Involvement Of Organizations Research Articles

Principle of Islamic Law and Moral Dilemmas of Religious Organisation's Involvement in Mining

Principle of Islamic Law and Moral Dilemmas of Religious Organisation's Involvement in Mining

Enablers for green lean six sigma adoption in the manufacturing industry

PurposeThe objective of this article is to identify the relationships between the enablers in the implementation of Green Lean Six Sigma (GLSS) in the Mexican manufacturing industry (MMI).Design/methodology/approachTo create the survey instrument, the authors did an extensive literature research, which they then applied in the MMI to find the relationships between enablers and their impact on the positive effects of implementing GLSS projects. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA), the data were empirically and statistically corroborated. Furthermore, the authors validated the hypotheses that support the research using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach in SPSS Amos.FindingsThe findings reveal that leadership has a positive impact on social and economic benefits (EcB), as well as an indirect impact on the environmental benefits (EB) of GLSS projects, with organizational involvement (OI) and performance measurement (PM) functioning as mediators.Practical implicationsThis study represents an empirical reference for practitioners and researchers pursuing high-quality, low-cost, environmentally and socially sustainable products or processes through the implementation of GLSS projects in the manufacturing industry.Originality/valueThis study provides a statistically validated model using the SEM technique to represent the relationships between GLSS enablers in the MMI.

YES Bank Fraud: Examining the Softer Underbelly of the Fraud from a Behavioral Model

ABSTRACT Poor corporate governance, insufficient regulatory supervision, and lack of compliance are susceptible factors for fraudulent activities in the Indian banking sector. This study examines the role of softer aspects like the CEO's personality traits that instigate an organization's involvement in fraudulent activities. Our study proposes a conceptual model to examine the behavioral fabric of fraud by widening the scope of the existing corporate fraud models. The conceptual model is built upon three primary components: dark personality traits of the CEO leading to CEO hubris, internal firm factors, and external firm factors. The proposed model aims to analyze the massive fraud done at YES Bank, considered a pioneer for the Indian private banking sector. The study aims to contribute toward existing fraud theory literature by proposing a new model. It aims to contribute to the increasing sensitivity of forensic accountants toward examining the psychological and behavioral traits of a fraudster.

Kekhilafahan Islam, Globalisasi dan Gerilya Maya: Studi Kasus Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia

<p class="06IsiAbstrak"><span lang="EN-GB">This paper aims to explain the role of radical Islamic organizations in the era of globalization. The case study taken in this research is Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI). As a transnational organization, Hizb ut-Tahrir grew and crossed national boundaries, including arriving in Indonesia and playing an essential role in shaping public opinion in Indonesia. This study uses qualitative research methods to collect data through online observation, which is described by content analysis. The findings of this study are Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia is part of the players of globalization. This is evidenced by the organization's involvement in 50 countries and five continents globally supported by their global media. In Indonesia, although the Government disbanded it in 2017, Hizb ut-Tahrir's activities are still strengthened and maintained through globalization instruments such as the internet. HTI then carried out virtual guerrilla activities to keep the idea of a caliphate grounded.</span></p>

Maqashid Syariah in Practical Sustainability Report (Case Study of BUMN in South Sumatra)

The expectations of various parties regarding accounting in the future are to produce relevant, reliable and comparable information for all parties in assessing and making economic decisions that are more friendly to society and the environment. Factors that must be owned by an entity as a form of concern for the entity towards an environment are: (1). Having attention to the environment (Environmental awareness) itself, then followed by; (2). The organization's involvement in environmental issues (Environmental Involvement). The follow-up of these two factors are; (3). Environmental Reporting, lastly enhanced by; (4). Environmental Auditing which measures and evaluates organizational performance. These activities are formulated into a Suistainability Report, which is compiled in combination with the company's Annual Report or a separate report. The essence of the theory of maqashid al-syari'ah is to realize goodness as well as to avoid badness, or to benefit (mashlahat) and reject madharat. The object of this study were 2 state-owned companies operating in the South Sumatra region with 352 respondents involved. This research uses quantitative methods with primary data. The dependent variable was maqashid syariah, while the independent variable was economic categories, environment categories, and social categories with indicators adopted from Global Reporting Innitiative (GRI). The results of this study indicate that the economic categories, environment categories, and social categories have a positive influence on maqashid syariah.

