...Marlene S. Neill; Youngji Seo Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the state of ethics training in US communication firms. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was conducted with 257 US employees working for communication firms to assess the effectiveness of their ethics...

... and social media. Strategic uses such as analytics and crisis communication are limited. Skills were rated low, with most learning acquired informally. Key challenges included a lack of training, awareness, and ethical concerns. Research limitations/implications The findings are context-specific to Ghana...

...Tugce Ertem-Eray; Eyun-Jung Ki Purpose Public relations practitioners serve as ethical advisors, guiding organizations through digital challenges such as disinformation and transparency issues. Despite the profession's history of credibility issues, digital transformation has introduced new moral...

... the expectations of effective public relations leadership, especially the gap between ethical and diversity ideals and their application in practice. Participants viewed emerging leaders as positioned at the intersection of societal transformation and industry restructuring, seeking identity and value expression...

... ethical norms. This study argues that the concept of moral entrepreneurship provides organizations with a potentially valuable framework to actively recognize societal pressures and problems and act accordingly to better the environment in which the organization resides and operates. Design/methodology...

... a dinner at his home: Bernays Goebbels Nazis Persuasion Propaganda Misinformation Fake news Ethics In his allegorical novel, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, published in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: I learned to recognise the primitive duality of man...

...Anthony L. Fulmore; Julia A. Fulmore; Enoch K. Asare Purpose The theory of planned behavior was used as a guiding framework to explore how undergraduate business students, employed full-time, perceived the influence of their first class in business ethics on ethical awareness and ethical behavior...

...Juan Meng; Solyee Kim; Bryan Reber Purpose This study is motivated to investigate the ethical challenges facing public relations professionals in today's digital communication environment. Specifically, the authors focused the research on the new ethical challenges in digital practice...

...Tae Ho Lee Purpose This study analyzed the explicitness, the salience of ethics and the transparency of messages in firms' social reports based on their significance to strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on institutional theory...

... standards, including ethical, as indicated by their levels of membership and commitment to ongoing professional development. These challenges remain. Research limitations/implications Diversity, social acceptance, qualifications and professional progress provide an important, ongoing research agenda...

... vein, the very social media that have provided trained PR professionals with platforms to carry out highly effective two-way communication practices have simultaneously turned millions in society into an army of “citizen journalists” with limited or no training, or commitment to ethical principles...

...Chiara Valentini; Dean Kruckeberg Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the corporate behavior of Volkswagen in its emissions scandal. It describes and analyzes a complex ethics dilemma within the purview of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability (CS...

... that ties in ethical considerations of access, equality, and transparency at four stages of video surveillance use in organizations: deployment of cameras and equipment, capturing footage, processing and storing data, and editing and sharing video footage. At each stage, organizational actors should clearly...

...@iulm.it Chapter 2, by the editors, focuses on the importance of ethics in communication, which concerns every type of organization and deals with transparency and truthfulness. Corporate communication departments are more and more seen as the conscience of organizations and play a crucial role...

...Mahim Sagar; Rishabh Khandelwal; Amit Mittal; Deepali Singh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Ethical Positioning Index (EPI), an innovative ranking scale based on the ethical issues in brand positioning. This paper is based on the core idea that ethics can be used as a product...

... in 2006. The rhetorical model of apologizing and apologetic ethics proposed by Hearit is applied and tested in the study with the aim of expanding his theory. Design/methodology/approach The research design is qualitative and based on a case study methodology combining rhetorical criticism and ethics...

... and implementing a CP plan. Corporate social responsibility Philanthropy Ethics Strategic planning A recent editorial of The Economist (2005) brought up once again the issue of the legitimacy of corporate philanthropy (CP hereafter). Part of this paper argued that philanthropy...

...Patricia J. Parsons Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ethics of a specific communication strategy to support the contention that ethics needs to be an integrated operational consideration in the corporate communication planning process rather than an afterthought. Design...

...Ying Fan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of ethical branding and its link to corporate reputation. Brands have traditionally been studied only as an economic construct. Brands, as a social construct, have not yet been fully understood due to the lack of research...

...Deloris McGee Wanguri Applying Sekhar’s system of values that governs ethical choices in business, this study examines two sets of data. The first is Regulation S‐P, recently instituted by the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the use of confidential client information by providers...