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Organizational employee listening competency for participatory employee communication: Employee perspectives Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Minjeong Kang, Bitt Moon
This study proposes participatory employee communication as a conceptual framework for exploring and developing excellent organizational employee listening characteristics. Further, this study aims...
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To Leave or Stay During the COVID-19 Crisis: Exploring the Impacts of CSR Motives on Employee Distrust and Turnover Intentions Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Chuqing Dong, Yang Cheng, Yuan Wang, Olga Sazhina
In response to the increasing prominence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study investigates the interplay between employees’ perceived CSR motives, distr...
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Perceptions of Athlete Activism and Contentious Issues: Parasocial Relationships, Involvement, and Athlete-Cause Fit as Motivation for Cause Support Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Virginia S. Harrison, Holly Overton, Michail Vafeiadis
This study investigates the emerging context of athlete activism, social identity, and prosocial outcomes. While public relations have long held the belief in its role as a prosocial corporate cons...
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Employee Engagement with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethical Judgments and the Path to Positive Word-of-Mouth Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Keonyoung Park, Yang Cheng, Hua Jiang, Yunjuan Luo
The interplay between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employee commitment has been viewed positively. However, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted employees to question the value of their orga...
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Leading to Social Impact Communication: Understanding Corporate Social Advocacy (CSA) from Industry Professional Perspectives Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Hyejoon Rim, Katie Haejung Kim, Moonhee Cho, Maria De Moya
This study aims to understand how practitioners define and describe corporate engagement with social issues within the larger context of their organization’s social obligations. Semi-structured onl...
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Fostering Employee Support for Corporate Social Advocacy (CSA) Through Dialogic Internal Communication and Transformational Leadership Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Yeonsoo Kim, Shana Meganck
This study advocates an integrative, inside-out approach to Corporate Social Advocacy (CSA), emphasizing the development of robust internal support among employees. It identifies dialogic internal ...
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Unraveling the Dynamics of Employee Engagement: A Study of Employees’ Information-Sharing Networks and Voice Behavior within Organizations Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Katie Haejung Kim, Yan Qu, Adam Saffer
This study explores employee engagement by examining the complex relationship between information-sharing networks, employee voice behavior, and employee engagement. By focusing on the often-neglec...
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On the Tech Trek and Industrial Revolutions: Unravelling the Impact of Generative AI on Public Relations Praxis in Africa Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Noel Nutsugah, Bright Senanu
This study holds substantial significance as it represents a pioneering continent-wide empirical endeavor to comprehend the extent to which public relations (PR) professionals value and engage with...
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Editor’s Essay: Public Relations, the Public Good, and Prominent Pathways and Principles Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Nicholas Browning, Sung-Un Yang
Published in Journal of Public Relations Research (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2024)
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The Power of Internal Communication for Environmental Sustainability in Promoting Employee’s Pro-Environmental Behaviors Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Yeunjae Lee, Enzhu Dong, Ruoyu Sun
Using the situational theory of problem solving (STOPS) as a theoretical framework, this study examines how internal communication regarding environmental initiatives can promote pro-environmental ...
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Channeling Ethical Duty in Crises: Sustaining Employees’ Psychological Well-Being Through Mediated Communication Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Feifei Chen, Qiwei Luna Wu
This study examines how organizational leaders’ mediated crisis communication may fulfill their ethical duty of safeguarding employees from psychological harms inflicted by a crisis. Drawing upon t...
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Driving Climate Action via Government Public Relations: The Role of Government-Citizen Relationships and Situational Perceptions Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Myoung-Gi Chon, Angie Chung
The purpose of this study is to predict the active communication behaviors and their Behavioral Intentions to Support Federal Climate Policies from the view of government public relations. Using da...
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Strengthening Identity: The Impact of Upward Social Comparisons on the Leadership of Women CCOs Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Breann Murphy
Adopting social comparison theory (SCT), this study explores how upward social comparisons to equivalent or higher-ranked leaders influences the leadership styles of women Chief Communication Offic...
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The Past, Present, and Future of Internal Communication in Public Relations: A Computational Review of the Emerging Literature Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Cen April Yue, Alvin Zhou, Tyler G. Page, Jordan Morehouse, Luke W. Capizzo, Elizabeth L. Toth
Utilizing a full-text 15,926,460-word database of all peer-reviewed articles published in six public relations journals between 2012 and 2022 (N = 2,675), we employ a variety of computational metho...
