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Misinformation and morality with Dr Daniel Effron
05 February 2020Dr Daniel Effron, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, shares his views about how encountering fake news headlines make them less unethical to share.
socio political environment
leadership communications
community relations
Corporate Public Affairs Predictions for 2020
The Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns lists his top five public affairs predictions for 2020.
socio political environment
leadership communications
BHP boss Andrew Mackenzie most outspoken CEO on social issues, analysis finds
Dominic Powell, The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday October 21, 2019, 11 October 2019BHP CEO Andrew Mackenzie’s stance on climate change makes him the most vocal corporate leader in Australia, according to media researcher Streem. The research – tracked from October 2018 to September 2019 – has Mr Mackenzie as the most quoted CEO in the media with 156 mentions with 112 of these relating to climate change. Some of the issues...
leadership communications
advocacy
reputation
Technostress and Commitment to Change: The Moderating Role of Internal Communication
–, International Journal of Public Administration, 09 October 2019This study assesses the moderating role of internal communication in the technostress and commitment to change relationship. Internal communication was found to moderate the relationship between techno-uncertainty and commitment to change.
leadership communications
executive education
advocacy
Why you should write down your company’s unwritten rules
Karen Niovitch Davis, Harvard Business Review, Tuesday 8th October 2019, 05 October 2019Unwritten rules are ingrained in the corporate world, but if they’re not regularly revisited to ensure continuing alignment with the organisation’s goals, they can turn from a positive force to a destructive one. Elon Musk for years inspired his employees and shareholders with his charisma and bold vision in his quest for dominance with Tesla...
adaptive leadership
leadership communications
Thomas Cook CEO ‘told staff to ignore media noise’ before its collapse
Tom Belger, Yahoo Finance UK, Wednesday 27th September, 2019, 27 September 2019In a memo sent to employees of Thomas Cook shortly before its collapse, CEO Peter Fankhauser urged staff to ignore the “noise” of media speculation over the fate of the collapsed company. The memo sent by the CEO told the company’s cabin crew the deal to save the company would be a “complete game changer” and it advised them to “stay calm”...
leadership communications
Quick Comment: Walmart’s CEO enters the gun debate in the United States
The Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns talks about the decision by the CEO of Walmart to enter the contentious gun debate in the United States and what signal this sends to the rest of the community.
socio political environment
leadership communications
advocacy
Why CEOs Surround M&A Announcements with Unrelated Good News
Harvard Business Review, Friday 30th August, 2019, 30 August 2019 Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are often received negatively by the market. It’s for this reason that CEOs communicate differently to manage the impressions of the firm and its strategy after the decision is made. In new research, HBR examined ‘impression offsetting’, an impression management tactic in which firms publish unrelated positive news...
leadership communications
Big new things in internal communications
22 August 2019Tarnya Dunning, General Manager of Employee Communications at Telstra, and Alistair Marshall, Head of Internal Communications at Coles, share insights to the benefits of having a best practice employee communications strategy for corporations.
leadership communications
adaptive leadership
corporate responsibility
Google's new community guidelines tell employees not to talk politics on internal forums or bad mouth projects without 'good information'
Nick Bastone, Business Insider, Friday August 23rd, 2019, 05 August 2019 Google outlined its latest set of community guidelines to employees last week, restricting conversations to focus only on ‘fact-based’ and ‘work-related’ matters. The move could be seen as an attempt by Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai to restore order to internal message boards which have created divisions among employees. The memo went on to state...
issues management
leadership communications