Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2011 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 8 Articles
This study investigates the level of corporate social environmental disclosure among listed companies in the brewery and building material industry in Nigeria. The corporate annual reports for the periods 2004-2008 were utilized as our main source of secondary data. While the content analysis technique was used as a basis of eliciting data from the annual report, the student t-test statistics was used in the process of analysing if there was a significant difference in the level of corporate social environmental disclosure between the sampled industries. The paper as part of its findings revealed that there is a significant difference in the level of corporate social environmental disclosures between the selected industries. The paper therefore concludes that corporate social environmental disclosures among the selected listed companies is basically very low and still at its embryonic stage. The paper therefore recommends that corporate social environmental disclosure themes and evidence must be established to provide foundation for improving environmental information disclosures among companies....
Portals are the gateways that integrate the information from different sources in a single window and provide it to the end users. Portal implementation is a very intricate job as it requires a significant amount of resources and knowledge to invest. However portals have the ability to improve the status and ranking of an enterprise to the best of the customer satisfaction and employees moral. On the basis of these motivations we have proposed a model for the complete implementation and services delivery of portals. The model has two parts that describe the overall performance and the entire framework of the portal implementation. Finally the proposed model is an iterative model that can proudly accept changes at any stage of its implementation....
Recently, the influence of corporations has been increasing rapidly, and many types of stakeholders have become involved. Thus, the role of the corporate ability of stakeholder management has become more important in the overall performance of corporations. One of the most effective tools for managing various stakeholder groups is corporate social responsibility (CSR). Previous CSR studies have focused on how CSR activities influence relationships among corporations, customers, investors, and employees. The present study examines the effect of CSR on the relationship between corporations and their counterparts such as suppliers and partners, among others, which no study has explored. Thus, this study empirically examines the relationship between CSR activities and BtoB transaction performance. The results suggest that corporations with excellent CSR activities are likely to show better relationship performance in terms of satisfaction, relationship value, relationship commitment, dependence, cooperation, and communication....
Managerial decision making is classified in three ways; choice about the law, choice about economic and social issues beyond the domain of law – ‘people values’ and choices between self interest and interests of the company-stakeholders. Business Ethics studies of how moral norms apply to these activities and goals of commercial enterprise and how business context poses its unique problems for morality acting as agents of system. Exercising power with responsibility calls for knowledge, perception, a well-developed philosophy and a set of ethical values, which can be systematically developed through pedagogy because these needs arisen to teach ethics. Managers encompass ethical frameworks to function effectively revolving around the anchor base of values. Experts take pleasure in comparing different theories and approaches, what needed in management education and practices is an honest attempt to balance means and ends, processes and products, consumption and preservation, competition and co-operation self and society. This business-framework is perceived as relationship, community, extended family operating in web of moral obligation and privileges. Balancing force energizes every step in this process is a contract ‘grass-root’. Public administers monitor it, while ethics goes further and appeals to humanizing and socializing factors, before touching spiritual realms. Indian traditional concept being oneness with self, others and with Nature becomes yardstick to measure moral values in managerial ethics. Not only individuals, but organizations and corporations also possess strong, amiable and expressive characters. Future successful managers shall be sensitized to the fundamental human values in analyzing social and global issues. Ethics need to be inward looking to the self and outward shining accountable to the outside society. Ethics teachings need to be relevant to Indian context; empirical problem solving approach with student participation must be used. Business Ethics consider a management discipline since birth of social business responsibility....
The paper focuses on how to manage deviant behaviors and resistance to change. Case study method was used to \r\nexamine practical implementation of change processes in some selected organizations. It was discovered that change affects four basic aspects of the company: its strategy, technology, structure and employees. All these present individuals with new situations, new problems, challenges, ambiguity and uncertainty and threaten the status quo. Change influences authoritative allocation of both human and material resources and encourages competition which heats up the political climate in organizations. Resistance to change might be expressed through deviant behaviors to truncate the process or prevent implementation. The study identifies proper education, effective communication, facilitation, motivation, negotiation, manipulation, co-optation and coercion as possible methods for managing resistance to change. The use of any of these methods or combination of some, however, depends on the type of organization, nature of resistance and stage of intervention. \r\nThe paper concludes that capacity to manage deviant behavior and smoothly implement change is critical to organizational survival. Managing deviant behavior and resistance to change should be accorded strategic importance to facilitate effectiveness and efficiency in organizations....
Organizational Spirituality is one of the new windows opened in the area of organizational behavior which attracts and absorbs more adherents every day. On the other hand, spirituality capability of Iranian society makes Iranian managers to use this low-coast tool in solving organizational problems, increasing efficiency, improving human resources utilization and productivity by employees. It is believed that encouraging spirituality in workplace has so many privileges; Privileges by applying which the organization moves towards increasing productivity and performance and improvement of its financial index. Historically, major attention to spirituality is originated from religions. Although for many people spirituality at work is not related to any religion, but religion is the best way to reinforce spiritual dimensions of people to the extent in which spirituality will not reach its maturity without religiosity. In a country like Iran in which 95% of people have a single religion and majority of people are committed to religious mottoes. No other tool or instrument can be more effective than religion in spreading spirituality. One of the effective ways in solving financial problems in current organizations is to modify and improve consumption of the organization financial resources by employees because considering the strong connection between spirituality and avoiding dissipation, being committed to religion and spirituality might be helpful and life-saving. Applying this approach, all organizations� managers and employees, especially governmental institutes which are provided by public resources, will consider consumption model improvement as a moral act and religious duty rather than an administrative duty....
Power grid enterprise�s sustainable development is very important to China�s power industry sustainable development. The basic requirement is that power grid enterprises should first realize coordinated development. This paper gives the definition of power grid enterprise�s sustainable development, and the whole index system is considered from internal and external aspects. The internal aspect includes the consistent target of departments� goals and the overall enterprise�s goal, employees� satisfaction, clarity of responsibilities, smooth communication and harmony culture, and the external environment includes the political, economic, social and environmental development. The evaluation index system is a hierarchical evaluation system. It can give a good reference for power grid enterprise to realize sustainable development....
Becoming globally competitive has requires specific skills in developing economies as these environments are far more complex. Business as a complex system requires acknowledgement that we cannot control organizations to the degree that a mechanistic perspective will. Moreover, as the system�s environment changes, so does the behaviour of its agents. Thus, the behaviour of the system as a whole can change. Linear strategies and decision making techniques become irrelevant with a shift to patterns and relationships between entities. Developing economies, especially, are more prone to the implementation of non-linear solutions because of the nature of the variables, the changes and interplays between the variables, the significant human focus and the consequent organic nature of the competitiveness. These variables introduce an unavoidable element of unpredictability/randomness into any management decisions. Complexity allows for pattern recognition which requires focusing on competencies, activities, technologies or resources signaling patterns that will impact on innovation, especially with respect to organizational, management and technological forms. Technology as knowledge is an intrinsic part of the pattern recognition the implementation of the above forms of innovation. This paper discusses the role of non linear management theories in a complex environment with regards to these innovations. In this sense, a resilience engineering approach provides the space for innovation implementation and the focus on organizational and management innovation through complex adaptive systems. The literature abounds with research on product and process innovation but less is said about organizational, management or technological innovation and their implementation....
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