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Mitigating Organizational Conspiracy Beliefs Through Strategic Internal Communication and Employee–Organization Relationships (EOR) in the Workplace Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Young Kim, Hyunji Dana Lim
The purpose of this study is to explore how strategic internal communication and the quality of employee – organization relationship (EOR) can reduce organizational conspiracy beliefs among employe...
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Editor’s Essay: Reflections, Resolutions, and Outlook for the New Year Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Sung-Un Yang
Published in Journal of Public Relations Research (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2024)
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Channeling Employees’ Positive Moral Emotions in CEO Activism: The Role of Care-Oriented Leadership Communication Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Yi Grace Ji, Weiting Tao
CEO activism has the potential to inspire employees’ activism and engender a broad societal impact. Yet, few studies have provided empirical evidence exploring the impact of CEO activism on employe...
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Navigating Artificial Intelligence, Public Relations and Race Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Nneka Logan, Damion Waymer
This article contributes to theory building in public relations by responding to calls for more public relations research on the social, cultural and ethical implications of AI as it explores the r...
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Maximizing the Public Relations Agency—Client Relationship in the Sports Industry Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Peter Keefe, Ian R. Hodgkinson
Despite the undoubted importance of Public Relations (PR) in the sport industry and the increasing reliance on external PR agencies, the study of the PR agency – client relationship within this con...
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Organizations with True Heart: The Role of Organizational Identity in Shaping Consumer Attributions of Corporate Responsibility to Race (CRR) Motives Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Jo-Yun Li, Yeunjae Lee, Weiting Tao, Dongqing Xu, Enzhu Dong
Guided by literature in the theory of corporate responsibility to race, organizational identity theory, and attribution theory, this study investigates the role of preexisting organizational identi...
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Visual Public Relations and User Fantasies on Facebook: The Case of an African Presidential Inauguration During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour, David Weiss, Timothy Kwakye Karikari
Responding to calls for more visual rhetorical studies in public relations, in this research, we extend Symbolic Convergence Theory to analyze the photographs posted on Facebook by the President of...
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Wrangling in the Marketplace or Bartering in the Bazaar? Adapting Metaphors for Public Relations’ Societal Role Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Sarah A. Aghazadeh, Luke Capizzo, Natalie T. J. Tindall
The marketplace of ideas metaphor has long influenced how scholars and practitioners understand public relations’ role in U.S. discourse and democratic society, yet it is rarely questioned. We argu...
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Resolved: Exploring the Role of Dialogic Engagement in Shareholder Activism for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Nur Uysal
As the drive for enhanced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) intensifies in the public sphere, shareholders are increasingly leveraging their influence and resources to proactively advance DEI ...
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Beyond Dyadic Organization–Public Relationships: Proposing the Devotional-Promotional Relational Engagement Model Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Jordan Morehouse
Relationships are complex, multifaceted, and complicated phenomena, both in practice and study. Additionally, while research regarding the ways in which religious organizations practice public rela...
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Public Relations Strategizing: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Doing of Strategy in Public Relations Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Rickard Andersson
Strategy is considered one of the most central concepts in public relations research and practice. However, public relations strategizing, i.e., the doing of strategy, remains a black-box concept i...
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How Perceptions of Dialogic Communication and Authenticity of CSR Communication Lead to Trust and Brand Loyalty Through Online Brand Community Engagement Intention Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Joon Soo Lim, Hua Jiang
This study investigates the relationship between the perceived quality of dialogic CSR communication and perceived trust and brand loyalty. It explores the potential mediation of online brand commu...
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Moral Orientations and Traits of Public Relations Exemplars Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Patrick Lee Plaisance, Marlene Neill, Jin Chen
This moral psychology study surveys the College of Fellows of the Public Relations Society of America to examine morally relevant features and motivations. Using the Moral Foundations Theory assess...
