This blog is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Employers are becoming increasingly aware that their workers are a powerful and influential source of information when advocating the values of the companies they represent or praising the products and services offered by their organizations. Not surprisingly, businesses such as Dell, Hewlett Packard, Zappos, … Continue reading Effective Strategies to Encourage Employee Advocacy
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Summary In recent years, employee advocacy has evolved as a hot topic that has generated a lot of buzz in today’s public relations, marketing, and business circles. In large part, the increased interest that organizations have shown toward employee advocacy can be attributed to … Continue reading Internal Communicators’ Understanding of the Definition and Importance of Employee Advocacy
This blog post is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. As we reflect and speculate about what the workplace will look like after the COVID-19 pandemic, we are beginning to wrap our heads around the notion that remote working will last longer than many of us initially predicted. In May, we saw how large … Continue reading The Importance of Helping Employees Thrive in a Post-Coronavirus World
Summary When Bill Gates published and copyrighted his bestseller Business @ the Speed of Thought, readers did not protest upon thumbing a few pages in to see that the book was authored “with Collins Hemingway.” Likewise, for Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In (with Nell Scovell) or Howard Schultz’s Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without … Continue reading How CEO “Ghost-Posting” Affects Employee Perceptions on Leadership, Transparency, and Relationships
This post is presented by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. In recent years, employee advocacy has become a buzzword that has captured the attention of public relations, marketing, human resources, and business circles. The concept of having employees voluntarily promote, recommend, or defend their organization has existed for a long time. However, the rise … Continue reading Rewarding Employees for Engaging in Employee Advocacy: Is this the Right Move?
This post is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. Summary The ability to humorously interact with others at work is often considered an essential skill for organizational leaders. In general terms, humor refers to an individual’s tendency to amuse others through the use or display of behaviors, attitudes, and abilities. Although a large percentage … Continue reading Supervisor Humor Styles and Employee Advocacy: A Serial Mediation Model
Blog presented by the Organizational Communication Research Center. A guy spots a sign outside of a house that reads “Talking Dog for Sale.” Intrigued, he knocks on the door and asks the owner if he can see the dog. “So, what have you done with your life?” he asks the dog. “I’ve led a very … Continue reading The Impact of Humor Styles In The Workplace
