Blog presented by the Organizational Communication Research Center. Good, old-fashioned talk between people about anything is natural. It is the greatest substance of human relationships, and it can be done orally or literately. In organizations, this “informal communication” serves vital purposes in keeping people engaged, energized, and enveloped well in their work and, especially, their … Continue reading Rumors and Internal PR: Working Together for an Ordered State of Affairs
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Creativity is a means to make order out of chaos. In PR and other areas of organizational communication, a creative solution may seek to establish dissonance within a public (e.g., a need in people’s lives is not being met when they thought it was), and there is a great way to achieve harmony in their … Continue reading Creativity: Managing it with PR Professionals →
The imperfection of humans is at the root of why we don’t always get along with one another. But that imperfection doesn’t excuse us for not “playing together nicely in the sandbox.” In the workplace, whether that sandbox is as large as an organization or as small as a work team, personal relationships among people … Continue reading Can We Just Play Nice? The Challenge of Toxic Employees and Importance of Followership →