La gestión de recursos humanos en el centro de la responsabilidad social de las organizaciones
La gestión de recursos humanos en el centro de la responsabilidad social de las organizaciones

Author: María Isabel Sánchez Hernández

Publisher: Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Published: 2022-06-20

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 8484689255

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Este ejemplar incluye reflexiones y resultados de investigación de la autora, académica y miembro de la Cátedra Iberdrola de Ética Económica y Empresarial, sobre el papel protagonista de la dirección del capital humano en la sostenibilidad de las organizaciones. La hipótesis global gira en torno a la idea de que las personas debieran ser consideradas como la clave de bóveda del Management porque su adecuada gestión es la condición de posibilidad para que las organizaciones, en general, y las empresas en particular, estén en condiciones favorables para alcanzar la sostenibilidad de su proyecto organizativo y su permanencia en el concierto social y en el mercado. El texto está dividido en dos partes sutilmente diferenciadas. Primero se presentan los fundamentos de la disciplina ofreciendo el marco conceptual necesario para llegar al capítulo quinto, donde el discurso cambia, y se presentan las líneas de investigación y los resultados publicados en revistas científicas consideradas de referencia, de forma directa y concreta, en un ejercicio de transferencia del conocimiento generado. Estamos seguros de que un espectro amplio de potenciales lectores, entre investigadores, docentes y alumnos universitarios, pero también profesionales de la empresa y la gestión, habrán de encontrar en esta obra un contenido estimulante intelectualmente que bien pudiera servir de pauta para ser replicado por parte de quien pueda verse en situación de divulgar la investigación realizada a lo largo de los años en un todo coherente dotado de significado, para la academia y para la sociedad.

Liberating Voices
Liberating Voices

Author: Douglas Schuler

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 619

ISBN-13: 0262693666

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Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in Christopher Alexander's classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language, Schuler presents a pattern language containing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges. Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model of social change that integrates theory and practice by showing how information and communication (whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based) can be used to address urgent social and environmental problems collaboratively. Each of the patterns that form the pattern language (which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100 contributors) is presented consistently; each describes a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution. The pattern language begins with the most general patterns ("Theory") and proceeds to the most specific ("Tactics"). Each pattern is a template for research as well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus forming a single coherent whole.

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Author: Adam Winkler

Publisher: Liveright Publishing

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0871403846

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National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A PBS “Now Read This” Book Club Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the Boston Globe A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post). In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won “equal rights,” and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. “Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate” (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases—and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—to reveal that “the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies” (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.

Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education
Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education

Author: Frank Adamson

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1839106034

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This insightful book analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including their articulation of the right to education, the state obligation to provide quality public education, and the role of private actors in education.

Counter-terrorism and civil society
Counter-terrorism and civil society

Author: Scott N. Romaniuk

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1526157918

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This book examines the intersection between national and international counter-terrorism policies and civil society in numerous national and regional contexts. The 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States in 2001 led to new waves of scholarship on the proliferation of terrorism and efforts to combat international terrorist groups, organizations, and networks. Civil society organisations have been accused of serving as ideological grounds for the recruitment of potential terrorists and a channel for terrorist financing. Consequently, states around the world have established new ranges of counter-terrorism measures that target the operations of civil society organisations exclusively. Security practices by states have become a common trend and have assisted in the establishment of ‘best practices’ among non-liberal democratic or authoritarian states, and are deeply entrenched in their security infrastructures. In developing or newly democratized states - those deemed democratically weak or fragile - these exceptional securities measures are used as a cover for repressing opposition groups, considered by these states as threats to their national security and political power apparatuses. This timely volume provides a detailed examination of the interplay of counter-terrorism and civil society, offering a critical discussion of the enforcement of global security measures by governments around the world.