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Sanchez, Blandine, and Nathan Fanise. "Impact of managerial innovation on corporate social responsability : Ikea case study analysis." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-28661.
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The purpose of this master thesis is to provide a deeper understandingof managerial innovation impact on companies through Corporate SocialResponsibility (CSR). For this objective, IKEA Karlstad was chosen for theempirical part in order to apply the theoretical framework to practicalrelevance. The method used for this thesis was a case study design includingdata collection from literature in different databases: Emerald, BusinessSource Premier, Scopus as well as Google Scholar. Regarding data collection forthe case study, three qualitative questionnaires were also distributed to IKEA:two designed for the local IT and sustainability coordinator Magnus Engstrandand one targeting employees. A quantitative questionnaire was distributed toIKEA employees too. An interview was set up with Magnus Engstrand according tothe unstructured interview guidelines. The theoretical framework focuses notonly on understanding the links between managerial innovation and CSR,managerial and technological innovations but also on the companies’ motivationto implement these actions and their impact on employees, organizations andcommunity. From our analysis of the literature it can be stated that managerialinnovation is stimulated by an internal element of the company. Managerialinnovation helps partly or entirely to develop CSR actions resulting in thecreation of positive value: tangible or intangible; or negative value accordingto value resonance or value dissonance. The case study analysis broughtexamples of how managerial innovation brings value without involvement of anytechnological innovation contradicting certain theories exposed in thetheoretical framework. At IKEA, the three different types of managerialinnovations are management, administrative and organizational innovations whichare used to develop CSR actions and constitute a minor or major part of theirimplementation. The impact of managerial innovation on CSR is translated atIKEA Karlstad as an intangible value for the company and its stakeholders. Thisthesis contributes to a better comprehension of managerial innovation conceptsin general as well as its application in a CSR strategy through concreteexamples. It can also be used as a demonstration of how managerial innovationcan be used to improve the internal and external images as well as employees’welfare and perceptions. Further qualitative research is needed to measure themanner of managerial innovations as well as quantitative studies to generalizeits impact on a larger scale.
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Kallestad, Tommy. "Social Work Values : Empowerment, organizational values & professional doxa inside the social work field." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-55153.
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This study explores the field of social work values in the social work profession. The aim of the study is to explore how social work values are related to empowerment practices and organizational structures inside the social work field. By using the perspective of empowerment and professional doxa these structures inside the social work field are explored in interviews with nine social workers. These nine interviews show how social workers relate to values insides their profession, how empowerment practices are done, and what kind of organizational conflicts social workers may experience. By using the perspectives of empowerment and professional doxa the interviews been analysed and connected to both local and global concerns for the social work field. Many professional conflicts were found by taking these perspectives that are discussed in this study, as for example role conflicts social workers could experience. Other conflicts were those of structural failures that caused harm to client contacts and economic factors that were deemed more important for organizations than good client outcomes.
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Martinez, Naylia de Brito. "Social and entrepreneurial values profiles." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11508.
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The person of the entrepreneur has intrigued academics for years. Consequently, numerous approaches have been applied to understand who the entrepreneur is, his personality and behaviors. The main schools debating about this topic are the psychological traits school and the processes or behaviors school. However, the academy still lacks an agreed upon definition of the individual triggering the entrepreneurial phenomenon. Consequently, in an attempt to clarify this issue, this research suggests a new approach for understanding the individual of the entrepreneur on the basis of Schwartz’s personal values. Hence the objective of this study is to understand the values profile of social and commercial entrepreneurs in order to determine their similarities which guide their common entrepreneurial behavior and their differences which generate their different entrepreneurial focus, one aiming at social and the other at private wealth. For this purpose, the shorter version of Schwartz’s Profile Values Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 44 social entrepreneurs and 71 commercial entrepreneurs. The first proposition of this study was that social and commercial entrepreneurs possess a value profile. The second was that this value profile was determined by the anxiety organizing principle with preponderance of the anxiety-free over the anxiety-based values. The third proposition was that commercial as well as social entrepreneurs attribute highest importance for the self-direction value. The fourth proposition was that social entrepreneurs give higher importance than commercial entrepreneurs for benevolence and universalism values because these values presume appreciation of others, preservation and enhancement of the welfare of 'in group' people as well as of any living being in general. The results of descriptive analyses and hypotheses testing point to the validation of all propositions except the last one. Nevertheless, although not statistically confirming the last proposition, a slight tendency of social entrepreneurs giving higher importance than commercial entrepreneurs for the selftranscendence values was identified. Consequently, other studies with larger and randomized samples should be conducted to better clarify this topic.
O empreendedor tem intrigado acadêmicos há anos. Portanto, inúmeras abordagens têm sido aplicadas para entender quem é o empreendedor, sua personalidade e comportamentos. As principais escolas de estudo sobre o tema são a escola de traços psicológicos e a escola de processos ou comportamentos. No entanto, a academia ainda carece de uma definição concreta do indivíduo responsável pelo fenômeno do empreendedorismo. Em uma tentativa de esclarecer essa questão esta pesquisa sugere uma nova abordagem para a compreensão da pessoa do empreendedor com base nos valores pessoais de Schwartz. O objetivo da tese é compreender o perfil de valores de empreendedores sociais e comerciais a fim de determinar as semelhanças e diferenças nas suas preferências de valores que orientam o comportamento empreendedor de ambos e o enfoque social de um e privado do outro. Para este fim a versão mais curta do Questionário de Perfil Valores de Schwartz foi aplicada a uma amostra de 44 empreendedores sociais e 71 comerciais. A primeira proposição da tese era que os empreendedores sociais e comerciais possuiriam um perfil de valores. A segunda era que este perfil de valores seria determinado pelo princípio organizador da ansiedade com preferência pelos valores 'livres de ansiedade' em decorrência das características empreendedoras que enfatizam busca pela auto-expansão, crescimento e promoção do alcance de metas. Dessa forma os valores mais importantes para ambos os tipos de empreendedores seriam auto-determinação, estimulação, hedonismo, universalismo e benevolência. A terceira proposição era que os empreendedores sociais e comerciais atribuiriam a mais alta importância ao valor auto-determinação. A quarta propunha que os empreendedores sociais dariam maior importância do que os comerciais para benevolência e universalismo visto que esses valores presumem apreciação pelos outros, preservação e valorização do bem-estar das pessoas mais próximas bem como de qualquer ser vivo em geral. Os resultados das análises descritivas e dos testes de hipóteses apontam para a validação de todas as proposições menos a última. No entanto, apesar da quarta proposição não haver sido estatisticamente comprovada, houve uma leve tendência dos empreendedores sociais darem maior importância do que os comerciais aos valores de auto-transcendência. Conseqüentemente, para maiores esclarecimentos sobre esse tópico, outros estudos com amostras maiores e randômicas devem ser realizadas.
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Manoochehri, J. "Social policy and housing : reflections of social values." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19217/.
