Ethics, Agency, and Non-Human Agency in the Study of the Communicative Constitution of Organizations

2018 ◽  
pp. 255-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Meisenbach
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Organizational Ethics ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Organizational Rhetoric ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
Communicative Constitution Of Organizations ◽  
Communicative Constitution ◽  
Corporate Social

This chapter interrogates how recent CCO (communication constitutes organizing) theorizing impacts the study of organizational ethics. Beginning with existing approaches, the chapter addresses how the complexity of analyzing choice and agency (typically tied to ethics) at an organizational level helps explain the relative lack of organizational ethics research. Ethics research in areas connected to organizational communication (public relations, crisis communication, corporate social responsibility, and organizational rhetoric) are also specifically examined. Next, the chapter considers the two distinct definitions of agency, from to the Montreal School's CCO approach and the Four Flows approach respectively, delves into a theoretical discussion of each definition's implications, and concludes that the Montreal School's CCO approach is more suited to investigating and questioning organizational ethics. The chapter concludes by noting paths for organizational research on ethics and responsibility, including challenging assumptions that moral thinking prioritizes rational choice.

Conclusions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Moore
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Organizational Ethics ◽  
Stakeholder Approach ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Do So

The purpose of the concluding chapter is to review and draw some conclusions from all that has been covered in previous chapters. To do so, it first summarizes the MacIntyrean virtue ethics approach, particularly at the individual level. It then reconsiders the organizational and managerial implications, drawing out some of the themes which have emerged from the various studies which have been explored particularly in Chapters 8 and 9. In doing so, the chapter considers a question which has been implicit in the discussions to this point: how feasible is all of this, particularly for organizations? In the light of that, it revisits the earlier critique of current approaches to organizational ethics (Corporate Social Responsibility and the stakeholder approach), before concluding.

Concluding Thoughts and Challenges

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Palenchar
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Issues Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organizational Rhetoric ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Socially Relevant

This special issue of Management Communication Quarterly mines the rhetorical heritage to explore the challenges facing those who engage in and critique external organizational rhetoric, setting its sights on helping organizations make society a better place to live. Toward this end, rhetoric focuses on strategic communication influences that at their best result from or foster collaborative decisions and cocreated meaning that align stakeholder interests. This special issue demonstrates the eclectic and complex theories, applied contexts, and ongoing arguments needed to weave the fabric of external organizational communication. Over the years, Robert Heath and others have been advocates for drawing judiciously on the rhetorical heritage as guiding foundation for issues management and public relations activities. Rather than merely acknowledge the pragmatic or utilitarian role of discourse, this analysis also aspires to understand and champion its application to socially relevant ends. In that quest, several themes stand out: (a) In theory and practice external organizational rhetoric weighs self-interest against others’ enlightened interests and choices; (b) organizations as modern rhetors engage in discourse that is context relevant and judged by the quality of engagement and the ends achieved thereby; and (c) in theory and practice external organizational rhetoric weighs relationship between language that is never neutral and the power advanced for narrow or shared interests.

Assessment of Ibn Haldun's Model for Sustainability using Structural Equation Modelling

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Sümeyye Kuşakcı ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modelling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

This work firstly aims to develop a sustainability model based on Ibn Haldun’s teaching of sustainability. Religious coloring refers to the spirituality, which is re-discovered in modern ages and transferred to the workplace. Spirituality stimulates virtuousness at personal and organizational level, which in turn generates managerial sustainability meaning the lifespan of a company. While personal virtuousness refers social ethics, organizational level virtuousness could be considered as Corporate Social Responsibility. Secondly, it attempts to evaluate the relevance of Ibn Haldun’s approach to contemporary business organizations. In order to demonstrate the relationship between spirituality, virtuousness, CSR, and sustainability; data collected from Corporate Knights’ Global 100 companies were analyzed using structural equation modelling. According to the results, while workplace spirituality leads to ethical conduct and higher CSR/CS score, the relationship between spirituality or CSR/CS and financial performance is not significant. However, it seems that higher lifespan of business enterprises is related to their CSR/CS score.

scholarly journals Aktivitas Public Relations dalam Mengelola Citra di Industri Financial Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-300
Author(s):  
Kevin Zaprilan Lovis
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
Customer Relations ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Financial Technology

