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Public Image (public + image)
Selected AbstractsLatino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race by Arlene DávilaAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2010GILBERTO ROSAS No abstract is available for this article. [source] New value partnerships: the lessons of Denny's/Save the Children partnership for building high-yielding cross-sector alliancesINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SECTOR MARKETING, Issue 3 2001Shirley Sagawa While business and nonprofit organisations have long used alliances within their own sectors to address specific needs, increasingly they are turning to cross-sector partnerships that benefit both parties while they serve the common good. In the last decade, marketing alliances between businesses and social sector organisations have become increasingly common as ways for companies to achieve business objectives and for social sector organisations to raise their visibility and attract new resources. The alliance between Denny's and Save the Children provides an example of a noteworthy marketing partnership that shows how a cross-sector alliance can assist a company with a damaged public image to build a new public identity while enabling an international nonprofit organisation to create an ambitious programme for US children. As a new value partnership, a long-term, high yielding alliance between businesses and social sector organisations, this relationship is characterised by several elements: communication, opportunity, mutuality, multiple levels, open-endedness, and new value, forming the acronym COMMON. Copyright © 2001 Henry Stewart Publications [source] THE CEO: A VISIBLE HAND IN WEALTH CREATION?JOURNAL OF APPLIED CORPORATE FINANCE, Issue 3 2000C. K. Prahalad Commensurate with the growth of their pay packages and public visibility, the role of the CEO in the corporate value creation process has increased significantly in recent years. This article argues that sustained wealth creation in a corporation has three distinct elements. The first and most basic is the selection of the lines of business in which to operate; this element is probably the most visible manifestation of CEO action in large corporations today. The second element is the value creation model, which answers the question: How is this particular set of businesses expected to add value over and above the sum of the values of each business or asset category standing alone? The third element is the internal governance system, which establishes the corporate structure and administrative processes of the firm and, perhaps even more important, defines the corporate values that drive the strategic and operational priorities of the different business units. The authors suggest that the essence of the work of the CEO is to develop and maintain a balanced relationship among these three elements of wealth creation and to ensure that the relationship evolves in the face of changing circumstances. CEOs are inevitably faced with dilemmas in managing this process,in particular, the need to balance continuity and change and to maintain the integrity of short-term performance disciplines while encouraging not only investment in growth opportunities (which can hurt near term performance), but also experimentation and collaboration among business units (which are difficult to measure and reward with most performance measurement and incentive schemes). Adding to the difficulties of managing such dilemmas, visibility and a strong public image are often thrust upon (if not sought by) CEOs, who must then determine how they can use that image to strengthen the commitment of their employees and investors. [source] Psychology's public image in "Topics of the Times": Commentary from the editorial page of the New York Times between 1904 and 1947JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 4 2002Paul M. Dennis Ph.D. Between 1904 and 1947, the New York Times published in a section of its editorial page, "Topics of the Times," 196 commentaries on psychology. Prior to World War I, the majority of editorials centered on Hugo Münsterberg; psychological topics most frequently examined after the war were the mental test, child rearing advice, and psychoanalysis. Although the Times was enthusiastic in its support for psychology in the years immediately before and after World War I, editorial opinion soon turned negative. Critical of psychology for promising more than it could deliver, being inconsistent in its assertions over time, and not rising above the level of common sense, Times editorials weighed heavily on the side of undermining, rather than promoting, psychology's credibility from the late 1920s to 1940s. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Modern statistics: the myth and the magicJOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY: SERIES A (STATISTICS IN SOCIETY), Issue 2 2009David J. Hand Summary., The paper is a personal exploration of the puzzling contradiction between the fundamental excitement of statistics and its poor public image. It begins with the historical foundations and proceeds through the role of applications and the dramatic impact of the computer in shaping the discipline. The mismatch between the reality of statistics and its public perception arises from a number of dichotomies, some of which are explored. In particular, although statistics is perhaps typically seen as an impersonal discipline, in some sense it is very personal, and many of its applications are aimed at providing unique benefit to individuals. This benefit depends on the creation of detailed data sets describing individuals, but the contrary view is that this represents an invasion of privacy. Some observations on statistical education are made, and issues which will affect the future health of the discipline are examined. [source] Building Relationships with the Media: A Brief Working Guide for Community College LeadersNEW DIRECTIONS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES, Issue 110 2000Neal A. Raisman The media can help colleges enhance their public image and enrollment when a few proven rules and principles are employed by college administrators and other members of the college community. [source] Where Public and Private Intersect: The Intermingling of Spheres in Christa Wolf's Ein Tag im JahrORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 4 2005Carol Anne Costabile-Heming In Ein Tag im Jahr 1960,2000 (2003), Christa Wolf offers readers another example of her pursuit of ,subjective Authentizität.' Wolf's compilation of diary-like texts records routine daily activities, including notes about her dreams, references to newspaper headlines and global events, and conversations with friends, family, and important political functionaries. Interwoven with the mundane are detailed descriptions of the writing process as well as constant reassessments of prior fictional texts and essays. Through the juxtaposition of objective and subjective moments and the recording of routine external details coupled with extensive introspection, Wolf intermingles her private domain with the public sphere of GDR culture. This essay addresses the way that this text ruptures the traditional genre boundaries of diary and autobiography, expands pre-conceived notions of the public sphere and substantively contributes to a redrawing of Wolf's public image. The autobiographical nature of this work enables an investigation of the intersection of Wolf's private life with the public sphere of GDR culture, adding a new dimension to prior understandings of her literary texts within an autobiographical context, making apparent how indivisible the public and private are for understanding Wolf and her works. [source] Stakeholder Involvement in the Design of U.S. Voluntary Environmental Programs: Does Sponsorship Matter?POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL, Issue 4 2003JoAnn Carmin Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) promise to provide firms and facilities additional flexibility in managing their environmental affairs while increasing internal efficiencies and improving their public image. Although stakeholder input is thought to improve program development, little is known about the extent that stakeholders are involved in the VEP design process. Based on a survey of 61 program managers, this research distinguishes between the intensity and diversity of stakeholder involvement and uses these two concepts to assess VEP development relative to government, industry, and third-party sponsorship. Even in the absence of a mandate, all three sponsors include a variety of stakeholders in program design. Although there is evidence that collaborative relationships are developing between sponsors and a range of stakeholder groups, variations in the intensity of involvement among sponsors suggest that some stakeholders may have disproportionate levels of influence in the design of VEPs. [source] "It's Just You and Satan, Hanging Out at a Pre-School:" Notions of Evil and the Rehabilitation of Sexual OffendersANTHROPOLOGY & HUMANISM, Issue 2 2009James B. WaldramArticle first published online: 6 NOV 200 SUMMARY Notions of "evil" are a feature of everyday discourse in civil society. Sexual offenders, individuals often labeled as "evil," are well aware of public images of themselves and their crimes. This article examines public discourses of "evil" as they pertain to sexual offenders, and the views of sexual offenders themselves on what this means to them. The ethnographic research was undertaken in a prison unit designed for the treatment of sexual offenders. As a result, the issue of rehabilitation figured centrally in their conceptualizations of evil. While admitting to being bad, and perhaps even having committed evil acts, they generally reject the label of "evil" as understood in essentialist terms. The fundamental issue of concern for my analysis here is how secular views on the nature of evil speak to the issue of rehabilitation, an inherently human, "natural" capability. To be essentially "evil," in their view, is to be almost nonhuman,a view shared by much of the public as well,and, therefore, beyond rehabilitation. [source] | |||||||||||||