Exam prep 1 Flashcards
What is corporate communication?
A management function that offers framework for an effective coordination for both internal & external communication in order to establish & maintain favorable reputation with stakeholder groups
The differences between shareholders & stakeholders
Shareholders: Own part of a company through shares of stock, play a big role in company’s survival, have an interest in company’s financial performance & return of investment
Stakeholders: Don’t own a company, have an interest in company’s performance for reasons other than financial matters,
what communication practitioners do?
Building, maintaining, and protecting company’s reputation
History of corporate communication?
<1970: public relations (communicating with the press)
> 1970: corporate communication (focuses on the organisations as a whole)
3 ways to understand Corporate Communication?
Holistic, Strategic, Integrated
What is holistic in corporate communication?
- We speak behalf of the company
2. Looking into a WHOLE company instead of a certain discipline separately
What is strategic in corporate communication?
corporate communication close & linked to board of directors
What is integrated in corporate communication?
Corporate communication integrates to different functions & disciplines of communication
What are 3 drivers for integrated communication?
Market & environmental, Organisational, Communication drivers
Define which driver relates to these conditions!
a. Greater amounts of message clutter
b. Increased message effectiveness through consistency or reinforcement of core messages
c. Complementarity of media and media cost inflation
d. Media multiplication requires control of communication channels
Communication drivers
Define which driver relates to these conditions!
a. Improves efficiency
b. Increased accountability
c. Provision of strategic direction and purpose through consolidation
d. Commonalities and overlap between communication disciplines
Organisational drivers
Define which driver relates to these conditions!
a. Stakeholder roles overlap
b. Internal communication is inseparable from external communication
c. Demands for greater transparency
Market & environmental drivers
What is corporate identity?
The profile & values communicated by an organisation
How to express corporate identity?
- Internal culture & values
- Visual elements
- Brand style/design
Why we establish corporate identity?
- To make the organisation recognized & memorable
- To create brand consistency
- To shape people’s sentiments about the corporate & its products/services
What are 4 elements of Corporate Identity based on Birkigt & Stadler?
Corporate Personality, Behaviour, Communication, Design
What is Corporate Image?
How a company is perceived by the market
What can express corporate image?
Company’s reputation, goodwill, rumors
How an organisation present itself to the people called?
Corporate Identity
There’s an input possibility for communication policy if?
There is a gap between identity & image
a. What happen if Image>Identity?
b. What could we do?
a. Over-promising.
A chance of failure
b. Increase the identity or communicate realistic image
a. What happen if Image
a. Under-promising.
Missing an opportunity in the market
b. Improve the image
What is vision?
A desired future state
- The point of the horizon
- Place where we want to go
What is mission?
Overriding purpose in line with values and expectation of the stakeholders
Who have an important role to establish Corporate Reputation?
Leaders or CEO
What is Corporate Reputation
A perceptual representative of a company’s past action and future prospects to all key stakeholders compared to other competitors
Mention 3 differences between Image & Reputation!
Image: built, quick, short-term
Reputation: earned, takes time, long-term
a. What is Vision-Culture Gap?
b. When could it happen?
a. A gap between management and employees
b. When the vision is too ambitious
a. What is Culture-Image Gap?
b. When could it happen?
a. A gap between employees and stakeholders
b. When employees don’t practice what they’ve promised
a. What is Vision-Image Gap?
b. When could it happen?
a. A gap between management and stakeholders
b. When organisation doesn’t sufficiently listen to what their stakeholders want/expect
2 ways to establish corporate reputation?
- Evolve over time
2. Strategic approach (choose what kind of reputation that would like to work towards developing it)
Choose 4 of the correct answers!
A strategic approach requires?
a. Monitoring
b. Sustainable leadership
c. Consistency
d. A strong brand image
e. An in-depth understanding of the organisation
f. Careful coordination & alignment of corporate behaviour, communication, and design
b,c,e,f
What are 5 things that can be done in managing corporate reputation?
- Monitoring
- Dialogue
- Issues Management
- Hire PR agency
- Crisis communication
Communication managers need to know what values the company is known/respected for. What are 2 ways to measure corporate reputation?
- RepTrak Pulse Reputation Institute
2. FORTUNE’S most admired corporations
What are 7 key dimentions in RepTrak model?
- Products/Services
- Innovation
- Workplace
- Governance
- Citizenship
- Leadership
- Financial Performance
What is stakeholder?
Stakeholder is any group/individual who can affect or be affected by an organisation
What are 4 classifications of stakeholder? Explain it!
- Primary Stakeholders:
- Have a direct impact on company’s performance
- Have financial interest
- Necessary for company’s survival - Secondary Stakeholders:
- Don’t have a direct impact but influential for performance
- Non-financial interest - Contractual
- Have legal relationship for the exchange of goods/services
- Tied to contract
4 Community
- Relationship seen in terms of impact
Government, Media, NGO are classified in which stakeholder group?
Secondary Stakeholder
Shareholders, Employees, Customers, Suppliers are categorized in which stakeholder group?
Primary stakeholder
Distributors, Influencers, Lenders are in which stakeholder groups?
Contractual Stakeholder
Those who have financial OR moral interest in an organisation called internal or external stakeholder?
External
Make power-interest Matrix of Amazon!
High power - High Interest:
- Manage closely
- Key players (Shareholders, Directors, Employees)
High power-Low interest:
- Make them satisfied (Customer, Suppliers)
Low power-High Interest:
- Could be helpful
- Government, NGO, Media
Low power-low interest:
- No need big effort to manage
- Competitors, Community
What is salience model?
A stakeholder analysis method to know how prominent a stakeholder is based on 3 attributes
Make the salience model of Amazon!
What are 3 attributes of salience model?
Power, Urgency, Legitimacy
What are 7 elements in salience model? Explain each of them!
- Dormant: Power
- Discretionary: Legitimacy
- Demanding: Urgency
- Dominant: Power + Legitimacy
- Dangerous: Power + Urgency
- Dependent: Urgency + Legitimacy
- Definitive: Power + Urgency + Legitimacy
What are the 3 strategies of Organisation-Stakeholders Communication?
Informational Strategy, Persuasive Strategy, Dialogue Strategy
Which communication of organization-stakeholder is one way symmetrical?
Informative strategy
Which communication of organization-stakeholder is two way symmetrical?
Dialogue strategy
Which communication of organization-stakeholder is two way Asymmetrical?
Persuasive strategy
Debate and Promote mutual understanding are examples of which communication strategy of organization-stakeholder?
Dialogue strategy
Ads, Campaigns, Meetings are examples of which communication strategy of organization-stakeholder?
Persuasive Strategy
Newsletters, Reports, Free Publicities are examples of which communication strategy of organization-stakeholder?
Informative strategy
Mention 3 aspects of Stakeholder Management!
- Identify stakeholders
- Analyze their influence
- Manage their expectations