Healthy Organizations and the Link to Peaceful Societies: Strategies for Implementing Organizational Change

When designing and implementing an organizational change process, we are intentionally and oftentimes significantly impacting the lives of the human beings who make up the organization. Individuals who work in organizations spend a majority of their time, usually at least five days each week, in an organizational setting or framework. If the organization is structured in a way that recognizes the needs of the employees; has a code of behavior—oftentimes referred to as the organizational values— that is civil and caring; uses the code of behavior to give developmental feedback to employees; and, creates opportunities for a variety of networks between people, the environment is very likely to be conducive for things such as positive conflict resolution and healthy organizational growth. If people are expected to behave respectfully and in a civil fashion, and if the organization intentionally promotes such behavior, the continuous, daily reinforcement of “a respectful way of working together” will often spill out into behavior outside of the organization. If we hope to change the world, it means we have to consider how to positively impact the thinking and the behavior of people at all ages. Families, schools, religious organizations, social groups and business organizations all have the potential of contributing to a more peaceful society by creating “rules of the game” that require respectful, civil and peaceful behaviors of their members.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39921/3/wp536.pd

Healthy Organizations and the Link to Peaceful Societies: Strategies for Implementing Organizational Change

When designing and implementing an organizational change process, we are intentionally and oftentimes significantly impacting the lives of the human beings who make up the organization. Individuals who work in organizations spend a majority of their time, usually at least five days each week, in an organizational setting or framework. If the organization is structured in a way that recognizes the needs of the employees; has a code of behavior—oftentimes referred to as the organizational values— that is civil and caring; uses the code of behavior to give developmental feedback to employees; and, creates opportunities for a variety of networks between people, the environment is very likely to be conducive for things such as positive conflict resolution and healthy organizational growth. If people are expected to behave respectfully and in a civil fashion, and if the organization intentionally promotes such behavior, the continuous, daily reinforcement of “a respectful way of working together” will often spill out into behavior outside of the organization. If we hope to change the world, it means we have to consider how to positively impact the thinking and the behavior of people at all ages. Families, schools, religious organizations, social groups and business organizations all have the potential of contributing to a more peaceful society by creating “rules of the game” that require respectful, civil and peaceful behaviors of their members.organizational behavior, leadership, leadership development, management, human resources, organizational development, change, values

The Russian diaspora in the Baltic states: the Trojan horse that never was

Thirty years ago this month, the world shook as one of the only two Superpowers unexpectedly collapsed, creating enormous ramifications for the 25 million ethnic Russians who found themselves as non-titular citizens outside the borders of the newly formed Russian Federation. This ‘beached diaspora’ has been left marginalised and treated with fear, by the Baltic States in their nation-building policies and has left many to think of this community as ‘ripe’ for Russian influence. This Strategic Update will analyse Russian soft power policies and the development of ‘Russkii Mir’ as a tool for utilising this diaspora to further its foreign policy. Tools, which have been seemingly unaffected to a community of autonomy seeking citizens

Toward a Public Relations Theory of Integration

Health and human service nonprofit organizations provide a multitude of support services to marginalized and underserved populations in the United States and abroad. Public relations and communications professionals are often focused on supporting goals that are directly tied to the organization which are also strongly tied to revenue seeking through increasing awareness of mission and need for financial contribution. This qualitative constructivist grounded theory study explores the extent to which public relations and communications roles can impact the integration of service populations into their communities.Through interviews with 13 refugee aid organization staff and 11 refugees, primary barriers to integration, including misinformation, powerlessness and unmet social capital needs, are identified, and the role of public relations as the trust builder and is explained. The major finding in this study theorizes how the maximization of trust through the implementation of strategic public relations and communications activities with external and internal stakeholders reduces barriers to service user community integration. The findings provide a theoretical model illustrating the processes by which public relations and communications can influence the integration of service populations into their communities. Keywords: Public relations, Integration, Refugees, Grounded Theory, Nonprofit, Communication

Learning to Teach in a Non Traditional Program: The Changing Conceptions and Increasing Sophistication of Understanding Teaching

This paper explores the ways in which students who are learning to teach in a non-traditional program experience changes in their conceptions of teaching and the ways in which they develop an increasing sophistication in their understanding of teaching and its complexities. Understanding the transformations in the conceptions of teaching these learners experience is central to teacher educators who are tasked with designing meaningful learning experiences for students of teaching, helping them in making visible core aspects of the practice of teaching that seem to remain hidden to novice learners. Documenting learners' conceptions of teaching and their transformations over time may also help teacher educators in assessing and addressing the learning needs of their students.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143843/1/AERA2018_CoolicanCameratti_04.12.2018.pdfDescription of AERA2018_CoolicanCameratti_04.12.2018.pdf : Conference Presentatio