The Challenges of Transitioning from Opposition to Government: Liberal Party Planning for Government 1983 – 1996

Studies examining opposition transition to government processes and planning usually emphasise the responsibility of oppositions as a legislative institution and the role of party leaders. However, such approaches place too much emphasis on notions of responsible opposition and party leaders. They de‐emphasise the importance of partisan considerations that shape transition planning or how party organisations have attempted to assert control over parliamentary parties. Drawing on archival materials, policy documents, and elite interviews, this study examines both public and internal transition to government strategies undertaken by the Liberal Party of Australia during their opposition years (1983–1996). The paper finds that while party leaders became more important over time, the party organisation's involvement remained significant. The Liberal Party transition planning focused primarily on cabinet processes, Australian Public Service (APS) organisation, particularly the senior bureaucratic level, and selecting political staff. In so doing, the Liberal Party anticipated many of the Hawke government's 1987 reforms to the APS. The Liberal Party was motivated by its desire to restructure the machinery and culture of government and to allocate sufficient political staff resources to government. Its aim was to better equip the party to achieve its political and ideological goals when next in government.

Development and Validation of Organizational Citizenship Behaviours Scale (OCBS) for the Nigerian Context

This study examined key dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviours in the Nigerian context and validated appropriate measure of the construct in Nigeria. One hundred (100) employees comprising of forty seven (47) males and fifty three (53) females from public and private organizations in Lagos State participated in this study. Consequent upon the cultural sensitivity of organizational citizenship behaviour dimensions, Organizational Citizenship Behaviours Scale (OCBS) was validated as a suitable measure of OCB in the Nigerian context. Factor analysis was used to identify the specific dimensions of the OCBS to include: Organizational Involvement (OI), Dutifulness (D) and Interpersonal Relationship (IR), consisting nine (9), nine (9) and twelve (12) items respectively. The KMO measure of sampling adequacy showed a value of .59. This value simply shows that the sample of 100 participants was adequate to conduct factor analysis on the OCBS. The Bartlett’s test of Sphericity showed a significant value (x2(1830) = 3578.981,p. The 30 item OCBS scale has a Cronbach alpha of .86, the Dutifulness sub-scale .74, the Interpersonal Relationship .75 and the Organizational involvement .88. The convergent validity between OCBS and the Intrinsic Religiosity dimension of the Religious Orientation Scale developed by Allport and Ross (1967) was found to be significant at .01. This paper concluded and recommended that the dimension of generalized compliance is vital to the measure of organizational citizenship behaviours in the Nigerian context and should not be underplayed.

Sustainability information sources: employee knowledge, perceptions, and learning

Purpose– The information sources employees in one Fortune 100 organization draw on to learn about sustainability are identified. The linkages between knowledge about sustainability, perceptions of the organization's involvement in sustainability initiatives, and interest in learning more about sustainability are investigated.Design/methodology/approach– Employees (n=1,952) completed an online survey investigating what they knew and thought about sustainability, and the sources of their information. The information sources investigated included external association sources, media sources, supply-chain sources, interpersonal sources, and intraorganizational sources.Findings– Important external information sources include professional/industry associations, faith-based institutions, and supply-chain partners. Important internal sources include supervisors, company meetings, and the company sustainability report. Those who think sustainability is important to their organization's long-term success were interested in learning more about sustainability. Awareness of the organization's sustainability initiatives is related to the belief sustainability is important to the organization's success.Research limitations/implications– Limitations include a cross-sectional study, single-item measures, and nominal data.Practical implications– Companies launching sustainability initiatives need to understand and manage the information sources their employees utilize.Originality/value– This is a large empirical study that focusses on information sources and employee perceptions involving sustainability.

