Pluralistic Outcomes Associated with Undergraduates’ Citizenship Development

Purpose – This study aims to analyze how organization development (OD) practitioners develop corporate citizenship for the purpose of increasing their organization’s capacity to practice corporate citizenship. Research shows that very few corporations have the organizational capacity to practice corporate citizenship. Evidence exists that ever more corporations adopt programs of corporate citizenship development to increase this capacity. However, there still is a general lack of a strategic understanding of how corporate citizenship development occurs. The potential of OD frameworks and tools for developing corporate citizenship have been highlighted. Nevertheless, how OD practitioners develop corporate citizenship has not been studied empirically so far. Design/methodology/approach – A sociomaterial case study design was used. The work of six OD practitioners when developing corporate citizenship in one of the largest pharmaceutical corporations was studied over several months, based on interviews, observations and document analyses. Findings – The findings presented offer model practices of corporate citizenship development, in the form of five core strategies and five core behaviors that increase an organization’s capacity to practice corporate citizenship. Research limitations/implications – With this study, the notion of corporate citizenship development has become established as a distinct research area. The study might encourage further research in this important niche area. Practical implications – The findings have direct practical implications for at least seven different stakeholder groups. Originality/value – The findings shed new light on both the epistemological and practical foundations of the concept of corporate citizenship, and hint to a new role of the fields of OD and human resource development in the twenty-first century.

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O amor como caminho: ao encontro da educação e do património cultural

Cadernos de Sociomuseologia ◽

10.36572/csm.2018.vol.56.02 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Luisa Janeirinho

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Social Development ◽

Self Determination ◽

Citizenship Development ◽

Keywords Education ◽

Cultural Entrepreneurship

The importance of education (which is not only that one of curricula and power) and of cultural heritage (which belongs to communities) has not succumbed to the overthrow and change of paradigm from a solid society to a liquid one, as Bauman reminds us, like those who for years have made education and heritage their struggle and their policy of intervention, patented in multiple anonymous, private and silent (or silenced) projects. The current times show that this intervention - which unites education and cultural heritage - contains a sensitivity, a poetics, an art, a policy, for returning education to the heart of emancipation and cultural heritage to communities, is a form of citizenship intervention, social development and the power of self-determination. Keywords: Education, heritage, citizenship, development, interculturality, cultural entrepreneurship.

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