The importance of employee inclusion: lessons for HR managers

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the phenomenon, or the lack thereof, of building a culturally inclusive organization, specifically suggesting this paper will offer tips for human resources (“HR”) practitioners in their quest to understand and enhance inclusivity. Design/methodology/approach This paper is written for practitioners, focusing on ways to foster employee inclusiveness through personal awareness. It includes business and professional rationales for HR practitioners recognizing the need for and the factors impeding employee inclusiveness in the workplace. Findings Organizations are facing an increasingly dynamic environment in which they must interact with and, possibly, rapidly respond to changes. As a competition, both domestically and globally, increases progressive organizations recognize ways to retain and grow their talent pool. Not having a robust understanding of diversity, generally and cultural diversity, specifically, can lead to a less inclusive work environment. Originality/value This paper discusses the multifaceted nature of diversity and the need to understand cultural diversity. Particularly how HR practitioners can be a catalyst for organizational change. This paper then proposes practical steps for HR professionals to help improve cultural inclusiveness in their workplaces.

Towards the Creative-Oriented University

Entrepreneurial universities are the center of progressive organizations that have reconsidered themselves in order to adapt to complex environmental conditions. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the towards the creative-oriented university. In this research, which has used descriptive methods, in order to understand the concepts of towards the creative-oriented university, the background of the subject has been studied in the form of library and documentary studies. Thus,conclusion show that the effect of entrepreneurial universities on a regional scale extends far beyond commercial outputs while a simple cost-benefit analysis can provide indirect and tangible results in terms of human capital attraction, entrepreneurial capital formation, informal networks, new ideas, and so on.

“Connecting the dots”

This chapter examines the “extension dilemma,” a quandary over how tightly activists should focus on the issue that defines their organization—in this case, peace and anti-militarism—versus how to build supportive links and coalitions with other progressive organizations. Veterans For Peace and About Face struggle with this dilemma as they forge coalitions with national and international organizations working for climate justice, decolonization and justice for Indigenous Peoples, and ending racial, gender, and sexual violence. The chapter focuses on veterans’ 2016–2017 participation in “Water Protectors’ ” mobilization at Standing Rock and VFP delegations in support of activists in Okinawa, revealing the tension between how to be supportive allies in decolonization movements, versus the dangers of imposing a “White Savior” approach to coalition work with Indigenous Peoples. This chapter shows that the younger generation of veterans has not invented coalition-building; rather, they bring an intersectional orientation to how to build bridges and forge coalitions within the larger ecology of movement organizations.

Impact of Logistics Strategy on Projects’ Success: A Field Study of Residential Complexes in Khartoum State

There is considerable growth in the construction projects in Khartoum State. That growth makes progressive organizations, in the construction sector, embark on a journey of applying concept and principles of executing project management. Based on that, there is great increase in the number of residential complexes in Khartoum State. These housing projects have been executed by companies adapting project management philosophy. And to obtain the best results from the process of executing construction projects, many factors should be given a huge consideration. One of these factors is logistics services. Logistics services play a significant role in the success of any construction project. All construction projects materials are obtained through logistics channels. Therefore, any issue in logistics process will seriously affect the output of the construction projects. And these issues have been affecting many construction projects and seriously affect the quality, cost and time of the final outputs of the construction projects. This research found that logistics strategy plays a significant role in the successful execution of the construction projects. Moreover, this research tested the moderator role of lean logistics in the relationship between logistics strategy and the successful execution of the construction projects.

Towards the Creative-Oriented University

Entrepreneurial universities are the center of progressive organizations that have reconsidered themselves in order to adapt to complex environmental conditions. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the towards the creative-oriented university. In this research, which has used descriptive methods, in order to understand the concepts of towards the creative-oriented university, the background of the subject has been studied in the form of library and documentary studies. Thus,conclusion show that the effect of entrepreneurial universities on a regional scale extends far beyond commercial outputs while a simple cost-benefit analysis can provide indirect and tangible results in terms of human capital attraction, entrepreneurial capital formation, informal networks, new ideas, and so on.

