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Beyond Association: How Employees Want To Participate In Their Firms' Corporate Social Performance, David J. Hagenbuch, Steven W. Little, Doyle J. Lucas
Beyond Association: How Employees Want To Participate In Their Firms' Corporate Social Performance, David J. Hagenbuch, Steven W. Little, Doyle J. Lucas
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© 2015 Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. Although many studies have found a positive relationship between corporate social performance and employer attractiveness, few have examined how different forms of responsibility might mediate that attraction, particularly when those social practices afford different degrees of employee participation. The current study undertook this line of inquiry by examining prospective employees' attraction to three common approaches to corporate social performance (CSP) that offer increasing levels of participation: donation, volunteerism, and operational integration. Unexpectedly, findings from an empirical investigation challenged the study's main hypothesis; that is, prospective employees were least attracted to firms …
A Qualitative Investigation Of Self-Directed Learning In Senegal, West Africa And Its Implications For Human Resource Development, Andrew Babyak
A Qualitative Investigation Of Self-Directed Learning In Senegal, West Africa And Its Implications For Human Resource Development, Andrew Babyak
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the current status of self-directed learning by SME leaders in Senegal, West Africa, and then to identify some of the human resource development (HRD) implications. This qualitative study collected data through two sets of interviews. First, eight leaders who were either the owner or manager of SMEs in Senegal were interviewed through questions that focused on the four factors that Confessore (1992) identified as necessary for autonomous learning: (a) desire, (b) resourcefulness, (c) initiative, and (d) persistence. Results were then discussed while incorporating the importance of understanding some of the basic elements …
Difficult Choices In Total Compensation: Balancing Health Care Costs And Wage Increases, Jennifer Dose
Difficult Choices In Total Compensation: Balancing Health Care Costs And Wage Increases, Jennifer Dose
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This article describes an experiential exercise suitable for undergraduate or master’s-level students. The goals of the exercise are for students to correctly apply health insurance concepts such as premium, deductible, co-pay, and coinsurance; to understand and explain the dilemma facing organizations in an environment of increasing health care costs and limited compensation budgets; to discern and apply the concerns of employees with varying demographic profiles to health care cost sharing; and to develop competency in calculating health care costs at the organizational level. Students receive a scenario in which they act as an employee representative and are asked to provide …
The Diversity Of Diversity: Work Values Effects On Formative Team Processes, Jennifer Dose, Richard J. Klimoski
The Diversity Of Diversity: Work Values Effects On Formative Team Processes, Jennifer Dose, Richard J. Klimoski
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The benefits and drawbacks of homogeneity and heterogeneity for staffing work teams have been debated at length. The relevance of work values and work values similarity for effective team processes has been largely ignored, however. This article discusses the conditions under which work values and different work values types will impact early team processes and the implications of these relationships for staffing. Ways that work values similarity can mitigate against the negative effects of demographic diversity are discussed.