Social Responsibility: The Italian Case Within Public Administration

2013 ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Patrizia Torrecchia ◽  
Carmela Gulluscio
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Italian Case

scholarly journals Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Public Policy: The Lessons of Debris Management after the Manabí Earthquake in Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3494
Author(s):  
Paulina Guerrero-Miranda ◽  
Arturo Luque González
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Institutional Strategies ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Depth Interviews

Natural disasters can generate millions of tons of debris and waste, which has an impact on the environment and poses direct risks to the health of the population, hence the need to analyze public policy and its consequences following the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador. Several in-depth interviews were conducted with individuals active in public service during the post-earthquake management period, together with fieldwork analysis of debris management and the institutional strategies for its recycling and reuse in three of the most affected cities: Pedernales, Portoviejo, and Manta. The environmental impact was examined, including its taxonomy of inconsistencies within public administration, alongside the processes of decentralization and shared decision-making. Similarly, the links between corporate social responsibility (CSR), public policy, and sustainability were analyzed at both the national and local level for their wider implications and ramifications. The study highlighted the gaps in the management of such a crisis, exposing a lack of ethics and the shortcomings of social (ir-)responsibility in the distorted processes of public welfare in the country, aspects that should rather work in concert to achieve full sustainable development.

scholarly journals Rethinking State Social Responsibility With the Creation of Shared Public Value

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Haroldo De Sá Medeiros ◽  
Sérgio Henrique Arruda Cavalcante Forte
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Gradual Increase ◽  
Shared Value ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Creating Shared Value ◽  
Evaluation Mechanism ◽  
Operational Structure

Discussions about State Social Responsibility and Public Value are not recent. When linked to each other there is not an incremental theoretical sequence that shows the evolution of responsibility in public organizations. This essay aims to elaborate a framework for public administration, based on the Creating Shared Value (CSV). The use of CSV is justified because it allows the conceptual comparison between public and private perspectives. This framework was called State Creation of Shared Public Value and the operational structure of the CSV was maintained with the levels and the evaluation mechanism, but the original definitions were re-specified for the context of Public Value. The CSV based structure through levels and stages guarantees a gradual increase in the scope of benefits from public services that can be framed in the same perspective, with no restrictions of areas or segments for their use through Public Value.

scholarly journals Public Administration and Creeping Crises: Insights From COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 621-627
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Di Mascio ◽  
Alessandro Natalini ◽  
Federica Cacciatore
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
Governance Capacity ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Regulatory Capacity ◽  
Crisis Conditions ◽  
Prompt Action

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that a new and unforeseen threat easily outmatched political-administrative systems currently in place. Our commentary on the Italian case contributes to the call for public administration scholars to incorporate crisis management into the main research agendas of the field. We focus on regulatory capacity that is needed to tackle the effects of COVID-19. Under crisis conditions of radical urgency and uncertainty, the Italian regulatory policy has been based on temporary, fast-track procedures. The latter have been regularly applied when Italian governments confront with natural disasters and prompt action is ensured by a repertoire of extraordinary measures running in parallel to burdensome ordinary procedures. We discuss the implications of this “two-track” approach for governance capacity and legitimacy. We also extrapolate existing trends and engage with projection of future developments.

Social Responsibility and Organisational Commitment in Local Public Administration: The Moderating Role of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour and Social Bonding

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalsoom BeBe ◽  
Wang Bing
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

The commitment of public employees to organisations is an imperative deliberation that affects the efficiency of public services organisations. The objective of this study is to investigate whether the social responsibility among local public administrators raises organisational commitment. This study subsequently explores the moderating role of citizenship behaviour and social bonding (permanent vs temporary employees) of public employees in the relationship between social responsibility and organisational commitment. In this study, empirical data are collected from local officials working in local public administration services organisations in Pakistan (n = 308). The statistical analysis is used to test the relationship between social responsibility and commitment and the moderating effect of citizenship behaviour and social bonding on social responsibility-organisational commitment relationship.The results show that social responsibility is a determinant to organisational commitment and citizenship behaviour and social bonding moderate the social responsibility-commitment relationship. The effect of social responsibility on organisational commitment is stronger in permanent public administrators having high perspective of organisational citizenship behaviours than in temporary public administrators having low perspective of organisational citizenship behaviours. This study contributes to knowledge of the effect of social responsibility on organisational commitment in local public employees and proves that citizenship behaviour and social bonding affect the social responsibility-commitment relationship in local public administrators.

scholarly journals CSR Implementation in the Marshal Office of the Lodzkie Voivodeship

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Izabela Różańska-Bińczyk
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Corporate Social

The objective of this study is to present innovative solutions in the area of corporate social responsibility introduced in the Marshal Office of the Lodzkie Voivodeship. Particular attention has been paid to the innovative nature of the introduced activities. The theoretical part of the article describes the essence and concept of social responsibility and its impact on the image of the organization. The research part of the article is based on the results of own research on selected activities of social responsibility on the example of a chosen office. The article underlines the significant role played by the implementation of good business solutions in the presented area in public administration.

scholarly journals Social Responsibility as a Performance Indicator of Public Authorities

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Oleg V. Pavlyshyn ◽  
Tetiana P. Ustymenko ◽  
Mariia P. Babiuk ◽  
Nataliia Ya. Kaida ◽  
Dmytro V. Shkrebets
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Performance

Further development of consolidated democracy in the modern world involves the implementation of the concept of responsible, socially significant and law-compliant behaviour of public servants. This urges the issue of defining social responsibility as a qualitatively new performance indicator of public authorities in public discourse. The research aims at analysing the relevance of the use of social responsibility as a criterion for evaluating the work of public authorities. The relationship of the social responsibility and professionalism development processes is analysed from the angle of public administration, and their impact on ensuring the effective implementation of competencies by public authorities is determined. The article analyses professionalism styles, substantiates the reasonability of wider application of professionalism as a factor capable of ensuring the introduction of social responsibility by public authorities for the effective implementation of their competencies. The theoretical approaches of New Public Management and Good Governance for the development of a socially responsible approach in the work of public authorities are analysed. Emphasis is placed on the practical significance of Good Governance in ensuring the sustainable development of public sector organizations and their transparency as an important factor and consequence of the realization of social responsibility principles. It is concluded that the ongoing implementation of social responsibility approaches in the work of public authorities in the 10’s of the 21st century has been re-actualized. It is generalized that social responsibility is a means of maintaining the integrity of society, ensuring social justice, social relations development. It is determined that the social responsibility level of the state is a performance indicator of public administration. It is concluded that effective corporate social responsibility requires the development of a regulatory mechanism of public administration and public-private partnership.   Received: 4 January 2021 / Accepted: 6 April 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021

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