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This thesis set out to find the correlation between social values and standards in social housing in two major milestones in the developments in state-provided housing. The new spirit of optimism after the Second World War was developed by the latter part of the 1960s into the influential Parker Morris report. Having been commissioned by a Conservative Government in 1959 it was made obligatory for social housing in 1967 by the Labour Party in government. The post-war years that heralded the inception of the welfare state in Britain and are often referred to as the Consensus years, are investigated here and found to be centered on a social democratic agenda. In contrast with the above period, the post-1979 years became identified with their embrace of a liberal agenda, formulated by neo-liberal thinkers and politicians. This period which has the hallmarks of what has been referred to as a neo-liberal consensus was identified by the state efforts to reverse the social democratic agenda of the post-war years. Substantial social policy changes can be identified in the two contrasting periods, manifested particularly in the adoption of the universalist approach to social policy in the former with the selectivist approach in the latter period. This thesis investigates the factors that led to changes in standards in social housing in the two periods by searching for correlations between policy changes from universalism to selectivism and the dominant social values of the time. A number of housing estates were selected and the space and environmental standards in them were compared to verify the changes in standards. The political Party manifestos, policy documents, committee papers and recommendations were analysed to find indications of the state’s ideological stance at the given periods. The policy statements and social and housing policies were also analysed to find the correlation between the string of factors that lead from the state to the final built artefact in the form of social values, social policies, housing policies and social housing standards. In order to verify the findings of the research, semi-structured informal interviews were conducted with prominent actors in provision of social housing. In addition two housing estates were studied in detail as case studies of each period. The research found that the periods of ascendancy of social democratic ideology in the state, and social values based on the significance of the collective society and the equality of all citizens led to higher space standards in social housing, while the periods of ascendancy of neo-liberal ideology in the state, and social values based on the significance of individual action based on dominance of market relations led to a drop in social housing standards. A significant finding of this research was the importance of individual actors involved in the provision of social housing and their role in interpreting regulations in favour (or against) promoting higher or lower standards.
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Fitzhugh, Helen. "The role of organisational values in value creation : comparing social enterprises." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2017. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/66835/.
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Social enterprises (SEs) are businesses that aim to create positive change for individuals and society. They are part of a society-wide discussion over how to create ‘social’ value, where the focus is often on finding efficient and effective means of ‘doing good’, but without consistent recognition that ‘good’ is a subjective term. Critical scholarship directs us to pay more attention to this subjectivity. This study explored how beliefs about what is ‘good’ - i.e. values - influence the experiences SEs provide for the people they aim to benefit. The mixed methods exploratory study drew on data from an online survey of SE organisational values and case-situated interviews across 14 English SEs. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered on organisational values, decision-making and perceptions of value. The multi-faceted analysis approach reflected the influence of applied critical realism on the research design. The study found that certain ‘process’ values - i.e. beliefs about how SEs should operate - were surprisingly common across diverse cases. Coalescing around these values appeared to allow SE practitioners to downplay variation in ‘outcomes’ values - i.e. end-state preferences. While many SE practitioners described their preferences as common sense, clear differences in outcomes values belied claims of neutrality. These findings were used to posit a five point conceptual model of how values influence value creation. This academic contribution underpins two propositions with implications for policy and practice. Where values are instrumental in influencing the design and emphasis of activities carried out by SEs, the political implications of adopting different outcomes values should be more commonly recognised. Secondly, SEs should be aware that for the full translation of their intentions into perceptions of value creation, their activities must align with stakeholder expectations. Both participative and persuasive approaches to bringing about this alignment also carry with them politically significant choices.
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Aiken, Mike. "Managing values : the reproduction of organisational values in social economy organisations." Thesis, Open University, 2002. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57702/.
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This thesis examines how quality social economy organisations reproduce their organisational values. The `social economy' sector is of growing importance in the European Union for employment and as a deliverer of public services. Others see social economy organisations as an important component of civil society: as advocates for the disadvantaged, as critics of social injustice, and as innovators of social changes (Korten 1990; Putnam 1993). These organisations are seen as distinctive in being independent of government and commercial enterprise, and because they are value-based. This study examined a crucial issue for social economy organisations: how they reproduce their distinctive values. The research examined six social economy organisations in the voluntary and cooperative sector in the UK using an exploratory case study strategy. Semi-structured interviews, documentary evidence and group discussions were used to illuminate the understandings of organisational actors. Organisations were chosen in a range that stretched from a worker co-operative operating in commercial markets; through to social enterprises using a mixture of public, private and charitable income streams; to charities using grants and government contracts. The study assumed a realist ontology. It drew from institutionalist and management culture theories informed by the not-for-profit research literature. The argument has been that economically orientated value-based organisations will face inevitable degeneration in the face of market pressures with a loss of their distinctive values (Webb 1930). A parallel argument has suggested that charitable organisations face threats to their independence from statutory funding regimes particularly with contracts for welfare services (Taylor 1990). This study suggests that a decline of values may occur, but that it is not inevitable, and shows some of the processes operating in social economy organisations which can enable and encourage the reproduction of values. These included integrated organisational structures which gave space to embed values in practise and enabled key values to influence decision-making processes.
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Lord, William B. "An Evolutionary Perspective on Social Values." Water Resources Research Center. The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/310683.
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The incorporation of social and environmental objectives in water resources planning and management has been, and will continue to be, the result of several evolutionary processes. The most general of these processes is the evolution of rational-analytic thinking as a form of problem solving behavior. A second evolutionary process is the development of institutional and analytical procedures for making public decisions. The most specific process is the evolution of federal water resources planning procedures in the United States. These processes are examined, the changing institutional environment within which water resources planning and management occurs is characterized, and implications are drawn for future incorporation of social and environmental objectives.
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Lee, Kam-ming. "A study of values and value teaching in personal and social education among boys' social development schools." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21305158.
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Evans, Amanda. "SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND HOSPITAL CULTURE: AN EXAMINATION FROM A COMPETING VALUES FRAMEWORK." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3499.
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The purpose of this study is to assess the perceptions of social workers employed in Florida hospitals in relation to the core values of their profession and the alignment of those values within the culture of their current work setting. The conceptual framework for the study was from organizational behavior theory specific to culture, values, and trust. The Competing Values Framework (Cameron & Quinn, 1999) provided a method to distinguish co-existing competing values within an organization. The research findings indicated that 65% of the professional social workers who participated in the study perceived that the core values of their profession are very much in alignment with the written mission statement of their hospital. However, less than half of the respondents (42%) stated the daily business of the hospital strongly reflected the mission statement. The social workers perceived the current culture of hospitals in Florida as being closely clustered among four cultures: clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy. However, they would prefer a stronger clan culture and less of a market culture in the future. A large majority (85%) of all respondents communicated that their work assignments allowed them to demonstrate their professional values on a regular basis. However, only 63% stated that they trusted that their hospital valued the knowledge and skills of their profession.Ed.D.
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Educational Leadership
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Lee, Kam-ming, and 李錦明. "A study of values and value teaching in personal and social education among boys' social development schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31961071.
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Bernard, Mark. "Values as truisms : extensions and social consequences." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435745.
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Cheung, Wing-yee. "Motivational and emotional dynamics of social values." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55018/.
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This research examined theoretical and emotional interrelations among social values, emotion, and action. Data from nine experiments revealed some novel and important findings. Experiments 1 to 3 examined the motivational dynamics of values by observing the effects of priming motivationally opposing values on judgment and behaviour. The results showed that priming tradition values reduced the better-than-average effect, but priming stimulation values increased it. Also, priming security values increased cleanliness behaviour, but priming self-direction values decreased it. Similarly, security values decreased curiosity behaviours, but priming self-direction values increased it. These findings supported the circular model's assumption about motivational interconnections between values. Experiments 4-9 examined the motivational dynamics of values by observing the effects of priming emotion on the importance of motivationally opposing values. Three types of negative emotion were primed: sadness, disgust, and shame. The results revealed that the context of the emotions determined their effect on values. Experiments 4 and 5 found that death-related sadness (e.g., passing away of a family member), but not failure-related sadness, led to increased importance of self-transcendence values (e.g., helpfulness) and decreased importance of self-enhancement values (e.g., self-success). Experiments 6 and 7 found that moral disgust (e.g., terrorists), but not hygiene disgust, led to increased importance of self-transcendence values and decreased importance of self-enhancement values. Experiment 8 found that moral shame, but not performance shame, led to increased importance of conservation values (e.g., conformity) and decreased importance of openness to change values (e.g., independence). Experiment 9 found that the context of shame interacts with prior individual differences to shape values and that these effects extend to value-relevant behaviour. Together, these findings provide novel support for important assumptions about motivational interconnections between values, while connecting these assumptions to extant evidence regarding the effects of goal and value priming on action and to evidence regarding the effects of emotion on social judgment and action. In addition, the results provide novel evidence in support of the importance of emotion appraisal processes in value-relevant judgment and behaviour.
