Reputation Management (Management for Professionals)

Hardcover, vii + 297 pages, NOT ex-library. Printed in the Netherlands & bound in Germany (not an economy / Indian edition). Clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show storage scratches and gentle indentations. Published without a dust jacket. -- Reputation is the most complex asset of an organization. Despite the call for consistent management of corporate reputation comprehensive approaches to measure and steer a company' s reputation are still in their infancy. Reputation management aims at creating a balance between stakeholder demands, perceptions and corporate reality in order to foster behavior that helps a company achieve its business goals. It needs to be based on thorough research and requires orchestrated execution through management processes across organizational units, communication disciplines, and countries. This calls for a management system to establish a closed cycle of strategic planning, implementation, performance measurement, and reporting. The book gives answers to the following questions: What is reputation and which conceptualizations do exist? What are the state-of-the-art methods and tools to measure corporate reputation? What are best practice examples and future trends in the field of corporate reputation management? -- Contents: pt. 1. Introduction pt. 2. Approaching corporate reputation pt. 3. Measures and impacts pt. 4. Reputation management in practice pt. 5. Future trends of reputation management. …