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Responsible Behavior (responsible + behavior)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	50%

Selected Abstracts

Environmentally Responsible Behavior: Teaching and Promoting It Effectively

ANALYSES OF SOCIAL ISSUES & PUBLIC POLICY, Issue 1 2002
Stuart Oskamp
The most serious long-term threat facing the world is the danger that human actions are producing irreversible harmful changes to the environmental conditions that support life on Earth. If this problem is not overcome, there may be no viable world for our descendants to inhabit. Enormous changes to human lifestyles and cultural practices may be required to reach the goal of a sustainable level of impact on the environment,i.e., one that can be maintained indefinitely. Social science courses can aid in reaching this goal by teaching about environmentally responsible behavior. Such teaching should provide sound information and strengthen motivation and behavioral skills that are necessary to make the needed changes in behavior and lifestyles. This paper discusses major obstacles to the goal of sustainability, describes a variety of motivational approaches toward accomplishing it, and proposes that we should view the achievement of sustainable living patterns as a superordinate goal,a war against the common enemy of an uninhabitable world. [source]

TURNING OFFENDERS INTO RESPONSIBLE PARENTS AND CHILD SUPPORT PAYERS,

FAMILY COURT REVIEW, Issue 3 2005
Esther Ann Griswold
This article describes four demonstration projects that strive to promote responsible behavior with respect to parenting, child support payment, and employment among incarcerated and paroled parents with child support obligations. These projects, conducted in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Texas, with support from the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement and evaluated by the Center for Policy Research, led to a number of common outcomes and lessons. The projects revealed that inmates want help with child support, parenting, and employment and that prisons can be effective settings in which to conduct such interventions. Family reintegration programs were popular with inmates and may have helped to avoid the rupture of parent,child relationships commonly associated with incarceration. Although employment is the key to child support payment following release, rates of postrelease employment and earnings at all project sites were low and the employment programs were of limited utility in helping released offenders find jobs. Agencies dealing with child support, employment, and criminal justice need to adopt more effective policies with incarcerated parents including transitional job programs that guarantee immediate, subsidized employment upon release, child support guidelines that adjust for low earnings, and better training and education opportunities during incarceration. [source]

Community Social Responsibility and Its Consequences for Family Business Performance,

JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2008
Linda S. Niehm
Family-centered businesses may have unique perspectives of socially responsible behavior due to family involvement and ties to the community. This research explored the antecedents and consequences of community social responsibility (CSR) for family firms operating in small and rural markets. Using a national sample from the 2000 wave of the National Family Business Survey (NFBS), researchers profiled family business operators' (n = 221) to determine if their CSR orientation contributed to family business performance. Enlightened self interest and social capital perspectives provide a framework for elaborating the role of CSR in sustaining family businesses in changing small communities. Results indicate that three dimensions, commitment to the community, community support, and sense of community, account for 43 percent of the variation in family business operators' CSR. Size of the business was significantly related to family firms' ability to give and receive community support. Further, commitment to the community was found to significantly explain perceived family business performance while community support explained financial performance. Findings suggest that socially responsible business behaviors can indeed contribute to the sustainability of family businesses in small rural communities. [source]

Social responsibility as a unique dimension of brand personality and consumers' willingness to reward

PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 6 2008
Robert Madrigal
Consumers expect organizations to behave in a responsible fashion and want to be informed about those actions. The current research examines the extent to which consumers are willing to reward brands for their socially responsible behavior. Two studies are reported in which social responsibility (SR) was conceptualized as a unique dimension of brand personality. Participants in both studies were presented advertisements in which the personality dimensions of ruggedness, excitement, and SR for a fictitious brand were manipulated. The results indicate that SR is a distinct brand personality dimension and that willingness to reward moderates the effect of SR on attitudes toward the product, advertisement, and brand. Specifically, in all but one case across both studies, the positive effect of SR on attitude was greater for those most willing to reward. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Environmentally Responsible Behavior: Teaching and Promoting It Effectively

Debating a whistle-blower protection act for employees of the Government of Canada

CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION/ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE DU CANADA, Issue 2 2005
Paul G. Thomas
Written at the time when Bill C-11 (the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act) was still before Parliament, the article argues that the existing administrative policy on internal disclosure was judged prematurely to have failed. The complications of measuring the success of any whistle-blowing regime are noted. The comparative experience of four countries where whistle-blower protection laws exist demonstrates that the benefits of such laws in terms of promoting "right-doing" and correcting wrongdoing have been oversold. The article challenges the predominant view that a new parliamentary agency is necessary to deal with whistle-blowing. Ultimately, the success of any law will depend less on its detailed provisions and far more on a political and administrative culture in government that supports ethical awareness and responsible behavior. Sommaire: Fondé sur la prémisse selon laquelle la dénonciation est considérée à juste titre comme me activité moralement ambiguë, le présent article examine la manière dont le gouvernement libéral de Paul Martin en est arrivé a adopter un project de loi visant à encourager et à protéger les functionaries qui dénoncent les fautes sérieuses. Rédigé alors que le project de loi C-11 (Project de loi sur la protection des fonctionnaires dénonciateurs) était encore divan le Parlement, l'article prétend que la politique administrative existante sur la dénonciation interne a été prématurément accusée d'avoir échoué. Les complications consistant à mesurer le succès de tout régime de dénonciation sont notées. L'expérience comparative de quatre pays où il existe des lois sur la protection des dénonciateurs démontre que les avantages de telles lois en ce qui concerne la promotion des bienfaits et la correction des méfaits ont été exagérés. L'article contest l'opinion prédominante selon laquelle il est nécessaire d'avoir un nouvel organisme parlementaire pour traiter de la dénonciation. En fin de compete, le succès de toute loi dépendra moins de ses dispositions détaillées et beaucoup plus d'une culture politique et administrative au sein du gouvernement qui favorise la prise de conscience éthique et les comportements responsables. [source]