Advancement Employee Communications: A Study of the Various Stages of Employee Communication
Doris Chaney
Liberty University
BSUI 550
Dr. Jeff Boyce
May 9, 2012 Abstract
This paper explores several stages of employee communication technology accomplishment and how internal communication strategies developed with each technology. It aims to provide a degree of clarity on the concept by identifying stages in its evolution role of internal corporate communication in enhancing employee engagement. This paper will also make a contribution to corporate communication theory by considering the advancement of employee and the role of communication in enhancing employee communication. We will glance at the progression of communication technologies through the history, contemporary along with innovation.
I recent years, advances in information technologies have provided employees with the freedom to work from any place. The communication technologies that businesses use to deliver information to employees have evolved over the decades from the mid-1800s telegraph to the current business use of an internet; as the tools evolved so did communication strategies from hierarchical forms to community building and employee engagement. There have been some technological progresses that have open new leads for corporations to communicate to their employees; these strategies on how business communicated was done by means of additional choices presented to employees. Long-ago, employee communications started as face-to-face communication from company leaders in formal and informal meetings. Over a period of time it evolved into printed materials including company memos, newsletters and annual reports. Furthermore, the arrival of digital technologies such as the internet