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Reilly, Rosemary. "Social creativity, values and shared expertise : the synergistic confluence of social creativity, values and the development of shared expertise." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85200.
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The following is a report of a qualitative inquiry regarding a team of novices and their journey in developing shared expertise and social creativity in the domain of group facilitation and process consultation. Using the format of public reflection, the participants engaged in an intensive collaborative process of meaning making, along with the university instructor as expert, while being teaching assistants in a course about group dynamics. Using the framework of evolving systems, the methodology employed an instrumental case study approach, with the case defined as the group. Data sets included videotaped debriefing and planning sessions, individual and group interviews, and written reflection diaries, covering the entire lifespan of the team. These sets were transcribed and subjected to an examination of the unfolding cognitive and metacognitive, creative, value, and social processes embedded within the team interactions. The process patterns do demonstrate that under the conditions created within this context, novices can pool together expert thinking skills that can collectively compare favorably to those of an expert. Social creativity also emerged as a property of the system, and these processes seemed to piggyback onto the socially shared expert thinking skills. Values acted as tacit rules governing and shaping the social interactions. Ones that showed a strong association to the development of shared expertise were: supportiveness, care, listening/questioning for clarity, helpfulness, openness to disagreement/feedback, and plurality. Values that showed a strong association to the development of social creativity were: supportiveness, listening/questioning for clarity, helpfulness, and openness to disagreement/feedback. Humor was an ever present element to the system and acted as a lubricant producing social ease. The patterns that emanated from this inquiry were placed into two larger theoretical frameworks, socially shared cogni
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Frost, John-Mark. "Use of social values : decisions, application, and persuasion." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2006. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/56048/.
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This Thesis examines the use of social values in human behaviour and social judgment and investigates the processes that underlie how values are used. Across 10 experiments, I examine aspects of social values that have been largely unaddressed by prior research. Chapter 1 highlights the importance of social values, reviews the previous research on the topic, and outlines three main issues that are the focus of the subsequent experimental chapters. Chapter 2 investigates whether people base their decisions on values or on value-irrelevant consequences the results reveal that situational factors influence whether or not social values are used to guide decision making (Experiments 1 - 3). Chapter 3 focuses on this use of values as guiding principles and specifically on how abstract trans-situational values bridge the gap to impact behaviour in specific contexts. The results show that this occurs through the instantiation of the value in the specific situation and not via the abstract value itself (Experiments 4 - 7). Chapter 4 examines the use of values in persuasion and specifically the impact of the relatedness of the values paired in co-value arguments the findings show that the motivational structure of values places plausibility constraints on which values can be paired in this way (Experiments 8 - 10). Finally, Chapter 5 reviews the contribution of the research presented in the Thesis to the field of human behaviour and decision-making and outlines potential directions for future research. Overall, the research emphasises the importance of social values and presents a new conceptualization of how values are used and applied in everyday life.
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Ling, Shu. "Relationships Among Social Functioning, Alexithymia, and Asian Values." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1595698570441989.
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DANIONI, FRANCESCA VITTORIA. ""UNDERSTANDING HUMAN VALUES IS A NEVER-ENDING PROCESS": CHALLENGES IN VALUES MEASUREMENT." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/57794.
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L’obiettivo generale del progetto di ricerca è quello di riflettere sul tema della misurazione dei valori nell’ambito delle scienze psicosociali. Secondo la Teoria di Schwartz, i valori sono definiti come obiettivi desiderabili e transituazionali che servono come principi guida nella vita delle persone per guidare e determinare le azioni e gli atteggiamenti. I valori sono stati prevalentemente indagati tramite l’utilizzo di strumenti self-report per raccogliere dati quantitativi. Tuttavia, le risposte a questi strumenti possono essere influenzate da diversi bias, come ad esempio la desiderabilità sociale, oppure possono dipendere dalla tendenza a riflettere in modo introspettivo delle persone che rispondono. Ciò accade principalmente perché i valori sono per definizione ciò che è desiderabile e sono inoltre concetti astratti.
Sulla base di queste riflessioni, i Capitoli 1 e 2 considerano in modo teorico ed empirico gli strumenti self-report di misura dei valori e i bias che possono influenzare le risposte a questi strumenti. I Capitoli 3, 4, 5 e 6 considerano invece un recente sviluppo nel campo della misurazione dei valori, ovvero la possibilità di studiare questo costrutto adottando la prospettiva della cognizione sociale implicita, utilizzando quindi strumenti indiretti per acquisire conoscenza sul tema. Nel presente lavoro sono stati sviluppati due strumenti indiretti utili alla misurazione di valori, il Values Implicit Association Task and the Values Lexical Decision Task; tali strumenti sono stati anche analizzati in funzione della loro relazione con gli strumenti self-report di valori e con un outcome comportamentale.The general aim of the present research project was to reflect on the measurement of values in the field of psychosocial sciences. According to Schwartz’s Theory, values are defined as desirable and trans-situational goals that serve as guiding principles in people's life to select modes, means, and actions. They have been mainly investigated using self-report instruments to gather quantitative data. However, respondents’ answers on these measures may be influenced by different response biases, such as for example socially desirable responding, or may depend on respondents’ tendency to introspection. This is mainly because values are by definition what is desirable, and they are abstract concepts. Based on this Chapters 1 and 2 theoretically and empirically deal with the available self-report measures of values and with the possible biases which are likely to influence respondents’ answers. Chapters 3 to 6 consider instead a recent trend in the field of values measurement, which is the possibility of studying values adopting an implicit social cognition perspective, that is using indirect measures to gain knowledge on the topic. Two indirect measures aimed at measuring values, namely the Values Implicit Association Test and the Values Lexical Decision Task, are here developed and considered in terms of their relations with self-report measures of values and with behavioural outcomes.
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Po, Sum-cho. "Value education in social studies for primary schools in Hong Kong : a study of the different approaches used by teachers of social studies /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18531696.
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Galliford, Megan Elizabeth. "Discounting and Values." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2101.
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The present study examines delay, probability, and social discounting with money in relations to self-reported values. The participants completed a values questionnaire including questions regarding God, sex, and politics, and were divided into a low values and a high values group with the low values group n=10 and high values group = 10 for a total n=20. These groups were compared in the delay, probability, and social discounting tasks. Results indicate little to no difference in discounting between groups with an AUC for the low values group (.47), (.322), (.196), respectively and the AUC for the high values group at (.494), (.411), (.288) respectively. Individual scores for area under the curve (AUC) were tested for degree of correlation to each values question. Results indicate moderate correlations between temporal discounting and 5 sex value questions. Moderate correlations between probability discounting and political and sex value questions were observed. Finally, correlations between social discounting and politics, religious, and sex values were observed. Keywords: delay discounting, probability discounting, social discounting, politics, sex, religion
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Valverius, Anna. "Beyond the embaressment barriers : egalitraian values contribution to sexual health." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172124.
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Konty, Mark A. "Values, deviance and conformity: Measuring values with the factorial survey method." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280298.
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The value concept is regularly employed by sociologists and social psychologists. Despite the ubiquitous nature of the concept, values are not a relevant theoretical construct in much social theory and the concept remains difficult to measure. This project tackles both theoretical and methodological shortcomings in the study and application of values. Two cutting edge methods of value measurement are used--the Schwartz Value Survey and the factorial survey method--and their results compared to assess the validity of these measures. There is little convergent validity with these two methods, perhaps due to some of the difficulties encountered when measuring values in the first place. In terms of content validity, both measures of values demonstrate a relationship between people's values and their deviant behavior. Surprisingly, this result has been difficult to obtain in the criminological literature. A theory that specifies a direct mechanism between values and deviance--cultural deviance theory--is tested. Evidence supports the notion that people who are more likely to be deviant, are also more likely to place a higher priority on "subterranean" values for wealth, aggression, competition, and beating the system, while simultaneously placing a low priority on "mainstream" values like trustworthiness and equality. Results could also apply to other criminological theories that have previously ignored values as an important theoretical construct.
