Responsables, Sostenibles, Universitarios como vía de lucha contra el cambio climático: El caso de la ETSIMontes, Forestal y del Medio Natural (UPM)

La universidad responsable juega un rol importante en el cambio climático. Le compete promover la responsabilidad empresarial, la responsabilidad social científica y la responsabilidad social ciudadana, y lo hace a través de tres enfoques distintos: Gerencial, basado en la rendición de cuentas a sus grupos de interés; Transformacional, muy comprometida socialmente, a través de actividades de voluntariado o cooperación al desarrollo; o Normativo, con el propósito de fortalecer el papel de la educación superior desde el servicio público, la relevancia y la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria. En este sentido, la Escuela Técnica de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, primera entidad pública española con la validación de la ISO 26000, se erige como entidad de transformación, como modelo de actuación y, especialmente, de lucha contra el cambio climático, dada la naturaleza de sus enseñanzas y el enfoque de su estrategia RSU: Responsables, Sostenibles y Universitarios

Saber es Hacer: Una Experiencia Innovadora en la Enseñanza de Catastro.

La enseñanza de la asignatura de Catastro en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes y en la Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Forestal ha sufrido modificaciones en cuanto a su metodología pedagógica, de manera que se ha incrementado el índice de recuerdo por parte de los alumnos una vez finalizados sus estudios. Este punto se ha logrado tras aplicar herramientas de análisis estratégico (DAFO) con el fin de detectar debilidades, amenazas, fortalezas y oportunidades que presentaban dichas asignaturas. Una vez descritas éstas, se han diseñado métodos para mejorar la calidad de la docencia en las mismas

Perception of employers and employees regarding the attitude of businesses toward the environment: a qualitative analysis

Commitment and involvement from the different members of an organization are two key elements for an organization to achieve its environmental excellence. Firstly, businesses are aware of the close relationship between their activities and the environment, for they are not only polluting agents but also agents with the capacity to reduce adverse environmental impacts. Secondly, the fact that employees can play a relevant role in terms of the socially responsible measures to be taken by organizations has started to become an irrefutably important issue. This piece of research is intended to help gain knowledge concerning the attitude of the two main actors in productive activity toward the environmental, that is, employers and employees; as well, this research intends to identify factors determining behaviour towards the environmental. For this, we have gathered the ideas and assessments contained in the discourse of a group of small and medium-sized businesses, large company owners and officers, employees, and work related risk prevention representatives. Qualitative work consisted of in-depth interviews and the creation of discussion groups

Female counsellors in the Spanish multinational listed companies (2012-2014)

One of the most important corporate governance controls widely studies the role performed by the board of directors and its consequences on the financial performance of companies. Different approaches analyse how a firm can improve its financial future and today parity on boards of directors represents a new research line. The presence of female counsellors may depend on legal and cultural approaches. As the institutional theory establishes, firms must be adapted to the countries where they operate in order to success when accessing financial markets. In this respect, this paper ads a new line of research based on whether a listed company operates in multiple countries or not and analyses the linkage between the multinational character of a company, the gender diversity of the board and the financial 2 performance of the firm. This paper focuses on Spain, which could be ground-breaking on female presence on boards, as Norway is, but only follow light recommendations. The method used is simple regression analysis. The results show that the multinational characteristic of listed companies has no effect on gender diversity but that gender has a negative relation with the financial performance of these firms. Our study also opens various lines of future research

Web 2.0 en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Aplicación a la enseñanza de Economía de la Empresa

El uso de Internet y su evolución acelerada en el tiempo no afecta exclusivamente a las empresas, sino que su ritmo viene marcado precisamente por los que se han de considerar nuevos productores de contenido en la Red. La Universidad no puede quedarse atrás en el uso de las TIC pero tampoco puede centrarse exclusivamente en plataformas de aprendizaje on-line de sofisticación elevada –OCW, Moodle, entre otros-, pero sin otorgar poder para modificar y generar contenidos a los usuarios. La Unidad Docente de Organización de Empresas del Departamento de Economía y Gestión Forestal de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid propone el uso de plataformas Web 2.0 con el objeto de desarrollar competencias tradicionales y competencias 2.0. Estas plataformas tienen una gran acogida entre el alumnado, presentan utilidad tanto en el presente como en el futuro, y se puede utilizar como plataforma de Learning 2.0 de la Economía y Organización de Empresa

Mejoramiento de la productividad en una industria maderera usando incentivo remunerativo

