Pub Date : 2022-09-05DOI: 10.1177/23294884221119453
Wei Su, Juhee Hahn
Innovation is critical to the growth and prosperity of an organization. In daily work, everyday innovation is more often developed by employees than large-scale institutional innovation. This research builds a multi-level framework to investigate how leader motivating language (LML) influences the everyday innovative behavior of employees in the international freight forwarding industry. In addition, we examined the mediating effect of individual-level self-leadership and psychological capital (PsyCap). We used HLM6.8 to perform hierarchical linear modeling on 551 valid questionnaires from 88 teams. The results showed that: (1) LML was a positive predictor of employees’ innovative behaviors, (2) LML positively affects employees’ self-leadership and PsyCap, and (3) self-leadership and PsyCap partially mediated the relationship between LML and employees’ innovative behaviors. We also used Mplus8.3 to conduct a multi-level path analysis to verify the robustness of the results. Further, we investigated the sequential mediation effects of self-leadership and PsyCap between LML and innovative behavior. These findings complement existing research and emphasize the importance of motivational language in organizational management.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1177/23294884221115602
K. Getchell
When asked to write a feature article about a business communication thought leader, I knew immediately whose work I wanted to review; however, the idea of writing this essay (and keeping it within two to three pages) was daunting. JoAnne Yates’s scholarly work is well-renowned across business communication, organizational and management studies, and business history, and her impact on the way we understand communication in organizations has put her in a category with few peers. JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita and Professor Post Tenure of Work and Organization Studies and Managerial Communication at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where she was responsible for the development of MIT Sloan’s Managerial Communication curriculum. A founder of Management Communication Quarterly, Yates is a talented scholar, teacher, and administrator, and her body of work continues to make an enormous impact on the professional endeavors of members of the Association. With over 25 scholarly articles (many award winning), 6 books, and countless other publications I cannot possibly highlight all of Yates’ extraordinary body of scholarly work in this essay, so instead, I offer a highlight of the ways that Yates’ work on genre provides a valuable perspective on the nature of norms and conventions—and more formally standards—in business communication. Through her interdisciplinary and collaborative body of research, Yates has created a space to explore the how of communicative interaction in organizations through a socio-cultural lens. She has provided a theoretical and methodological foundation for
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1177/23294884221111963
R. Walker
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1177/23294884221111964
Rudi Palmieri
{"title":"Book Review: Investor Relations and Financial Communication: Creating Value Through Trust and Understanding. by Laskin, A","authors":"Rudi Palmieri","doi":"10.1177/23294884221111964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23294884221111964","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45593,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49278053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1177/23294884221118896
Stephanie Kelly, Wiley S. Brown, Sherrie L. Drye
The face concerns a person holds dictates how they will approach conflict in the workplace. The present study sought to understand how these conflict orientations ultimately affected subordinate burnout. The data were consistent with a model in which self-face and mutual-face concerns affected employee burnout through the mediation of their job satisfaction and their willingness to self-censor communication with their supervisor. Most notably, self-face concerns were negatively associated with job satisfaction while mutual-face concerns were positively related to job satisfaction.
{"title":"Do We Burn Ourselves Trying to Save Face? Face Concerns as a Predictor of Subordinate Willingness to Self-Censor and Burnout","authors":"Stephanie Kelly, Wiley S. Brown, Sherrie L. Drye","doi":"10.1177/23294884221118896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23294884221118896","url":null,"abstract":"The face concerns a person holds dictates how they will approach conflict in the workplace. The present study sought to understand how these conflict orientations ultimately affected subordinate burnout. The data were consistent with a model in which self-face and mutual-face concerns affected employee burnout through the mediation of their job satisfaction and their willingness to self-censor communication with their supervisor. Most notably, self-face concerns were negatively associated with job satisfaction while mutual-face concerns were positively related to job satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":45593,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47569840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1177/23294884221118909
Jasmine T. Austin, Ryan S. Bisel
This study investigated a key question involved with attracting and retaining a diverse workforce: Should recruiters provide race-related realistic organizational previews (ROPs) to job candidates from historically-marginalized groups during the offer consideration phase? Colorblind (i.e., race ignoring) socialization practices are likely motivated by several fears. Yet, a colorblind strategy may also miss potential advantages afforded by race-acknowledging ROPs. Black and African-American (N = 338) individuals participated in a three (colorblind, implicit, or explicit ROP-type) × two (Black or White recruiter) message processing experiment. Statistical analyses revealed that implicit race-acknowledged ROP messages were comparable to a colorblind condition in terms of organizational attraction and motivation to join the organization. Furthermore, an implicit race-acknowledged ROP message was associated with higher intention to accept a job offer than an explicit race-acknowledged ROP. Analyses also revealed that participants perceived recruiters as credible and polite, regardless of recruiter’s racial identity or the race-related explicitness of the ROP message. Implications of the study conclude the paper.
