Shannon A. Bowen – författare

This unique Handbook demonstrates how strategic communication is undergoing significant changes due to advances in AI. It examines the consequences of innovation in society and communication, considering the ethical implications of technological developments.Shannon A. Bowen and Elina Erzikova bring together the world’s leading experts on strategic communication to extrapolate, probe, and push the boundaries of their research into the future. Adopting a theoretical lens, the authors explore how strategic communication increases organizational effectiveness by enhancing competitive advantage, driving values, vision, mission and operations in an ethical manner. They challenge complex paradigms around transhumanism, counterintelligence and espionage, addressing timely issues such as terrorism, responsibility, EQ, pandemics, and responses to varied crises. Ultimately, this provocative Handbook provides an understanding of the future of strategic communication and showcases how the field can embrace and proactively shape its evolution.The Handbook of Innovations in Strategic Communication is an essential tool for students and academics in business, public affairs, management, and public relations. Its practical approach to managing organizational effectiveness will also greatly benefit practitioners in content creation, media relations, and communication.

This unique Handbook demonstrates how strategic communication is undergoing significant changes due to advances in AI. It examines the consequences of innovation in society and communication, considering the ethical implications of technological developments.Shannon A. Bowen and Elina Erzikova bring together the world's leading experts on strategic communication to extrapolate, probe, and push the boundaries of their research into the future. Adopting a theoretical lens, the authors explore how strategic communication increases organizational effectiveness by enhancing competitive advantage, driving values, vision, mission and operations in an ethical manner. They challenge complex paradigms around transhumanism, counterintelligence and espionage, addressing timely issues such as terrorism, responsibility, EQ, pandemics, and responses to varied crises. Ultimately, this provocative Handbook provides an understanding of the future of strategic communication and showcases how the field can embrace and proactively shape its evolution.The Handbook of Innovations in Strategic Communication is an essential tool for students and academics in business, public affairs, management, and public relations. Its practical approach to managing organizational effectiveness will also greatly benefit practitioners in content creation, media relations, and communication.

This unique Handbook demonstrates how strategic communication is undergoing significant changes due to advances in AI. It examines the consequences of innovation in society and communication, considering the ethical implications of technological developments.Shannon A. Bowen and Elina Erzikova bring together the world's leading experts on strategic communication to extrapolate, probe, and push the boundaries of their research into the future. Adopting a theoretical lens, the authors explore how strategic communication increases organizational effectiveness by enhancing competitive advantage, driving values, vision, mission and operations in an ethical manner. They challenge complex paradigms around transhumanism, counterintelligence and espionage, addressing timely issues such as terrorism, responsibility, EQ, pandemics, and responses to varied crises. Ultimately, this provocative Handbook provides an understanding of the future of strategic communication and showcases how the field can embrace and proactively shape its evolution.The Handbook of Innovations in Strategic Communication is an essential tool for students and academics in business, public affairs, management, and public relations. Its practical approach to managing organizational effectiveness will also greatly benefit practitioners in content creation, media relations, and communication.

This book provides an executive overview of the field of public relations with a focus on what managers need to know to master the function quickly and effectively. The authors bring to bear on the topic of public relations management our research and academic knowledge in the areas of business management and strategy, mass communication, marketing, public relations, organizational communication, journalism, ethics, and public opinion along with years of professional experience in managing public relations. Throughout the text, we integrate the academic with the professional by asking: How can an executive use this knowledge to make the most of the public relations function, department, and initiatives in order to help their whole organization be successful?

This book provides an executive overview of the field of public relations with a focus on what managers need to know to master the function quickly and effectively. The authors bring to bear on the topic of public relations management our research and academic knowledge in the areas of business management and strategy, mass communication, marketing, public relations, organizational communication, journalism, ethics, and public opinion along with years of professional experience in managing public relations.

This book integrates theories, research insights, practices, as well as current issues and cases into a comprehensive guide for internal communication managers and organizational leaders on how to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders. Important topics such as engagement, trust, change communication, new technologies, leadership communication, ethical decision making, transparency and authenticity, and measurement are discussed. The book concludes with predictions of the future of internal communications research, theory development, and practices.

This second edition of An Overview of the Public Relations Function examines current thought to help busy managers and students master the most important concepts of management in communication quickly, accessibly, and with an eye to helping an organization achieve excellence through cutting-edge, research-based strategic public relations management.This book acquaints the manager with the lexicon of the field and provides research on the theory of public relations, its sub-functions, such as research or public affairs, and the ethical guideline CERT formula: Credibility, Ethics, Relationships, Trust.It also examines the role of the chief communications officer (CCO) and leadership, organizational culture, structure, effectiveness, managing stakeholders and publics, using research to create strategy, and the four-step process of public relations management (“RACE”). Finally, the authors discuss the advanced management concepts of issues management, specialization in the sectors of public relations, managing values, deontological ethics, conducting moral analyses, and counseling management. They review what research found in regard to the most excellent ways to manage public relations and relationships: both beginning and ending with ethics.