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Charting Theoretical Directions for DEI in Public Relations Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Dean Mundy, Nilanjana Bardhan
Published in Journal of Public Relations Research (Vol. 35, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Branding Neurodiversity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Communicative Capitalism and Change Empowerment Among Neurodiversity Workforce Intermediaries Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Scott E. Branton, Astrid M. Villamil, Joel Lansing Reed
This study explores the critical nexus of communicative capitalism, neurodiverse employment, and DEI in public relations research. Through a critical discourse analysis of the owned and shared medi...
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Combating Race-Related Hate Speech: The Role of Symmetrical Communication in Addressing Racism through Perceptual and Behavioral Outcomes Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Lan Ni, Yan Huang, Weidong Shi
This project examined the role of the symmetrical communication dimension in mitigating race-related hate speech. Integrating research in race, racism, DEI, symmetrical communication, cultural comp...
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How Emotions Can Enhance Crisis Communication: Theorizing Around Moral Outrage Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 W. Timothy Coombs, Elina R. Tachkova
Research and practice have noted the existence of what have been termed sticky crises. Sticky crises are extraordinary because they create uniquely challenging situations for crisis managers (Reber...
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Roles of Crisis Memory Narratives in Public Health Crisis Responses: An Experimental Study Based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Xing Zhang
When a new crisis occurs, narratives surrounding past crises are often intensively created and shared on social media, which together form a kind of crisis memory in current crisis communication an...
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Automated Linguistic and Visual Content Analysis of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Perspectives in Advertising and Public Relations Program Websites Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Vaibhav Shwetangbhai Diwanji, Yvonnes Chen, Joseph Erba
Guided by culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP), this study used automated linguistic and AI-enabled visual analyses to examine representations of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in text and ...
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Social Identity Signaling in Public Relations: Job Pursuit Intention among Students With Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Identities and Queer Identities Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Solyee Kim
This study is one of the first research investigations that examined the effectiveness of DEI cues on a fictitious public relations agency’s website in attracting early-career practitioners with ma...
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Hot Issue Publics in the New Media Age: An Analysis of the Charlotte Protest Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Tiffany D. Gallicano, Ryan Wesslen, Jean-Claude Thill, Zhuo Cheng, Samira Shaikh
People who suddenly take interest in a social movement because it is in the media spotlight are members of the hot issue public, whereas the enduring public has an ongoing interest in the issue aft...
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Issues, Publics, Organizations, and Personal Networks: Toward an Integrated Issue Engagement Model Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Yan Qu, Adam J. Saffer
ABSTRACT This study examines publics’ issue engagement to extend theory building about publics regarding their sociological dynamics. Integrating the situational theories, the framework of engagement, organization–public relationships, and personal networks, this study constructs an issue engagement model consisting of cognitive and affective issue engagement, issue engagement with organizations, and
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Leading the Charge: Female Leaders Advance DEI Initiatives through Employee Empowerment Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Kati Tusinski Berg, Katharine E. Miller
Today the public relations industry faces the challenge of championing and executing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Women leaders in public relations are well situated to do this w...
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Engaging Employees Via an Inclusive Climate: The Role of Organizational Diversity Communication and Cultural Intelligence Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Linjuan Rita Men, Yufan Sunny Qin, Renee Mitson, Patrick Thelen
This study aims to advance research on internal communication and employee engagement by exploring the role of diversity communication. Specifically, this study tested a conceptual model that links...
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Refined by Fire: Examining Acculturation, Resilience, and Crucible Experiences of U.S. Latinas in Public Relations Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Rosalynn A. Vasquez, Marlene S. Neill
The purpose of this study is to examine how crucible experiences (i.e. transformative life experiences) influence the leadership development of U.S. Latinas in public relations. Through 24 in-depth...
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Hospitals with a Tarnished Reputation: Stealing Thunder, Concealment Intention, and Learning from an Organizational and Industrial History of Crisis Concealment Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Hui-Chung Yao, I-Ling Ling, Chihyi Liu, Jun-Fang Liao
This study investigates how disclosure type and disclosure time have impacts on organizational reputation when medical negligence occurs and whether the mechanism of concealment intention and offen...
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“We Care About How You Dialogue With Your Employees:” The Effects of Bottom-Up CSR Through the Lens of Dialogic Communication Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Katie Haejung Kim, Hao Xu, Hyejoon Rim
The current study examines the effects of a bottom-up CSR approach, as compared to a top-down CSR approach, on consumer publics’ evaluation of CSR practices. By applying dialogic communication as a...
