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Crisis Communication Practices at an International Relief Agency

When a disaster strikes, the affected population relies upon the swift response and aid rendered by relief organizations such as the California-based Direct Relief International. Since 1948, Direct Relief's mission has been to provide essential material resources to locally run health programs in areas affected by natural disasters, wars, and...

Tags: Agency, Disaster, Crisis Communication, Corporate Communications, Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Benefits, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2006-09-01

When a Plant Closes: Using Crisis Communication to Save the Day

Arguably, few events in the life of a manufacturer are more potentially devastating to the culture, and the enterprise, than the need to close a plant. When an Aon Consulting client recently faced this scenario, a team of Aon communicators came to its aid. It advised leadership to take the...

Tags: Aon Consulting, Aon Corp., Crisis Communication, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Leadership, Workforce Management, Marketing, Management, Human Resources

White papers 2004-11-22

Audience-Oriented Approach to Crisis Communication: A Study of Hong Kong Consumers' Evaluation of an Organizational Crisis

This paper explains the responses of consumers to information about an organizational crisis. Three hundred and eighty-five individuals from Hong Kong responded to hypothetical scenarios describing a plane crash. The scenarios manipulated causal attribution internal and external, the organizations' crisis response (shifting the blame, minimization, no comment, apology, compensation, and...

Tags: Attribution, Crisis Communication, Corporate Communications, Benefits, Marketing, Human Resources

White papers 2004-10-01

Communications Manual for CASA/Gal Programs: Introduction to Crisis Communications

CASA/GAL programs and volunteers face crises every day. It's the nature of work. One is often involved in volatile situations involving families out of control. The volunteer program also makes vulnerable to other kinds of emergencies; ones we can't necessarily turn to traditional training to handle. They...

Tags: Crisis, Crisis Communication, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Marketing, Human Resources

White papers 2003-01-01

Crisis Communication Plan

The rapid release of accurate information regarding an accident, incident, natural disaster, emergency or controversial issue is clearly in the best interest of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The UAF Crisis Communication Plan CCP plan does not change the way emergencies are initially reported at UAF. All emergencies on the...

Tags: Policies And Procedures, Crisis Communication, Emergency, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources

White papers 2003-01-01

Crisis Communications

From the executive summary: ‘Some problems that law firms face regularly, especially in weak economic times, are so poorly managed that they do more damage than they should: layoffs, firings of partners, scandalous e-mails that become public, the departure of a high-profile lawyer or practice group, or a sexual harassment...

Tags: Law Firm, Crisis, Crisis Communication, Litigation, Harassment, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Marketing

White papers 2003-01-01

Lessons From A Crisis: How Communication Kept A Company Together

HR in any organization can learn from Corporation's cataclysmic September 11 experience. Evacuation drills and first-aid kits are not enough anymore. HR also has to prepare a crisis communication plan. Article explains that the devastation of September 11 reduced offices to wreckage; companies discovered that their online capabilities were remarkably...

Tags: Human Resources, Article, Crain Communications Inc., Crisis Communication, Corporate Communications, Marketing

White papers 2001-11-01

Crisis Communications: Some Tips for When It Is Your Turn at Bat

'Bad news on the doorstep' was the refrain from the popular song years ago. And it seems to be getting a lot of play in the business world these days. With situations ranging from sudden stock gyrations and layoffs, to labor disputes, key executive deaths or disabilities, fires or natural...

Tags: Crisis Communication, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources

White papers

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5W Public Relations Expands Fashion & Life Style Practice with Luxe Pioneers

NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- 5W Public Relations is excited to announce the addition of luxury clients Gracienne, Ovando, and Linda Loudermilk to its current client roster. 5WPR, named by Inc. Magazine as one the nation's fastest growing companies, has become known as one of...

Articles 2008-07-01

Danielson Designs Wins American Business Award for Best Corporate Social Responsibility Program

Annie and Mark Danielson started with a vision to revive their small-town's economy 16 years ago; today their vision extends across the world as they build their 10th water well in Africa TRINIDAD, Colo., June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Danielson Designs, a leading designer and...

Articles 2008-06-27

Experts Available to Discuss Help for Employees Facing Foreclosure

ExpertSource: TOPIC: As mortgage troubles continue, a few companies are stepping in to assist their employees who are facing foreclosure, according to an article by the Wall Street Journal. These companies are providing interest-free loans, grants, employee-assistance programs and educational seminars on personal finance. A...

Articles 2008-06-25

In an ABSOLUT World, Good Things Happen When the Lights Go Out

ABSOLUTR Turns Off the Lights in Vegas, as World's Most Iconic Vodka Kicks Off Series of 'Lights Out' Parties Across the Country in Celebration of ABSOLUT Global CoolingTM NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Sin City is about to go dark. In another bold...

Articles 2008-06-19

Airlines Will Speak Out at AVIATION WEEK's MRO Europe Conference & Exhibition, September 24-25, in Madrid

Iberia CEO Fernando Conte, TAP Portugal CEO Fernando Pinto, and other thought-leaders will discuss skilled worker shortage, emerging markets, and green maintenance NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 3,000 aviation industry professionals and executives will convene on September 24-25, 2008 during AVIATION...

Articles 2008-06-19

Secrets of their success: how the top women in finance staked their claims to the C-suite

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THINGS WERE GOING VERY WELL FOR CHRISTA DAVIES. She'd been recently promoted to a plum divisional-CFO post at Microsoft, charged with everything from integrating the company's largest-ever acquisition to helping it battle Google in the fast-growing search and online advertising markets....

Articles 2008-06-01

Scandal and canon law.(Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops' Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children)(Book review)

BEFORE DALLAS: THE U.S. BISHOPS' RESPONSE TO CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN by NICHOLAS P. CAFARDI Paulist, 255 pages, $27.95 IN A 1979...

Articles 2008-06-01

Philosophers

THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY IS NEEDED AS MUCH NOW IN THE CORPORATE WORLD AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF SOCRATES AND ARISTOTLE, MAYBE MORE SO What would Socrates make of a group of Dutch Tax Office executives taking part in an outdoor activity/philosophy program that...

Articles 2008-06-01

Managing the Data Loss Crisis

Any organization that believes it is immune to a serious data breach should review the statistics. So far, the damage to U.S. companies and consumers from data loss and theft in all its forms is equal to the GNP of an oil-rich Middle Eastern nation: $56.6 billion in 2005...

Articles 2008-06-01

CRISIS LEADERSHIP NOW: A REAL-WORLD GUIDE TO PREPARING FOR THREATS, DISASTER, SABOTAGE, AND SCANDAL

Shelf Life CRISIS LEADERSHIP NOW: A REAL-WORLD GUIDE TO PREPARING FOR THREATS, DISASTER, SABOTAGE, AND SCANDAL by Laurence barton, phd One of the world's leading experts in crisis management, Laurence Barton, begins Crisis Leadership Now with the nightmarish images of Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007....

Articles 2008-06-01

Q&A: Violent by Design

Randall Spivey Executive Director, Center for Personal Protection & Safety School and workplace shootings are becoming more frequent. According to Randall Spivey, creator of the Shots Fired: When Lightning Strikes training program, there are ways that both individuals and organizations can increase the chances for survival in...

Articles 2008-05-01

Ford lists 6 to succeed Mulally.(Ford Motor Co.)

Byline: Amy Wilson, Richard Truett New Ford Motor Co. marketing chief Jim Farley is on a short list to replace CEO Alan Mulally. Farley's management skills and his potential to be CEO made him the No. 1...

Articles 2008-03-24