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Mannonen, Lotta, Aleksi Ojala, and Martinus Vorstenbosch. "Aligning CSR Values to change Corporate Social Behavior : Utilizing Management Control Systems to create Shared Values." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39352.
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The aim of this study is to investigate how explicit CSR values are implemented in the organizational culture of companies through MCS. The focus is on which elements of MCS affect the tacit CSR values of employees, so that employee and corporate values can be aligned. Additionally, the role that shared values play on corporate social behavior is explored. To answer the research question both primary and secondary data were collected and analyzed by conducting multiple case studies. The primary data was collected through qualitative, semi-structured interviews. Secondary data was collected from the case companies’ official reports, codes of conduct and statements. A model was created to create a visualization of the concepts used in the theoretical framework. This study found that companies from nine different industries utilize MCS to align CSR values in their organization, and realize green marketing behavior. Shared values are created through four MCS; a belief system, a diagnostic control system, a boundary system and an interactive control system. These are the building blocks upon which positive corporate social behavior is grounded on. This study’s results provide managers tools to affect their company’s corporate social behavior. Additionally, on a broader level, this study indicates that green marketing and greenwashing behavior can be viewed as choices that companies can deliberately make. Managers can affect the corporate social behavior of their company and are therefore responsible for the path they choose regarding CSR.
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Firmeza, JÃlia de Souza. "Personal values and involvement in social projects in the context of social responsibility." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2007. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3534.
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The theme social responsibility of organizations has had great projection nowadays. The companies that are considered socially responsible, among other actions, encourage voluntary work, encouragement that can vary from informal support, so that people can be volunteers
out of timetable work; to the creation of formal programs of the company, in which the workers are invited to participate, using the normal time of working hours or other organizational resources. The workersâ participation, however, is still reduced in social
projects that the companies develop. So, it is understandable that the personal values direct and guide the human behaviour and this research aims to verify the relation between personal values and the participation in social projects, supposing that the behavior of social
participation is directly related to collective and mixed values. Thus, the research searched, supported by authors such as: Karkotli and AragÃo and Melo Neto and Froes (in the social responsibility field) Schwartz and Tamayo (concerning to values) and Bordenave and Arango (in the participation theme) and through its objectives, first to describe the social projects of the company researched, then, to identify the type and level of participation of its workers and to identify also the axiological priority of the participants of the social projects of the company. The research was through quantitative and qualitative nature, and by exploratory and descriptive feature. The investigation occurred by means of a case study in a business as of city transportation as of passengers that is notable by its social responsibility. The results
related to the first specific aim become evident that the researched organization, through its actions of social responsibility, gives spaces of social participation for its workers. Concerning the workersâ participation, the data show that the company still has a reduced number of participants, although, they have a voluntary and conscious participation of their contributions in social matters. As for personal values related to participation in social projects, in a group of researched subjects, it was got as a result, the presence of values of collective interests, such as, conformity and benevolence, and the value of universalism, characterized by individual and collective interests.Nos dias de hoje, cada vez mais aufere destaque o tema da responsabilidade social das organizaÃÃes. Empresas consideradas cidadÃs ou socialmente responsÃveis, entre outras aÃÃes, estimulam o trabalho voluntÃrio, incentivo este que pode variar do apoio informal para que as pessoas se dediquem ao voluntariado espontÃneo fora do horÃrio de trabalho atà a criaÃÃo de programas formais da empresa, nos quais os funcionÃrios sÃo convidados a participar, utilizando tempo da jornada normal de trabalho ou outros recursos organizacionais. A participaÃÃo dos funcionÃrios, contudo, ainda à reduzida, nos projetos sociais que as empresas desenvolvem. Compreendendo que os valores pessoais orientam e guiam o comportamento humano, esta pesquisa tem por objetivo verificar a relaÃÃo entre os valores pessoais e a participaÃÃo em projetos sociais, supondo que o comportamento de participaÃÃo social està diretamente relacionado com valores coletivos e mistos. Para tanto, buscou, apoiado em autores como, Karkotli e AragÃo e Melo Neto e Froes (no campo da responsabilidade social), Schwartz e Tamayo (no tem valores) e Bordenave e Arango (na temÃtica participaÃÃo) e mediante seus objetivos, primeiramente descrever os projetos sociais da empresa pesquisada, identificar o tipo e grau de participaÃÃo de seus funcionÃrios e identificar a prioridade axiolÃgica dos participantes dos projetos sociais da empresa. A pesquisa foi de natureza quantitativa e qualitativa, de carÃter exploratÃrio e descritivo. A investigaÃÃo ocorreu por intermÃdio do estudo de caso em uma empresa de transporte urbano de passageiros que se destaca em responsabilidade social. Os resultados referentes ao primeiro objetivo especÃfico evidenciam que a organizaÃÃo pesquisada, por meio de suas aÃÃes de responsabilidade social, faz-se espaÃo de participaÃÃo social para seus funcionÃrios. No que concerne à participaÃÃo dos funcionÃrios, os dados demonstram que a empresa ainda conta com reduzido nÃmero de participantes, embora tenham uma participaÃÃo voluntÃria e consciente da contribuiÃÃo nas questÃes sociais. Quanto aos valores pessoais relacionados à participaÃÃo em projetos sociais, no grupo de sujeitos pesquisados, obteve-se como resultado a presenÃa dos valores de interesses coletivos, como conformidade e benevolÃncia, e o valor de universalismo, caracterizado por interesses individuais e coletivos.
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Lollis, Brent Darryl. "The political dialectic of family values /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Fu, Ho-ying, and 符可瑩. "The social cognitive mediation of multiple enculturation and values." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31238476.
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SOUZA, ROOSEVELT FIDELES DE. "AN EXPERIENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: BUILDING SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4302@1.
Abstract:
Este estudo teve como motivação inicial a experiência
profissional do autor,como educador e geógrafo, atuando
na
iniciativa denominada Projeto de Educação Ambiental com
Crianças de Escolas públicas, que vem sendo realizada no
campus da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de
Janeiro desde 1998. Este projeto foi desenvolvido pelo
Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Meio Ambiente - NIMA/PUC-Rio,
com o objetivo de integrar as escolas públicas com a
Universidade, através de aulas de Educação Ambiental,
tendo
como meta a formação de valores ético-ambientais para o
exercício da cidadania das futuras gerações. Baseado
nesta
experiência de projeto social, que visa atender às
crianças
mais carentes que estudam nas escolas públicas no
bairro da Gávea e moradoras das comunidades carentes da
Rocinha, Vidigal, Parque da Cidade e Cruzada São
Sebastião,
localizadas próximas ao campus da PUC-Rio, são
apresentadas aqui as reflexões e potencialidades de
transformação social do Projeto de
Educação Ambiental com Crianças de Escolas Públicas.
