Public Welfare Activities Research Articles

Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process to Determine Consumers’ Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy for Organizations in the Nigerian Global System for Mobile Telecommunication Industry

In recent years, research has revealed the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its significant impact on organizational performance. Also, scholars have recognized that consumers’ attitudes and behaviors towards products and organizations are greatly influenced by organizational CSR programs and strategies. Consumers are generally recognized as one of the primary stakeholders of organizations in the marketing exchange process hence their perceptions of CSR are important since stakeholders’ perceptions influence organizations' CSR practices. Given the vibrant nature of service industry in general and its telecommunication sector in particular, this study applied the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Model to determine consumers’ perceptions of the CSR activities and strategy for organizations in the Nigerian Global System for Mobile (GSM) telecommunication industry. To achieve these aims, a sample of 600 consumers of the four major operators in the Nigerian GSM telecommunication industry (MTN/AIRTEL/GLO/ETISALAT) were drawn from tertiary institutions using the convenience sampling technique. The data obtained was analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Expert Choice software. Findings show that the CSR activities consumers feel organizations in the Nigerian GSM telecommunications industry should place high priority on are: Organizing or participating in public welfare activities, Encouraging employee’s voluntary welfare programs, Improving employee welfare (facilities and benefits), Active contribution of tax to government and Contribution to cultural and literacy programs.

Social Class and Social Capital in China and Britain: A Comparative Study

We use the China General Social Survey (2005) and the Home Office Citizenship Survey (2005) to study civic engagement and neighbourhood trust in China and Britain in this paper. We focus on class differences in participation in sports/recreation, religion, children's/adult education and public-welfare activities, and trust in the neighbours. We find higher levels of civic involvement in Britain but greater neighbourhood trust in China. This is mainly due to structural differences. China has a large proportion of peasants who have very low levels of civic involvement but very high levels of neighbourhood trust. Among the non-peasant population, the two countries have similar levels of class differences in civic (except religious) involvement. There are small class differences in China on neighbourhood trust, but marked effects in Britain. Overall, there is a greater similarity than difference in class effects in both civic engagement and social trust in the two countries. While differences in demographic attributes (and China's specific institutional arrangement, the household registration system, or hukou) account for some of the observed patterns, we also find more pronounced class than demographic effects in the two countries. Class plays a major role in the development of social capital.

A Study about Relationship Between Public Welfare and Private Welfare Activities: Focused on the Effect of Welfare Perception on Private Welfare Activities

A Study about Relationship Between Public Welfare and Private Welfare Activities: Focused on the Effect of Welfare Perception on Private Welfare Activities

Social distance toward schizophrenia among parents of adolescents

Social distance toward schizophrenia is a reason for delays in receiving early treatment for the disorder. This study attempted to identify the factors underlying social distance. The participants were 2690 parents of adolescents. Factor analysis using a social distance scale identified two factors: private relationship and social relationship. Regression analysis revealed that gender, age, and participation in welfare activities for people with mental illnesses had independent effects on the factor private relationship (p < 0.05). These results suggest that women aged 40 - 49 years should be targeted for activities that attempt to counteract social distance and that they would benefit from taking part in public welfare activities for individuals with mental illnesses.

Lee K. Frankel (1867–1931): Public Health Leader and Life Insurance Executive

LEE FRANKEL WAS BORN IN Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1867. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, earning a doctoral degree in chemistry in 1891. He served as instructor in chemistry from 1888 to 1893, and then worked for several years as a consulting chemist. While still an undergraduate, he had assisted one of the professors in studying a typhoid fever epidemic in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and became interested in social work and philanthropy.1 With the encouragement of Morris Loeb, a prominent Jewish philanthropist, Frankel served as manager of the United Hebrew Charities in New York City from 1899 to 1908. Frankel became interested in what was called industrial insurance—insurance in small sums with premiums payable in weekly installments—mainly used by the poor to insure against the death of a family breadwinner. In 1908, he received a two-year grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to investigate the various forms of social insurance being created in European countries.2 On his return, he accepted a position with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Metropolitan Life) to be manager of the company's industrial department. Frankel would go on to become sixth and then second vice president of the company. Frankel persuaded the company that programs of health education, public health, and social welfare would reduce morbidity and mortality and thus be highly profitable. He turned the industrial department into a major organization for health promotion and welfare work, initiated a visiting nursing program and community health demonstrations, and coordinated extensive public health, welfare, and health education activities. He was especially concerned with the problems of immigrants and was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to a commission to investigate conditions at Ellis Island, the entry point for the tens of thousands of immigrants flooding into New York City. Frankel wrote pamphlets first on tuberculosis and then on other diseases, all of which were reproduced in the hundreds of millions by Metropolitan Life and distributed around the country by its army of 25e000 insurance agents. He trained these agents to understand the relationship of public health to social insurance, and even produced a series of pamphlets for a course of instruction entitled, “The Principles of Life Insurance,” to educate the Metropolitan Life agents. In 1914, during his tenure as the sixth vice president of Metropolitan Life, he and statistician Louis I. Dublin published Industrial Insurance and Social Welfare, the tenth pamphlet in this series.3 Frankel was elected president of the American Public Health Association in 1919. An extract from his presidential address is republished here. During his tenure, he was responsible for raising considerable sums of money and increasing membership, thus greatly strengthening the organization. Frankel was later coauthor of several more books, including A Popular Encyclopedia of Health.4 After a highly productive career, Frankel died in Paris, France, in 1931. n