Lessons Learned from Lessons Learned

This paper describes a case study, examining the problems of capturing, disseminating and benefiting from lessons learned from projects within the project management department of a large, information‐intensive organisation. A set of recommendations to improve the organisation's involvement with ‘lessons learned’ is derived, and how these recommendations are relevant to a wider range of organisations is considered. The literature associated with lessons learned was used to direct research into the project management department of the selected organisation through the use of focus groups and questionnaires to determine why their lessons learned process is not as effective as required. The key barriers to lessons learned were found to be culture, motivation and a lack of process. Furthermore, a large percentage of the project management community was found to be unaware of any lessons learned system and found it hard to access and share lessons with other project managers. The paper therefore provides a set of recommendations to overcome these barriers concerning immediate actions and strategies for the future. The recommendations have received very positive feedback from the employees of the organisation. The paper concludes that the provided recommendations are adaptable to a wide range of organisations. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Fan moderation of professional sports organisations' social media content: strategic brilliance or pending disaster?

A recent body of literature has begun to address how and why sports organisations can benefit from and leverage new technologies. Using a case study methodology, the present research study addresses this contemporary sports managerial and marketing issue by considering the social media activities of an Australian professional sports organisation. Principally, the study examines the strategies the organisation is using to communicate through and moderate social media content. Instead of employing paid marketing professionals, the organisation's social media activities are administered by unpaid members and fans. By surveying the organisation's social media moderators and by conducting in-depth semi structured interviews with the organisation's managerial and marketing employees, the proceeding paper considers the potential and constraints associated with managing the organisation's social media content in this way. While respondents acknowledge several opportunities arising from the organisation's involvement in social media, especially with regard to younger users, potential ethical and legal ramification were simultaneously addressed. Thus, finding a balance between open, real-time communication forums while at the same time monitoring user content may continue to be dependent on the dedication, time, and ethical judgment of sports club fan moderators.

ETHICS OF ALCOHOL POLICY IN BRAZIL: WHY IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE INDEPENDENT WHEN WE SIT AT THE SAME TABLE WITH THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY

Comments on an article by P. J. Adams (see record 2007-09383-006). Adams examined the risks taken by health, research and community organizations when they opt to receive funding from dangerous consumption industries and to identify ways in which they might generate their own assessment of these risks. As stressed in Adam's paper, it is necessary to develop awareness of the level of an organization's involvement with industry funding. It is also crucial to create evaluation mechanisms to ensure the independence of the organization. However, the possible conflict of interest concerns not only the alcohol, tobacco and gambling industry; but the ethics of a relationship between industry and research cannot be reduced to the moral conflict between the public good and the commercial agenda of the dangerous consumption industry. In fact, other industries, such as the pharmaceutical industry, should be included. The goal of the alcohol section was to gather epidemiological data about the pattern of alcohol use in Brazil and its consequences on people's behavior and mental health, including the occurrence of domestic violence and accidents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)

Career success after stigmatizing organizational events

AbstractThis article examines the effect of six types of stigmatizing organizational events on employees' career moves to another employer: criticism of the organization in the media; resignation of key individuals from the organization; downsizing; a drop in net income; lawsuits launched by the Securities and Exchange Commission, competitors, or customers; and lawsuits launched by employees. Stigmatizing events that signal the decline of corporate performance are the most devastating for professional career success. Outsiders, on the other hand, are less sensitive to an organization's involvement in lawsuits launched by public authorities or employees. Stigmatizing events affect the career success of every professional in the organization, irrespective of his or her hierarchical level. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

SADC: Making sense of uncertainty in Southern Africa

Scenario exercises have become something akin to a cottage industry in South Africa, primarily because they provide such a useful prism through which to understand future and unfolding trends. In the South African setting, they have a proven pedigree since this is a country that has been subject to great collective uncertainty, fear and anxiety about its future and the various scenario efforts have inspired very interesting public and policy discourses. Garth Le Pere refers to several scenario case studies conducted in South Africa and describes his organization's involvement in a scenario exercise for southern Africa highlighting some methodological, disciplinary and conceptual challenges that emerge from the scenario approach.

