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The Delivery Of Bad News
In An Organizations:
A Frame Work For Analysis
(Robert J.Bies)
Presented by :
AYESHA AFZAL-008
• Bad news can be
defined as any
information which
adversely alters
one’s expectations
for the future.
Another
definition:
 News that results in
cognitive, behavioral or
emotional deficit in the
person receiving the
news that persists for
sometime after the
news received.
Bad news as a daily phenomena in
an organization: (REASONS)
• Negative performance feedback.
• Customer Service failures.
• The refusals of requests.
• Employee layoffs
• Employee termination.
• J.BIES studied delivery of bad
news by professionals:
Doctors (Info that drastically
and negatively alters a
person’s view of the future).
Coroners (Medical examiner)
Law enforcement bodies
(Court-Martial)
Delivery of bad news: A Multiphase
process.
 McClenahen and Lofland make distinction between 2
different types of delieverers of bad news.
There are those who
deliver bad news in
their private lives.
Reffered as
“Amateurs”
There are those who
deliever bad news as
part of their Work or
Occupation.
 Phases in which Bad news
deliver in an
organization:
1) Preparation Phase.
2) Delivery Phase.
3) Transition Phase.
Preparation Phase:
There are seven different bad news
management activities in the preparation phase.
Advance warning (forecasting of bad
news)
Creating a “paper trail” (documentation)
Calibrating expectations (proactive
strategy)
 Using disclaimers (denial,refusal)
 Providing the opportunities for
voice. (create sense of fairness)
 Coalition building (manager seeks
support and protection)
 Rehearsal (practicing before actual
delivery)
 The Delivery Phase:
There are five different bad news
management activities in delivery
phase.
Timing of the delivery
(correct time)
Medium of the delivery (face
to face or other medium eg
email, texting, phones calls)
 Face management and self-
presentation (signal sender, calm and
empathetic manner)
 Account giving
(explaination/justification)
 Truth telling and information
disclosure. (telling truth and disclosing
all relevant facts)
 Transition Phase:
There are three different bad news management activities in
transition phase.
 Engaging in public relations (future promise)
Providing an appeal procedure ( before making
decision manager may create appeal)
Scapegoating (sacrificing someone on behalf of
others)
 Analyzing the delivery of Bad news: A
multitheoretical perspective
J.Bies argue that bad news
management activities across the
three phases serve four different,
but related, strategic functions.
 The strategic functions served by the bad
news management activities of these
delivering the news include :
Performance correction (tracking)
Lessening the perceived severity of the
outcome (factors to lessen the impact of
bad news)
Building commitment and support.
Self management (rehearsal, medium,
face management)
Coping theory:
1. Bad news is emotionally distressing for
those who deliver the news. (Folger)
2. Coping up with emotions is a key
deliverer concern.
3. To cope up with emotions includes
activities like rehearsal , medium and
face management.
The delivery of bad news: New
directions for research
• Multiphase model
• The moderators
• Strategic functions
 Multiphase model:
 Grew out of several grounded theories
of the delivery of the bad news by
occupational deliverers of bad news such
as Coroners, Physicians and Clergy.
One focus in Multiphase model was
analyze the processess associated with
upward versus downward delivery of bad
news.
 In Upward delivery of bad news management
the political implications for the deliverer are
more salient.
 In Downward delivery of bad news
management the focus typically on sub-
ordinate’s performance.
 Multiphase model basically provide a
longitudinal and more textured analysis of bad
news episode.
Moderators:
Moderator basically influence different
bad news management activities and thus
should be organized into future research
on the delivery of bad news.
Moderators are in the trenches. They’re
reading posts, answering reports and
solving problems day-in and day-out. And
also mediates disputes.
 Strategic functions of bad news
management activities:
It highlights the multiple motivations that
influence managerial action.
It provides much richer, more textured analysis
of managing bad news across time.
Strategic functions highlights the dilemmas
facing managers in the delivery of bad news
management. I outline one such dilemma.
Dilemma:
Blame avoidance versus
accepting responsibility.
(Instead of blaming environment,
person should accept his/her mistake
and take responsibility not to do this
again)
Impact of bad news on
people:
 Bad events wearoff more
slowly than good events.
The affective consequences
of negative information is
stronger than those for good
information.
People overestimate the effects
events will have on them, and that
effect is stronger for negative
events than for positive events.
Bad events in close relationships are
5 times as powerful as good events.
Conclusion:
 According to this article bad news is not
easy to deliver it’s a complex process in
an organization.
 Bad news deliver through three stages.
 Badness of any news is “in the eye of
the be-holder”.
 Bad News can be viewed as a part of
social construction process.
 Leaders are very important in times of
bad news and leaders ability is most
tested in times of bad news.
 Bad news have different but bad
psychological impacts on different
people.
