertiary Institutions to understand its
potentials and limitations.
Nwokoye N.G. (1984: 212) defined public relations as the
activities of
-operations, unions government or other as an organization in
building and marketing sound and productive relations with special
public such as customer relations, employees of stock holders and
with public at large so as to adopt itself to its environment and
interpret itself to the society.
According to Benson-Eluwa, Virginia (1999:3) public relations
is defined as a programmes and activities were by considered as a
powerful tools for coordinated human and business image.
relations
is
aimed
at
making
friends
for
the
and services for the price it charges and make sure that its
customers are really satisfied.
Edoaga and Ani (2001:287) noted that a company should
deliberately plan and execute a contentious public relations
programme to develop a good relation between it and various
publics.
Complaining about the position of public relations in the
country, Olakunori (1999:194) noted that most official occupying
the public relations of various organization in the country today are
not professional they generally have a fair knowledge of what that
are supposed to as Enugu State University of Sciences and
Technology (ESUT) as an institution or organization has the student
members
of
its
staff,
management,
the
lost
parents,
society,
teachers
the
state,
association,
and
the
the
federal
favoured
corporate
image
creates
confidence
in
an
organizations or institutions.
There has been occupational troubles in tertiary institutions
has become the order of the day. But ESUT always remain in sector
despites the occasional occurrence of this ugly incident.
Why has ESUT not witness the major breakdown if law and
order despite the increase in school fees?
Why has ESUT been able to maintained peace despite the facts
that there are some polities that do not go down well with the staff,
lecturers and the students of the institute?
To what extent has public relations contributed in maintaining
peace and harmony in the institution, these and many more are the
central tasks of this research work.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
To give focus to the study, the following objectives are
formulated.
1.
the press.
3.
To
know
how
public
relations
help
in
improving
identified.
6.
7.