The Master's Level Graduate Research Conference is supported by the Office of Graduate Studies.
A crisis threatens an organization’s goals, values, and success. It happens unexpectedly and forces organizations to respond quickly. A crisis also taints an organization’s image and weakens their customers or stakeholders’ trust. Crisis communication helps organizations prevent or recover from a crisis. It helps balance the demands a crisis places on an organization. These demands include regaining stakeholder’s trust, social legitimacy, and restoring the organization’s tainted image. Image restoration strategies are crisis communication tools that help an organization redeem their positive image. This case study examines Toyota’s 2009-2010 car recall crisis. The researcher analyzes Toyota’s crisis communication through the lens of image restoration strategies. The analysis found that Toyota used the image restoration strategies of mortification, corrective action, and evasion of responsibility during their crisis. The researcher argues that Toyota should not have evaded responsibility and should have implemented mortification faster. Toyota should have also acknowledged the media as one of its stakeholders. The researcher concludes that organizations should see crisis as an opportunity to not only fix its failing parts but to renew its organization as a whole.
| Presenter: | Roseann Pluretti (SUNY Brockport) -- rplur1@brockport.edu |
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| Topic: | Communication - Panel |
| Location: | 125 Hartwell |
| Time: | 9 am (Session I) |
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