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Publication date: 1 March 1980

Information Disclosure in Employee Relations

Tom Kynaston Reeves

Communicating with employees is an aspect of management which is today being subjected to new pressures and ideas. Trade unions have new disclosure rights. A growing…

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Communicating with employees is an aspect of management which is today being subjected to new pressures and ideas. Trade unions have new disclosure rights. A growing number of managers believe that employees have a right to know about company matters, or see employee communications as an essential adjunct to involving employees in managerial decisions through consultation or participation.

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Employee Relations, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054948
ISSN: 0142-5455

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Publication date: 1 April 1996

Employee communications: how technology impacts on practice

Michael Rudnick

Describes the results of a research project to determine the use of technology in employee communication. Finds that e‐mail is the most widely used technology. Covers the…

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Describes the results of a research project to determine the use of technology in employee communication. Finds that e‐mail is the most widely used technology. Covers the links between technology and communications, changes linked to technology, and the concerns of communicators. Concludes with a brief examination of implications for employee communications.

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Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, vol. 6 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09604529610109765
ISSN: 0960-4529

Keywords

  • Corporate communications
  • Electronic mail
  • Employees
  • Surveys
  • Technology

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Publication date: 28 December 2020

Transforming the role of frontline service employees for cross-selling

HsiuJu Rebecca Yen, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu and Yi-Chun Liao

This study aims to examine how a manager’s learning goal orientation (LGO) influences frontline service employees’ (FSEs’) engagement in cross-selling activities. Such…

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Purpose

This study aims to examine how a manager’s learning goal orientation (LGO) influences frontline service employees’ (FSEs’) engagement in cross-selling activities. Such engagements must exist before they can achieve service–sales ambidexterity. Drawing on achievement goal theory and the meaning-making perspective, this study predicts that learning-oriented managers encourage and foster FSEs’ cross-selling behaviors by facilitating their ability to derive positive meaning from the cross-selling initiative. They do so by conveying high-quality information about the initiative and related changes to individual employees, as well as by encouraging the formation of a collective perception of open communications within the work unit.

Design/methodology/approach

Hierarchical (nested) data from 39 managers and 357 FSEs of a major logistic service company are used to test the hypotheses.

Findings

As predicted, a manager’s LGO relates positively to FSEs’ cross-selling activities, through sequential mediations of the hypothesized communication mechanisms and employees’ benefits-finding.

Originality/value

A manager’s LGO is an important antecedent of FSEs’ cross-selling behaviors. This study establishes this influence and clarifies the processes by which it occurs. This study also extends previous research by specifying the important role of employees’ meaning-making, which prompts them to adopt cross-selling, as a mediator of the multilevel communication influences that result from their managers’ LGO.

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Journal of Services Marketing, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JSM-02-2020-0071
ISSN: 0887-6045

Keywords

  • Frontline service employees
  • Cross-selling
  • Learning goal orientation
  • Multilevel influences
  • Change communications
  • Meaning-making

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Publication date: 1 July 1979

Developing an Employee Communications Policy through Research

Tom Kynaston Reeves

Improving the flow of information from management to employees has become a matter of increasing concern in recent years. This has been partly motivated by a belief on the…

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Improving the flow of information from management to employees has become a matter of increasing concern in recent years. This has been partly motivated by a belief on the part of managements that improving communications will lead to better industrial relations, and hopefully also more commitment and effort from employees. There is also a growing view on all sides of industry, and reflected in legislation, that employees have a right to information about their employing organisation.

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Journal of European Industrial Training, vol. 3 no. 7
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002327
ISSN: 0309-0590

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Publication date: 1 February 1997

Return on Communications

In many countries today there is a debate on how to improve accounting to recognise also the non‐material value of companies. As a contribution to this debate, the Swedish…

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In many countries today there is a debate on how to improve accounting to recognise also the non‐material value of companies. As a contribution to this debate, the Swedish Public Relations Association has initiated a project to develop the know‐how of how a company's profits and value can increase through investments in information, communications and relationships. The project applies also to the public sector and other organisations.

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Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting, vol. 2 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb029040
ISSN: 1401-338X

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

Change communication: using strategic employee communication to facilitate major change

Deborah J. Barrett

Whether organizational change results from a merger, acquisition, new venture, new process improvement approach, or any number of flavors‐of‐the‐day management fads…

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Whether organizational change results from a merger, acquisition, new venture, new process improvement approach, or any number of flavors‐of‐the‐day management fads, employee communications can mean the success or failure of any major change program. The Strategic Employee Communication Model with the best practice definitions, which are composites of effective employee communication examples collected from researching selected Fortune 500 companies, help management understand the strategic role of employee communication in a high‐performing company. The model functions as an analytical tool to diagnose a company’s strengths and weaknesses in employee communication so that the company can structure the change communication program and position communication to facilitate the overall change program. In this paper, I explain the Strategic Employee Communication Model and best practice definitions, demonstrate a change communication approach to improving employee communications using the Strategic Employee Communication Model, and provide a case study of the successful use of the model and approach during a major change program.