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Power Imbalances and Contested Notions of the Nation: Latin American Nation Branding Through the Lens of the Cultural-Economic Model of Public Relations Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Pablo Miño
Public relations scholars have advocated for a functionalist outlook on nation branding, focused on the effectiveness of campaigns that promote diverse national identities and cultures abroad. Howe...
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Ventriloquizing Institutional Ethos: Social Issues Management, Internal Public Relations, and the Institutionalization of Neoliberalism and Whiteness in U.S. Universities’ Diversity Discourse Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Drew T. Ashby-King, Lindsey B. Anderson
The way organizations communicate about socio-political issues, such as racism and diversity, has become increasingly visible following the racial reckoning of 2020. This study examines the diversi...
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Protecting Against Disinformation: Using Inoculation to Cultivate Reactance Towards Astroturf Attacks Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Courtney D. Boman
ABSTRACT The theoretically-driven inoculation strategy has increasingly become used to counter disinformation regarding pivotal societal issues such as COVID-19 and climate change. The current study examines its ability to cultivate psychological reactance toward unethical public relations attacks called astroturf, ultimately making the disinformation less persuasive. To do so, a between-subjects online
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Why Relationships Fail: Donor Insights on Defining and Understanding Successes and Failures in Nonprofit Stewardship Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Virginia S. Harrison
ABSTRACT Stewardship in public relations is how nonprofits deepen relationships with donors over time. However, reality has demonstrated many instances where organization-donor relationships still fail despite communication. This study takes a unique look at the practice of stewardship in public relations by examining why some donor-nonprofit relationships are unsuccessful. Drawing upon theories of
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Researcher Responsibility to Diversity and Inclusion in Public Relations and Social Scientific Research: A Call for More Inclusive Research and Researcher Participation Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Damion Waymer, Kenon A. Brown, Joshua Jackson
Public relations researchers make inferential claims about populations based on analysis and evaluation of data they have collected from smaller samples of people. A question that has been raised i...
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A Test of a Dual Model of Positive and Negative EORs: Dialogic Employee Communication Perceptions Related to Employee-Organization Relationships and Employee Megaphoning Intentions1 Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Minjeong Kang, Ejae Lee, Young Kim, Sung-Un Yang
ABSTRACT This study investigated how employees’ perceptions of an organization’s dialogic employee communication influence their evaluations of their positive and negative relationships with the organization. The study further examined how employees’ relationship assessments could drive their intentions for positive and negative megaphoning about their organizations. To test the differentiating effects
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Exploring Public Relations Research Topics and Inter-Cluster Dynamics Through Computational Modeling (2010-2020): A Study Based on Two SSCI Journals Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Alvin Zhou, Luke W. Capizzo, Tyler G. Page, Elizabeth L. Toth
ABSTRACT This project addresses the evolution of public relations research over the past decade by examining its two SSCI-indexed journals with methods that can reveal the influence of multiple categories of research clusters. Modeling the full text of all 1,293 published articles in Public Relations Review (PRR) and the Journal of Public Relations Research (JPRR) from 2010 to 2020 (7,400,685 words)
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How Does Internal Brand Communication Affect Organizational Outcomes? The Mediating Roles of Brand Identification and Employee Behaviors Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Sojeong Kim, Jarim Kim
ABSTRACT Using a survey of 400 full-time employees in Korea, this study investigates the underlying processes through which internal brand communication influences organizational outcomes. Specifically, the study examines how internal brand communication influences turnover intentions through brand identification and employees’ in-role and innovative behaviors. The analysis showed that internal brand
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Investigating Stakeholders’ Reactions to Crises in the Nonprofit Sector Through the Lens of Social Identity Theory Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Liang Ma
ABSTRACT Social identity theory (SIT) suggests that organizations fulfill stakeholders’ psychological needs by meeting their self-definitional needs. Different crises may undermine such psychological fulfillment to varying degrees and lead stakeholders to react differently to the crises. This study examined the intersection of SIT and crisis communication in the context of social-cause-related nonprofit
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Fostering Organization-Public Relationships Through Openness and Engagement: A Meta-Analysis Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Mengqi Monica Zhan, Xinyan Zhao
