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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ROMANIA
The purpose of this paper is to identify the main opportunities and limitations of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The survey was defined with the aim to involve the highest possible number of relevant CSR topics and give the issue a more wholesome perspective. It provides a basis for further comprehension and deeper analyses of specific CSR areas. The conditions determining the success of CSR in Romania have been defined in the paper on the basis of the previously cumulative knowledge as well as the results of various researches. This paper provides knowledge which may be useful in the programs promoting CSR.Corporate social responsibility, Supportive policies, Romania
Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth
In the last years sustainability has become a topic of global concern and a key issue in the strategic agenda of both business organizations and public authorities and organisations.
Significant changes in business landscape, the emergence of new technology, including social media, the pressure of new social concerns, have called into question established conceptualizations of competitiveness, wealth creation and growth.
New and unaddressed set of issues regarding how private and public organisations manage and invest their resources to create sustainable value have brought to light. In particular the increasing focus on environmental and social themes has suggested new dimensions to be taken into account in the value creation dynamics, both at organisations and communities level.
For companies the need of integrating corporate social and environmental responsibility issues into strategy and daily business operations, pose profound challenges, which, in turn, involve numerous processes and complex decisions influenced by many stakeholders. Facing these challenges calls for the creation, use and exploitation of new knowledge as well as the development of proper management models, approaches and tools aimed to contribute to the development and realization of environmentally and socially sustainable business strategies and practices
(Re)assembling work in the Danish Post
The well-being of employees is currently a central matter of concern both in public and private
companies. If employees do not feel well, in the last instance they might experience a burn out or
fall ill from stress and thus add to the highly costly yet ever growing number filling up the statistics
of this modern epidemic. In short, well-being is key to productivity. For sure this is not a new story,
but at the core of organization and management theory: how to best organize the human resources
of production balancing off the need for increased productivity and the preservation of physical and
mental resources of the worker? In contrast to classic principles such as Taylor’s scientific management,
it seems today generally agreed that well-being thrives when work is organized by principles of
‘flexibility’, ‘learning’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘creativity’. However, at the same time workplaces and
organizations are under an enormous pressure towards standardization and optimization. This
dissertation investigates empirically competing or intersecting ways of organizing well-being and
productivity, with an analytic outset in the work task, departing from historically generated, however still
prevalent, dichotomies and normativities of standardization and flexibility respectively.
The empirical case of the dissertation is the organization of postal work in a big and formerly
publicly run distribution company in Denmark. Based on an ethnographic field work and the
employment of an auto-photographic method, the dissertation investigates how the current and
simultaneous efforts of standardization and flexibility configure the well-being(s) and productivities
of postal work. The theoretical framework is primarily informed by Actor Network Theory and
the dissertation attend to a detailed investigation of how well-being and productivity are enacted
in the daily work practices and the constant shifting/delegation going on between the inscribed
postal worker of work tools, standard procedures and management programs on the one side and
the routinized bodies of the postal workers on the other. Most of the time this results in ‘working
compatibilities’ silently enacting bodies-with-standards that are both productive and well. At other
times, however, controversy and conflicts arise, pointing to the fact that the presence of multiple
modes of organizing are not always productive.
The empirical chapters departs from selected auto-photographs that prompt different
unfoldings of the way postal work is organized – or sought organized – and the way well-being
and productivity arise as effects of these organizations. In this unfolding the analysis proceed on
a tension between phenomenological and actor-network theoretical readings of empirical material
creating a patchwork-like assemblage of postal work. This involves a stitching together of highly
mundane, corporeal practices and material such as bicycles and kickstands, personal experiences, the
researcher’s interpretations, the technical scripts of electric bikes, the norms of postal workers, the
discourse of management and the political-economic developments of European postal markets.
Through the empirical chapters, the dissertation depicts postal work not as a story of standardization
versus flexibility, but as a constant ‘juggling’ and balancing act between them. This is not a story of
humanization or the opposite, it is both at once. It is not a story of stabilization or perpetual change,
it is both at once. It is a story of the hanging-togetherness of an organization that displays multiple
versions of well-being and productivity as well as multiple controversies as a result of this. Depending
on the stakes one has in this complex organizational set-up, whether one is the postal worker, the local
manager, the HR consultant or perhaps the customer, preferences will differ, and indeed this is an
important discussion. What is the better way to organize postal work? The analysis presented in the
dissertation will not deliver the answer to this, but hopefully make the discussion a more qualified one,
by displacing old truths. Having as point of departure and final emphasis a heuristics of the work task,
the thesis aims to contribute to a specification of organization theory, HRM and work environment
theorizing, which otherwise tend to have lost its primary object: work
Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin
Undergraduate bulletin for Virginia Commonwealth University for the academic year 2016-2017. It includes information on academic regulations, degree requirements, course offerings, faculty, academic calendar, and tuition and expenses for undergraduate programs
Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin
Undergraduate bulletin for Virginia Commonwealth University for the academic year 2016-2017. It includes information on academic regulations, degree requirements, course offerings, faculty, academic calendar, and tuition and expenses for undergraduate programs
Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin
Undergraduate bulletin for Virginia Commonwealth University for the academic year 2019-2020. It includes information on academic regulations, degree requirements, course offerings, faculty, academic calendar, and tuition and expenses for undergraduate programs