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Corporate Communications: An International Journal, vol. 7 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/13563280210449804
ISSN: 1356-3289

Keywords

  • Change
  • Communications
  • Employees
  • Strategy
  • Best practice

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Publication date: 9 November 2015

Communicating virtually in a global organization

Céleste M. Brotheridge, Derrick J. Neufeld and Bruno Dyck

The purpose of this paper is to consider the extent to which changes in communication media are associated with changes in the nature of manager-expatriate employee…

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The purpose of this paper is to consider the extent to which changes in communication media are associated with changes in the nature of manager-expatriate employee communications. Using an affordance lens, the authors explore how hierarchical level and communication medium interact to influence status dynamics manifested in communication attributes.

Design/methodology/approach

The hypothesis was tested with a 2 (hierarchical level)×3 (communication media) multivariate analysis of covariance (experience level) in a sample of 1,193 messages that were transmitted between managers and field employees in a global organization over a ten year period.

Findings

The authors found significant interaction effects between communication media and hierarchical level on communication attributes such that changes in communication media intensified status differences between managers and their employees.

Research limitations/implications

Communications media may be appropriated differently depending on one’s hierarchical level.

Practical implications

Managers should adopt new communication media more consciously given their potential influence of how people communicate.

Originality/value

Unlike many computer-mediated communications (CMC) effects studies that compare face-to-face communications with CMC or employ self-report questionnaires or laboratory designs with student samples, this study examines a complete set of manager-employee communications over an extended period of time.

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Journal of Managerial Psychology, vol. 30 no. 8
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-06-2013-0191
ISSN: 0268-3946

Keywords

  • Expatriates
  • Communication technologies
  • Managers
  • Virtual work
  • Electronic mail

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Publication date: 8 August 2013

Social Media in Internal Communications: A View from Senior Management

Tanja Sedej and Gorazd Justinek

The chapter presents a senior management view on the role of new and technologically advanced tools, such as social media in internal communications.

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Purpose

The chapter presents a senior management view on the role of new and technologically advanced tools, such as social media in internal communications.

Design/methodology/approach

We conducted 23 in-depth interviews with senior managers of large- and medium-sized companies in Slovenia.

Findings

The results obtained in the research confirmed that the senior management possess a strong awareness of the importance of internal communications in managing their organizations. Moreover, many top managers even pointed out that internal communications play a crucial role, and add value to the business performance through more motivated employees and that social media in the context of internal communications are vivid and growing in importance.

Implications

The study provides a starting point for further research in this area. However, the core policy recommendation would mainly be focused on internal communication experts, who must no longer underestimate the urgency of developing communication programs that help employees and senior management start working with social media successfully.

Originality/value

The research presents a new — senior management view on the role of social media in internal communications.

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Social Media in Human Resources Management
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877-6361(2013)0000012008
ISBN: 978-1-78190-901-0

Keywords

  • Internal communications
  • social media
  • management

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Publication date: 7 November 2017

Picking at an Old Scab in a New Era: Public Relations and Human Resources Boundary Spanning for a Socially Responsible and Sustainable World

Donnalyn Pompper

The time is right for renewed and updated attention to the relationship between public relations (PR) and human resources (HR) departments in the context of corporate…

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The time is right for renewed and updated attention to the relationship between public relations (PR) and human resources (HR) departments in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability. For too long, conflict between the two practice areas has obscured opportunities for collaboration which benefits organizations and stakeholders. This chapter offers theoretical underpinnings for examining an interdepartmental, cross-unit working relationship between HR and PR – and advances a vision for why it is needed now.

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Ethical Public Relations
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-585-620181001
ISBN: 978-1-78714-585-6

Keywords

  • Public relations
  • human resources
  • encroachment
  • turf battles
  • CSR
  • sustainability

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Article
Publication date: 1 August 1994

Acknowledge and Use Your Grapevine

David Cathmoir Nicoll

Reassesses the role of the grapevine in employee communications. Arguesthat it has a role to play in socializing employees to a company,initiating behavioural change…

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Reassesses the role of the grapevine in employee communications. Argues that it has a role to play in socializing employees to a company, initiating behavioural change, disciplining employees and providing information. Discusses the implementation of the grapevine as a part of the employee communications mix, through management by walking about (MBWA) and electronic communications. Concludes that it can enhance corporate culture and increases allegiance to corporate goals.

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Management Decision, vol. 32 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00251749410065097
ISSN: 0025-1747

Keywords

  • Corporate culture
  • Discipline
  • Employee communications
  • Information
  • Management
  • Management by walking around
  • Organizational behaviour

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