Die Kunst des Verrats: Der Prenzlauer Berg und die Staatssicherheit by Alison Lewis (review)

MLR, 99.3, 2004 843 focus on autobiographical places (Ernst Ribbat). Fascinating here is the use made of the newly published Tagebiicher 1936-1966 (Frankfurt a.M.: Insel, 2000). The second section offersvarious perspectives on individual works or genres. Two pieces deal with short stories: Gottsche himself offersa sensitive analysis of the modernity of short prose pieces throughout her career, and Ostbo examines configurations ofnarra? tive voice against the backdrop of theories of 'Kurzprosa'. In a detailed piece Ludwig Volker analyses Kaschnitz's response to death in her poetry,focusing particularly on a number of characteristic motifs,while Hubert Ohl offersa fascinating insight into the poet Peter Huchel's role as editor of the idiosyncratic volume of her Gedichte (1975), showing how clearly he brought out her radical edge and (although Ohl does not say this) how much sharper he was in editing Kaschnitz's work than she herself was. Much ofthe volume concentrates inevitably on the short stories, covering a fairrange of material, but an interesting piece by Ulrike Schlieper also brings Kaschnitz's large output of 'Horspiele' into focus. A final section of 'discursive constellations' contains Monika Albrecht's spirited attempt to read against the grain of Kaschnitz's concept of gender identity and some unpublished correspondence introduced by Renate Knoll. One of the drawbacks of a volume composed like this is a certain amount of inevitable overlap. It might also have been interesting to see more pieces which took on and compared work from various genres, as a good deal ofthe theoretical background to the short story form which appears here will be familiar to readers from elsewhere. However, out of these same aspects come certain interesting effects.The presentation of childhood comes to the fore in a number of pieces, with the fine prose text Haus der Kindheit (1956) as a kind of touchstone for the volume as a whole. A number of pieces set out to uncover the fractures and slippages beneath the surface of her work. Respondingto a questionnaire in 1964 Kaschnitz claimed: 'Kunstlerische Wahrheit ist Treue zu sich selbst und zu seiner Zeit'. Kaschnitz's diligent mining of her own experience in her fictional form is well-worked ground, but one of the strongest argu? ments to emerge from the volume as a whole is her commitment to her own time, her 'Zeitgenossenschaft' (Gottsche), and her attempt to make writing active in bringing about a more humane world. This volume will be invaluable in bringing her work to a wider, and perhaps a new, audience. New College, Oxford Karen Leeder Die Kunst des Verrats: Der Prenzlauer Berg und die Staatssicherheit. By Alison Lewis. Wiirzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2002. 272 pp. ?36. ISBN 38260 -2487-7 (pbk). Since the opening ofthe Stasi filesthere has been no shortage of articles and books on the influence of this insidious state organ on various social groups. Many ofthe studies published in the early 1990s, however, tended to offerrather black and white images of the formerGDR, sacrificing historical objectivitytoan understandable sense ofmoral outrage. Indeed, such images persist in a number of recent high-profile works such as Anna Funder's Stasiland (London: Granta, 2003). Die Kunst des Verrats provides an excellent and timely corrective to these accounts, subtly exploring the relationship between the GDR's Ministeriumfiir Staatssicherheit and the 'underground' artists of the Prenzlauer Berg scene. Focusing largely on the roles of Sascha Anderson and Rainer Schedlinski, the Stasi's two key Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter in the Prenzlauer Berg, Lewis examines the development of the organization's involvement in the GDR's alternative culture. Particularly fascinating is her account ofthe confusing and at times paradoxical rela? tionship both men, but in particular Anderson, had with the MfS. Anderson's entire 844 Reviews file,much of which has only just become available, is analysed in conjunction with his recently published, and controversial, autobiography, Sascha Anderson (Cologne: DuMont , 2002). On the one hand, Lewis highlights the ways in which Anderson's Stasi handlers manipulated him in an attempt to depoliticize all aspects of the scene, from its illegal readings and samizdat magazines to its contact with West German journal? ists and publishing houses. We learn, for example, how Anderson was encouraged to...

