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Ethical Issues with Coalitions and Front Groups – Greg Bailey

Ethical Voices

He discusses a number of important public relations ethics issues including: What to do when a client asks you to hide their identity as part of a coalition. How to make sure your employees understand how you value ethics. What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work?

Ethics 91
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A communicator’s guide to mitigating the risk of greenwashing

PR Conversations

Seeking value and deeper insight into a company’s long-term sustainability objectives and activities, attentive consumers and investors want to know that the company they are supporting is not profiting at the expense of the environment or people (such as employees or related communities). negative publicity; and. irrelevant claims.

Ethics 40
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A communicator’s guide to mitigating the risk of greenwashing

PR Conversations

Seeking value and deeper insight into a company’s long-term sustainability objectives and activities, attentive consumers and investors want to know that the company they are supporting is not profiting at the expense of the environment or people (such as employees or related communities). negative publicity; and. irrelevant claims.

Ethics 40
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A communicator’s guide to mitigating the risk of greenwashing

PR Conversations

Seeking value and deeper insight into a company’s long-term sustainability objectives and activities, attentive consumers and investors want to know that the company they are supporting is not profiting at the expense of the environment or people (such as employees or related communities). negative publicity; and. irrelevant claims.

Ethics 40
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Amazon case study: Should rank-and-file employees be speaking on behalf of brands?

Communications Conversations

And, this opens up, yet again, a discussion we’ve had before: Should employees be empowered to speak up during a company crisis or firestorm? And, on the surface, it doesn’t appear that Nick broke any big company guidelines. Meanwhile, 52 percent trust employees of that same company. Only 12 percent said they did.

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To Serve the Public Good, PR Pros Can Help Stop Spread of Vaccine Disinformation

PRSay

Particularly now, as misconceptions, inaccuracies and untruths threaten to prolong the coronavirus pandemic, we need to tap into our profession’s roots in behavioral science and fulfill our profession’s ethical obligation to serve the public good by helping consumers of news and information make better decisions, online and off.

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Maximising resilience of health and well-being assets in crisis situations

PR Conversations

See: The Handbook of Salutogenesis by Mittelmark et al (2017).] The diagram below highlights a number of relevant ‘assets’, many of which I’ve come across within the career literature where the concept of resilience is also discussed. She misses some key issues and then suddenly a crisis hits the company – can she cope?

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