Citra perusahaan yang baik di mata publik menjadi salah satu faktor yang harus diperhatikan di tengah persaingan bisnis saat ini. Bagi perusahaan fintech lending yang bergerak pada layanan keuangan dan beroperasional secara online, trust dan citra positif dari pengguna atau calon pengguna menjadi hal yang penting. Membangun trust dan citra positif merupakan fungsi dari public relations dalam sebuah perusahaan. Melalui penelitian ini akan dilihat bagaimana praktisi public relations Investree menjalankan aktivitas PR dalam rangka mengelola citra perusahaan. Penelitian ini menggunakan paradigma interpretif dan pendekatan kualitatif, dengan wawancara sebagai metode utama dalam pengumpulan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa posisi PR di Investree sudah dijalankan secara strategis dengan aktivitas PR yang paling dominan dilakukan adalah media relations, customer relations, dan content and brand management. Akan tetapi, aktivitas lainnya seperti community relations, government relations, corporate social responsibility dan lain sebagainya juga dilakukan oleh tim lainnya dalam departemen Marketing & Communications. Selanjutnya, semua tools PR juga telah dimanfaatkan oleh tim PR Investree, mulai dari controlled PR, uncontrolled PR, dan juga semi-controlled PR, termasuk salah satunya adalah media sosial dalam mengelola citra positif di mata publik. Kata Kunci: Citra, Public Relations, Fintech Lending, Media Relations, PR Tools

scholarly journals Tools to Create Appropriate Perception of CSR and PR Practitioners Support

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Oleh Hlushko
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Corporate Social

The article aggregates a variety of tools aimed to boost awareness and understanding of social responsibility among different groups of shareholders. At the same time the re-search shows a list of tools applicable for public relations (PR) practitioners (not only) to disseminate and promote corporate social responsibility (CSR). This paper emphasizes two groups of tools as qualitative and quantitative. All the tools were analyzed according to the scope of needed activities and interpreted in terms of applicability to the CSR goals.

scholarly journals Predicting innovative work behaviors through transformational leadership

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Bruce Gashema
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Innovation Behavior

To stay competitive and viable in today's rapidly evolving and highly hostile market climate, companies need to concentrate more on innovation. In this regard, the specific quality of transformational leadership has been strongly linked to organizational innovativeness. However, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and the innovation behavior of employees. The literature review developed in the current study is fundamentally centered on how transformational leaders value innovation by facilitating organizational learning to foster innovative behavior among employees. Corporate social responsibilities as an organizational level factor that can drive employee attitudes were also examined as a moderating effect in this relationship. The rationale of the relationship of the variables is supported by both transformational leadership theory (TFL) and social exchange theory (SET). Data were collected from corporate social responsibility engaged SMEs operating in Rwanda. Using Cranach’s alpha reliability and validity were tested while structural equation modeling (SEM) was used in analyzing data. The findings of this study intend to fill some gaps in the current literature such as the introduction of CSR in the relationship between top managerial level leadership, organizational learning, and innovation behavior of employees, also introducing SET to explain such important relationship

scholarly journals Literature Review of Management System Frameworks for CSR and Other Sustainability Concepts

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Pek Yew Liew ◽  
Christoph Luetge
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Management System ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Iso 26000 ◽  
Management Standard ◽  
Corporate Social

This paper presents an overview and analysis of plan-do-check-act (PDCA) based management system frameworks and other similar structured frameworks that were developed for the systematic implementation and management of corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate sustainability (CS) and sustainable development (SD). With the aim of providing a comprehensive insight to support future research on this topic, this paper focuses on uncovering the different systematic approaches that can be adopted for the implementation and management of these stakeholder concepts at the organizational level. Our extensive literature search for articles that were published between 2000 to 2017 was able to identify only nineteen relevant articles, which indicates that there is very limited research in this field of work. Our analysis of the frameworks revealed that diverse approaches were developed for CSR. Apart from the traditional management system approach that are based on ISO 9001 (quality management standard) or ISO 14001 (environmental management standard), a variety of other approaches such as frameworks that are built on ISO 26000 (social responsibility guidance standard), organizational change management theories as well as other concepts that are similar to the PDCA cycle were developed for CSR. In contrast to the approaches for CSR, the frameworks that were developed for the implementation and management of CS or SD are mainly based on ISO 14001.

Using Corporate Social Responsibility as a Public Relations Tool in Reputation Management

2017 ◽  
pp. 168-186
Author(s):  
Vera Harludi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Reputation ◽  
Corporate Social Performance ◽  
Corporate Citizenship ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
Corporate Social

This chapter delves into the subject of corporate social responsibility, its relations, and how it affects corporate reputation. The literature review presents a brief history of CSR and sheds light into the role of business ethics, corporate governance, corporate citizenship, and corporate social performance with a specific focus on companies' approaches towards CSR; motivations for company to invest in CSR; and corporate reputation. While the literature review will wrap up with arguments for and against CSR, this chapter will provide a brief outlook on CSR practices in Turkey.

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