Search results for " responsibility"

Collective Guilt Makes Conflicting Parties More Collaborative: Quasi-experimental Study of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2014

Teachers’ responsibility and expectations: Dependent on the school organisation?

2018

This article presents findings from a qualitative case study focusing on teachers’ communication concerning expectations and responsibilities in different schools. The study indicates the following: (1) the connection between structural expectations and responsibility is important, (2) different expectation structures provide different opportunities for collective responsibility, and (3) expectations from others and towards others in a learning community can limit or expand opportunities to learn from each other. These findings enable a discussion on how teachers’ responsibility depends on schools’ expectations and also raise questions about teachers’ expectations towards themselves and th…

CSR Strategies in Emerging Markets

2016

The purpose of the chapter is to emphasize on the roles of businesses – as an effective (sustainable) development agent in emerging markets, on one hand, and of their CSR strategies – as an efficient sustainable development tool, on the other hand, in order to identify valuable business practices able to lead the emerging markets towards sustainability – through socially responsible decision making processes at business level. Having in the fore-ground the ideas of sustainability (which basically is a macro-economic concern) and responsibility (and especially its micro-economic correspondent that usually embraces the form of CSR), it will try to discover the general and specific features of…

‘Community Cohesion’ and English Disruptions of the Multicultural Peace: The Northern Riots, White ‘Backlash’ and the ‘Evocation of a Faith Sector’

2013

This chapter takes as its starting point controversies surrounding the concept and policy ‘agenda’ associated with community cohesion, a concept first voiced in the official reports into the riots in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford in May–July 2001. The most influential of these, the ‘Cantle Report’, deliberately framed itself in opposition to the analysis of reports into previous urban disturbances (e.g. Scarman 1981) with their emphasis on ‘systems, process and institutions’, and hence by implication their link to much academic discourse in the social policy field; choosing instead to focus on the interpersonal, on communication between individuals and groups, and on ‘values’, in line with t…

Distributed pedagogical leadership and generative dialogue in educational nodes

2012

The article presents practices of distributed pedagogical leadership and generative dialogue as a tool with which management and personnel can better operate in the increasingly turbulent world of education. Distributed pedagogical leadership includes common characteristics of a professional learning community when the educational actors intentionally share a common mission. There, all stakeholders take collective responsibility for students' learning. Generative dialogue is a way to negotiate in this realm in generating new knowledge and understanding. To introduce this process in practice, the article describes two Finnish learning environments where the stakeholders define, first, the c…

Constitució d'una comunitat social d'investigació amb persones majors des de la responsabilitat social universitària = Constitution of a Social Resea…

2012

Es presenta com s'ha constituït una comunitat social d'investigació (CSI) amb 48 persones majors institucionalitzades des de la responsabilitat social universitària (RSU) i des d'una perspectiva humanista. En aquesta CSI es va valorar el benestar psicològic de les persones institucionalitzades amb mètodes quantitatius i qualitatius, i amb una proposta d'investigació-acció participativa (IAP). S'inicia, així, un procés d'innovació epistemològica, amb escassos antecedents, a l'hora d'investigar i entendre el benestar de les persones majors. Aquesta primera experiència de la CSI aporta observacions sobre els canvis de les dimensions del benestar de Ryff durant el procés d'envelliment dins de l…

Conductes prosocials i responsabilitat social universitària: a la recerca d’un cercle virtuós?

2019

espanolAnte un contexto social con dificultades asociadas a altos indicadores de violencia, se efectua una revision bibliografica de articulos publicados hasta el ano 2017, con las palabras clave conducta prosocial, programas de intervencion y responsabilidad social a fin de reflexionar respecto de la relacion entre el desarrollo de conductas prosociales y la responsabililidad dad social universitaria (RSU). Lo anterior ha permitido plantear la posibilidad de circulos virtuosos que junto con favorecer la prosocialidad en futuros universitarios, propicie que adultos formados en rsu favorezcan contextos de desarrollo prosociales para futuras generaciones. catalaDavant d’un context social amb …

Religion, Empathy, and Cooperation: A Case Study in the Promises and Challenges of Modeling and Simulation

2019

The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) is developing a sophisticated naturalistic account of religion, grounded in empirical research. However, there are limitations to establishing an empirical basis for theories about religion’s role in human evolution. Computer modeling and simulation offers a way to address this experimental constraint. A case study in this approach was conducted on a key theory within CSR that recently has come under serious challenge: the Supernatural Punishment Hypothesis, which posits religion facilitated the shift from small, homogeneous social units to large, complex societies. It has been proposed that incorporating empathy as a proximate mechanism for cooperati…

Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility perception on consumer satisfaction with the brand

2016

Abstract Using two different studies we assess under what conditions Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) affects consumer satisfaction. In the first study, based on the American Customer Satisfaction Index, and a content analysis of CSR initiatives reported by 65 US companies, findings show a positive direct relationship between CSR and customer satisfaction with CSR training and environmental initiatives, but a negative direct relationship between CSR corporate communication initiatives and customer satisfaction. The second study, through an empirical study based on an online survey of consumers, points to a positive relationship between CSR and customer satisfaction. Our findings sugges…

FACTORS THAT MOTIVATE LATVIAN CONSUMERS TO PURCHASE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM SOCIAL ENTERPRISES IN LATVIA: THE CASE OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE CONSUMP…

2019

The purpose of the study is to -determine the relative importance of various factors that motivate Latvian consumers to purchase products and services from social enterprises in order to provide practical suggestions and recommendations for Latvian social enterprises that would allow them to improve their performance. The primary method used by the study is quantitative research by the means of an online survey of Latvian consumers of social enterprise products /services. The results of the research indicate that Latvian consumers find the product / service quality aspects, as well as aspects of social responsibility and convenience of the shopping location, on average, as most motivating t…