The Role of Social Bonds in Understanding the Pre- and Post-Recognition Effects of Recognition Visibility

The Accounting Review ◽

10.2308/tar-2019-0189 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Joe Burke

Keyword(s):

Social Bonds ◽

Social Bond ◽

Employee Behavior ◽

High Performing ◽

The Social ◽

Public Recognition ◽

Employee Relationships

Distinguishing high-performing employees imposes choices on managers: Is recognition most effectively delivered publicly or privately? If delivered publicly, what setting is best? This paper broadens the accounting literature on the implications of these decisions. Via experiment, I examine how the social bond between recognized employees and those observing the recognition influences the effect of recognition visibility on employee behavior. I find that with weak social bonds, public recognition (versus private) does not result in more beneficial employee behavior. However, when social bonds are strong, employees provide greater pre-recognition effort and respond more positively to public recognition than to private recognition. Overall, my study supports the extensive use of public recognition in practice and helps clarify the collective results from prior accounting studies. My findings also have implications for implementing recognition programs - suggesting managers should consider employee relationships when deciding how and where to recognize their employees.

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Følelser og sociale bånd i Akademia

Dansk Sociologi ◽

10.22439/dansoc.v13i4.432 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 43-60

Author(s):

Charlotte Bloch

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Social Bonds ◽

Interview Study ◽

Academic Life ◽

Social Bond ◽

Emotional Culture ◽

Collective Creativity ◽

The Social ◽

Emotional Dimensions

Charlotte Bloch: Emotions and Social Bonds in Academia The purpose of this article is to expand our understanding of social relations in academia by examining the role that the emotional dimensions of these social relations play in academic life. It is based on the results of an interview study of emotions and emotional culture among people in various scholarly positions in academia. The article makes analytical distinctions between the structural conditions of emotions, the emotional culture of academia, lived or felt emotions and the management of emotions. And it identifies different ways of managing the emotions of uncertainty, shame, anger, pride and laughter. These feelings emerge from the structural conditions of the social relations in academic life, and the tacit rules of feeling in academic life define how these feelings are managed. Life in academia presupposes a certain amount of feeling labour and management of feelings. Thomas Scheff’s theory about emotions and social bonds is employed to identify what this management of feelings means for social relations in academia. Bonds in academia are stable and fluctuate between solidarity, isolation and engulfment, but primarily the last two. Loneliness, group conformity, absence of real cooperation, and weakening of individual and collective creativity are some of the consequences of this kind of social bond.

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Więzi społeczne a zjawisko samotności i osamotnienia

Więzi społeczne, sieci społeczne w perspektywie procesów inkluzji i wykluczenia społecznego ◽

10.18778/7969-483-9.03 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Aldona Żurek

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Social Isolation ◽

Social Relations ◽

Local Community ◽

Social Bonds ◽

Subjective Evaluation ◽

Social Bond ◽

The Social ◽

Socially Isolated ◽

Analytical Category

In modern societies, the number of people who are socially isolated and experience constant feeling of loneliness is increasing. Main causes of this social isolation are associated with both inherent features of an individual and features of structures such as family and local community. An isolated person is a person who has limited number of significant others. Nevertheless, loneliness may also occur when a person is a part of a lot of social relations. The feeling of loneliness is therefore an individually experienced discomfort resulting from a subjective evaluation of the desired and the existing network of social relations. Both phenomena are threats to the welfare of individuals and at the same time are a challenge for organizations which are dealing with social policy. An analytical category which provides the diagnosis of loneliness and isolation is the social bond. The assessment of deficits associated with social bonds and can be performed measuring following criteria: quantity, quality and potency of the social bond.

