scholarly journals Factors Contributing to Social Risk Management in China: Evaluation in the Context of SSRA Initiative

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Zezhao Liu ◽  
Jie Huang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Operational Effectiveness ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Concern ◽  
And Performance

Managing social risk has become a policy concern in contemporary public administration. In China, the Social Stability Risk Assessment (SSRA) was conceived as a government-driven and performance-based system to tackle the challenges of social instability, with the last decade witnessing an increasing imperative to promote its implementation. In practice, local administrations have asserted the importance of social risk management in improving the capability of handling uncertainties, yet studies on SSRA effectiveness are relatively limited. To fill the gap, this paper examines factors for mobilizing local administrators in implementing effective SSRA enforcement through a framework constructed from the perspective of government agencies. Using field survey data collected from four provincial regions, we refined five theoretical constructs and affiliated thirty-five items critical for SSRA operational effectiveness, and found that administrative intervention by the local government plays a crucial role. This study contributes to an understanding of China’s social risk management practice, and offers assessment criteria to monitor its effectiveness in public administration.

The collective risk management of solo self-employed workers in the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-277
Author(s):  
Silvia Rossetti ◽  
Susanne Heeger
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Risk Management Framework ◽  
Collective Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
Income Insecurity

The growth of solo self-employed workers in the Netherlands (zzp’ers) has not yet triggered a debate on how to combine their income security and business autonomy. The extent to which the social protection system and interest groups promote zzp’ers to take up collective arrangements mitigating income insecurity due to work incapacity and preventing income insecurity due to poor employability is investigated using the social risk management framework. Correcting economic obstacles and irrational risk perceptions, collective arrangements are found to encourage the take-up of work incapacity insurance and training among zzp’ers.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS OF SOCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Radmila Pidlypna
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Social

Introduction. Accelerated pace of development of society contributes to the accelerated generation of social risks, modern society is characterized by constant technological, natural, economic, environmental, socio-cultural changes. Therefore, minimizing social risks and leveling their consequences is of paramount importance. Methods. Diagnosis of the state of the social risk management system combined the principles of systemic, structural-functional and targeted analysis, which provided a comprehensive assessment of the whole and individual components. Results. The analysis of expenditures on the social sphere showed their stable absolute growth despite the dynamic reduction of their share in the budget. Social risks are largely due to the non-transparency of the mechanism for regulating the supply and demand of labor in the domestic labor market. A significant share of macroeconomic social risks is related to the problems of social infrastructure, which is financed from the budget. Problems with access to health care, the opacity of the pharmaceutical market, the degradation of the health care network, chronic underfunding, and the lack of health insurance also generate social risks. The task of state policy should be to prevent and prevent social risks, identify social conflicts that lead to destructive consequences. Systematization of social risks allows to methodologically substantiate the mechanisms of social risk management, to modernize the models of social protection of the population, to develop effective tools for ensuring public management of social risks. Discussion. The impossibility of reducing funding for social needs without deteriorating the quality of life and social protection of the population requires further search for alternative sources of funding for socio-cultural expenditures, rationalization in the budget structure to effectively combat the development of social risks. Keywords: social policy, social risks, social transfers, household expenditures, labor market, health care.

Social Stability Risk Assessment of Jianli-Jiangling Highway Project — Based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

2014 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 2193-2198
Author(s):  
Gui Mei He ◽  
Yi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Highway Project

Highway as a significant part of social infrastructure affects the interests of all social aspects during construction and thus will bring about social instability risks. In this paper, the social instability risks from Jianli-Jiangling Highway project were identified and evaluated using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. The results will promote science-based decision-making and careful use of preventive measures, and thus ensure the evaluated project can be smoothly implemented. This study will provide some references for similar projects in the future.

scholarly journals The risks of using REDD+ to manage rich socio-ecological systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Vincent Martin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brand Competitiveness ◽  
Good Management Practice ◽  
Policy Risk ◽  
The Many

REDD+ is an important development in environmental and social justice policy instruments. However, its success depends on a network of complex contingencies, and the achievement of difficult governance transformations in countries that are under severe economic pressure. It ought be obvious that there are significant risks associated with this endeavour, but overt risk management, using standard approaches, is not evident. This paper highlights some of the many risks that the governance of REDD+ (in common with most environmental policy innovations) needs to pay attention to in order to avoid policy failure. There are eight distinct elements that have to work for the REDD+ program to achieve its public policy goals, and each of these carries its own risk. These are: securitisation of carbon sequestration; protection for complex non-carbon values, ensuring the integrity of the supply of credit; multi-level administration and aggregation of tradeable carbon interests; managing the social and economic imbalance of interests; deploying new methods for measurement and securitisation of interests; ensuring a platform of rules, administrative and enforcement systems, teams and intelligence networks; and achieving price and ‘brand’ competitiveness in a crowded carbon offsets marketplace. Although the issues listed in this paper are not comprehensive, they highlight major concerns and support the argument that a comprehensive and systematic approach to policy risk is likely to add value to the REDD+ implementation. The paper suggests that good management practice would separate risk management from policy or instrument development, and embed this aspect of good governance with a sufficient level of authority to ensure that the negative potentials are managed with a degree of vigour consistent with the importance of the issues.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF A SYSTEM OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL RISKS

