Essays on Mortification

As the facts of the case point out, over the last two decades Halliburton has illustrated a deep-seated and systemic unethical corporate practices and behaviors. Moreover, the company’s unethical conduct seems to begin at the leadership level and flow downwards. In other words, acting unethically is official corporate policy and is accepted behavior of all employees. Accordingly, any attempt to change or improve its ethical standards most involve the efforts of the entire company from its senior management to its least experienced staff member; from its corporate headquarters to all of its many subsidiary entities. In order to ...

A Crisis Briefing in Response to the Shooting of A Cop Television Audio Technician at Omaha, Nebraska.

The Crisis occurred on August 19, 2014. The Organization Used Denial Strategy in Response to the Crisis. The Strategy was Helpful as it covered the Police Department. The Communication was made by the Director of the Department.

The Crisis Communication was done on September 10, 2014.

The Image Restoration Strategy used by this briefing was mortification. Since the information was already available within the public domain, denial strategy would not have worked best as for that reason, the department should have admitted and apologized to the family of the bereaved and the general public as a whole.

Crisis Briefing: US Police Department

Introduction. We as the United States of America Police Department, would ...

Once the framework of the crisis communication plan and been drafted, vetted, and chosen; the next step is to decide on an appropriate theory or crisis management that will be put into effect by the communications plan. As an automaker, in a highly competitive market yet with a strong brand known across the globe, it should be clear that Volkswagen is particularly tied to their public image. In other words, Volkswagen is concerned with the “perceptions of” itself “as a communicative entity that are shared by an audience” (Benoit & Hanczor, 1994). That audience being not only the car-buying public ...