ABSTRACT The accumulating literature regarding antecedents of organization-public relationships (OPRs) has been mixed. This study employed a meta-analytic method to synthesize the roles of organizational openness and publics’ engagement behaviors quantitatively and systematically in studies of OPRs. The results showed that the corrected mean correlations ( ρ‾) between organizational openness and OPRs
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The Concentric Firestorm: A Qualitative Study of Black Lives Matter Activism and the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Tiffany D. Gallicano, Olivia Lawless, Abagail M. Higgins, Samira Shaikh, Sara Levens
ABSTRACT The combination of a global pandemic and an ignited social justice movement created a digital environment in which people turned to social media to navigate a concentric firestorm fueled by both the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic. Through interviews with 25 supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, we used the circuit of culture to build theory about the production
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The Role of Base Crisis Response and Dialogic Competency: Employee Response to COVID-19 Internal Crisis Communication Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Yeonsoo Kim, Iccha Basnyat, Shana Meganck
ABSTRACT Informed by crisis communication literature and dialogic communication theory, this study proposed an internal crisis communication model for the COVID-19 pandemic, considering base crisis responses (i.e., instructing information, adjusting information) and dialogic competency (i.e., mutuality, openness) as key variables. Trust in organizational commitment related to the COVID-19 pandemic
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A Cultural Approach to Understanding Publics and their Information Behaviors during COVID-19: Self-Construal and Identity Salience Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Lan Ni, Hongmei Shen
ABSTRACT Integrating the situational and cross-situational approaches to understanding publics, this study examined cultural antecedents (self-construal and political identity salience) to situational perceptions (problem recognition, involvement recognition, constraint recognition), situational motivation, and key information behavior regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Results from an online survey
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How Dialogic Vaccine Communication in the Workplace Facilitates Employee Advocacy for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Weiting Tao, Yeunjae Lee, Jo-Yun Li, Mu He
ABSTRACT Encouraging employees’ vaccine uptake and motivating their vaccine advocacy are crucial steps to secure workplace health and safety during the current pandemic. Yet, how to achieve those steps remains challenging. To address this challenge, this study examines whether and how companies’ vaccine communication efforts with employees, particularly dialogic communication, can motivate employees’
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Extending civic values in architectures of listening: Arendt, Mouffe and the pluralistic imperative for organizational listening Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Luke Capizzo, Meredith Feinman
ABSTRACT This conceptual paper introduces the concept of civic listening to augment organizational listening theory and practice. Drawing from critical theorists Arendt and Mouffe, it centers pluralism, agonism, deliberation, and reflection as central to listening and delineates the functions and values of civic listening to add to existing architectures. In doing so it provides additional guidance
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Advocacy and marginality: Considering legitimacy, authenticity, and culture to extend fully functioning society theory Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Sarah A. Aghazadeh
ABSTRACT Public relations (PR) scholars have highlighted the discipline’s responsibility to advocate for marginalized groups against the backdrop of fully functioning society theory (FFST), which emphasizes how collectives, issues, and ideas undergo appraisal for collective decision-making. What is in need of scholarly inquiry is how marginalized groups struggle to assert the legitimacy and authenticity
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Editor’s essay: Reflecting on OPR research Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Nicholas Browning, Sung-Un Yang
Published in Journal of Public Relations Research (Vol. 34, No. 5, 2022)
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The effects of leadership in corporate social advocacy on positive employee outcomes Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Sung-Un Yang, Minjeong Kang, Young Kim, Ejae Lee
ABSTRACT Despite the growing attention to corporate social advocacy in the extant literature, little empirical research has examined the effects of corporate social advocacy in the context of employees. The purpose of this study was to delve into the impact of leadership in corporate social advocacy (CSA) on positive employee outcomes, using data from an online survey of full-time employees working
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Toward a caring government: Advancing ethical government public relations with a care-based relationship cultivation model Journal of Public Relations Research (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Chuqing Dong, Jordan Morehouse
ABSTRACT In this study, we explore the potential contribution of care ethics to government-public relationship (GPR) management. Drawing on the ethics of care and relationship management theory, this study examined government communicators’ conceptualizations of care and care-based relationship cultivation strategies by interviewing 32 public relations practitioners working at county government agencies