This PR blog explores employee communication. Within an organisation there are usually three management categories responsible for employee communication: HR, PR and the supervision or management of the person in his or her specific role. In fact, all managers should be effective communicators.

HR plays an important role in maximising the return on investment in employees. This involves recruitment, training and development, industrial relations, workforce management, record keeping and change management, amongst other functions.

Public relations also has a distinct role in employee communication while there is also some coming together of HR and PR functions on specific issues, such as industrial relations. One of the key reasons for using PR in employee communication is to foster good management/employee relations.

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