KENDALA PELAKSANAAN DAN UPAYA PENANGANAN WORK FROM HOME /WFH DI BAPPEDA KABUPATEN GUNUNGKIDUL

The Covid-19 pandemic prompted the Government to issue instructions for social distancing to cut Coronavirus infection. The social distancing policy for ASN is carried out by limiting working hours and working from home (WFH) while still paying attention to government public services' sustainability. This is a solution to break the chain of the spread of the increasingly widespread Covid-19 outbreak. However, to realize available services are maintained and can run well, it is necessary to carry out HR management in implementing WFH by considering the various obstacles faced. Furthermore, this study aims to identify the barriers and efforts to overcome them in implementing WFH during the Covid-19 emergency. The research was conducted on all 50 employees / ASN Bappeda Gunungkidul Regency. The results of this study indicate that five aspects become the main obstacles in implementing WFH, namely elements of the availability of computers and internet networks, details of the ability to master information technology, factors of HR governance regulations, parts of organizational culture, and aspects of performance appraisal. Meanwhile, efforts that can be made to improve the implementation of WFH can be carried out by implementing one man one computer, conducting IT training and employee mentoring, compiling workbook-based HR governance, work contracts, and SPIP (Government Internal Supervision System), improving culture. Progressive organizations, as well as improving work performance-based employee performance appraisals.

Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

Contrary to the conventional belief that social movements cannot engage the state without becoming co-opted and demobilized, this study shows how movements can advance their struggles by strategically working with, in, through, and outside of state institutions. The success of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) in occupying land, winning land rights, and developing alternative economic enterprises for over a million landless workers has made it an inspiration for progressive organizations globally. The MST’s educational initiatives, which are less well known but equally as important, teach students about participatory democracy, collective work, agroecological farming, and other practices that support its socialist vision. This study details how MST activists have pressured municipalities, states, and the federal government to implement their educational proposal in public schools and universities, affecting hundreds of thousands of students. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land documents the potentials, constraints, failures, and contradictions of the MST’s educational struggle. A major lesson is that participating in the contentious co-governance of public education can help movements recruit new activists, diversify their membership, increase practical and technical knowledge, and garner political power. Activists are most effective when combining disruption, persuasion, negotiation, and co-governance into their tactical repertoires. Through expansive leadership development, the MST implemented its educational program in local schools, even under conservative governments. Such gains demonstrate the potential of schools as sites for activists to prefigure, enact, and develop the social and economic practices they hope to use in the future.

The Politicization of Domestic Violence

This Chapter is a case study of an incident that occurred between the Sheriff of San Francisco and his wife resulting in criminal proceedings and official misconduct charges. It considers theories of victimhood generally and as pertaining to domestic violence. It reviews public hearings held to determine whether the sheriff, who had been elected as a result of a coalition of progressive organizations, should be removed from office. The hearings reveal that the public took measure of procedural justice and substance fairness in the case against the sheriff. During public commentary, community members challenged the efficacy of the criminal justice system as a response to mitigate domestic violence and rebuffed the mainstream-domestic violence movement for its default position of “zero tolerance.” The case provides incentive for mainstream domestic violence advocates to find common ground with other social justice movements, particularly those most affected by the apparatus of the carceral state.

A Systematic Literature Review for Better Understanding of Lean Driven Sustainability

Global trends and factors, such as the increased level of globalization, climate change, resource scarcity, and awareness of social and environmental responsibilities, as well as fiercer competition and lower profit margins in all industries, force organizations to act to retain, regain, or sustain their competitive advantages for long-term survival. These trends and factors are historically known to bring about innovations that drive the evolution of industries. Sustainability is considered to be such an innovation to achieve fiscally sound, environmentally conscious, and socially progressive organizations and supply chains. This study reviewed 477 past articles published in five major databases from 1990 to 2018. The purpose of the study was to assess the current state-of-the art in the subject of lean-driven sustainability. Based on the exhaustive descriptive and contextual analysis, synergies, divergences, and the extent of two-way permeability of lean and sustainability concepts from the perspective of intra- and inter-organizational operations were identified along with future research opportunities. Fundamental strengths and weaknesses of both concepts, existing strong synergies and untapped potential, along with their key contributors, the potential-use cases of lean tools to derive sustainable solutions are highlighted in this review.

“Fighting and Cutting and Shooting, and Carrying On”: Saloons, Dives, and the Black “Tough” in Manhattan’s Tenderloin, 1890-1917

Most historical studies of early twentieth-century American saloons focus on white ethnic immigrants and largely neglect black drinking dives. To understand the significance of saloons to African Americans it is necessary to differentiate the black experience from the dominant historical narrative. Scrutinizing the media depiction of black male Tenderloin residents as “toughs” I question whether some black men refashioned masculinity with public acts of mayhem, a purposefully heedless perspective, and a willingness to disregard the law. Employing countless media accounts, prison case files, trial transcripts, and correspondence between saloon owners and progressive organizations I argue that black saloons became centers of licit and illicit economies and physical spaces where black men reimagined their masculine identities.