{"title":"The Influence of Colorblind and Race-Acknowledged Organizational Socialization Messages During Offer Consideration","authors":"Jasmine T. Austin, Ryan S. Bisel","doi":"10.1177/23294884221118909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23294884221118909","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated a key question involved with attracting and retaining a diverse workforce: Should recruiters provide race-related realistic organizational previews (ROPs) to job candidates from historically-marginalized groups during the offer consideration phase? Colorblind (i.e., race ignoring) socialization practices are likely motivated by several fears. Yet, a colorblind strategy may also miss potential advantages afforded by race-acknowledging ROPs. Black and African-American (N = 338) individuals participated in a three (colorblind, implicit, or explicit ROP-type) × two (Black or White recruiter) message processing experiment. Statistical analyses revealed that implicit race-acknowledged ROP messages were comparable to a colorblind condition in terms of organizational attraction and motivation to join the organization. Furthermore, an implicit race-acknowledged ROP message was associated with higher intention to accept a job offer than an explicit race-acknowledged ROP. Analyses also revealed that participants perceived recruiters as credible and polite, regardless of recruiter’s racial identity or the race-related explicitness of the ROP message. Implications of the study conclude the paper.","PeriodicalId":45593,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44253844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.1177/23294884221114393
Wenlin Liu, A. Yang, Jieun Shin, Yiqi Li, Jingyi Sun, Yan Qu, Lichen Zhen, Hye Min Kim, Chuqing Dong
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed severe challenges that require collaborative efforts from multi-sector organizations. Guided by an institutional theory framework that considers how both organizational fields and national level contexts affect organizations’ social partnership communication, the current study examines the COVID-19-related social partnership communication network on social media. The cross-national study using semantic network analysis and exponential random graph models (ERGMs) first maps the meaning of COVID-19 social partnership network, and then investigates the role of organizational fields and a country’s political system, economic system, educational system, and cultural system on the formation of interorganizational communication ties surrounding the relief efforts of COVID-19. Results reveal the importance of the political system—such as the presence of populist government, economic disparity, and uncertainty avoidance cultural orientation in shaping the social media-based social partnership communication network. In addition, NGOs from multiple issue areas are actively engaged in the network, whereas corporations from manufacturing and financial industries are active players.
{"title":"One Earth, One Humanity Versus the Virus: Examining the Global COVID-19 Social Partnership Communication Networks on Social Media","authors":"Wenlin Liu, A. Yang, Jieun Shin, Yiqi Li, Jingyi Sun, Yan Qu, Lichen Zhen, Hye Min Kim, Chuqing Dong","doi":"10.1177/23294884221114393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23294884221114393","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has posed severe challenges that require collaborative efforts from multi-sector organizations. Guided by an institutional theory framework that considers how both organizational fields and national level contexts affect organizations’ social partnership communication, the current study examines the COVID-19-related social partnership communication network on social media. The cross-national study using semantic network analysis and exponential random graph models (ERGMs) first maps the meaning of COVID-19 social partnership network, and then investigates the role of organizational fields and a country’s political system, economic system, educational system, and cultural system on the formation of interorganizational communication ties surrounding the relief efforts of COVID-19. Results reveal the importance of the political system—such as the presence of populist government, economic disparity, and uncertainty avoidance cultural orientation in shaping the social media-based social partnership communication network. In addition, NGOs from multiple issue areas are actively engaged in the network, whereas corporations from manufacturing and financial industries are active players.","PeriodicalId":45593,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47445567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1177/23294884221105580
Avi Kay, L. Levine, E. Shapiro
Organizational communication is particularly important during times of uncertainty and turmoil, such as the first few weeks of COVID-19 in the United States. This paper explores the who, what, when, and how of organizational communication during this time, looking at how these factors affected satisfaction with communication and anxiety among a sample of working adults. Through path analysis the paper suggests that having the direct manager communicate, communicating personal messages of support, communicating daily, and communicating via text media are related to higher levels of satisfaction with communication, and in turn with lower levels of anxiety. Individual traits of the employee are also discussed, including the need for affiliation as a moderator on the relationship between communication satisfaction and anxiety. Finally, suggestions are presented regarding how organizations can best leverage communication in novel and uncertain situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
{"title":"Reducing Anxiety Through Workplace Communication During COVID-19: Who, What, When, and How","authors":"Avi Kay, L. Levine, E. Shapiro","doi":"10.1177/23294884221105580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23294884221105580","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational communication is particularly important during times of uncertainty and turmoil, such as the first few weeks of COVID-19 in the United States. This paper explores the who, what, when, and how of organizational communication during this time, looking at how these factors affected satisfaction with communication and anxiety among a sample of working adults. Through path analysis the paper suggests that having the direct manager communicate, communicating personal messages of support, communicating daily, and communicating via text media are related to higher levels of satisfaction with communication, and in turn with lower levels of anxiety. Individual traits of the employee are also discussed, including the need for affiliation as a moderator on the relationship between communication satisfaction and anxiety. Finally, suggestions are presented regarding how organizations can best leverage communication in novel and uncertain situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":45593,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47088635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1177/23294884221096973
J. Bloch
{"title":"Book Review: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell","authors":"J. Bloch","doi":"10.1177/23294884221096973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23294884221096973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45593,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46031099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1177/23294884221106999
James Ndone
This study seeks to advance the literature in emotional crisis communication by comparing the effects of single emotional message framing to mixed emotional message framing in organizational crisis on organizational reputation and forgiveness. Through an online four (emotional message framing: control vs. negative emotion [sadness] vs. positive emotion [sympathy] vs. mixed-valence emotions [both sadness + sympathy]) by two (crisis type: preventable vs. victim crisis) between-groups experiment, this study investigated the effects of mixed-valence emotions, where the CEO expressed both positive and negative discrete emotions ( N = 424). Additionally, the current study sought to test the mediating effects of perceived sincerity and empathy toward the CEO on the relationship between the crisis type and message framing on both organizational reputation and forgiveness. The findings show that, during a preventable crisis, expressing mixed emotions results in a more positive organizational reputation and organizational forgiveness than expressing single emotions (sadness or sympathy). Also, both empathy toward the CEO and perceived sincerity mediated the relationship between a preventable crisis and organizational reputation as well as forgiveness. Both practical and theoretical implications of this study are discussed.
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