Communication, social capital and workplace health management as determinants of the innovative climate in German banks

The present study aims to measure the determinants of the innovative climate in German banks with a focus on workplace health management (WHM). We analyze the determinants of innovative climate with multiple regressions using a dataset based on standardized telephone interviews conducted with health promotion experts from 198 randomly selected German banks. The regression analysis provided a good explanation of the variance in the dependent variable (RA(2)A = 55%). Communication climate (beta = 0.55; p < 0.001), social capital (beta = 0.21; p < 0.01), the establishment of a WHM program (beta = 0.13; p < 0.05) as well as company size (beta = 0.15; p < 0.01) were found to have a significant impact on an organization's innovative climate. In order to foster an innovation-friendly climate, organizations should establish shared values. An active step in this direction involves strengthening the organizations' social capital and communication climate through trustworthy management decisions such as the implementation of a WHM program

The homo patiens as an outsider of society. On the cultural and psychological exclusion of those who are different

The paper analyzes the problems of social inclusion of the homo patiens as a result of cultural patterns of deeply anchored personal dispositions of social exclusion of the alterity of the otherness. The processes of deinstitutionalization are therefore not only structured by path dependencies resulting from institutions and from the interests of the actors; cultural stigmatization is at work, which has a deep impact on the affectivity of the person in social interactions