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Bilyk Olena
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Social State ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Risk Management System ◽  
The Social

The article is devoted to the study of historical aspects of the formation of the social risk management system. The study is based on a deep retrospective analysis that allows to establish the stages of formation of social risk management systems in world practice. This is of fundamental importance for the rationalization of social policy, and within its framework, in particular, the policy of social risk management. The effective functioning of such a system should, in turn, refer to the historical awareness of social risks, the principles of organization of risk communities. According to the author, the study, conducted to describe and explain the attitude to the social risk management system through the prism of the evolution of the social state, aims to establish not only opinions on Social Security through social security systems, the scale of satisfaction with the possible benefits derived from this insurance, and trust in the institution associated with them. The result of these studies should also be a diagnosis of the attitude of society and states to the ideas and rules of the social risk management system, and in particular recognition of the degree of understanding of the need for social security by creating appropriate mechanisms. Therefore, it is important, taking into account the evolution of the development of the social state, to also answer the question of the possibility of directing other public institutions covering this important sphere of social relations formation in the social risk management system. The author finds in the article that social risk has a historical character, which is associated with both technological and cultural development of the individual. It is proved that the state played a key role in the development of the social risk management system. The stages of formation of the social risk management system are allocated and a scheme of methods of public management of social risks was built on the basis of the performed analysis. Also based on the analysis, strategic goals were identified in the system of public management of social risks, which allows to increase its effectiveness. Keywords: social risk, social risk management system, social security, state, social policy.

Risk management practices of specialized banks in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ishtiaq ◽  
Muhammad Shahid Tufail ◽  
Muhammad Mateen ◽  
Saqib Muneer
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
Basel Accords ◽  
Risk Management System ◽  
And Performance

The issue of risk management in banks got an important place after the financial crises. Several efforts have been made to improve the risk management and performance of banks including introducing the Basel Accords as well as risk management guidelines by central banks. Consequently, the State Bank of Pakistan has issued risk management guidelines to strengthen the risk management system and to avoid unwanted happening. Specialized banks also play an important role in different sector of economy. As being the part of financial system need is to analyze the degree of Risk Management Practice in these banks also. So this study will be efforts to critically evaluate the specialized banks regarding risk management practices in their operations. Keywords:Risk Management Practices, Specialized banks

Shakespeare as Spectacle and History: The Victorian Period

1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Michael R. Booth
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Uniform Structure ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Industrial Evolution ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
Social Mix ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Cultural Taste

The changes in social composition and cultural taste that came over theatre audiences in the late eighteenth century and in the first decades of the nineteenth century had a profound effect upon their attitude to, and consequently the production of, Shakespeare. The social mix of the London playhouse remained relatively unchanged through much of the eighteenth century. Within a fairly small auditorium the aristocratic and upper middle-class gentility of the boxes and the bourgeois respectability of the pit effectively dictated a style of drama and performance that most appealed to the tastes of this, the most dominant audience group. Combined with the limitations imposed upon the techniques of production by an adequate but undeveloped technology and the social stability provided by the slow pace of political and industrial evolution, the early and mid-Georgian theatre (including Shakespeare) preserved a remarkably uniform structure and dramatic viewpoint over a long period.

scholarly journals Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah M. Anderson ◽  
Alexander G. Little ◽  
David N. Fisher ◽  
Brendan L. McEwen ◽  
Brett M. Culbert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Group Size ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Group Stability ◽  
Physiological Evidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Large Groups

ABSTRACTIntra-group social stability is important for the long-term productivity and health of social organisms. We evaluated the effect of group size on group stability in the face of repeated social perturbations using a cooperatively breeding fish, Neolamprologus pulcher. In a laboratory study, we compared both the social and physiological responses of individuals from small versus large groups to the repeated removal and replacement of the most dominant group member (the breeder male). Individuals living in large groups were overall more resistant to instability but were seemingly slower to recover from perturbation. Members of small group were more vulnerable to instability but recovered faster. Breeder females in smaller groups also showed greater physiological preparedness for instability following social perturbations. In sum, we recover both behavioral and physiological evidence that living in larger groups helps to dampen the impacts of social instability in this system.Summary StatementSocial stability is vital for group productivity and long-term persistence. Here, both behavioral and physiological evidence conveys that larger groups are less susceptible to social disturbance.

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