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
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This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Summary Many new employees (newcomers) use social media to understand their organization and accelerate their integration into it. However, the effect of the intensity of social media usage on newcomer socialization—the process through which newcomers acquire the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes needed to … Continue reading Could Social Media Help in Newcomers’ Socialization? →
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Resource Center Summary This study aims to answer whether health-promoting leadership and leaders’ skills can improve followers’ job satisfaction and turnover intention. Health-promoting leadership behaviors refer to a mixture of leadership behaviors to promote a healthy workplace for employees. The authors examined the indirect effects of … Continue reading Health-Promoting Leadership and Leaders’ Listening Skills Have an Impact on the Employees’ Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention →
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Technological advancements continue to bring about remarkable transformations to our economy and the workforce. An important question many organizations face is: How can organizations effectively engage with the workforce in this drastically transformed world? We conducted an online survey of employees in the U.S. … Continue reading How to Cultivate and Retain Altruistic and Dedicated Employees? →
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Summary Ending employment, through termination, dismissal, disengagement, firing, or quitting is a natural part of the organizational experience. Whether initiated by the employer “moving in a different direction” or employees “pursuing other opportunities,” ending employment creates the potential for uncertainty for remaining employees in the organization. … Continue reading An Exploration of the Relationships Between Organizational Dissent, Employee Burnout, and Work-Family Balance →
This blog is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. When Dr. Shannon Bowen and I started conducting interviews in February of 2020 for a new study on organizational listening, we had no idea that the focus of our study would shift due to one of the biggest health crises of our lifetime. We halted data collection … Continue reading Five Lessons Regarding Organizational Listening & Empathy in Times of Global Pandemic →
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. Summary Exhausted employees who feel they lack work-life balance are both less likely to feel engaged, and less likely to express their voice at work. As a result, organizations miss out on key suggestions, ideas, questions, and concerns that are essential to alleviating job stress … Continue reading An Exploration of the Relationships Between Organizational Dissent, Employee Burnout, and Work-Family Balance →
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. Summary Workplace relationships have an immense impact on employees’ job satisfaction, cohesive climates, creativity, and innovation. This study focused on coworker relationships and why and how coworker relationships developed into workplace friendships. The authors argued that task interdependence is an important factor in driving … Continue reading With a Little Help From My Friends: Coworker Communication and Workplace Friendship →
This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. Summary Supervisors use a variety of communication strategies when talking to employees, which can influence employee workplace experience. Dominance is understood as a set of communicative acts in which power is exerted and influence exercised. Even though dominance has a negative connotation, it can … Continue reading The Expression of Supervisor Dominance and Employee Outcomes →
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 →
Summary The message is clear: people want to work for organizations where they feel they are engaged and learning. This is what inspired Paula Bernardino, MCM, SCMP, CSR-P, to pursue the study “Engaging Employees through Corporate Social Responsibility Programs: Aligning Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Engagement” and examine whether companies that engage in social and … Continue reading Engaging Employees through Corporate Social Responsibility Programs →
This blog is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. Globally, organizations struggle with bridging the reputation divide and trust deficit among employers and employees while striving to improve engagement. According to a brand credibility gap study, just 19% of employees feel aligned with their employer’s brand.1 Worldwide, the state of employee experience is … Continue reading Communications is a Team Sport: Involving Employees as Partners and Brand Advocates →