Employees Caught in Activism's Crossfire

A new activist tactic is targeting individual businesses, concentrating all of the movement’s energy and resources on forcing that one business to bend to the group’s will. These instances are usually based on business practices that reflect the company’s values, such as support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. How the business responds has a direct impact on the experiences of employees who interact with customers on a day-to-day basis, especially in retail and other customer-facing sectors. How communicators can help both the company and employees weather these storms is the focus of this short midweek FIR episode. The next monthly, long-form episode of FIR will drop on Monday, July 24 We host a Communicators Zoom Chat each Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. For credentials needed to participate, contact Shel or Neville directly, request the credentials in our Facebook group, or email fircomments@gmail.com. Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music. You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog. Shel has started a metaverse-focused Flipboard magazine. You can catch up with both co-hosts on Neville’s blog and Shel’s blog. Neville’s Asides blog is also available. Link from this report: Middle fingers, complaints: Workers caught in culture wars face harassment (ABC News) Managing a Team with Conflicting Political Views (Harvard Business Review) Leadership in a Politically Charged Age (Harvard Business Review) How to help bridge social and political divides among employees (PR Daily) Keeping the political divide from dividing employees (Kearney) 3 Strategies to Address Political Polarization in the Workplace (Harvard Business Review) The post FIR #343: Employees Caught in Activism’s Crossfire appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.