This blog explores practices and research insights that can be valuable for communication practitioners and leaders who want to make their workplace more welcoming and empowering for employees to flourish.
Every organization is keen to retain its employees while acknowledging that they have a choice of joining other f
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Recap of the 2018 Page Society Spring Seminar
The field of communications is evolving rapidly thanks to a plethora of new technologies and influences, such as artificial intelligence and the post-Millennial cohort of Gen Z. Communicators need to anticipate and understand how these changes impact our profes
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This post appears courtesy of Cayce Myers, Ph.D., LL.M., J.D., APR, Chief Legal Research Editor at IPR and Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech University. This is a preview to an upcoming study he is working on. His extended summary can be found he
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Public relations is frequently listed as one of the most stressful jobs in the United States (CareerCast.com, 2017). The industry has an annual turnover rate in all specialties of 20.5 percent (Coffee, 2014). Meanwhile, research during the past decade has documented a disheartening fact of high work-life conflict among PRSA mem
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This blog is featured courtesy of Makovsky and was originally featured here.
Since the dawn of social media, I’ve believed that social platforms would emerge as an e
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For more than 20 years, I have worked with different organizations in Latin America exploring employees’ happiness and drama in the corporate world through conversations with managers, core teams, and technicians.
Today, organizations are learning how to address some of these questions: How to balance work and personal life?
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Many consumers get justifiably upset when a company makes a costly mistake, faces a scandal or is embroiled in a controversy. But why do some controversies grow into crises? And why do some crises “stick” while others fade away in a few days or weeks?
There are many variables in play but, for starters, we need to learn wh
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In our contemporary world of communications, whether it is for personal or professional use, social media is ubiquitous. Last year, 81 percent of all Americans had a social media profile and this year over 2.5 billion people are expected to be social media users worldwide. By 2021, that number will grow to over 3 billion soci
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This blog post is a summary of “Everything is not Pleasantville: Reframing Public Relations Encroachment as Work Group Autonomy in Higher Education,” by Christopher Wilson, Ph.D., Brigham Young University; Mark Callister, Ph.D., Brigham Young University; and Melissa Seipel, M.A., Cornell University. For the full study, please visit the
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