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Internal Communication and Employee Engagement
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Internal Communication and Employee Engagement

by Nance McCown, Linjuan Rita Men, Hua Jiang, Hongmei Shen
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
11h 42m
English
Routledge
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Chapter TwentyApplication of the AVID Framework in a U.K. Fire and Rescue Service

Kevin Ruck

DOI: 10.4324/9781003195580-30

Introduction

The case study organization explored in this chapter is a Fire and Rescue Service in the U.K. It will be referred to as AFRS throughout the chapter. The service employs around 1,400 people. It is a public sector body, responsible for promoting fire safety, extinguishing fires, and protecting life and property when fires do occur, minimizing damage to property arising from firefighting operations, and rescuing people involved in road traffic collisions. Internal communication at AFRS is reviewed using Ruck's (2020) Alignment-Voice-Identification-Dialogue (AVID) framework, which incorporates the twin principles ...

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