scholarly journals How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants

2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062110355
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Iatridis ◽  
Jean-Pascal Gond ◽  
Effie Kesidou
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Work Meaningfulness ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Corporate Social

Although interest in meaningfulness is mounting in the growing stream of research dedicated to how professionals experience it, research has only just begun to investigate the complex relationships between the search for meaningfulness and the constitution of professional identity for emerging professional groups. This paper investigates how meaningfulness interacts with the formation and enactment of professional identity, focusing on the emerging professional group of corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultants. Relying on interviews with 39 CSR consultants, we induce two social mechanisms bridging meaningfulness and professional identity, namely ‘meaning-making through professional self-identification’ and ‘meaning-making through professional socialization’. Our results explain how these mechanisms produce distinct, and potentially contradictory, professional identities of CSR consultants, which themselves enable contrasted forms of professional identity enactment. The study advances meaningfulness research by clarifying how the self-other tension is played out through identity formation and revealing the gendered nature of meaningfulness. The research also contributes to studies on professional identity through the specification of meaning-focused mechanisms of identity formation, and ultimately to micro-CSR research by offering a nuanced approach to how CSR is involved in the production of work meaningfulness.

scholarly journals Корпоративная социальная ответственность как способ формирования идентичности персонала современных организаций

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Ольга Горьковая ◽  
◽  
Александр Петров ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
North West ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
The North ◽  
Corporate Social

Goal – the article is devoted to the analysis of corporate social responsibility as a social, economic and legal phenomenon. The article presents the results of a theoretical and empirical sociological study of the features of the influence of organizational strategies of corporate social responsibility on the staff identity formation of companies and organizations in St.-Petersburg and the North‑West region of Russia. Research methodology – the authors argue that the development of ideas related to the need to create their own strategies for corporate social responsibility was significantly influenced by the practices of Western European firms and companies that began active cross‑border cooperation with Russian companies in the late XX – early XXI centuries. Score/results – the results of the study proved that socially responsible actions of Russian or foreign companies help to improve the internal organizational climate, improve the attitude of employees to their company and staff identity formation. Implementation of corporate social responsibility practices also solves complex organizational problems, for example, such as: increasing the level of staff loyalty and reducing staff turnover. Originality/value – the study showed that Russian companies are still lagging behind the West European companies in the field of creating and implementing effective corporate social responsibility strategies. But some examples show that Russian companies are already actively involved in the development of corporate social responsibility of a new, modern type.

Social Responsibility of Healthcare Organizations and the Role of the Nurse

2016 ◽  
pp. 453-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katiuska Lidice Reynaldos Grandón ◽  
Lissette Alejandra Avilés Reinoso
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Corporate Social

Exploring the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) implies a must for holistic and regulatory approaches to business ethics. Professionals, executives and employees must demonstrate ethical-based behavior in healthcare. So, the first commitment of the nurse must be caring patients, as without caring them, nurses lose their professional identity. As a result, universities should support the teaching of ethics, while stimulating CSR and values derived from practical training. Experience shows that the methodology of “service learning” seeks to promote the committed participation of students in the teaching-learning process, while delivering a quality service to the community. Correctly inserted into an experience-based pedagogical frame, ethics strengthens critical thinking, problem solving, and encourages solidarity.

scholarly journals Students’ values, professional socialization and the mental gap of corporate social responsibility perceptions

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261653
Author(s):  
Nikša Alfirević ◽  
Vojko Potočan ◽  
Zlatko Nedelko
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
School Students ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Corporate Social

This paper examines how values and professional socialization in business schools impact the formulation of students’ contextualized view of social responsibility. We propose the empirical concept of a mental gap between the existing and the wished-for level of a business school’s corporate social responsibility and estimate it empirically by using a sample of business school students from Central and South East Europe. Results show that students wish their business schools to reduce their current orientation toward economic outcomes and focus on environmental and social responsibilities. We interpret those empirical results in terms of the students’ wish to balance achieving economic prosperity and enjoyment of life with the prosocial outcomes of their education. New student generations’ perception of corporate social responsibility is not shaped by the professional socialization patterns but rather by the own perceptions, which can be influenced by experiential approaches to academic teaching and learning. Based on these empirical results, implications for academic practice and future research are explored.

Social Responsibility of Healthcare Organizations and the Role of the Nurse

2018 ◽  
pp. 390-411
Author(s):  
Katiuska Lidice Reynaldos Grandón ◽  
Lissette Alejandra Avilés Reinoso
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Corporate Social

Exploring the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) implies a must for holistic and regulatory approaches to business ethics. Professionals, executives and employees must demonstrate ethical-based behavior in healthcare. So, the first commitment of the nurse must be caring patients, as without caring them, nurses lose their professional identity. As a result, universities should support the teaching of ethics, while stimulating CSR and values derived from practical training. Experience shows that the methodology of “service learning” seeks to promote the committed participation of students in the teaching-learning process, while delivering a quality service to the community. Correctly inserted into an experience-based pedagogical frame, ethics strengthens critical thinking, problem solving, and encourages solidarity.

Dirtgirlworld: Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Consumption in the World of Children's Television Programming

2012 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Ward
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Corporate Social

Discussions in the field of ethical consumption usually refer to the mainstreaming of ethical and environmental concerns that impact on consumer behaviour in the consumption of food and material goods, and in some cases to television programs (especially lifestyle and makeover programs) that acknowledge the environmentally concerned viewer by encouraging the consumption of goods and services that minimise environmental impact. These studies recognise the field of commodity consumption as an important site for thinking about practices of identity-formation and the construction of the self as a responsible, environmentally and ethically concerned citizen who makes politically based decisions in everyday practice. But rarely is a TV program itself presented as a green commodity produced with the intention to be ecologically and ethically sound in its branded identity. This article showcases the production and distribution of the preschool television program dirtgirlworld as a response by ecologically minded individuals to engage with the challenges of today's environmental crises. This is a case study that connects ethical consumption and corporate social responsibility with screen production and distribution. The central thrust of this article is to posit the example of dirtgirlworld as part of a global social movement towards a more ecologically sustainable existence. However, the suggestion here is that this case study also lends itself to much-needed conversation about how media studies can engage with our current ecological crises beyond the practice of eco-criticsm.

The Effects of Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility on Employee Attitudes

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ante Glavas ◽  
Ken Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Employee Perceptions ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
Work Meaningfulness ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT:We explore the impact on employee attitudes of their perceptions of how others outside the organization are treated (i.e., corporate social responsibility) above and beyond the impact of how employees are directly treated by the organization. Results of a study of 827 employees in eighteen organizations show that employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are positively related to (a) organizational commitment with the relationship being partially mediated by work meaningfulness and perceived organizational support (POS) and (b) job satisfaction with work meaningfulness partially mediating the relationship but not POS. Moreover, in order to address limited micro-level research in CSR, we develop a measure of employee perceptions of CSR through four pilot studies. Employing a bifactor model, we find that social responsibility has an additional effect on employee attitudes beyond environmental responsibility, which we posit is due to the relational component of social responsibility (e.g., relationships with community).

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