Organizational Shifts
Asynchronous Session
Understanding the Cost of Workplace Environment Influences on Worker Engagement as Mediated by the Autonomic Nervous System View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Doreen Loska
Annual financial implications due to productivity losses and stress related health issues range in the hundreds of billions of dollars, in the US. Workers rely on leaders to create productive workplace environments. Great leaders establish effective work environments by incorporating positive psychology into the culture. Fundamentally, impacting organizational sustainability remains imperative for thriving organizations. Utilizing neuroscience and neuroleadership to develop strong and viable cultures cultivates and empowers: innovation, inclusion, emotional intelligence, productivity, continual improvement, project management, incredible communication, and diversity. Accomplishing these key attributes better than the competition in the most cost effective manner is vital. Amplifying competitive advantage enhancements – i.e., emotional intelligence, Sirota’s Three Factor Theory, and related easily implementable and successful strategies – builds strong and viable workplace environments and worker engagement. Learning about research regarding Workplace Environment (WPE) Influences on Worker Engagement (WEG) as mediated by the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) provides the insight for impeccable growth and sustainability for organizations. Workplace environments (WPE) and workers’ engagement (WEG) are indicators of an organization’s triple-bottom-line, including (a) social/people, (b) culture, environment, planet, and (c) benefits, financials, profit (tangible, intangible, monetary, or influence) impacts or cost (American Psychological Association, 2015; American Psychological Association, 2018; Barreiro & Treglown, 2020; Foster, 2016; Nguyen, 2017; Northouse, 2016; Nowack, 2016).
Change Making Making Change - Frameworks for the Makers: An Emerging Taxonomy of Non-top-down Organizational Change Making View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Michael Moon
Theoretical frameworks addressing organizational change agency not managed by way of traditional executive-driven, top-down methods have proliferated in numerous forms. The variety of these frameworks will be explored for the purpose of yielding common principles and differentiating dimensions. This work is intended to help clarify opportunities and considerations for those who wish to advance change from alternative vantage points and who are typically not included in the organizational development literature audience. From this alternative perspective, organizational change harnesses an ethos of refitting what exists in a workspace as a bricoleur, tinkering with what is available. Thus, such change making emerges by discovery and making change within given constraints by force of ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Serviço Social Education as the First Objective of the Internationalization of Social Work View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Adriana Regina Vettorazzi Schmitt
With more than 234 thousand professionals in March 2024 throughout the national territory, Brazil is the second country in the world with the highest number of social workers, which represents a great challenge to expand and strengthen the ties of research and professional practice in the internal and external relations of the country. The internationalization of education is recognized as enhancing this update and appropriation of aspects that are inherent in global societal transformations. Engagement, the space for dialogue, the formation of collaborative networks and socialization in the search for solutions to global problems, through dialogue with professionals from different countries, is one of the possibilities for understanding the challenges of the present and designing the alignment of responses that meet the objectives proposed by the profession in its collectives and organizations, national and international. In this direction, this research aims to: a) identify the contributions and criticisms of national and international authors in the debate on the internationalization of education and b) characterize the collaborative networks of knowledge that are part of the history of Social Work as a profession. Based on this, we seek to thematize the presence of an internationalization process, which is critical, responsible and averse to the commodification of knowledge, in the transversality of the historical events of the profession, of which education has played a great role over the years and continuously until today, in the contemporaneity.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Nonprofit Reporting System: A Preliminary Literature Review on Scopus Database View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Laura Berardi, Maria Lucia Monaco
This paper investigates the state of the art in the literature on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) reported by nonprofit organizations. Several research studies analyze DEI issues in business companies as part of non-financial reporting information, but less studied are the same issues related to nonprofit organizations. Therefore, we aim to fill this gap starting from debates already developed in the literature, especially in management, accounting and social science studies. We investigate the prevalence of the intersection of DEI and nonprofit accounting/reporting in the literature, and the principal authors, countries, journals, and keywords in the said combined field of research. In our study, we use the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) using the Scopus database. To focus our analysis, we consider only articles, book chapters, reviews, and conference papers published in English in the business, accounting, management. Most of the selected documents are published in English-speaking countries (USA, Australia, UK, Canada, India, etc.), followed by several EU countries (Italy, Germany, France, Netherlands, etc.) in high-ranked journals such as Voluntas, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Sustainability, Journal of Business E thics, Voluntary Sector Review, and Health Care Management Review. We find that diversity, equity, and inclusion reporting in nonprofits is linked to research topics such as corporate governance and board diversity, accountability, impact assessment, performance measurement and funder requirements. This preliminary analysis could help researchers interested in DIE in Nonprofits to focus on the principal research gaps identified in the literature.
