Responsabilidad social empresarial como compromiso ético

Al considerar que una organización es una construcción social, constituida por un conjunto de personas y recursos que de forma articulada pretenden satisfacer necesidades y/o solucionar problemas potenciales y reales en su entorno, se hace evidente que todas las decisiones tomadas por los directivos deben estar enmarcadas por las leyes, creencias, y costumbres que regulan los comportamientos y las interacciones individuales y colectivas. Lo cual implica, que las empresas están obligadas no solo a cumplir con la normativa vigente sino a ir mas allá, aportando activamente en la construcción de una sociedad sostenible que de lugar a la continuidad operativa de las actividades empresariale

Investigating the Self-Efficacy Awareness of Black Female Technology Leaders

Black female technology leaders lack leadership opportunities, which affects their self-efficacy and is a crucial concern. Self-efficacy is based on the concept that an individual’s belief in what they can achieve influences their actions and how much effort they invest in the selected action. Self-persuasion can provide high or low self-satisfaction as a determinant for creating incentives for success or failure and converting thoughts and emotions to actions. Limited research has investigated the mindset, the thought patterns, and the self-belief undertaken by Black females in the world of technology. Despite limited amounts of research, data suggest that Black female leaders in technology develop self-belief, self-influence, and self-empowerment for self-sustainment to face and overcome the challenges placed before them in their occupational environment. With 10 Black female technology leaders from various parts of the United States, this qualitative study was conducted based on data from a demographic interview questionnaire. Using NVivo, the researcher analyzed (a) the experiences, successes, challenges, barriers, needs, and awareness of the participants and (b) the extent to which the participants articulated a connection between mental fortitude and the workplace environment. Each examination was aimed toward the individual’s self-belief, self-perception, and self-discernment of their conduct to identify transformative measures to remove disparities in the technology atmosphere. The data are organized into six encompassing themes (a) history of working women, (b) history of African American women in technology, (c) factors of leadership that demotivate hiring Black females, (d) barriers for Black females working in technology, (e) ways to promote self-efficacy and self-awareness, and (f) future leadership roles for Black females. This study provides crucial insight into the fundamental survival-to-thriving techniques Black female technology leaders associate with developing success within the workplace environment, where too many Black females did not find a pathway to high attainment. This research study was composed to showcase the lived experiences of Black female technology leaders who honed their self-belief expertise, moving beyond perceived and actual barriers to create an inner-winner strategy. The arduous journey of self-belief and self-awareness instills self-knowledge that makes the individual their most potent

Loneliness, Grief and the (Un)Caring State

This essay analyzes Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004) from the perspective of “ugly feelings” (Ngai 2005) such as disavowed mourning (Butler, 2004, xiv) or loneliness in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Following Butler’s contention of the hindered possibility for community in the recognition of US national vulnerability (2004), I will argue that Rankine’s work underscores the disparities in public recognition of grief and private care for Othered subjects’ pain. In particular, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely displays a series of physical and mental collective ailments in US citizens, such as medicalized depression, as Rankine attempts to bear witness to the institutionalized injustice and erasure of the violence exerted upon America’s precarious bodies, enacting a form of recognition, only if temporary, through the fragmented use of the narrative/lyric ‘I’

Blowing Up the Nuclear Family: Shirley Jackson’s Queer Girls in Postwar US Culture

This paper intends to analyze the representation of girlhood as a liminal space in three novels by Shirley Jackson: The Bird’s Nest(1954), The Haunting of Hill House(1959) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle(1962). Bearing in mind how nuclear fears and national identity are configured around the ideal of a safe domestic space in US postwar culture, the paper explores cultural anxieties aboutteenage girls who refuse to conform to normative femininity, following Teresa de Lauretis’s conception of women’s coming-of-age as “consenting to femininity” (1984).I will argue that Jackson criticizes the rigid possibilities for women at this time, and I will show how her representations of deviant femininity refuse and subvert the discourse ofthe nuclear familyand, therefore, of the nation.El presente artículo pretende analizar la representación de la adolescencia femenina como un espacio liminal en tres novelas de Shirley Jackson: The Bird’s Nest(1954), The Haunting of Hill House(1959) y We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962). Teniendo en cuenta cómo los temores nucleares y la identidad nacional se configuran en torno al ideal de un espacio doméstico seguro en la cultura estadounidense de la posguerra, el artículo explora las preocupaciones culturales acerca delas adolescentes que se niegan a ajustarse a la feminidad normativa, siguiendo la concepción de Teresa de Lauretis de la madurez femenina como la “aceptación la feminidad” (1984). Se argumentará que Jackson critica las rígidas posibilidades que existían para las mujeres en ese momento, y se demostrará cómo sus representaciones de una feminidad desviada rechazan y subvierten el discurso de la familia nuclear y, por lo tanto, de la nación