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Martina Topić-Rutherford, Michał Chmiel - Leadership and Workplace Culture in Public Relations Industries, Inbunden

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Leadership and Workplace Culture in Public Relations Industries

Av Martina Topić-Rutherford, Michał Chmiel

Del i serien Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research

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This edited volume brings together international scholars to examine how leadership, communication, and culture intersect to shape the modern PR workplace. Through a multidisciplinary lens, the book explores critical issues of well-being, diversity, engagement, and digital transformation across public relations and communication industries.Drawing on research from Europe, North America, and Asia, contributors reveal how culture, technology, gender, and informal practices influence how professionals lead, connect, and thrive in increasingly hybrid and global work environments. The chapters span a wide range of topics—from empathetic and accountable leadership in times of crisis, to the invisible pressures of digital surveillance, to the role of informal rituals such as shared meals in building engagement and belonging. Together, they illustrate how communication is not only a professional skill but a social process that constructs organizational identity and community.Offering theoretical insight for researchers and post-graduate students as well as practical lessons for managers, educators, and practitioners, this book highlights pathways toward more ethical, inclusive, and human-centered forms of leadership.
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Martina Topić-Rutherford is an Associate Professor in PR leadership at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, Department of Advertising and PR, USA.Michał Chmiel is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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'I recently read about leadership being an impossible, demanding endeavor, an enormous challenge to anyone. And yet, people have to perform in it every day in very different situations and cultures. The relevance of workplace conditions, wellbeing and leadership cultures get a lot more attention in the recent years. This volume is a fantastic guide through the reality of PR workplaces in different cultures. For me, it lays ground to a whole new field of research.'- Lars Rademacher, Professor of Corporate and Sustainability Communication, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany.'It is a highly anticipated book and a valuable contribution to the field. Martina and Michał have compiled an impressive collection of research on public relations and leadership, offering insight from multiple perspectives. The book emphasizes the importance of workplace culture and illustrates how digital infrastructures, meetings, and informal practices influence leadership processes, often normalizing issues such as surveillance, incivility, and inequality.Across the chapters, leadership is examined at the individual, organizational, and cultural levels, drawing on perspectives from psychology, management, and critical sociology. The collection moves beyond idealized conceptions of leadership, focusing on its lived realities and emphasizing accountability, care, and resistance. In doing so, the book calls for more reflexive, ethical, and relational approaches to leadership within an increasingly digital PR environment.'- Dr. Anastasios Theofilou, Public Relations, Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK.'This timely and wide-ranging volume brings together scholars from across the globe to examine the contemporary PR and communication workplace with both rigor and relevance. From servant leadership and empathetic management to the normalization of digital violence, from Gen Z's professional expectations to the quiet power of shared lunches, the chapters span the full complexity of organizational life today. Cross-cultural perspectives, including guanxi in Chinese HRM, gendered leadership in Portugal, and award cultures in the Czech Republic, give the book a genuinely international scope. Essential reading for practitioners, educators, and researchers who want to understand not just what communication professionals do, but the conditions under which they thrive or struggle.'- Cen April Yue, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Boston University, USA.

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