A análise deste Projeto, enquanto um modelo que visa
responder aos atuais apelos da recente Lei Federal de
Educação Ambiental e da Lei Estadual, sobretudo no
que se refere a sua dimensão não-formal, constitui o
escopo
desta dissertação. Em outras palavras, este trabalho
avalia
as ações e práticas educativas voltadas para a
sensibilização da coletividade sobre as questões
ambientais, com a participação e parceria de escolas,
Universidade e empresas, e das transformações processadas
com valores éticos presentes na relação do homem com o
seu
meio ambiente, através de um projeto de Educação
Ambiental,
realizado junto às crianças e adolescentes estudantes da
rede pública de educação no Estado do Rio de Janeiro.This research was motivated by the author s professional experience, as a Geography teacher, working as a member of the team responsible for the Project of Environmental Education for Public School Children, which has been taking place within the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro campus since 1998. This project was developed by the Interdisciplinary Center for the Environment - NIMA/PUC-Rio to promote the integration of the public schools with the university,throughout Environmental Education classes. The goal of the project is to develop ethical-environmental values for the exercise of future generations citizenship. The purpose of this initiative is to serve the poor children, who attend classes of the public schools of Gávea, Rocinha, Vidigal, Parque da Cidade e Cruzada de São Sebastião neighborhoods, located near by PUC- Rio campus. Based on this experience, the author describes the perspectives for social change of the Project of Environmental Education for Public School Children. The core subject of this dissertation is an analysis of this project, taken as a model response to the determinations of the recent Federal and State Laws for environmental education, with emphasis on non-formal education. In other words, this essay describes the educational actions and practices designed to wake up collective sensibility towards environmental issues, relying on the partner ship established by schools with universities and companies. This dissertation is concerned with the ethical valves which comes out of the relation ship between mankind and its surrounding nature and the transformations that can be accomplished by an Environmental Education Project such as this one offered to the children of the public education system of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
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Pritchard, David. "Comparing German and British political culture through values : and analysis of the values of health care reform." Thesis, Aston University, 2002. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/14844/.
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This research sets out to compare the values in British and German political discourse, especially the discourse of social policy, and to analyse their relationship to political culture through an analysis of the values of health care reform. The work proceeds from the hypothesis that the known differences in political culture between the two countries will be reflected in the values of political discourse, and takes a comparison of two major recent legislative debates on health care reform as a case study. The starting point in the first chapter is a brief comparative survey of the post-war political cultures of the two countries, including a brief account of the historical background to their development and an overview of explanatory theoretical models. From this are developed the expected contrasts in values in accordance with the hypothesis. The second chapter explains the basis for selecting the corpus texts and the contextual information which needs to be recorded to make a comparative analysis, including the context and content of the reform proposals which comprise the case study. It examines any contextual factors which may need to be taken into account in the analysis. The third and fourth chapters explain the analytical method, which is centred on the use of definition-based taxonomies of value items and value appeal methods to identify, on a sen-tence-by-sentence basis, the value items in the corpus texts and the methods used to make appeals to those value items. The third chapter is concerned with the classification and analysis of values, the fourth with the classification and analysis of value appeal methods. The fifth chapter will present and explain the results of the analysis, and the sixth will summarize the conclusions and make suggestions for further research.
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Wong, Hing-cheung Jacob. "Will the real Asian values please stand up?" Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31953293.
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Benson, David A. "Male values and male violence." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2001. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/21785/.
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The present study is an investigation of the relationship between male value systems and male interpersonal conflict, with particular emphasis upon inter-personal violence. The study adopts a naturalistic methodology (Archer 1995) and draws on concepts drawn from a range of disciplines that are integrated using an evolutionary analysis (Daly and Wilson 1988, Archer 1996). The triangulation of methods comprising case studies (study 1), questionnaires (studies 3 and 4) and ethnography (study 2), form the basis for a descriptive phase of research (Archer 1989) that enabled specific hypotheses to be formulated and tested using experimental methods (studies 5 and 6). The research findings from the questionnaires and ethnographic observations suggested that male values may constitute important determinants of male aggression reflected, for instance, in the utility of physical aggression to acquire and defend status and to confirm a masculine identity. The case studies demonstrated that male value systems provide insights into the causation of extreme acts of violence. The Fight Self Report (study 3) highlighted features of fights and that they were more likely to occur in or around pubs and night-dubs, the provocations that were most likely to lead to aggressive ads and how males are expected to behave in conflict situations. The ethnographic observations (study 2) provided insights into how males interpret information about potential opponents' perceived threats and challenges and how age, social support and alcohol consumption influence aggressive responses. The observations also generated data that indicates that inter-male conversations may have ritual elements and may be used to maintain and acquire status. The Masculinity Questionnaire (study 4) provided further insight into the type of provocation that may lead to physical aggression and attitudes to how certain provocations should be responded to. The hypothesis testing stage of the project (studies 5 and 6) used questionnaires to manipulate Resource Holding Potential (RHP) and Provocation and to measure their influence on escalation of aggression. The study 5A demonstrated that young men are much less likely to indicate that they would respond to an insult with physical aggression if their opponent was bigger than them, had more potential allies and had a reputation for being successful in the use of physical aggression, which represented high RHP. Conversely young men were much more likely to use physical aggression against an opponent of low or medium RHP. The Provocation Study (study 5B) demonstrated that incidents involving insults to a sexual partner were the most likely situation to provoke a young man into using physical aggression. The final method used in the project, the Human Conflict Questionnaire (study 6), also manipulated RHP and Provocation and used measured variables that included not only physical aggression (as in study 5) but also a range of immediate and post-incident behavioural and cognitive responses. Principal Components Analyses identified three sub-scales, Direct Aggression, Non-Provocation Behaviour and Negative Impact (post-event negative emotional responses). Scales derived from these factors were used as DVs in an ANOVA The analyses. indicated that a challenge from an opponent of higher RHP than oneself is likely to reduce the chance of reacting with physical aggression but to increase non-aggressive responses Including subsequent negative cognitive reactions. Conversely high provocation from opponents of lower RHP than oneself are more likely to lead to physical aggression, and less likely to lead to nonaggressive responses, and to subsequent negative emotions. The findings of the various methods are interpreted using evolutionary concepts and a case is made for the existence of evaluative mechanisms in males that are used to assess RHP in other males and which may make males sensitive to status interactions with other men.
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Anderson, Michael. "Sartre and social work: Lessons for social casework values from his existentialist ethical individualism." Thesis, Anderson, Michael (1999) Sartre and social work: Lessons for social casework values from his existentialist ethical individualism. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1999. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/53722/.
Abstract:
The existentialist moral philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre has been under-explored for its potential to challenge the liberal individualism and positivism which permeate social casework. A study of the progressive shifts of this best known of existentialist philosophers away from an intemperate ethical individualism, through Marxified-existentialism, towards a final morality of communal responsibility, can illuminate many of the discipline's dark comers.
Sartre's fundamental failing is a flawed individualistic premise which obstructs his recognition of a social self: an essential human mutuality in which individuals might in their interaction with others, meet not the limitation of their own freedom, but its realization. He had an obdurate commitment to a conception of humanity as an aggregation of atomized self-concerned individuals fundamentally set one against the other. He saw individual freedom as an anti-social principle, failing to comprehend that people need each other to develop and realize their potentialities as individuals.
Social caseworkers have had on the whole, in parallel with Sartre, an inadequate, excessively individualistic understanding of the meeting of self and others in a social structure, so that social casework helping has become absorbed with an individualized professional assistance characterized by preoccupation with the personality of individuals and with their close relationships. Sartre's early view is an exclusively individualistic understanding of what it is to be human. His radical arguments from this time can serve to clarify problems in the beleaguered occupation of social work, which enshrines an individualistic value orientation of respect for persons which is becoming increasingly discordant with community-oriented forms of practice.
A positive and optimistic philosophy which Sartre was developing in the last years of the 1940's presumes in contrast, an inescapable human inter-dependency and a relational understanding of what it is to be human. This reconsidered philosophy can assist social caseworkers to recognition that care for individuals must inevitably imply concern for their society too and would envisage their efforts as a bridge between those being helped and the wider society. A coherent existentialist philosophy, it would counter the sway of the technocratic, positivistic orientation of theory for professional helping, enabling caseworkers to have confidence in the relevance of written theory because the existentialist outlook would be more congruent with their experienced realities of daily practice. This second philosophical approach of Sartre, would encourage them to engage with their clients in an encounter where they would use a genuinely open discourse in which helper and helped could truly listen to one another as partners.
