Operationalizing Stakeholder Engagement in CSR: A Process Approach

Abstract

Stakeholder engagement is an important aspect of an organization's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, but little theorizing informs its implementation. In this paper, the authors relate data from stakeholder engagement activities undertaken by nine Australian organizations as part of their CSR efforts, to an existing process model of engagement. The original framework is extended and enhanced into a process model of the operationalization of stakeholder engagement. Practically, this research identifies the steps within the operationalization of stakeholder engagement, allowing engagement practitioners to track the progress of their work, and to identify and respond to any impediments. Theoretically, the proposed process model approach presents a new perspective on operationalizing stakeholder engagement. The revised model of stakeholder engagement therefore provides a lens that gives deeper insights into how engagement is carried out; as well as a practical framework through which this implementation can be understood and managed. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Corporate Social Responsibility Excites ‘Exponential’ Positive Employee Engagement: The Matthew Effect in CSR and Sustainable Policy

Abstract

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) captures an organization's commitment to and engagement with multiple stakeholders; integrates economic, social, and environmental concerns into sustainable policies; and enhances employee perceptions, emotions, long-term value creation, and financial success. Most researchers have reported linear relationships between CSR and employee attitudes. Here, we test a new theory: After surpassing an upper bar, employee-perceived CSR exponentially stimulates their organizational pride. Organizational pride has a positive and linear direct impact on job satisfaction and affective commitment, respectively. Perceived CSR exponentially excites job satisfaction and affective commitment indirectly through organizational pride. Data collected from 296 managers and employees in 12 diverse companies in China support our theory. Policymakers must develop a sustainable policy, nourish a conducive environment, and pursue CSR as a competitive advantage because at a high level, perceived CSR exponentially reaps intangible rewards, creating the positive Matthew Effect in CSR and sustainable policy. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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IJERPH, Vol. 14, Pages 1316: Sensitizing Black Adult and Youth Consumers to Targeted Food Marketing Tactics in Their Environments

IJERPH, Vol. 14, Pages 1316: Sensitizing Black Adult and Youth Consumers to Targeted Food Marketing Tactics in Their Environments

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph14111316

Authors: Katherine Isselmann DiSantis Shiriki Kumanyika Lori Carter-Edwards Deborah Rohm Young Sonya Grier Vikki Lassiter

Food marketing environments of Black American consumers are heavily affected by ethnically-targeted marketing of sugar sweetened beverages, fast foods, and other products that may contribute to caloric overconsumption. This qualitative study assessed Black consumers' responses to targeted marketing. Black adults (2 mixed gender groups; total n = 30) and youth (2 gender specific groups; total n = 35) from two U.S. communities participated before and after a sensitization procedure—a critical practice used to understand social justice concerns. Pre-sensitization focus groups elicited responses to scenarios about various targeted marketing tactics. Participants were then given an informational booklet about targeted marketing to Black Americans, and all returned for the second (post-sensitization) focus group one week later. Conventional qualitative content analysis of transcripts identified several salient themes: seeing the marketer's perspective ("it's about demand"; "consumers choose"), respect for community ("marketers are setting us up for failure"; "making wrong assumptions"), and food environments as a social justice issue ("no one is watching the door"; "I didn't realize"). Effects of sensitization were reflected in participants' stated reactions to the information in the booklet, and also in the relative occurrence of marketer-oriented themes and social justice-oriented themes, respectively, less and more after sensitization.

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IJERPH, Vol. 14, Pages 1313: Diet Quality and Satisfaction with Life, Family Life, and Food-Related Life across Families: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study with Mother-Father-Adolescent Triads

IJERPH, Vol. 14, Pages 1313: Diet Quality and Satisfaction with Life, Family Life, and Food-Related Life across Families: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study with Mother-Father-Adolescent Triads

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph14111313

Authors: Berta Schnettler Germán Lobos Edgardo Miranda-Zapata Marianela Denegri Gastón Ares Clementina Hueche

Family is a major determinant of children's and adolescents' eating behavior. The objectives of the present study were to assess diet quality, eating habits, satisfaction with life, family life, and food-related life in mother–father–adolescent triads, and to identify profiles of families according to family members' diet quality. Questionnaires were administered to a sample of 300 two-parent families with one child over the age of 10 in the city of Temuco (Chile), including the Adapted Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Satisfaction with Food-related Life (SWFoL) scale, Satisfaction with Family Life (SWFaL) scales, and questions relating to their eating habits. Positive relationships were found between the diet quality of the family members, particularly between mothers and adolescents. Three family profiles with different diet qualities were identified: "families with an unhealthy diet" (39.3%), "families in which mothers and adolescents have healthy diets, but the fathers' diets require changes" (14.3%), and "families that require changes in their diet" (46.4%). These findings stress the key role of mothers in determining family diet quality and suggest a positive relationship between diet quality and satisfaction with life.

