Corporate Social Responcibility

The ways to participate

Branded Customer Service. The New Competitive Edge (Janell Barlow, Paul Stewart)

As Head of Staff Communications Dpt., I spend most of my time talking to managers about their HR strategies and how my Dpt. can help them achieve their business objectives, how we can help them to stay on hi level of Customer Service. 

Very very good book.

Dress Smart Women: Wardrobes That Win in the New Workplace (Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone)

 I couldn’t say that this book is interesting.

Miss & Mister of the brench

419 Employee Reviews for Microsoft

“A solid place to work with fantastic benefits”

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Microsoft-Reviews-E1651.htm

Intranet or Newsletters or Email alerts?

Intranet or Newsletters or Email alerts? What information channel is preferable in internal communications whith staff?

Corporate culture in Russia

Corporate Culture in Russia is still something strange and exotic. Only big and famous organizations can  “play in game which name is corporate culture”. And only a little of them really understand that managing corporate culture is a wonderfull instrument for attract a loyal clients and staff. In the most Russian corporations internal communications its just parties and newsletters about nothing. Why? Because the position of corporate culture manager in workchat in the most of them its just the last word in brench fashion. And only a few use it for make an effective changes in company.

Who manage your corporate culture?

Don’t believe if someone says that there is no corporate culture in his organization. Corporate culture there is in every organization. Even if only thre persons work in it. Corporate culture it is just norms of emploeers behavier. It’s only cases of communications in different corporate live situations. The second quiestion is who manage or not manage it and culture is forming like cunami.

Hand book

Useful

Bill Quirke: Making the Connections

Bill Quirke. Making the Connections: Using Internal Communication to Turn Strategy into Action. Its one of the books about communications. The ideas about internal communications not a new point of view. The athor says:
Business today faces a torrent of changes that redefines what is required of employees. Organizations are quickly discovering that they need more than simple compliance from theie staff: they need – now more than ever – to engage their minds, creativity, energy and commitment. A business can only achieve its best when everyone’s energies point in the same direction.

From another side this book will be interesting for  for systematization of information. For professionals for taking arguments from this book for presentation they projects on management meeting. And for beginners in staff communications as textbook.