Die mentale Gesundheit von Fachkräften in der Traumapädagogik: Präventionsmöglichkeiten und Schutz vor Risiken

In ihrem beruflichen Alltag sind traumapädagogische Fachkräfte häufig mit Herausforderungen und belastenden Situationen konfrontiert, die zu mentalen Belastungen oder sogar Erkrankungen führen können. Daher sind Präventionsmaßnahmen, die vor oder auch während belastender Situationen ergriffen werden können, von entscheidender Bedeutung. Der freie Träger der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe „Margaretenhort gGmbH“ legt einen besonderen Fokus auf Traumapädagogik. Aus diesem Grund werden einige Pädagog*innen traumapädagogisch ausgebildet und arbeiten nach entsprechenden Grundhaltungen. Es wurden vier leitfadengestützte Expert*inneninterviews durchgeführt und anschließend mittels einer Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet, um die Forschungsfrage „Welche präventiven Maßnahmen können dazu beitragen, die mentale Gesundheit von Fachkräften in der Traumapädagogik zu schützen?“ zu beantworten. Unter Einhaltung der klassischen Gütekriterien wurden empirische Ergebnisse erzielt, die eine Vielzahl vorhandener Präventionsmöglichkeiten aufzeigen und von den Pädagog*innen genutzt werden. Gleichzeitig wurde auch Verbesserungsbedarf identifiziert. Die präzise geäußerten Wünsche der Expert*innen bestätigen dies. Zudem zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass auch viele präventive Selbstfürsorgemaßnahmen, die von den Expert*innen durchgeführt werden, ihre mentale Gesundheit fördern und vor potenziellen Belastungen schützen

Short-term versus long-term benefits: balanced sustainability framework and research propositions

Sustainability research has been expanding rapidly during recent decades. Such research takes various forms with the identification of mixed results. Even though there are several review articles on sustainability with valuable insights, the time dimension aspect of sustainability is totally missing in addition to lack of well-developed framework. This paper systematically reviews previous sustainability studies published in the refereed scientific journals for the past two decades to understand the evolution of sustainability issues in the business context and solutions proposed until now. The study categorizes the popular sustainability practices into short- and long-term practices based on the time effect, and link them with different forms of organizational capabilities and sustainability performance. The paper further proposes a two-dimensional sustainability framework that incorporates practices, capabilities and performance, and the balancing issues between short- and long-term sustainability. At the end, it suggests potential research directions for future research as well

Green supply chain practices and environmental performance in Brazil: Survey, case studies, and implications for B2B

This article examines whether or not customers cooperate in organisations' environmental performance, in what circumstances it happens; and how customers can collaborate with organisations in order to they improve their environmental performance. This research uses both the Ecological Modernisation (EM) and the Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) to analyse the effects of external Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practices, namely, ‘Cooperation with Customers’ (CC) and ‘Green Purchasing’ (GP) on the Environmental Performance (EP) of organisations. A multi-method research is used, combining a survey and multiple-case studies of Brazilian organisations. The main results and contributions of this research include: (a) the Brazilian setting, in the context of EM, provides incentives for adopting GSCM practices, especially CC practices; (b) Brazilian organisations depend more on customers than on suppliers to improve EP; and (c) an original matrix for a better understanding of the roles of suppliers and customers to achieve a better EP through a GSCM approach is proposed. This paper provides an extension to EM and RDT theories applied to green operations management by showing that external GSCM can improve EP and such process depends more on CC than GP. Implications for B2B are highlighted. © 2017 Elsevier Inc

Sustainable supply chain management: framework and further research directions

This paper argues for the use of Total Interpretive Structural Modeling (TISM) in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). The literature has identified antecedents and drivers for the adoption of SSCM. However, there is relatively little research on methodological approaches and techniques that take into account the dynamic nature of SSCM and bridge the existing quantitative/qualitative divide. To address this gap, this paper firstly systematically reviews the literature on SSCM drivers; secondly, it argues for the use of alternative methods research to address questions related to SSCM drivers; and thirdly, it proposes and illustrates the use of TISM and Cross Impact Matrix-multiplication applied to classification (MICMAC) analysis to test a framework that extrapolates SSCM drivers and their relationships. The framework depicts how drivers are distributed in various levels and how a particular driver influences the other through transitive links. The paper concludes with limitations and further research directions

Is environmental management an economically sustainable business?

This paper investigates whether environmental management is an economically sustainable business. While firms invest in green production and green supply chain activities with the primary purpose of reducing their environmental impact, the reciprocal relationships with economic performance need to be clarified. Would firms and suppliers adjust their environmental strategies if the higher economic value that environmental management generates is reinvested in greening actions? We found out that environmental management positively influences economic performance as second order (long term) target, to be reached conditioned by higher environmental performance; in addition, firms can increase their performance if they reinvest the higher economic value gained through environmental management in green practices: While investing in environmental management programs is a short term strategy, economic rewards can be obtained only with some delays. Consequently, environmental management is an economically sustainable business only for patient firms. In the evaluation of these reciprocal relationships, we discovered that green supply chain initiatives are more effective and more economically sustainable than internal actions