When you're in PR, it's easy to get lost in the day-to-day dramas, crises and opportunities, and to lose sight of big picture. The name for that big picture is "reputation management." Essentially, reputation management is everything you do over the long-term to protect, enhance and burnish...
In the real world, managing your reputation should be paramount. Showing up on time, being helpful to colleagues, and taking the occasional shower increase the reputation points you can leverage in any number of ways, including career advancement. Many of us spend a lot of time, if...
Worried about your company getting flogged in the blogosphere? Hey, it happens -- look no further than consumer-watchdog site The Consumerist for some chilling examples of companies taking a serious reputation-beating. Marketing guru and book author Andy Beal offers 10 tactics for saving and improving and your company's online reputation. For...
When companies experience a major problem that threatens their business, they need to react quickly and effectively to protect their reputations. Providing clear information to customers and the media can build support and help the company to recover quickly. An important part of the process is having a crisis management...
Your businesses reputation is the most potent aspect regarding the long term success of the entirety of your business efforts. You reform your reputation each day with everyone your business interacts with. However, you have not one business reputation, but many reputations which are created in the minds of people...
Reputation has been long researched but there is still no one clear way to illustrate what reputation really is. This paper examines reputation from strategic group direction. The research of strategic groups was begun by Michael Porter when he was studying industry structures. A great deal of studies have introduced...
This white paper offers utility companies a practical plan for responding to fraud, reputation and misconduct risk. It includes common fraud schemes for utility companies to focus on when designing and implementing their Sarbanes anti-fraud programs and controls. It focuses on a five-step Anti-fraud implementation plan and the importance of...
From the executive summary: ‘The quality of a company's products and services is certainly important; so are social responsibility and philanthropy. But, there are so many elements to reputation: leadership and vision, the workplace environment, and financial performance, too. The core of a good reputation, perhaps, is emotional appeal: the...
Why does reputation influence financial health? Firstly, it has the power to create value for a company. The benefits of a strong reputation include the ability to attract customers, employees and investment, to motivate employees and suppliers, and to differentiate the company from its competitors. A strong reputation also helps...
It has been recognized that a company's financial health is dependent on much more than the assets on its balance sheet and the movements on its profit and loss account. Intangible assets, such as a company's reputation and employees, are critical to a company's worth, yet there is no legal...
From the executive summary: ‘The ultimate recruiting strategy is to build a reputation as a great place to work. This reputation can act like a magnet to draw people to almost any area, because the company is so widely respected. The principle works for companies in hard-to-recruit regions just as...
Organizations increasingly recognize the importance of corporate reputation to achieve business goals and stay competitive. In recent years, companies as large and prominent learned hard lessons about how quickly a damaged reputation can harm employee and customer loyalty, threatening a company's financial well being and even its viability. Public confidence...
The article analyzes the relationship between several HR reputation signals (such as being named, “a best company for women”) and corporate performance operationalized as a change in share price. To do this, it estimates the changes in companies’ market values that are attributable to public announcements pertaining to their HR...
Today’s companies are not being judged on financial performance alone. Organizations are also being judged on intangible factors that make up a corporate reputation, such as credibility; a focus on serving customers; high-quality products and/or services; and the ability to attract, develop and retain talent. It is estimated that the...
Corporate reputation is a 'Soft' concept. It is the overall estimation in which an organization is held by its internal and external stakeholders based on its past actions and probability of its future behavior. The organization may have a slightly different reputation with each stakeholder according to their experiences in...
John Orr Crites, one of the leading vocational psychologists of the 20th century, succumbed to pneumonia on March 15, 2007. With his passing, counsel ling psychology lost an exemplar of its scientist-practitioner model. Jack's scholarly contributions and leadership substantially advanced vocational psychology both as a distinct discipline...
It's official--Lee Priest is back in the IFBB. The controversial and opinionated Priest had been suspended by the IFBB since 2006, after choosing to compete in another organization, the now defunct Pro Division Inc. Priest had since applied for reinstatement, and IFBB officials had planned to put that request up...
US celebrities are being actively courted by medialawyers to take advantage of Britain's tougher libel laws and bring their cases to London. By Robert Verkaik Legal forum It is often said that tales of adultery and spiteful tittle- tattle are the price of celebrity in the...
You could say, once again, that it was a night when the world stood still - all of it, that is, except for Usain Bolt. Also, it was when the last doubt was removed that whenever anyone thinks of Beijing and the year 2008 it will not...
PROM 34: BBC PHILHARMONIC / NOSEDA Royal Albert Hall LONDON *** High drama at Kensington Gore: Rachmaninov's once-despised First Symphony and Puccini's other "shabby little shocker" Il tabarro, united by the misconception that their sensational reputation belies untold subtlety. Gianandrea Noseda was out to make amends....
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