Civil organizations. More politics for less organisation: Aristotle´s social theory

There is a lack in analysing Third Sector from a philosophical perspective. It is very complicated to answer many questions that are arising: Why men are concerned to the problems other men are involved in? Which is the driving force of the Social Sector? Why are NGOs legitimated to support social matters? What have NGOs to do in the XIX century? This questions need to be answered to fix correctly future strategy, mission and objectives. It is necessary to build an ethical-political frame to understand how Third Sector works. This paper studies the relationship between NGO and beneficiary, the changes happened in the XX century and the challenges NGO need to face in the forthcoming years.Non Profit Organisations, Third Sector, Ethics, Ethical-political focus, Relationship, Liberty

The why, when, and how of Corporate Social Responsibility

Reflecting on the question of who is the principal subject of social responsibility in the business sphere, Greenfield sets out a number of common assumptions among practitioners in the field and tries to dismantle them through a critical review of recent literature. Some of his reflections need to be nuanced from an ethical basis and elaborated upon from a practical point of view. Taking as our starting point Greenfield´s conclusion "there is no such thing as business ethics, only ethics of individual business men and women", this article aims to look in more depth at the consequences of regulating personal ethics and referring it to an institution.Business ethics, Corporate social responsibility, Strategy

The fate of non-trivial entanglement under gravitational collapse

We analyse the evolution of the entanglement of a non-trivial initial quantum field state (which, for simplicity, has been taken to be a bipartite state made out of vacuum and the first excited state) when it undergoes a gravitational collapse. We carry out this analysis by generalising the tools developed to study entanglement behaviour in stationary scenarios and making them suitable to deal with dynamical spacetimes. We also discuss what kind of problems can be tackled using the formalism spelled out here as well as single out future avenues of research.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures. v2: Added Journal reference and small changes to match published versio

Linking Marketing And Manufacturing Strategies: Unifying Approach Using QFD

(WP30/02 Clave pdf) The success of any product depends essentially on the response of this products to customer expectations. The companies that accurately respond to consumer needs take a crucial market leadership in an environmental characterized for high competitive, resulting from high variability of products and processes. Marketing and manufacturing strategies provide a way to obtain basic and important information about customer´s expectations and incorporate them into a finished product. A coincidence in objectives for both strategies would permit to warranty a better translation of customer needs as QFD approach require....Manufacturing strategies, Marketing strategy, Quality Function Deployment

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Policies on the Employees´ Psychological Contract

(WP33/02 Clave pdf) The relations between the organizations and their employees are governed by a highly complex framework of motives and perceptions difficult to unravel. As a result of the daily practice of such relationship, there is a permanent exchange of individual efforts and incentives for the sake of satisfaction of organizational needs. The objective of the present work is to look into the essence of such exchanges and specifically to analyse the power of certain corporate policies, such as Social Responsibility ones, as incentives both for stimulating employee´s willingness to cooperate and for enriching his/her commitment with the company...Business alliances, Business ethics, Corporate social responsibility, Psychological contract, Social cause

An international perspective on the determinants of local government fragmentation

The main questions addressed in this paper are the identification of the main determinants of jurisdictional fragmentation as presently observed across countries and how well those findings line up with the predictions of the expanded standard model of optimal jurisdiction size. To our knowledge, to date, there does not exit a rigorous study analyzing the cross-country determinants of fragmentation in the way this issue has been previously analyzed for some particular countries. At the outset, country fixed effects can be expected to loom large and powerful. Each country with its own history conditioned by a myriad of details, including colonial legacies, geography or ethnic and linguistic fragmentation, are likely to have contributed to heterogeneous levels of fragmentation. These factors could all be summarized in what is often termed the long shadow or the “dead hand” of history. Indeed, some countries may still have the same vertical structure of government that they had many decades ago. But there are also many countries that have changed their governmental structures over the years. So in this paper we would like to find out what may the common determinants that have led to those changes, and also perhaps to help us better understand if those common determinants can also be used to explain why other countries have changed so little. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In section 2 we offer a simple extension of the conventional model for optimal jurisdiction size. In section 3 we review the literature on government fragmentation and its impact. In section 4 we outline the empirical model proposed for the analysis of jurisdictional fragmentation. In section 5 we present the results from our estimations. We conclude in section 6

Implementació de la signatura electrònica en el procés de contractació de personal

Projecte presentat al 7è Premi a la Qualitat de la Gestió Universitària, convocat pel Consell Social de la UPCEls principals objectius son: • Agilitzar la signatura de contractes amb un estalvi de temps i una millor eficiència en el tràmit. • Eliminar l’enviament de documents per a la signatura a les unitats, als treballadors i als representants sindicals. • Donar accés a les còpies dels documents al treballador mitjançant el Portal del treballador PDI/PAS. • Proporcionar un sistema d’explotació de l’arxiu per als diferents gestors per tal de fer front a auditories, justificacionsPeer ReviewedAward-winningPostprint (author's final draft

Desarrollo de los procesos didácticos de la comprensión lectora en el nivel primario

El presente plan de acción se sustenta en la importancia de que nuestra institución educativa impulsa una educación de calidad, acorde a la demanda educativa, apostando por la formación integral de nuestros estudiantes, siendo necesario que los docentes estén altamente capacitados, por ello en el marco del desarrollo de la segunda especialidad en Gestión Escolar con Liderazgo Pedagógico, surge el presente trabajo de investigación, titulado. DESARROLLO DE PROCESOS DIDÁCTICOS DE LA COMPRENSIÓN LECTORA EN EL NIVEL PRIMARIO, teniendo como objetivos: desarrollar las capacidades pedagógicas de los docentes en procesos didácticos de la comprensión lectora, mejorar la práctica docente mediante el acompañamiento y monitoreo y mejorar el clima escolar mediante el desarrollo de sesiones de tutoría. La teoría o supuestos teóricos en la que se sustenta son: los procesos didácticos de la comprensión lectora, que son actividades desarrolladas por el docente de manera intencional con el objeto de mediar en el aprendizaje significativo del estudiante, estas prácticas docentes son un conjunto de acciones intersubjetivas y saberes que acontecen entre los que participan en el proceso educativo con la finalidad de construir conocimientos, clarificar valores y desarrollar competencias para la vida en común. Teniendo como referente el enfoque crítico reflexivo y, las cinco dimensiones de Viviane Robinson quienes se interrelacionan con los cinco compromisos de gestión escolar, siendo primordial su cumplimiento en bien de la institución educativa. Frente a la problemática diagnosticada en nuestra institución educativa LIMITADA APLICACIÓN DE LOS PROCESOS DIDÁCTICOS DE LA COMPRESIÓN LECTORA EN EL NIVEL PRIMARIO, se requiere fortalecer las capacidades pedagógicas de los docentes relacionadas a la adecuada aplicación de procesos didácticos de la Comprensión Lectora, mediante la conformación de las comunidades de aprendizaje y el desarrollo de capacitaciones en alianzas con entidades formadoras.Trabajo académic