Se estudió el efecto en la productividad de la elaboración de blanks a partir de la implementación de un modelo de incentivo salarial del tipo Improshare, dirigido al personal de una empresa chilena de remanufacturado de maderera que produce molduras y marcos de puerta (ayudante, operador medio y operador máster), para lo cual se compararon dos periodos de tiempo, antes (19 meses) y después (21 meses) de la implementación de la política de incentivo. Los resultados mostraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en la productividad lograda entre periodos que superó el 10%. Se midió el beneficio promedio de la remuneración de los trabajadores, que llegó a más del 10% y el ahorro de la empresa llegó al 4,6% de la unidad monetaria definida, sin que se haya visto afectada la tasa de accidentabilidad. Lo anterior refuerza lo señalado por diferentes autores que concuerdan que este tipo de herramientas contribuye a mejorar la productividad del proceso e incrementar el salario del trabajador. Su implementación como política salarial en la industria maderera, aporta significativamente a los desafíos de una organización por mantenerse competitiva, así como mejorar la remuneración del trabajador en base a una relación de beneficio mutuo con la empresa

Responsabilidad Social Empresarial o Certificación Forestal: dos enfoques de compromiso social en el Sector Forestal Uruguayo.

Congreso Forestal Españo

Relationship between soil CO2 emissions and remediation of hydrocarbons in the european BIOXISOIL project

The EU LIFE+ Programme BIOXISOIL project examines a new scenario for the decontamination of heavy hydrocarbons and encompasses scientific, ecological and social criteria. For this purpose, it combines innovative technologies, based on the metabolic capacity of plants and microorganisms, with in situ chemical oxidation. One of the project goals is to determine the possible relationship between remediation and soil CO2 emissions

Initial invasive or conservative strategy for stable coronary disease

BACKGROUND Among patients with stable coronary disease and moderate or severe ischemia, whether clinical outcomes are better in those who receive an invasive intervention plus medical therapy than in those who receive medical therapy alone is uncertain. METHODS We randomly assigned 5179 patients with moderate or severe ischemia to an initial invasive strategy (angiography and revascularization when feasible) and medical therapy or to an initial conservative strategy of medical therapy alone and angiography if medical therapy failed. The primary outcome was a composite of death from cardiovascular causes, myocardial infarction, or hospitalization for unstable angina, heart failure, or resuscitated cardiac arrest. A key secondary outcome was death from cardiovascular causes or myocardial infarction. RESULTS Over a median of 3.2 years, 318 primary outcome events occurred in the invasive-strategy group and 352 occurred in the conservative-strategy group. At 6 months, the cumulative event rate was 5.3% in the invasive-strategy group and 3.4% in the conservative-strategy group (difference, 1.9 percentage points; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.8 to 3.0); at 5 years, the cumulative event rate was 16.4% and 18.2%, respectively (difference, 121.8 percentage points; 95% CI, 124.7 to 1.0). Results were similar with respect to the key secondary outcome. The incidence of the primary outcome was sensitive to the definition of myocardial infarction; a secondary analysis yielded more procedural myocardial infarctions of uncertain clinical importance. There were 145 deaths in the invasive-strategy group and 144 deaths in the conservative-strategy group (hazard ratio, 1.05; 95% CI, 0.83 to 1.32). CONCLUSIONS Among patients with stable coronary disease and moderate or severe ischemia, we did not find evidence that an initial invasive strategy, as compared with an initial conservative strategy, reduced the risk of ischemic cardiovascular events or death from any cause over a median of 3.2 years. The trial findings were sensitive to the definition of myocardial infarction that was used

Health-status outcomes with invasive or conservative care in coronary disease

BACKGROUND In the ISCHEMIA trial, an invasive strategy with angiographic assessment and revascularization did not reduce clinical events among patients with stable ischemic heart disease and moderate or severe ischemia. A secondary objective of the trial was to assess angina-related health status among these patients. METHODS We assessed angina-related symptoms, function, and quality of life with the Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) at randomization, at months 1.5, 3, and 6, and every 6 months thereafter in participants who had been randomly assigned to an invasive treatment strategy (2295 participants) or a conservative strategy (2322). Mixed-effects cumulative probability models within a Bayesian framework were used to estimate differences between the treatment groups. The primary outcome of this health-status analysis was the SAQ summary score (scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating better health status). All analyses were performed in the overall population and according to baseline angina frequency. RESULTS At baseline, 35% of patients reported having no angina in the previous month. SAQ summary scores increased in both treatment groups, with increases at 3, 12, and 36 months that were 4.1 points (95% credible interval, 3.2 to 5.0), 4.2 points (95% credible interval, 3.3 to 5.1), and 2.9 points (95% credible interval, 2.2 to 3.7) higher with the invasive strategy than with the conservative strategy. Differences were larger among participants who had more frequent angina at baseline (8.5 vs. 0.1 points at 3 months and 5.3 vs. 1.2 points at 36 months among participants with daily or weekly angina as compared with no angina). CONCLUSIONS In the overall trial population with moderate or severe ischemia, which included 35% of participants without angina at baseline, patients randomly assigned to the invasive strategy had greater improvement in angina-related health status than those assigned to the conservative strategy. The modest mean differences favoring the invasive strategy in the overall group reflected minimal differences among asymptomatic patients and larger differences among patients who had had angina at baseline