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A Look At Academic Research on Crisis Communication From #AEJMC14

Melissa Agnes

There were also a lot of papers and studies on the use of social media for general communications and customer/stakeholder engagement, and my interviewees varied. For example, a team of graduates conducted a research study on Fortune companies and their application of CSR (corporate social responsibility) on Facebook.

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How to Talk to a Grieving Customer

Harvard Business

And so in corporate responses to death, poor service is the norm, not the exception. And ineffective and insensitive responses from customer service reps don’t just affect those making the calls. Map out all the possible circumstances that could precede such a request and come up with different response paths.

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The Fastest-Growing Cause for Shareholders Is Sustainability

Harvard Business

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. Rather, it reflects the pro-social objectives of a large number of sponsors of such proposals. SASB uses the U.S.

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Tecchies vs Business minds - managing people in different departments

freshminds

Working as an in-house consultant within a corporate industry rather than in a consulting firm may mean that your day to day dealings will be working with technology focused people with a different skill set to yours who are developing the new strategic areas that need to be explored. How much do you need to know? Word will soon get around.

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History of Organization Development (Part 1 of 6) ? ?Prehistoric OD.

Consulting and Organizational Management

You may know some of the people on whose shoulders you are standing, certainly you have read the works of earlier ‘elders’ who have shaped your work, but many of those who developed ways to improve their social systems are lost in the mists of time. New roles and new forms of organization had to be invented. He thinks some more. Consulting.

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The Science of Burnout: Interview with Dr. Sangeeta Pati

Consulting Matters

So it sounds like what you do with your clients or what I do with my clients and organizations; but that's a different subject for a different day. So I’m dying to hear how this relates to the experience of burnout, which is the topic for today. This concept of multi-tasking is considered to be socially a skill.

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The 3 Preconditions for an Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business

Drucker was pushing us to think and act less like employees taking orders and more like free agents, alert and responsive to opportunities whether we work in a startup or in a large corporation. New technologies and economic and social changes have opened up vast new opportunity areas. There is a common theme here.