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IJERPH, Vol. 14, Pages 1317: Seasonal Patterns of Japanese Encephalitis and Associated Meteorological Factors in Taiwan

IJERPH, Vol. 14, Pages 1317: Seasonal Patterns of Japanese Encephalitis and Associated Meteorological Factors in Taiwan

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph14111317

Authors: Che-Liang Lin Hsiao-Ling Chang Chuan-Yao Lin Kow-Tong Chen

The persistent transmission of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) in Taiwan necessitates exploring the risk factors of occurrence of Japanese encephalitis (JE). The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between meteorological factors and the incidence of JE in Taiwan. We collected data for cases of JE reported to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) from 2000 to 2014. Meteorological data were obtained from the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau. The relationships between weather variability and the incidence of JE in Taiwan were determined via Poisson regression analysis and a case-crossover methodology. During the 15-year study period, a total of 379 cases of JE were reported. The incidence of JE showed significant seasonality, with the majority of cases occurring in summertime (for oscillation, p < 0.001). The number of JE cases started to increase at temperatures of 22 °C (r2 = 0.88, p < 0.001). Similarly, the number of JE cases began to increase at a relative humidity of 70–74% (r2 = 0.75, p < 0.005). The number of JE cases was positively associated with mean temperature and relative humidity in the period preceding the infection. In conclusion, the occurrence of JE is significantly associated with increasing temperature and relative humidity in Taiwan. Therefore, these factors could be regarded as warning signals indicating the need to implement preventive measures.

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In Reply to Drs Lipman and Hackett

Publication date: Available online 28 October 2017
Source:Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
Author(s): Nicholas C. Kanaan, Alicia L. Peterson, Matiram Pun, Ghan B. Thapa, Aditya Tiwari, Bikash Basyal, Peter S. Holck, Jennifer Starling, Thomas F. Freeman, Jessica R. Gehner, Linda Keyes, Dana R. Levin, Catherine J. O'Leary, Katherine E. Stuart, Jared L. Velgersdyk, Ken Zafren, Buddha Basnyat




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The influence of continental air masses on the aerosols and nutrients deposition over the western North Pacific

Publication date: January 2018
Source:Atmospheric Environment, Volume 172
Author(s): Jiangping Fu, Bo Wang, Ying Chen, Qingwei Ma
The air masses transported from East Asia have a strong impact on the aerosol properties and deposition in the marine boundary layer of the western North Pacific (WNP) during winter and spring. We joined a cruise between 17 Mar. and 22 Apr. 2014 and investigated the changes of aerosol composition and size distribution over the remote WNP and marginal seas. Although the secondary aerosol species (SO4²⁻, NO3⁻ and NH4⁺) in remote WNP were influenced significantly by the continental transport, NH4⁺ concentrations were lower than 2.7 μg m⁻³ in most sampling days and not correlated with non-sea-salt (nss)-SO4^2- suggesting that the ocean could be a primary source of NH4⁺. Moderate Cl⁻ depletion (23%) was observed in remote WNP, and the inverse relationship between Cl⁻ depletion percentages and nss-K⁺ in aerosols suggested that the transport of biomass burning smoke from East Asia might be a vital extra source of Cl⁻. Both Asian dust and haze events were encountered during the cruise. Asian dust carried large amounts of crustal elements such as Al and Ti to the WNP, and the dusty Fe deposition may double its background concentration in seawater. Differently, a dramatic increase of dry deposition flux of dissolved particulate inorganic nitrogen was observed during the haze event. Our study reveals that the transport of different continental air masses may have distinct biogeochemical impacts on the WNP by increasing the fluxes of different nutrient elements and potentially changing the nutrient stoichiometry.



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