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The Delivery Of Bad News In An Organizations

  • 1.
  • 2. The Delivery Of Bad News In An Organizations: A Frame Work For Analysis (Robert J.Bies) Presented by : AYESHA AFZAL-008
  • 3. • Bad news can be defined as any information which adversely alters one’s expectations for the future.
  • 4. Another definition:  News that results in cognitive, behavioral or emotional deficit in the person receiving the news that persists for sometime after the news received.
  • 5. Bad news as a daily phenomena in an organization: (REASONS) • Negative performance feedback. • Customer Service failures. • The refusals of requests. • Employee layoffs • Employee termination.
  • 6. • J.BIES studied delivery of bad news by professionals: Doctors (Info that drastically and negatively alters a person’s view of the future). Coroners (Medical examiner) Law enforcement bodies (Court-Martial)
  • 7. Delivery of bad news: A Multiphase process.  McClenahen and Lofland make distinction between 2 different types of delieverers of bad news. There are those who deliver bad news in their private lives. Reffered as “Amateurs” There are those who deliever bad news as part of their Work or Occupation.
  • 8.  Phases in which Bad news deliver in an organization: 1) Preparation Phase. 2) Delivery Phase. 3) Transition Phase.
  • 9. Preparation Phase: There are seven different bad news management activities in the preparation phase. Advance warning (forecasting of bad news) Creating a “paper trail” (documentation) Calibrating expectations (proactive strategy)
  • 10.  Using disclaimers (denial,refusal)  Providing the opportunities for voice. (create sense of fairness)  Coalition building (manager seeks support and protection)  Rehearsal (practicing before actual delivery)
  • 11.  The Delivery Phase: There are five different bad news management activities in delivery phase. Timing of the delivery (correct time) Medium of the delivery (face to face or other medium eg email, texting, phones calls)
  • 12.  Face management and self- presentation (signal sender, calm and empathetic manner)  Account giving (explaination/justification)  Truth telling and information disclosure. (telling truth and disclosing all relevant facts)
  • 13.  Transition Phase: There are three different bad news management activities in transition phase.  Engaging in public relations (future promise) Providing an appeal procedure ( before making decision manager may create appeal) Scapegoating (sacrificing someone on behalf of others)
  • 14.  Analyzing the delivery of Bad news: A multitheoretical perspective J.Bies argue that bad news management activities across the three phases serve four different, but related, strategic functions.
  • 15.  The strategic functions served by the bad news management activities of these delivering the news include : Performance correction (tracking) Lessening the perceived severity of the outcome (factors to lessen the impact of bad news) Building commitment and support. Self management (rehearsal, medium, face management)
  • 16. Coping theory: 1. Bad news is emotionally distressing for those who deliver the news. (Folger) 2. Coping up with emotions is a key deliverer concern. 3. To cope up with emotions includes activities like rehearsal , medium and face management.
  • 17. The delivery of bad news: New directions for research • Multiphase model • The moderators • Strategic functions
  • 18.  Multiphase model:  Grew out of several grounded theories of the delivery of the bad news by occupational deliverers of bad news such as Coroners, Physicians and Clergy. One focus in Multiphase model was analyze the processess associated with upward versus downward delivery of bad news.
  • 19.  In Upward delivery of bad news management the political implications for the deliverer are more salient.  In Downward delivery of bad news management the focus typically on sub- ordinate’s performance.  Multiphase model basically provide a longitudinal and more textured analysis of bad news episode.
  • 20. Moderators: Moderator basically influence different bad news management activities and thus should be organized into future research on the delivery of bad news. Moderators are in the trenches. They’re reading posts, answering reports and solving problems day-in and day-out. And also mediates disputes.
  • 21.  Strategic functions of bad news management activities: It highlights the multiple motivations that influence managerial action. It provides much richer, more textured analysis of managing bad news across time. Strategic functions highlights the dilemmas facing managers in the delivery of bad news management. I outline one such dilemma.
  • 22. Dilemma: Blame avoidance versus accepting responsibility. (Instead of blaming environment, person should accept his/her mistake and take responsibility not to do this again)
  • 23. Impact of bad news on people:  Bad events wearoff more slowly than good events. The affective consequences of negative information is stronger than those for good information.
  • 24. People overestimate the effects events will have on them, and that effect is stronger for negative events than for positive events. Bad events in close relationships are 5 times as powerful as good events.
  • 25. Conclusion:  According to this article bad news is not easy to deliver it’s a complex process in an organization.  Bad news deliver through three stages.  Badness of any news is “in the eye of the be-holder”.
  • 26.  Bad News can be viewed as a part of social construction process.  Leaders are very important in times of bad news and leaders ability is most tested in times of bad news.  Bad news have different but bad psychological impacts on different people.