Incarnation Inc. Managing Corporate Values

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil A. Røyrvik

This article describes the substantial efforts put into creating and managing a comprehensive ‘value-based’ corporate culture and identity-building program, and reflects on how both the making and the reception of the programme can be understood in light of the three main ways of talking about value/s (economic, moral, meaning). Through the program’s use of technologies of production and enchantment, including the magic of advertising, the argument unfolds the program’s processes of valuation through both making visible and creating social relations. The article explores valuation as social practices involved in representation and signification. It argues that the preoccupation with making value visible in an industrial production company is symptomatic of the contemporary ‘economy of signs’, and that resistance towards these efforts shows that valuation in this context is considered more as accurate representation than as signification.

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-143
Author(s):  
EKATERINA V. GORLOVA ◽  
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NATALYA S. RESHETNIKOVA ◽  

The many changes caused by COVID-19 have impacted all areas of our lives. Since the beginning of the pandemic in every country, people have experienced the same fears: getting sick, being left without a livelihood, dying, losing loved ones, etc. In many states, support was provided by both the government and the employer. Our analyze show how the employees themselves assessed the level of relations between them and the company through the connecting thread of corporate culture. We have determined that, in general, in many cases there is an increase in corporate values, information coming from managers is more trustworthy than information from the mass media. Honesty, openness and communication are becoming the new flagships for the development of corporate culture.


Politeja ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3(60)) ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Gajewska

A Conscious and Unconscious Message about Corporate Culture in the Guides for Editing Commercial Correspondence in French The ability to edit official and commercial correspondence – once letters, now more often emails – is an important element of professional competence for a significant proportion of employees. They usually acquire the necessary skills through the use of correspondence editing guides (in their native or foreign language) or ready-made letter models. On the example of the analysis of selected business correspondence editing guides, we will try to show that in addition to providing specific skills useful in a workplace, these guides can convey (part 2) or shape (part 3) specific visions of social relations.


2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Jaromíra Vaňová ◽  
Zdenka Gyurák Babeľová

Care of corporate culture formation is a prerequisite for corporate values promotion. Cultural norms and system of values provide an orientation to company members during managing and reviewing their behaviour and decision-making with regard to business objectives. If managers will accept corporate culture and values, and exemplary declare adopted values, it will influence satisfaction and performance of employees and also company performance. The contribution is a part of research project VEGA 1/0787/12 “The identification of sustainable performance key parameters in industrial enterprises within multicultural environment”. It is based on research realized in conditions of business practice in Slovakia. Article focuses on how are set, reviewed and promoted corporate goals and values in companies in Slovakia. There are presented introductory information related to company and employees’ performance and their relation to the corporate culture. The research was focused on reviewing how managers, through they acting in compliance with company mission and vision influence attitudes of employees. The contribution discusses the effect, which company can have from such a declaration of corporate values by managers in company. Therefore, in the article are presented, not only outcomes of this research, but also experience and recommendations of authors. Key words: corporate culture, employees, performance, satisfaction.


Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabhdeep Singh Kehal ◽  
Laura Garbes ◽  
Michael D. Kennedy

This bibliography curates scholarship around understandings people identify as knowledges—their production and legitimating institutions and their experiences and embodiments, with an emphasis on those excluded from the canonizations of knowledge. This “knowledge cultural sociology” (KCS) recognizes the importance of the Mannheimian tradition, and its extensions, that explains how social relations and positions shape the articulations and validations of knowledge. However, KCS also situates knowledge within systems beyond those who produce and consume it. KCS views knowledge as itself necessarily contested, as struggles over its qualities reflect social locations and articulate social practices. KCS works to understand how knowledges’ symbols, schemas, institutions, and networks shape the terms of social reproduction and transformations; as such, it demands consideration of different kinds of knowledge cultural products and modes of communication. KCS is thus necessarily grounded in the question of what constitutes knowledge, and for whom and with what interests and expectations. This KCS intervention focuses on 21st-century work. This decision aims to engage scholarship that extends and challenges a 20th-century canon, including works from the 20th century signals scholarship yearning for expansion. The bibliography is not comprehensive, though it marks how knowledge is valued and ignored. To focus on this century and move beyond sociology allows engagement with ways of knowing and being that sociology has historically minoritized, moving consideration to structures and processes validating some kinds of knowledge over others. KCS is not canonization, but works toward liberation, toward a knowledge activism mobilizing knowledge in consequential public ways alongside more familiar scholarly ambitions. KCS seeks to move scholarship beyond familiar networks and self-reproducing knowledge hierarchies grounded in race, gender, sexuality, religion, and world region. It seeks to move dialogue beyond familiar self-referential walls and identify new and ignored ideas, meanings, references, and authorities for constituting knowledges of consequence, reframing contests along the way. For example, instead of asking how excellence and diversity can be combined in knowledge production, KCS asks instead what anti-racist knowledge excellence looks like. Given the politics of epistemology, accounts of epistemology ought to foreground the contexts and power relations in which those sensibilities are formed and communicated; thus, the references below move generally from concept to context. Likewise, sections moving toward global, postsocialist, and postcolonial discussions inform ontologies and epistemologies organizing scholarly work and public consequence. But this begins with what might be identified, in this entry at least, as the greatest hits of KCS.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-98
Author(s):  
Зиновьева ◽  
Elena Zinoveva

The article presents the results of studying of corporate culture of the Smolensk Branch №8609 of JSC «Sberbank of Russia». The predominant type of participative culture is revealed. The degree of separation of Bank values by the staff is shown. Measures are offered for cultivation of corporate values for the employees who do not fully share the declared values of Bank.


