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Communicating Community at Tesla Motors: Maintaining Corporate Values in Blogging Communities

Knowing how organizations engage employees can help researchers and practitioners better understand how to effectively communicate and engage employees to create an efficient and collaborative work environment. This research sought to discover if Tesla Motors strategically communicated values from its Master Plan through company blogs to create an imagined community. The theory of imagined communities provided the theoretical foundation. This research used a content analysis of words and phrases within Tesla's Master Plan and 2015 corporate blog. Although the blog provided some indication that it was communicating values, this study concluded that the Master Plan did not provide enough value information to support a strategic imagined community. This study does, however, imply that imagined communities can be used in public relations research. / Master of Arts / Knowing how organizations engage employees can help researchers and practitioners better understand how to effectively communicate and engage employees to create an efficient and collaborative work environment. This research sought to discover if Tesla Motors intentionally communicated values from its Master Plan through company blog posts to create an imagined community. This research used a content analysis of words and phrases within Tesla’s Master Plan and 2015 corporate blog. Although the blog communicated some values, this study concluded that the Master Plan did not provide enough information to support a strategic imagined community.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/78222
Date19 June 2017
CreatorsLashley, Brandon Christopher
ContributorsCommunication, Cannon, Douglas F., Myers, Marcus Cayce, Logan, Nneka
PublisherVirginia Tech
Source SetsVirginia Tech Theses and Dissertation
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
FormatETD, application/pdf
RightsIn Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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