Remove 2020 Remove Employee Remove Ethics Remove Leadership
article thumbnail

Trust: Business Tops Media and Government in Ethics and Competence, Finds Survey

Sword and the Script

Businesses are increasingly viewed as more ethical and competent than government, media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Business is ethical and competent. According to the survey, business was the only institution that respondents classified as both ethical and competent. click image for higher resolution).

article thumbnail

A Commitment to Sharing Only Accurate and Truthful Information

PRSay

By the time the vaccine became available in late 2020, more than 26,000 people in our service area had contracted COVID and more than 300 had died. Educate employees to minimize the risk of spreading false information on social media or other outlets. Other parts of the country fared much worse. Illustration credit: bakhtiarzein ].

Ethics 164
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How 2020 Has Highlighted the Importance of Being Open and Honest

PRSay

We’re only halfway through 2020, but the year has already ushered in a once-in-a-century pandemic and a world-altering movement to dismantle systemic racism. So what do the rapid changes of 2020 mean for your organization? For many, it should mean refocusing on the importance of being open and transparent.

System 157
article thumbnail

Meet PRSA Board of Directors Nominee Michelle Egan, APR, Fellow, PRSA

PRSay

You served in a variety of key volunteer leadership roles for PRSA, including as president of the Alaska Chapter. ” In recent years, I’ve been driven by the threat of having our profession overtaken by those who play fast and loose with facts and ethics. How do you describe your leadership style?

Meeting 152
article thumbnail

Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

He published a paper called PR 2020 on behalf of the CIPR in 2011 that examined the future of PR. The PR 2020 project was based on interviews with PR practitioners throughout the UK and the outlook for the forthcoming decade. They are all issues that will occupy us all in 2020. Issues in practice 1. Happy New Year.

article thumbnail

PR Placing a Premium on Creativity; Findings from 5 Studies in Public Relations

Sword and the Script

Six in 10 comms pros face ethical challenges. A survey of 1,046 communication professionals in North America found 33% day they faced several ethical challenges in the last year and another 29% faced one ethical challenge. The Gray Area of Communicating a Point of View. click image for higher resolution).

article thumbnail

The Volume and Variety of Communications Work is Shifting, Finds 5th Annual Survey of Comms Pros

Sword and the Script

” In open-ended comments, respondents cite digital, internal comms and a greater focus on comms by leadership as among the underlying reasons. Respondents identified the top comms challenges as 1) cutting through the noise (35%); 2) too many priorities (31%); and 3) lack of employee experience (25%). Blog: Code of PR Ethics?

Survey 130