1991 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cohen

In recent years a considerable literature on the scope and meaning of the word hubris has done much to clarify the nature of this important concept. However, some important aspects of hubris deserve more detailed attention. In particular, a full account of the social context and moral psychology of the ideology, social practices, and legal prosecutions involving hubris would make a fundamental contribution to our understanding of Athenian society and the role which litigation played in moderating or exacerbating social conflicts. Indeed, such an account, particularly if it drew upon recent advances in the social anthropology of agonistic societies, would necessarily increase our appreciation of the centrality of hubris and the related values of honour and shame in Athenian social relations. While the goals of the present study are far more modest, in a sense they represent a first step in this direction. Since, as I will argue, the relation of the law of hubris to certain kinds of sexual misconduct and to sexual aspects of honour and shame has not been fully recognized, an exploration of this relation may help to mark out some of the ground which a fuller treatment would have to cover.


The article considers the directions of further research development on the implementation of a sense of ownership in various spheres of life and social practices of an individual. It is shown that in addition to the positive impact, the feeling of ownership has its negative side. This raises the question of formation optimal level and manifestation of ownership, what negative and positive consequences an excessive manifestation of ownership can have, what a violation or immaturity of ownership can lead to. It is determined that most research on the psychological nature of property focuses on its individual manifestation. However, it requires a detailed study, including the empirical, how the collective sense of ownership differs from individual and collective and whether it contributes to the effectiveness of collective action. The issue of the impact of new forms of consumption on the living sense of ownership and the attentiveness of intangible property, especially in the conditions of virtual reality, is raised separately. Prospects for further scientific research and possible areas of practical application of the developed author's concept of an ownership sense realization in social practices are outlined. Based on a critical analysis of existing empirical research and reflective consideration, the following areas of further research are proposed: manifestation of material things ownership, territory, money, social relations, own body, virtual environment, civic sphere, as well as opportunities to use the data in both individual and group psychotherapeutic work, counseling and coaching. The necessity of introducing a scientifically substantiated concept into the daily practice of psychologists-practitioners is substantiated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Nagina Kanwal ◽  
Qamar Khushi

This article examines the women’s construction of gender identities as a form of resistance in the presence of dominant discourses. Firstly, it aims to analyze the construction of gender identities which are not approved by the societal norms and yet helps women gain a position of power needed to survive in a male dominated society. Secondly, it seeks to describe and interpret the socio-cultural discursive practices responsible for inequities and the strategies adopted by the women for resistance and change. The data for the present study consists of a single episode television play “Chal Jhooti”. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA) and theory of performativity are employed to deconstruct the cross identities and to reveal the discourses underlying the mechanism of power in sustaining repressive social structures and hegemonic social relations. The findings reveal that women are multiply located in discourse as they adopt particular ways to resist certain dominant social practices. It also reveals that women’s construction and performance of masculine gender identity is not merely construed as their power but at the same time it is a reinforcement of men’s power as generally these gender crossings aggravate the essential dualism of the gender structure. The current study suggests that the presence of existing discourse of gender differentiation results in deviations from gender appropriate norms which are policed and intended as a mean to defy it.


eTopia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia Toso

Place can be understood as not a fixed geographical location, but as an event that emerges in the encounter between continually transforming materialand human elements, social relations and practices; that place is composed
of strands of human experience, memory, histories and stories in a particular material setting. This article draws on Amin and Thrift’s “ontology of encounter” and Lefebvre’s method of rhythmanalysis to explore the complex interactions of geography, social practices and city environment. An “auditory turn” offers ways of thinking about the mobilities, encounters and narratives of an urban neighbourhood that combine and merge to give rise to a soundscape. A turn toward the sensory and auditory offers new paths for analysis in urban geography, mobilities and infrastructure studies. 


Finisterra ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (70) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mário Vale

EMBEDDEDNESS OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS: A STUDY OF THEAUTOMOBILE CLUSTER IN PORTUGAL. The research carried out in this paper aims at understanding the economic action of embeddedness on ongoing socio-spatial structures and to conceptualise the role of inward investment in the regional development process. The stereotypical plundering of regional resources by foreign capital seems, in many cases, to belong to the past. Large firms, such as the transnationals, tend to emulate some organisational models characteristic to firms established in industrial districts, so that they develop strong ties with the socio-spatial structure. The study of the automobile cluster polarised by Autoeuropa comprehends the analysis of linkages between Autoeuropa and the suppliers, corporate culture and institutional relations in different domains. The results of the study are clearly against the stereotype of «cathedral in the desert» and somehow lend support to the possibilities of transnational corporations embeddedness in the spatial structures of ongoing social relations.


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