Sartre 's third moral philosophy was intended to reformulate the relationship between the individual and a society of other people in an original theory combining existentialism with Marxism. His achievement was the creation of a Marxified-existentialist theory rather than as he had explicitly promised, an existentialist-Marxist theory. This doomed attempt to meld the two opposites of his existentialism with Marxism, does nonetheless succeed in elucidating the strengths and limitations of both and demonstrates especially, the inability of an individualistic perspective to explain social phenomena. Examination of Sartre's Marxified-existentialism, can help social caseworkers to better understand the complex issue of the inter-relation of self and the institutionalized communities of others which make up a society.
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Decker, Aaron. "A collection contemporary short stories /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.
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Younis, Ahmed Ayish. "The social reintegration of patients with spinal cord injury." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263246.
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Caramlau, Isabela Oana. "Values and social representations : a dualistic approach to HIV/AIDS." Thesis, Brunel University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423330.
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Jefferson, Rebecca Louise. "Communicating marine environmental health : connecting science, social and policy values." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2666.
Abstract:
Human activities are degrading marine ecosystems and undermining the ecological functions and processes which provide valued goods and services. European and UK marine policy developments aim to implement the Ecosystem Approach to support better management of activities and maintain the health of regional seas. Current public perceptions of the UK marine environment are overwhelmingly negative, creating a barrier to engaging society with marine environmental issues and policy. This thesis conducts a study of the attributes of a suite of 72 UK marine species to identify those which contribute most to marine ecological health. The findings show that structurally complex species are most important and are recommended as species to assess and monitor Good Environmental Status as defined by the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Existing conservation policies are biased towards large vertebrate species, with ecologically important species being underprotected. A survey of public perceptions of the marine environment. revealed conflicting perceptions of charismatic megafauna. Charismatic species were the most interesting species but least important as measures of marine health. Ecologically important species were the least interesting, but ecological health concepts were considered important measures of marine health. Perceptions of the marine environment varied with socio-demographic and social value factors. By integrating these studies, barriers and opportunities to engaging society with the marine environment were identified. Communication strategies which address these are proposed, including a suite of Spokes Species, potential high profile species to champion the marine environment. These include puffin, cod, basking shark and seagrass. A series of themes are proposed which implement other key findings such as the importance of personal experience in building connections with marine species. Communication strategies are supported by ecologically defined assessments of marine environmental health, are relevant to current policy developments and will resonate with social values of the marine environment.
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de, Unzaga Miriam Ali. "Weaving social life. Moroccan rural textiles, people and changing values." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496177.
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Chan, Daniel F. "An exploratory study of social work values in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1989. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2168/.
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Woodfield, Rebecca. "Effects of priming social values on behaviours related to obsessionality." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/64233/.
Abstract:
Introduction: Values have been widely researched within social psychology, particularly with regards to their effects on behaviour, but their application to mental health has been largely neglected. Some psychological therapies acknowledge the importance of values (e.g. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) but their approaches to using values within therapies has not been empirically tested. The Schwartz model of values (Schwartz, 1992; Schwartz et al, 2012) has been demonstrated to be related to some mental health constructs and offers a potentially systematic way of understanding the dynamic relationships between values and mental health. Aims: The current research aimed to investigate the relationship between obsessionality and values within a non-clinical sample, and to demonstrate the relationship between priming values and behaviours related to obsessionality. In doing so it draws upon the Schwartz model of values and the social psychology literature on the effects of priming values on value congruent behaviour. More specifically, it investigated whether individuals primed with obsessionality related values (conservation values) performed more obsessionality related behaviours and whether obsessionality related behaviours occurred more in those with high pre-dispositions of obsessionality. The role of responsibility beliefs and the importance of value centrality were also investigated. Methods: A between-subjects experimental design was employed, with 90 participants (an obsessionality/conservation values prime group, n=30; a non-obsessionality/openness values prime group, n=30; and a control group, n=30). Univariate statistics, correlations and chi-square analyses were used to test the hypotheses. All participants completed a measure of values (PVQ-21), as well as measures of obsessionality (VOCI, SOAQ) and responsibility beliefs (RAS). All participants also completed two further tasks which incorporated obsessionality behaviours of checking, ordering and cleaning. Results: The obsessionality values primed group demonstrated more cleaning behaviour than the controls and non-obsessionality primed group. Relationships between the priming tasks and other behaviours were not significant. Levels of obsessionality related behaviours were found to not significantly differ between those with high and low obsessionality or responsibility pre-dispositions. High levels of responsibility beliefs were found to be related to self-transcendence value priorities as expected but high obsessionality beliefs were not found to be significantly related to conservation value priorities. Conclusions: This study provides empirical support for considering the values that individuals with obsessionality related difficulties hold, through demonstrating that bringing to mind obsessionality related values can lead to obsessionality related behaviour in a non-clinical sample. It also highlights the motivational underpinnings of obsessionality with regards to individuals needing substantial motivations to engage in obsessionality related behaviours in line with current conceptualisations of obsessionality related mental health difficulties. The results are discussed with reference to the existing literature and the clinical implications are outlined. The strengths and limitations of the research and ideas for future research are also presented.
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Gertz, Robert. "Moral Code: The Design and Social Values of the Internet." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/121006.
Abstract:
PhilosophyPh.D.
In the field of philosophy, the study of the Internet has mainly focused on the social responses to the technology or offered contending visions of the future forms of the Internet with little or no regard for the import of the technical features that contribute to these possibilities. Philosophy lacks a sustained investigation of the implications of the basic design of the Internet technology. This dissertation lays out a philosophical framework for investigating the social and historical relations that result in the embodiment of specific interests in the technology of the Internet. Its philosophical basis, influenced by the thought of Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, and Andrew Feenberg, supports a social constructivist approach that includes theorization of the oppressive embodiment of hegemonic and exclusive interests in technology while rejecting the technological determinisms influenced by Martin Heidegger's philosophy of technology. After establishing that three pervasive social-political interests - accessibility, openness, and decentralization - directed the design choices that produced the fundamental structure of the Internet, I consider how these embodied interests have interacted with interests arising through the commercial commodification and the globalization of the Internet since the 1990s. Critically evaluating and expanding upon theoretical work in philosophy and other disciplines, I argue that the interests of accessibility, openness, and decentralization, while potentially oppressive when appropriated to satisfy the needs of commercial advertising and dominant social relations, avert the technological hegemony and exclusivity that has concerned philosophers. The result of these embodied interests is an emancipatory ability to incorporate alternative interests and uses through dispersed collaboration and participation, which enables Internet technology to remain minimally coercive.
Temple University--Theses
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Considine, P. "Corporate social responsibility : the intersection of facts, beliefs and values." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2015. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/27127/.