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Parameters for the Analysis of Social Bonds in Horses

Animals ◽

10.3390/ani8110191 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

pp. 191 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Riccarda Wolter ◽

Volker Stefanski ◽

Konstanze Krueger

Keyword(s):

Social Bonds ◽

Social Rank ◽

Time Frame ◽

Social Bond ◽

Spatial Proximity ◽

Feral Horses ◽

Body Contact ◽

Proactive Behaviour ◽

The Social ◽

Close Spatial Proximity

Social bond analysis is of major importance for the evaluation of social relationships in group housed horses. However, in equine behaviour literature, studies on social bond analysis are inconsistent. Mutual grooming (horses standing side by side and gently nipping, nuzzling, or rubbing each other), affiliative approaches (horses approaching each other and staying within one body length), and measurements of spatial proximity (horses standing with body contact or within two horse-lengths) are commonly used. In the present study, we assessed which of the three parameters is most suitable for social bond analysis in horses, and whether social bonds are affected by individual and group factors. We observed social behaviour and spatial proximity in 145 feral horses, five groups of Przewalski’s horses (N = 36), and six groups of feral horses (N = 109) for 15 h per group, on three days within one week. We found grooming, friendly approaches, and spatial proximity to be robust parameters, as their correlation was affected only by the animals’ sex (GLMM: N = 145, SE = 0.001, t = −2.7, p = 0.008) and the group size (GLMM: N = 145, SE < 0.001, t = 4.255, p < 0.001), but not by the horse breed, the aggression ratio, the social rank, the group, the group composition, and the individuals themselves. Our results show a trend for a correspondence between all three parameters (GLMM: N = 145, SE = 0.004, t = 1.95, p = 0.053), a strong correspondence between mutual grooming and friendly approaches (GLMM: N = 145, SE = 0.021, t = 3.922, p < 0.001), and a weak correspondence between mutual grooming and spatial proximity (GLMM: N = 145, SE = 0.04, t = 1.15, p = 0.25). We therefore suggest either using a combination of the proactive behaviour counts mutual grooming and friendly approaches, or using measurements of close spatial proximity, for the analysis of social bonds in horses within a limited time frame.

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Risking the social bond: motivations to defend or to repair when dealing with displeasing information

Current Psychology ◽

10.1007/s12144-021-01678-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Stine Torp Løkkeberg ◽

Nicolay Gausel ◽

Roger Giner-Sorolla ◽

Colin Wayne Leach

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Social Bonds ◽

Social Bond ◽

Social Image ◽

Self Image ◽

The Social ◽

Relationship Repair

AbstractOur choice to withhold or disclose displeasing information to another can motivate concern about damage to our social bonds. In two experiments, using two different samples of university students in Norway, (N = 174 and N = 217), we found that withholding unpleasant information led to greater concern for self- image and social-image than did disclosure. We also found that withholding elicited more shame, inferiority and rejection than disclosure, and in Experiment 2, withholding elicited more defensive motivation than disclosure. Consistent with our model, defensive motivation was mostly explained by concern for social-image, whereas relationship repair motivation was mostly explained by concern for self-image and felt shame. We discuss implications for the literature on shame and social bonds.

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Social Bonds for Sustainable Development: A Human Rights Perspective on Impact Investing

Business and Human Rights Journal ◽

10.1017/bhj.2018.6 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 233-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stephen Kim PARK

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Human Rights ◽

Affordable Housing ◽

Social Bonds ◽

Social Benefit ◽

Bond Market ◽

Social Bond ◽

Impact Investing ◽

Global Capital ◽

The Social

AbstractThis article analyses the human rights implications of impact investing, which aims to create positive social and environmental impacts in addition to financial returns. Reflecting growing awareness of the capacity of the global capital markets to advance sustainable development, companies and institutional investors are seeking new financial instruments and strategies. This article focuses on social bonds, a prominent and illuminating example of this phenomenon. Social bonds are debt securities sold to investors whose proceeds are used to finance projects with a defined social benefit such as affordable housing, education, food security, and access to healthcare. To analyse social bonds in the context of human rights, this article proposes a framework for evaluating human rights factors in impact investing and applies it to the social bond market. It finds that current standards and practices do not adequately account for the human rights implications of social bonds. In light of these observations, this article suggests reforms to the social bond market that enhance investor assessment, external assurance, and impact-maximizing leverage.

