Corporate social responsibility and external stakeholders’ health and wellbeing: a viewpoint

In recent years there has been increased interest in the role played by business corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies in promoting the health and wellbeing of internal and external stakeholders. However, the sparse public health research to date has mainly focused on the health and wellbeing of internal stakeholders. This viewpoint article aims to ignite discussion of how CSR strategies need to also target external stakeholders beyond the workplace. Businesses have an opportunity to help address the most important societal challenges, especially the social determinants of health which are the root causes of inequities in health. However, while advancing a new agenda for promoting external stakeholders’ health, businesses need to take into account potential challenges that might arise from ethical conflicts when trying to balance their CSR initiatives against their business operations

Arbetsattityder vid milleniumskiftet

Föreliggande studie undersöker generell mental förmåga i barndomen och dess påverkan på arbetstrivseln som vuxen. Studien utgår ifrån ett longitudinellt urval på nästan 1000 kvinnor och män som följts från 10 års ålder till 48 års ålder. Skillnader i generell mental förmåga och arbetstrivsel med hänsyn till olika yrkesnivåer och yrkesområden undersöktes. Resultaten visade att generell mental förmåga respektive arbetstrivsel skilde sig åt mellan olika yrkesnivåer och yrkesområden. Det fanns interaktionseffekter mellan yrkesnivåer och kön. Resultaten indikerade på en självselektion in i arbetslivet vilket i sig har betydelse för den långsiktiga anpassningen.This study investigates the impact of childhood general mental ability on adult job satisfaction using a longitudinal sample of almost 1 000 women and men followed from age 10 to age 48. Differences and were examined with respect to both general mental ability and job satisfaction between different occupational levels and occupational areas. Results show that general mental ability and job satisfaction vary between different occupational levels and areas. Interaction effects were shown between occupational level and gender. The results indicated a self selection into adult working life, which, in turn, has implications for longterm adjustment

Might high-ability pupils be teachers’ headache: the “justice” in rating?

Pupils’ grades in school are affected by several factors, including mental ability and classroom be-haviour. The aim of the present study was to explore any age-related differences in classroom be-haviour and academic skills with respect to higher or lower mental ability and gender among 6–11-year-old pupils (n=194) in a Swedish school setting. Raven’s matrixes were used, and ANOVAs were carried out. There were differences in teacher ratings in Swedish and Mathematic, partly ex-plained by interaction effects. There were significant differences between the measurement points. The high ability pupils´ lower teacher ratings in Mathematics, may depend on underachievement