Abstract:
This research explores the social phenomenon of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Recent high profile scandals have raised the profile of Corporate Social Responsibility and as a result organisations now spend significant time and resources attempting to manage it. The importance of CSR is well evidenced in this research however what CSR actually is and what constitutes successful CSR is a much more difficult question for employees to answer. Even the term CSR is problematic and lacks agreed definition. This thesis shows that this leads to uncertainty and it examines the ways that organisational members interpret the subject, so that it means something to employees and stakeholders, and it further demonstrates the factors underpinning a successful programme. Clear gaps exist in the perceptions of senior management, line managers and front line employees as to what CSR means or what its benefits might be, indeed some question if the subject is an area that organisations should be involved in at all. The only thing that there seems any agreement over is that Corporate Social Irresponsibility is probably bad for the organisation, bad for society and bad for the stakeholders. This thesis contributes to the sociology of knowledge in a number of interrelated ways, and it is the nexus of these interrelationships that develops the distinctive contribution. The thesis examines the way that a number of organisations operationalize the construct of CSR to create shared value for the communities that they serve. It analyses the evolution of the definitions in use by the organisations and how employees create a shared understanding of the value that is added by CSR. Importantly the research provides a framework for understanding the impact the CSR can have within an organisation and provides a management tool to categorize CSR activities and then allows managers to identify ways of using CSR in a more strategic way. The thesis employs a case study approach to three organisations that are constituted in different ways and are of different sizes. These organisations have been chosen as they reflect the differing structures that represent the full range of incorporated businesses with the exception of the niche area of incorporated partnerships. All three believe that values are an important element of their business model and organisational culture. It considers the impact of structure and constitution, and investigates the different approaches of a large local Cooperative, a specialist hybrid Co-operative and the standard investor owned firm (IOF) model of CSR. It draws conclusions as to similarities and differences between the models and identifies core drivers of success in CSR for the organisations, as interpreted by employees. The approach follows the method outlined in Hingley (2010) and Stake (1995) and can be seen as typical cases of this type (Yin 2003). The use of multiple cases give a richness of detail by allowing input from the widest cross section of staff by interviewing over 150 staff of varying positions and from the widest possible ranges of business units and regions until saturation of categories was reached. The cases are built using Grounded Theory (GT) – a method that gives a significantly more validity to the process than a simple case approach and mitigates many of the weaknesses identified in the Case Study method. For example the topic of sense making is an important element of the thesis as is the process of symbolic interactionism. These require a depth of analysis and rigour in their investigation that GT gives but that case study is unlikely to uncover Unlike much research in this field that examines the reputational benefit of CSR the thesis examines the definition of CSR viewed from an organisational perspective. It adds to the body of knowledge regarding ways that employees make sense of the construct and their perceptions of benefits of CSR. It examines the impact of structure and constitution of organisations and contributes to our understanding of how this impacts on the behaviours and culture of organisations – a central tenet of CSR. The importance of alignment between espoused and enacted values is demonstrated as is the role of leadership in creating the conditions for a culture that ensures values are the key driver of CSR. The research examines the factors perceived by staff to impact the credibility of CSR and makes a methodological contribution by using Grounded Theory to build case studies by applying the rigorous coding processes to the development of the frameworks that the cases are based on. Finally the research makes a significant practitioner contribution by introducing the CSR matrix – the tool by which managers can categorise their activities and identify the organisational capabilities that can be leveraged to create shared value.
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Werderitch, Joseph. "Impulsiveness and Self-Reported Values." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2024.
Abstract:
TITLE: IMPULSIVNENESS AND SELF-REOPRTED VALUES MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Mark R. Dixon Towards developing an applied behavior technology that treats vales as the dependent variable of interest, there is a necessity for understanding the relationship between impulsiveness and self-reported values. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how values affected social and delay discounting. Thirty participants were given two surveys, one was a social discounting survey, and the other was a delay discounting survey. Finally, participants were given a valued-living questionnaire. In the social discounting survey, participants were asked to mentally make a list of people they knew from 1-100, 1 being the closest to them and 100 being a distant acquaintance. They were then asked to pick between two choices involving hypothetical money. Starting with the choice of keeping $85 for themselves, or giving $75 to the 1st person on their list. The second choice was to keep $75 for themselves, or give $75 to the #1 person on their list. The monetary value continued to decrease by 10, while the value to give to another person remained the same, these were continued for person #2, # 5, #10, #20, and #50 on their list. The delay discounting instructed participants to choose between two hypothetical choices. The first was receiving $85 today or $75 in 1 week. The second choice was to receive $75 today, or $75 in 1 week. The hypothetical monetary value was decreased by $10, until it reached $5. The valued living questionnaire used a Likert-scale from 1-10 with 1 being ‘not at all important and ’10 being ‘extremely important’ across 10 areas (family-other than marriage or parenting, i marriage/couples, intimate relations, parenting, friends/social life, work, education/training, recreation/fun, spirituality, citizenship/community life, and physical self-care (diet, exercise, sleep). The second section of the questionnaire evaluated committed action, and asked participants to rate how consistent their actions have been with each of these value areas within the past week. A Likert-scale was also used from 1-10, with 1 being ‘not at all consistent with my value’ and 10 being ‘completely consistent with my value’. A Pearson product-movement correlation coefficient was composed to access the relationship between the switch point of discounting and rating of each area of valued living. There were to valued living areas with significant findings. There was a positive correlation between Social AUC and VLQ: Importance- Social/Friends (r=.503, n=30, p=.005). There was also a positive correlation between Delay AUC and VLQ: Importance- Physical self-care (r=.448, n=30, p=.013). There was no correlation between either social AUC and delay AUC and any of the committed action values. The results have implications for a translational understanding of the influence of discounting on reported values and committed action processes.
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Zarvell, Ray K. McCarthy John R. "Student value congruency and Greek social organization cultures." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1993. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9416873.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1993.Title from title page screen, viewed March 14, 2006. Dissertation Committee: John R. McCarthy (chair), James Palmer, Sally B. Pancrazio, David L. Tucker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-80) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Wong, Hing-cheung Jacob, and 王慶鏘. "Will the real Asian values please stand up?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953293.
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Lloyd, Andrew P. "Enhancing Army values training through bibliotherapy." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3275837.
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Sizikova, Evelina. "Social Media- A New Instrument to Influence Brand Value." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-125069.
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With the rising power of Internet and especially social media which includes different communities, blogs, portals(1) , etc., nowadays brand value, - its creation and control, is not in the hands of the companies anymore, but is shifted to the consumers. One aim of this paper is to investigate and try to prove the existence of social media influence on brand value. Another goal is to introduce a different vision of brand value in connection with Internet and the rise of social media's influence on consumer's minds. For the purpose of this research the terms brand value and brand equity would bear equal meanings. My theory, which I would like to introduce, was borrowed from biology and physics, namely from I.P. Pavlov's studies and his conditioned reflex theory(2) and the physics part is based on the dispersion of light theory which was first introduced, as we know, by Isaak Newton(3). I dare to say, that nowadays creation of brand value in consumer minds works the same way. When someone, man or woman, hears a brand name, a picture and a feeling, either positive or negative is immediately formed in the person's mind from personal experience with this brand. If not, then the brand is an unfamiliar one, thus we have to rely on a provided opinion, which was previously usually conveyed to us by family, relatives and close friends while recently, also by our growing virtual community. At the beginning of the thesis, I will present the theoretical background and data on World Wide Web and social media, followed by a concise description of some of the existing brand equity models, afterwards introducing my own vision on significant brand value components, elaborating on this theory with the help of relevant case studies and researches. Brand equity has generally been defined as "a brand's power derived from the goodwill and name recognition that it has earned over time, which translates into higher sales volume and higher profit margins against competing brands"(4). Further on in the second chapter I will bring together more definitions on brand equity/value to be able to propose a modified one, components of which will be discussed thoroughly in the same chapter. The main goal of my Master Thesis is to analyze the existence of a dependency between social media and brand value. A second goal is to assess whether the impact is a positive or a negative one or is a mixture of both.
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Watkins, Leah, and n/a. "Culture, values and Japanese tourism behaviour." University of Otago. Department of Marketing, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070205.150926.
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While the role of culture as an influence on consumer behaviour and product/service choice has long been acknowledged, the current literature in marketing offers an incomplete understanding of how and why culture plays its influential role (Overby, Woodruff and Gardial 2005). Research suggests that values provide the link between culture and consumer behaviour and values have been the focus of much research in the social sciences. In particular, values have received significant attention in cross-cultural research, being used to characterise the similarities within and differences across cultures. Values are central to the marketing discipline as they determine value, i.e. what activities, interests, and material goods consumers identify with, enjoy, acquire, or consume (Grunert and Muller 1996). Both directly and indirectly, values drive consumption behaviour.