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Vico’s “Scienza Nuova”: Sematology and Thirdness in the Law

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique ◽

10.1007/s11196-020-09768-9 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 1125-1142

Author(s):

Paolo Heritier

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of Language ◽

Social Bond ◽

Philosophy Of Law ◽

Giambattista Vico ◽

Legal Perspective ◽

The Social ◽

The Gift ◽

Legal Semiotics ◽

The Mind

AbstractIs it the task of legal semiotics or the legal philosophers to define legal semiotics? For the philosopher of law, the question recalls the distinction between philosophers’ philosophy of law and legal scholars’ philosophy of law. The thesis that the paper argues is that a semiotic legal perspective can also be sought from the analysis of anthropological knowledge on the origin of the social bond and society, implying a social and institutional theory of the mind. In the first paragraph, the search for a different kind of rationality emerges from a semiotician, Jürgen Trabant, who analyses semiotically the thought of a rhetorician and philosopher of law, Giambattista Vico. In the second paragraph, the anthropological notion of social bond emerges from the debate on the relationship between the idea of the gift and that of exchange. In the third paragraph, the analysis of the legal notion of thirdness recognizes the central role of myth and fiction in the configuration of the civil world and sign, returning to Vico’s critical view of the philosophy of language as an institution of society.

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Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.20190433 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 112 (1) ◽

pp. 122-168

Author(s):

Luigi Butera ◽

Robert Metcalfe ◽

William Morrison ◽

Dmitry Taubinsky

Keyword(s):

Welfare Effects ◽

Social Efficiency ◽

Social Image ◽

High Performing ◽

Charitable Behavior ◽

The Social ◽

Public Recognition ◽

Social Signaling ◽

Image Utility ◽

Desirable Behavior

Public recognition is frequently used to motivate desirable behavior, yet its welfare effects—such as costs of shame or gains from pride— are rarely measured. We develop a portable empirical methodology for measuring and monetizing social image utility, and we deploy it in experiments on exercise and charitable behavior. In all experiments, public recognition motivates desirable behavior but creates highly unequal image payoffs. High-performing individuals enjoy significant utility gains, while low-performing individuals incur significant utility losses. We estimate structural models of social signaling, and we use the models to explore the social efficiency of public recognition policies. (JEL C93, D64, D82, D91)

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Emotions, the social bond and human reality. Part/whole analysis. BY THOMAS J. SCHEFF. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. ix + 249 pp. Pb.: £14.95. ISBN 0 521 58545 7.

Social Anthropology ◽

10.1017/s0964028200210082 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 79-89

Author(s):

PAUL STOLLER

Keyword(s):

Social Bond ◽

Cambridge University ◽

The Social ◽

Human Reality

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Social Representations and Commitment

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000317 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 233-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Eric Bonetto ◽

Fabien Girandola ◽

Grégory Lo Monaco

Keyword(s):

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

Second Line ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

First Line ◽

Research Perspectives ◽

The Social ◽

Bibliographic Search ◽

English Articles

Abstract. This contribution consists of a critical review of the literature about the articulation of two traditionally separated theoretical fields: social representations and commitment. Besides consulting various works and communications, a bibliographic search was carried out (between February and December, 2016) on various databases using the keywords “commitment” and “social representation,” in the singular and in the plural, in French and in English. Articles published in English or in French, that explicitly made reference to both terms, were included. The relations between commitment and social representations are approached according to two approaches or complementary lines. The first line follows the role of commitment in the representational dynamics: how can commitment transform the representations? This articulation gathers most of the work on the topic. The second line envisages the social representations as determinants of commitment procedures: how can these representations influence the effects of commitment procedures? This literature review will identify unexploited tracks, as well as research perspectives for both areas of research.

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