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Yang, Chulguen – Business Communication Quarterly, 2013
This article explores the adaptive functions of storytelling in the workplace from an evolutionary perspective. Based on the analysis of ethnographic studies on hunter-gatherer and modern work organizations, this article claims that storytelling, as an adapted cognitive device, was selectively retained by natural and sexual selection, because of…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Organizational Communication, Evolution, Psychology
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de Bakker, Frank G. A.; den Hond, Frank – Business Communication Quarterly, 2008
Corporations increasingly pay attention to issues of social responsibility, but their policies and procedures to articulate such responsibilities are not just a result of the good will of top management. Often, such policies and procedures are devised because some stakeholders raised their voice on issues relating to the interests of employees,…
Descriptors: Corporations, Social Responsibility, Activism, Participation