Search results for "vastuu"

Benefitting from corporate social responsibility reports : examining the practices among European financial institurions

2016

"Switch the lights off” : Employee argumentation on acceptance or rejection of corporate environmentalism in a financial corporation

2013

This study explores the rhetorical strategies used by employees in a financial corporation to reject or accept corporate environmentalism among corporate responsibilities. The study is theoretically based on rhetoric and on prior research on acceptance or rejection of corporate environmentalism among other corporate responsibilities in an organization. A qualitative study, based on face-to-face interviews was conducted among 30 employees in a Finnish financial corporation. The study shows that employees reject corporate environmentalism based on value priorities and perception of little or no environmental impacts. They accept corporate environmentalism among other responsibilities based on…

Organisational Drivers and Challenges in Circular Economy Implementation : An Issue Life Cycle Approach

2022

Business is a significant cause of various global sustainability challenges addressed by the Circular Economy (CE), making companies instrumental in the transition from a linear economic model to a circular one. While drivers and challenges in corporate CE implementation have been researched on an organisational level, a more detailed understanding is needed regarding their contextual nature and interplay with the evolution of CE implementation in a company. Utilising issue life cycle theory, this study contributes to the literature on CE implementation in business by displaying differences in corporate CE implementation drivers and challenges, relating to the time since starting, and the …

Teollisuuden uudet verkostomaiset toimintamallit materiaalitehokkuuden ja kestävän kilpailukyvyn edistäjinä : kehityspolku kohti uusia toimintatapoja

2014

Henkilöstövastuu listayhtiöiden vastuullisuusraportoinnissa

2015

Tutkielmassa tarkasteltiin henkilöstövastuun ilmenemistä pörssilistattujen yhtiöiden vastuullisuusraporteissa ja vuosikertomuksissa. Tutkimustavoitteena oli selvittää millaisen kuvan suomalainen pörssiin listattu yhtiö antaa henkilöstövastuullisuudestaan vastuullisuusraportoinnissaan. Tutkimuksen tutkimustehtävänä oli miten henkilöstövastuuta kuvataan vastuullisuusraporteissa ja vuosikertomuksissa. Laadullisen tutkimuksen aineistona olivat 10 suomalaisen pörssilistatun yrityksen vuoden 2013 vastuullisuusraportin tai vuosikertomuksen henkilöstövastuusta kertovat osiot. Tutkimusmenetelmänä oli sisällönanalyysi. Tulosten perusteella yritykset raportoivat eniten koulutuksesta ja henkilöstön keh…

Nuoret hoivaajat : näkymättömästä näkyväksi?

2021

Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies : a role-based framework

2022

Low-carbon transitions in industrialised societies will have significant social, economic and environmental impacts, raising concerns of justice. Calls for urgent transitions evoke a question about the roles of different actors in advancing transitions and ensuring they are just. While the responsibilities for emission mitigation have been long discussed, responsibilities for making a just transition have not. The question about responsibilities is particularly pressing because of the diverse constellation of actors involved in climate action, including diverse forms of non-state actors from city-level and business alliances to grassroots activists. We examine the responsibilities of state …

Using the past responsibly: what responsible managers and management academics can learn from historians professional ethics

2020

Responsible Human Resource in Practice : Towards a Family-friendly Workplace

2019

The purpose of this case study is twofold. First, a family-friendly development program in a Finnish health care organization is considered a good example of an attempt to develop an advanced workplace regarding work-family integration. The core idea of the program is that in a family-friendly workplace, human resource practices take employees’ varying circumstances into account. Second, the qualitative data gathered from the case are used to explore employees’ perceptions of family-friendliness, as well as the successes and pitfalls of adopting the development program to enhance work-family integration. The results show that the relationship between employees and their immediate superiors …

Can corporate social responsibility (CSR) be recruited? : an insight to future employees' values and perceptions on attractive employers

2013

Many businesses acknowledge that they want to achieve the best possible employees in order to succeed in the markets in the near future. This study takes a stance on who these employees, the future talents, are and what do they value, especially from the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) point of view. Thus future employees’ values and their aspirations towards attractive employers are observed in this qualitative, theme-interview based study conducted to Master’s level students of University of Jyväskylä, School of Business and Economics. The results show that there are five (5) different classes of future employees, which are Environmental Idealists, Equality Enhancers, Corporate Mone…