Stakeholder Capability Enhancement as a Path to Promote Human Dignity and Cooperative Advantage

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle K. Westermann-Behaylo ◽  
Harry J. Van Buren ◽  
Shawn L. Berman
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Enterprise Strategy ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Social Wellbeing ◽  
Human Capability ◽  
Cooperative Advantage ◽  
The Capability Approach

ABSTRACT:Promoting dignity is at the heart of the human capability approach to development. We introduce the concept of stakeholder capability enhancement, beginning with a discussion of the capability approach to development proposed by Sen (1985) and further advanced by Nussbaum (1990) to incorporate notions of dignity. Thereafter follows a review of the literature on value creation stakeholder management and convergent stakeholder theory (Freeman, 1984; Freeman, Harrison, Wicks, Palmer, & DeColle, 2010; Harrison & Wicks, 2013; Jones & Wicks, 1999), as the foundation for our concept of stakeholder capability enhancement. The remainder of this article develops a model that integrates stakeholder management with the human capability approach to detail the cooperative advantage that accrues to business and its stakeholders, as well as the gains in social wellbeing and dignity, when stakeholder capability enhancement becomes a common enterprise strategy. The model also explores the risks and boundary conditions firms face when seeking to profit from stakeholder capability tradeoffs. In explaining the model, we explore normative responsibilities and consequences with regard to human capabilities and dignity. We conclude with implications for future research.

scholarly journals Planning for freedom: From human capital to human capabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Lesley Powell
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Planning Systems ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
The Capability Approach

In this article, I build on critiques of the dominant skills orthodoxies that underpin National Skills Planning Systems (NSPS). I respond to calls for a broader conceptualisation of skills planning by discussing the contribution that the capability approach brings to the reconceptualisation of the role, purpose, and orientation of NSPS. Applying the capability approach as a thinking tool for building a broader approach to skills planning led to the identification of seven dimensions that frame an emancipatory approach to skills planning. My core argument is that COVID-19 has laid bare the urgent need for new approaches to skills planning that are informed by a different set of assumptions, driven by a different set of indicators, inclusive of different voices, undertaken through different processes, and, importantly, driven by a different set of goals. Responding to the call for a broader approach to skills planning and taking seriously the seven dimensions of an emancipatory skills planning system will require an alternative vision not only of skills and of work, but of society as a whole.

scholarly journals Cultivating Moral Attention: a Virtue-Oriented Approach to Responsible Data Science in Healthcare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Ratti ◽  
Mark Graves
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Health Records ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moral Attention ◽  
Science Activities ◽  
The Capability Approach

AbstractIn the past few years, the ethical ramifications of AI technologies (in particular data science) have been at the center of intense debates. Considerable attention has been devoted to understanding how a morally responsible practice of data science can be promoted and which values have to shape it. In this context, ethics and moral responsibility have been mainly conceptualized as compliance to widely shared principles. However, several scholars have highlighted the limitations of such a principled approach. Drawing from microethics and the virtue theory tradition, in this paper, we formulate a different approach to ethics in data science which is based on a different conception of “being ethical” and, ultimately, of what it means to promote a morally responsible data science. First, we develop the idea that, rather than only compliance, ethical decision-making consists in using certain moral abilities (e.g., virtues), which are cultivated by practicing and exercising them in the data science process. An aspect of virtue development that we discuss here is moral attention, which is the ability of data scientists to identify the ethical relevance of their own technical decisions in data science activities. Next, by elaborating on the capability approach, we define a technical act as ethically relevant when it impacts one or more of the basic human capabilities of data subjects. Therefore, rather than “applying ethics” (which can be mindless), data scientists should cultivate ethics as a form of reflection on how technical choices and ethical impacts shape one another. Finally, we show how this microethical framework concretely works, by dissecting the ethical dimension of the technical procedures involved in data understanding and preparation of electronic health records.

scholarly journals Meninjau Tanggungjawab Sosial Perusahaan dalam Pendekatan Kapabilitas

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Pinurba Parama Pratiyudha
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Capability Approach

This paper departs from the discourse of the paradigm of social development in third world countries. The first discourse reviews the critics of the broad state in social development. It supports the non-state actors to take a part in development through corporate social responsibility (CSR). The second discourse departs from economic development which weakens the capability of the individual in achieving development itself. The concept of the capability approach in human development emerged as a solution to create inclusive welfare. This paper itself raises these two things in one discussion related to the role of CSR in relation to the development of human capabilities. Taking an analysis of the Program Desa Mandiri Energi by PJB UP Paiton, the study examines the role of CSR activities in supporting community capabilities. This paper argues that the existence of CSR provides a strong contribution to strengthening the capabilities of the community that has developed from the past. However, in the subsequent findings, there are several aspects of CSR programs that still several actions to be developed and improved human capabilities.

scholarly journals From Handmaidens to POSH Humanitarians: The Case for Making Human Capabilities the Business of I-O Psychology

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Gloss ◽  
Stuart C. Carr ◽  
Walter Reichman ◽  
Inusah Abdul-Nasiru ◽  
W. Trevor Oestereich
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Formal Economy ◽  
Recent Commentary ◽  
Relative Safety ◽  
The World ◽  
The Capability Approach

Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology has begun to shed its reputation as a handmaiden to corporate and managerial interests, in part, through its engagement with humanitarian concerns. However, as highlighted by recent commentary, I-O psychology still has a decidedly POSH perspective on the world; that is, it has focused on Professionals who hold Official jobs in a formal economy and who enjoy relative Safety from discrimination while also living in High-income countries. This POSH perspective reflects an underlying bias away from people living in multidimensional poverty. We empirically illustrate some of the connections between a POSH perspective and poverty by reviewing 100 years of research in I-O psychology, and then we make a case for why a neglect of people living in poverty undermines the discipline's science, its practice, and its humanist charge. As moral justification for greater engagement with humanitarian concerns and as a guide to navigate the difficult ethical quandaries involved in doing so, we suggest that I-O psychologists should consider the capability approach. We discuss the concept of human capabilities, relate it to I-O psychology, and demonstrate its utility in the form of three hypothetical scenarios. Perhaps our most controversial claim is that there is a moral imperative for I-O psychology to overrepresent people living in the deepest forms of poverty in both its science and practice.

scholarly journals Do learning support assistants’ perceptions of their role support the capability approach? A small-scale study in a Jordanian international school

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Matthew Lee
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Human Life ◽  
International School ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Learner Agency ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Capability Approach

This article reports on a small-scale study which explored the perceptions of learning support assistants (LSAs) about how they facilitate learner agency and wellbeing, two key facets of the capability approach. Interviews were conducted with ten LSAs working in an international school to investigate whether LSAs support aspects of this theoretical framework within their role, where their efficacy is often valued by the quantity of time they spend with the child rather than the quality of the support provided. The capability approach was utilised as an analytic framework by using the four capability approach categories which Sen (1999) argues can evaluate human life: wellbeing achievements, agency achievements, wellbeing freedoms, and agency freedoms. The findings from the study indicate that whilst LSAs did support key aspects of the capability approach, they felt unsure if every part of their role could be based on it due to a range of factors beyond their control, such as parental expectations and the school’s deployment of the LSAs. Possibilities for future research, such as the impact of higher-education on LSAs’ ability to further the capability approach, are discussed briefly.

Early childhood educational curricula: implications of the capability approach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoanneta Potsi
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Academic Content ◽  
Instrumental View ◽  
The Capability Approach

This chapter examines the potential of the capability approach as a framework of normative aims for early childhood education (ECE) curricula. More specifically, it considers Martha Nussbaum's list of basic human capabilities, developed as a relatively definite standard of minimal justice and as the minimum entitlements a person should have, as an adequate frame for capability-promoting policy in ECE and especially in curriculum development. Nussbaum's basic human capabilities are deeply rooted in the normative principles that govern ECE and care and contrast with the reductionist and instrumental view of the ECE curriculum that prevails within contemporary policy frameworks. The chapter argues that a capability-promoting curriculum could help us better understand what is worth seeking for its own sake without lacking academic content.

Competenza ad agire insieme e senso di iniziativa: il tirocinio per attraversare i confini tra studio e lavoro

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Fabrizio d'Aniello
Keyword(s):  
Professional Growth ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Knowledge Models ◽  
Internship Experience ◽  
Cultural Historical Activity ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training ◽  
The Capability Approach

The pre-eminent motivation behind this contribution lies in the intention to offer students of three-year degree course in education and training sciences and master's degree in pedagogical sciences of the University of Macerata a further support than those already existing, aimed at expanding the educational meaningfulness of the internship experience. The main criticality of such experience is connected with the difficulty in translating knowledge, models, ideas into appropriate activities. This notably refers to the conceptual and educational core of the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship and, consistently, to the skill to act. Therefore, after a deepening of the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, followed by related pedagogical reflections based on the capability approach, the paper presents an operative proposal aimed at increasing young people's possibilities of action and supporting their personal and professional growth. With regard to this training proposal, the theoretical and methodological framework refers to the third generation cultural historical activity theory and to the tool of the boundary crossing laboratory, variant of the change laboratory

Change of Attitude, Technology and Practice: Identifying the Change for Increased Value Creation with Customer Co-creation

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Soumi Paul ◽  
Paola Peretti ◽  
Saroj Kumar Datta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Management Competencies ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Prime Concern

Building customer relationships and customer equity is the prime concern in today’s business decisions. The emergence of internet, especially social media like Facebook and Twitter, changed traditional marketing thought to a great extent. The importance of customer orientation is reflected in the axiom, “The customer is the king”. A good number of organizations are engaging customers in their new product development activities via social media platforms. Co-creation, a new perspective in which customers are active co-creators of the products they buy and use, is currently challenging the traditional paradigm. The concept of co-creation involving the customer’s knowledge, creativity and judgment to generate value is considered not only an upcoming trend that introduces new products or services but also fitting their need and increasing value for money. Knowledge and innovation are inseparable. Knowledge management competencies and capacities are essential to any organization that aspires to be distinguished and innovative. The present work is an attempt to identify the change in value creation procedure along with one area of business, where co-creation can return significant dividends. It is on extending the brand or brand category through brand extension or line extension. This article, through an in depth literature review analysis, identifies the changes in every perspective of this paradigm shift and it presents a conceptual model of company-customer-brand-based co-creation activity via social media. The main objective is offering an agenda for future research of this emerging trend and ensuring the way to move from theory to practice. The paper acts as a proposal; it allows the organization to go for this change in a large scale and obtain early feedback on the idea presented. 

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