Promoting Democratic Governance and Preventing the Recurrence of Conflict: The Role of the United Nations Development Programme in Post-Conflict Peace-Building

Promoting democracy and strengthening good governance have become core components of post-conflict peace-building initiatives of the United Nations (UN). An often overlooked dimension of the analysis of UN peace support operations has been the crucial role played by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at the critical juncture linking peacekeeping to sustainable development. UN peace operations in Central America over the last decade have pioneered the organisation's involvement in the uncharted territory of post-conflict peace building. UNDP's Central American experience was the first step in the organisation's evolution away from providing traditional development assistance, towards playing an active and openly political role in post-conflict democracy building and governance reform. This new role of the UNDP has had dramatic repercussions on its mandate, administrative structures, corporate policies and operational strategies. The current institutional renewal of UNDP has its roots in its endorsement of democratic governance as essential dimensions of its mandate to promote sustainable human development. This article assesses the significance, promises and dilemmas of the governance agenda for UNDP and analyses the scope, nature and institutionalisation of democracy and governance programmes within UNDP, using Central America as a case study. It argues that the future of UNDP democracy assistance will largely depend on how successful it is at resolving the inherent tensions between democracy promotion and national sovereignty, while retaining its multilateral approach to peace and democracy.

The integrative role of planning in differentiated organizations

Using a five-cluster analysis it is found that organizations tend to require different internal structural characteristics which may be portrayed along a continuum. This represents young, small, simple organizations at the one end and older, large, complex organizations, at the other end of the continuum. As the size and complexity of organizations increase, their characteristics change so as to meet their more complex differentiative or integrative needs. In addition to changing the characteristics of the internal decision structure along the continuum to achieve integration, it is found that organizations also increase their involvement in planning as their size and complexity increase. With the aid of an environmental cluster analysis it is also observed that organizations which operate in increasingly complex operational environments tend to increase their degree of involvement in corporate planning.It is possible to conclude with confidence that the greater the differentiation and environmental uncertainty caused by growth, diversification and organizational complexity, the greater become the integrative needs provided by the range of facilities of corporate planning. The survey results reveal a facet previously ignored in the classic concept of corporate planning. While environmental uncertainty does play a part in determining the degree of an organization's involvement in the corporate planning process, the complexity of the organization itself plays a stronger and more dominant role in dictating the degree of involvement. In the South African context, planning is primarily a powerful internal integrator of complex organizations, and only secondarily, a management technique for coping with uncertain future business environments.

Working with the Holocaust victims psychologically: Some vital cautions

This article traces the evolution of a major psychological organization's involvement with the Holocaust as a fully justified and legitimate topic of concern and of an ongoing commitment to its study and memory. A number of important cautions and requirements are presented for mental health workers who wish to work in the areas encompassed by the Holocaust, including working therapeutically with Survivors of the Holocaust and their children. The special danger of diminishing or trivializing the Holocaust in the course of writing about aspects or elements of it in psychological articles or writings, as has been the case in other kinds of literature, is brought into focus.

FAO Activities in International Plant Protection

The Food and Agriculture Organization's involvement in plant protection started shortly after it was chartered. Work conducted led to the development in 1952 of the International Plant Protection Convention which is administered by FAO. This was quickly followed by FAO giving leadership in coordinating efforts to control plagues of the desert locust, which have periodically throughout history ravaged vast areas of Asia and Africa. FAO now provides the secretariate for a series of regional locust control organizations. These organizations have successfully maintained control over locust problems and thus prevented plagues in about 60 countries in Asia and Africa for more than a decade.

The role of the world health organization in pesticide research

For many years the Wold Health Organizatino (WHO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, has been involved in activities related to pesticide chemicals such as toxicological evaluation of pesticides used in agriculture, recommendation of limts for pesticides residues in foods appliction of pesticides used in public health (including recommending methods and specifications for equipment) and detection of resistance to pesticides. The use of substances toxic to man and to a variety of forms of life comprises an overall health problem, and the participation of WHO at the international level of this area should be regarded as part of its responsibility for promoting the health of all people. Durin the course of its engagement in these activities of Organization played, and plays, an important role, either by directly sponsoring research projects according to its limited budgetary capabilities or, and mostly, by assisting in the promotion, guidance and coordination of research programmes on a world-wide basis. This paper provides a brief description of the most important activities of WHO and outlines the Organization's involvement in stimulating research in the field of pesticide chemicals. References are made to the “modus operandi” of Expert Committees.