Social Volunteering in Welfare States: Where Crowding Out Should Occur

This article evaluates the influence of welfare state policy on individual social volunteering. Unlike previous studies that have investigated the relationship between the welfare state and civic engagement, this contribution focuses on those areas of civil society that are most directly related to public welfare state activities. Moreover, it is assumed that welfare state policy does not uniformly affect the civic engagement of various social groups. The analyses provide support for the crowding out hypothesis: individual social volunteering is lower in extensive welfare states than it is in countries that spend less on welfare state policy. However, when group-specific welfare state effects are modelled, it is revealed that the crowding out effect of public social services does not hold for the low-income group. Additionally, extensive welfare policy reduces the negative effect of low affluence on social volunteering. Crowding out and crowding in thus go hand in hand: while state activities indeed serve as a substitute for social volunteering in some places, in others they are found to have a stimulating effect.

The relationships among corporate social responsibility, corporate image and economic performance of high-tech industries in Taiwan

The economic development of high-tech industries in Taiwan focuses on IC design, opt electrics, semiconductors, computer science and telecommunication. It is necessary for business to understand the relations and significance of the economic performance to take the responsibility and keep a positive corporate image, thus they can earn more admiration and trust from customers. How do they take the social responsibility to improve their corporate image and create the economic performance, and finally reach the top one of the whole world? This study discusses the subject concerning the continuing development of business and relevant issues stated above. We found that 68.1% of high-tech industries in Taiwan are in accordance with business ethics and norms of conduct. Businesses take their responsibility practically by participating in public welfare activities. The more responsibilities they fulfill; the better image they have. High-tech industries should target the social responsibility as their first goal and secondly improve their corporate image to increase the economic performance.

The Emergence of a New Type of Christians in China Today

REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH 2004, VOLUME 46:2, PAGES 183-200 A new community of Christians is emerging in some of China's economically developed coastal areas. Chinese scholars have started to call them "Boss Christians, " a term that distinguishes them from the uneducated farmers or elderly city dwellers who have traditionally made up the majority of the Chinese Christian population. They are private-business owners or employees, young, educated, open-minded, and active in both social and church work. They are becoming the majorfinancial supporters of the churches and boosters of democratic practices in the local church management. Unlike the underground Christians or those in the official "Three-Self Association" and the "Catholic Patriotic Association," they have no fear displaying their financial and religious status, and are competent in dealing with the government on behalf of the churches. They are enthusiastic sponsors, organizers, and participants in public welfare activities as well as in evangelization work. Case studies from Zhejiang Province reveal two factors that will likely determine the future prospects of Chinese churches. One is the development of a younger generation of open-minded, theologically well-trained clergy who can coordinate with international Christian communities. The other is the emergence of these economically strong and politically competent "Boss Christians." These developments, along with the conversion of more and more of the cultural and intellectual elite in the metropolitan areas, will greatly affect the shape of Chinese Christianity

Lawrence Oxley and Locality Development:

In 1925, Lt. Lawrence Oxley became director of the Division of Work Among Negroes, a new unit of the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. The Division of Work Among Negroes was the first of its kind in the nation and it would become a model for other states to follow. Using locality development methods, Lt. Oxley stimulated significant public welfare initiatives among Blacks in thirty-eight counties before and during the early years of the Great Depression when North Carolina was a racially segregated state. Lawrence Oxley used the politics of Black self-help as a tool for fundamental social change in local public welfare activities. This article describes how his emphasis on Black selfhelp and indigenous leadership resulted in the placement and financing of the first Black social workers in public welfare offices in the state.

THE ACADEMY—1962-1963

I am grateful to you, the fellows of the Academy, for entrusting me–a simple practitioner of pediatrics from a small city in a small state–with this highest office in the world of pediatrics. You had the promise, one year ago, of my undivided attention and best efforts in meeting this responsibility. But only as time passed did the realization come, as it must to every president, of the golden gift which I had received and for which I shall be forever thankful: the vision from the portals of my office of the far-flung activities and influence of the Academy. It touches the lives of children on isolated farms and in the great cities; its voice is heard in governmental councils, in public health and child welfare activities; it counsels with other great medical and nonmedical organizations; we glimpsed something of its international role in Lisbon last year, and we saw its expanding influence in other American countries when we went to South America and the Pan-American Pediatric Congress this year. May I attempt to partially repay this debt by unfolding a panorama of your service to childhood and humanity through this organization? For the Academy is the extension of the personality and idealism of each of its members. Each of you seeks from it the ability to give better care to the children whom you serve; each of you contributes to it a part of your unselfish desire to improve the lot of all children. The effort, the aspirations of a single memher would amount to little; like a few drops of rain, they would be lost in the vast desert of child needs.

Private and public welfare activities

National Municipal ReviewVolume 6, Issue 2 p. 263-268 Article Private and public welfare activities Allen T. Burns, Allen T. Burns Cleveland, Ohio See National Municipal Review, vol. vi, p. 182.Search for more papers by this author Allen T. Burns, Allen T. Burns Cleveland, Ohio See National Municipal Review, vol. vi, p. 182.Search for more papers by this author First published: March 1917 https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.4110060216 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume6, Issue2March 1917Pages 263-268 RelatedInformation