This blog summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center As we seek to further our understanding of the communication-related factors that bring out the best and the worst in employees, one model from the management literature offers promise. The job demands-resources (JD-R) model is gaining momentum among communication scholars, and for good … Continue reading Linking Communication to Job Demands and Resources
This post is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. As employees across the world self-quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic, there is heightened attention on telework and the challenges that come with working from home. Although telework has been the subject of a considerable amount of research in two intersecting disciplines (management and organizational … Continue reading A Renewed Call for Telework Research
Summary Industry research reveals how teleworking is essential for business today. Research suggests nearly one quarter of workers in the USA engage in telework and a majority of employees would change jobs if the change allowed them to work more from home. Yet, even with this growing interest in remote work, scholars have overlooked a … Continue reading How To Communicate Role Expectations in a Coworking Office
Walden, Justin (2018). Guiding the conversation: A study of PR practitioner expectations for nonnominated employees’ social media use. Corporate Communications- An International Journal, 23(3), 423-437. Summary This study examined the delicate line that strategic communicators must walk when engaging with their organizations’ frontline employees online. Although practitioners and scholars have long suggested that employees can … Continue reading Guiding the Conversation: A Study of PR Practitioner Expectations for Non-Nominated Employees’ Social Media Use
This blog is presented by the Organizational Communication Research Center. Employees can be powerful voices on behalf of organizations. Whether it’s on social media or face-to-face, employees may humanize firms and help advance crucial relationships between firms and their various stakeholders. With industry experts having long argued that organizations should leverage their employees as advocates, … Continue reading Supporting Frontline Employees Who Are Organizational Advocates
Walden, Justin, Bortree, Denise and DiStaso, Marcia. (2015). This blog brought to you by … exploring blogger perceptions of a product endorsement policy and reviews. Journal of Communication Management, 19(3), 1-17. Summary This study investigates how bloggers produce product reviews and their views on the quality of their relationship with firms that pitch products for … Continue reading Exploring the Policies of Blogger Product Endorsements