Typically, values have been assessed and compared through the use of standard measures such as Rokeach�s Value Survey, the List of Values and Schwartz�s Value Survey. Recent literature highlights growing concern over the application of standard measures across cultures and issues of cross-cultural invariance. There is a need for new research into cross-cultural applications of consumer value measures and theoretical models. This thesis critiques the use of Western conceptual paradigms and imposed etics in value research, and, using a Japanese tourism context, seeks a deeper understanding of how culture and values affect tourism consumption and experience.
This thesis offers an empirical test of the cross-cultural applicability of a commonly used values scale in consumer research, the List of Values (Kahle 1983). The findings of this phase of the research extend the literature concerning methodological issues in values research and highlight the limitiations of the LOV as a cross-cultural measure of values. Based on these findings the thesis adopts an alternative, qualitative methodology to investigate the relationship between Japanese culture, values and tourism behaviour in New Zealand. The findings of the second phase of the research contribute to a recent call in the literature for more qualitative research in tourism, and allow the identification and understanding of the key values relevant to Japanese tourism behaviour. The results of Means-End interviews with Japanese visitors reveal the important cultural assumptions informing values and shaping tourism decisions and behaviours for two key groups of Japanese tourists.
The theoretical framework presented in this thesis promotes our understanding of the relationship between cultural beliefs, values, and consumer behaviour. The results of the primary research highlight the importance of cultural and physical history, world-view, self-concept, thought patterns and language in the formation and interpretation of values. The thesis presents a holistic attempt at understanding Japanese culture, values and travel behaviour by examining how these concepts cohere in a logical framework. The thesis argues that, given the inherently cultural nature of values, their interpretation within the context of cultural beliefs is highly important in understanding variability in consumer behaviour across cultures.
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Baghaei, Mojdeh. "Parents' perceptions of social responsibility: a case study of social responsibility in one elementary school /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2299.
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Walls, Jedediah Logan. "Identifying Human Values Reflected in "Digitoral" Marketing Campaigns." Thesis, Fielding Graduate University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829147.
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This research describes psychological values as they appear in social commerce related online marketing campaigns. Values are studied by their functional roles, which is what they do, rather than what they are (Gouveia, Milfont, & Guerra, 2014). According to the functional theory of values, values guide actions and express needs. Marketing campaigns and values are explored because both marketing and values seek to guide actions and express needs. Exploring this calls for a qualitative study using content analysis. This research conducts two content analysis studies to verify accuracy. The first uses an open coding method, and the second uses a qualitative deductive analysis approach. The results retrieved throughout both studies use different word codes, but when listed together indicate that insightfulness, knowledge, and social support show the highest frequency and co-occurrence. Both studies also show that digitoral marketing campaigns rely much more on thriving needs than survival needs. Both studies confirmed, however, that survival needs are mostly expressed through displays of power, obedience, personal stability, and survival.
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Poovan, Negendhri. "The impact of the social values of Ubuntu on team effectiveness." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1166.
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Osborn, Jeremy. "Values, culture, social capital, change : the case of The Car Coop." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31713.
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This is a study of the oppositional social forces at play within and around the hybrid commercial social enterprise. The literature reveals these tension points regularly in the history of the social enterprise movement as a whole, and within individual organizations within the movement. Typically, these tension points, quasi-paradoxes, or oppositional co-existences are cultural and values-based in nature, stemming largely from a core egalitarian-utilitarian synthesis that is emerging globally in many forms, including via social enterprise. Consequently, the theoretical frameworks used to explore these questions are also socio-cultural, economic, and values-based. In the early years of the coop, the social entrepreneur is the key mediating force between the entrepreneurial, market-building demands of a new business, and the egalitarian institutional cultural predisposition that led to its creation. Later in the institutional history the social entrepreneur’s prolonged success at market development catalyzes a wider stakeholder debate and cultural crisis regarding the future of the institution under conditions of rapid and persistent growth. The organization’s members, arguably the most important stakeholder, are explored last - as a separate unit of analysis, but through a similar values-culture tension lens. It is found that the organization's members hold a complex, often paradoxical mix of utilitarian and egalitarian values, and that both are important to the organization's value proposition. The study is a qualitative inductive ethnography undertaken in the format of a single paradigmatic case study.
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Whitecross, Richard William. "Zhabdrung's legacy : state transformation, law and social values in contemporary Bhutan." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8369.
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Based on ethnographic research in Bhutan and among Bhutanese living in Nepal, this thesis examines the reach of law in everyday life in contemporary Bhutan. Drawing on inter-linked themes of social values drawn from Buddhist teachings and the importance of morality, power and legitimacy, I examine popular discourse of and about law. It contributes to current arguments in socio-legal studies and anthropology concerning the reach of law in contemporary societies and its significance in everyday life. Furthermore, my thesis represents the first ethnographic account of law and society in Bhutan. It makes a valuable contribution not only to our understanding of Bhutan, but also provides an ideal opportunity to examine everyday conceptions of law as the Bhutanese State promotes legal change that draw on non-indigenous models. The thesis considers the impact of the creation of a modem, independent judiciary and recent changes in legal education and the increasing amount of legislation and secondary regulations. However, the everyday construction of law, as well as the meanings and uses to which law are put, raises problems. Therefore, I turn to examine how ordinary people create and develop a sense of the law by focussing on the development of legal consciousness. To do this, I look less at the formal legal processes of the law than at the narratives about law from a number of Bhutanese. These narratives focus on the importance of community values and notions of morality and legitimacy, which simultaneously draw on a prevalent authoritative public discourse concerning social behaviour and individual re-interpretations and resistance within the broad framework of the discourse. I examine the interrelationship between these various features, which evoke, on an individual level, a sense of "legal consciousness" and I develop how this informs daily life. This interrelationship highlights the dynamism of the process and the fluidity of ideas and adaptability to changing needs and relationships of power. This approach allows for an examination of law situated within, rather than separate from, everyday life in order to analyse the fragmentary and often inconsistent use made by individuals of the legal orders and forums available to them.
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Tsirogianni, Stavroula. "Social values in context : a study of the European knowledge society." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2009. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2066/.
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This thesis investigates how social values align with changing patterns of economic development, work and quality of life in the European knowledge society. Conceptually, the thesis draws upon Richard Florida's Theory of the Creative Class (2002) and Human Values Theory as developed by Shalom Schwartz (1992). The research combines different methodological approaches and is structured in three parts. The first study involves a secondary data analysis of the European Social Survey that includes Schwartz's value inventory and other value related items. It aims at mapping the values of Florida's three key occupational groups: knowledge, service and manufacturing workers. While manufacturing workers were found to be distinct from knowledge and service workers, the latter two categories were rather similar. In addition, a mixture of liberal and traditional values characterised knowledge workers' value systems. Little empirical support was found for Schwartz's circumplex structure of values. The second part of the thesis, using two split-ballot experiments and cognitive interviews, explores the role of context in the conceptualisation and study of values. Drawing on the concept of 'behavioural spheres' (Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck, 1961), the operation of values in the familial, recreational and occupational sphere is examined. The findings show that many values demonstrated context specificity. In-depth interviews with Greek and British knowledge and service workers constitute the third and final study. I examine how workers' valuing processes delineate their creative endeavours to construct the meaning of work and good life, as embedded in the wider societal, economic, political and work contexts. Creativity focuses on how workers, create value meanings and enact values, combine different roles, make sense of their living and the world and deal with adversities. It was shown that the ability to transform work into a meaningful activity is not restricted to knowledge workers. The findings altogether did not corroborate Florida's proposal of an emerging creative class with distinct value orientations and Schwartz's model of a structure of universal values, captured in a set of binary oppositions. A range of challenges for policy making in the knowledge society is implied when authenticity rather than creativity - as defined by Florida- was found to delineate the European work ethos.