Gobernanza del “espacio blanco”: desarrollo, identidad y procesos dinámicos para aumentar la sustentabilidad y la responsabilidad social

Sustentabilidade e responsabilidade social envolvem, de forma crescente, temáticas como identidade e qualidade de vida para entrar prontamente e de forma mais profunda nos processos de tomadade decisão, especialmente nos decisões intersetoriais. Para essa nova interação são necessários redesenhos e reformas de “governança”. Este artigo explora um case do sul da Bahia, no Brasil, onde um novo tipo de mecanismo de governança cruzada faz prever um direcionamento mais efetivo para os prementes desafios sociais, econômicos e ambientais do século XXI.Sustainability and social responsibility increasingly require ecological and social concerns like identity and quality of life to enter earlier and more deeply into the decision making process, especially intersector decisions. To accomplish this, new interaction designs and “governance” reforms are needed. This article explores a case in Southern Bahia, Brazil, where a new type of cross-sector governance mechanism holds promise for more effectively addressing pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges of the 21st century.Sustentabilidad y responsabilidad social envuelven, de forma creciente, temáticas como identidad y cualidad de vida para entrar rápidamente y de forma más profunda en los procesos de tomada de decisión, especialmente en las decisiones intersectoriales. Para esa nueva interacción son necesarios rediseños y reformas de “gobernanza”. Este artículo explorará un case del sud de Bahía, en el Brasil, donde un nuevo tipo de mecanismo de gobernanza cruzada hace prever un direccionamiento más efectivo para los permanentes desafíos sociales, económicos y ambientales del siglo XXI

A Framework for Transforming Departmental Culture to Support Educational Innovation

This paper provides a research-based framework for promoting institutional change in higher education. To date, most educational change efforts have focused on relatively narrow subsets of the university system (e.g., faculty teaching practices or administrative policies) and have been largely driven by implicit change logics; both of these features have limited the success of such efforts at achieving sustained, systemic change. Drawing from the literature on organizational and cultural change, our framework encourages change agents to coordinate their activities across three key levels of the university and to ground their activities in the various change perspectives that emerge from that literature. We use examples from a change project that we have been carrying out at a large research university to illustrate how our framework can be used as a basis for planning and implementing holistic change.Comment: 15 pages, 0 figures, submitted to Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Researc

Research into employee trust:epistemological foundations and paradigmatic boundaries

This article explores the epistemological roots and paradigmatic boundaries of research into employee trust, a growing field in human resource management. Drawing on Burrell and Morgan's well-known sociological paradigms and their epistemological foundations, we identify the dominant approaches to employee trust research to examine its strengths and limitations. Our review of the literature on employee trust revealed that the majority of the most cited papers were written from a psychological perspective, characterised by positivistic methodologies, variance theory explanations and quantitative data collection methods. We also found that most of the studies can be located in the functionalist paradigm, and while accepting that functionalism and psychological positivism have their merits, we argue that research in these traditions sometimes constrains our understanding of employee trust in their organisations. We conclude that trust researchers would benefit from a better understanding of the ontological, epistemological and axiological assumptions underlying of HRM research and should embrace greater epistemic reflexivity

Unlocking the black box: exploring the link between perceive organizational support and resistance to change

[[abstract]]Past studies have inferred an indirect relationship between Perceived Organisational Support and Resistance to Change. Making clear the “black box” between Perceived Organisational Support and Resistance to Change is crucial to predict the success of organizational change. Drawing upon organizational support theory and conservation of resources theory, this research was conducted in an attempt to offer a systematic analysis on employees' positive psychology in organizational change. The total valid sample consisted of 288 employees from Taiwanese consumer electronics manufacturing which were undergoing organizational change. The theoretical framework was analyzed by LISREL model. Results showed that Readiness for Change had negatively direct effects on Resistance to Change, and indicated that Readiness for Change mediated the relationships between Perceived Organisational Support and Resistance to Change, and Readiness for Change also mediated the relationships between Positive Psychological Capital and Resistance to Change. Finally, this study proposes managerial implications and highlights future research suggestions.[[notice]]補正完

Pratos e mais pratos: louças domésticas, divisões culturais e limites sociais no Rio de Janeiro, século XIX

Reply to ten comments on a paper published in the last issue of this journal. The discussion follows along six main lines: History museums, identity, ideology and the category of nation; the need of material collections and their modalities: patrimonial, operational, virtual; theater versus laboratory; visitors and their ambiguities; Public History: the museum and the academy.Resposta aos comentários de dez especialistas que contribuíram no debate de texto publicado no último número desta revista. A discussão orientou-se segundo seis tópicos principais: museus históricos, identidade, ideologia e a categoria de nação; a necessidade de acervos materiais e suas modalidades: acervo patrimonial, operacional, virtual; teatro versus laboratório; o público e suas ambigüidades; História Pública: o museu e a Academia