Entrepreneurship is an effective way of overcoming conjunctural factors; it is also a dignifying solution for all business-oriented people. This study aims to answer the following question: how to enable the social reinsertion of therapeutic communities’ graduates by resorting to the concepts of entrepreneurship? It also aims to investigate the skills of individuals cared for at therapeutic centers and who are in the final stage of drug addiction treatment, attempting to promote their social reintegration, job creation and sustainable income. To achieve this goal, this study’s specific objectives are: (1) present the practical applicability of entrepreneurial concepts as sustainable economic activities; (2) characterize the fundamental aspects for the development of entrepreneurial skills considering contextualized reality drawing on Bloom’s Taxonomy; (3) suggest re-adequacy of social reintegration public policies, considering the concepts of social innovation with sustainability. Here, Case Study Method and procedures such as instrumentalization of an introductory workshop, development of participants’ skills; gathering, analysis and interpretation of data are applied. As a result, thirty graduates from therapeutic communities had the chance to get in touch with the concepts of entrepreneurship as a tool for their social reinsertion. It is expected that this outcome may contribute to the improvement in their quality of life, considering that the study is based on factual reality and that its findings can be reproduced in situations of similar reality. This work is relevant to both public and private entities engaged with social responsibility and sustainability.
This study highlights the organizational innovation practices of a glass processing plant, in order to promote radical change in the assumptions of Theory U. The question to be answered is how Theory U can be used to develop the innovative system of an organization. The overall objective of this research is to study an organization’s effort to innovate from the standpoint of its employees; and to achieve a specific interpretation of a production system by (1) improving, and (2) describing how Theory U can be used for organizational innovation, before (3) proposing a model of innovation for the organization under study. The qualitative and quantitative research is developed by the Case Study Method. It involves raising the awareness of employees working in the organization to highlight management’s planning efforts, in order to improve their organizational and pro-innovation behavior. The main result is a technical treatment of the management of the production system, in order to induce organizational innovation. It prioritizes the construction of an innovative model, with Theory U as a working tool. In addition, it is found that organizational innovation requires participatory planning. Operational success requires the employees to be wholeheartedly committed to improvement and constantly offering suggestions in order to contribute to organizational change; this maintains a vision that sustains competitiveness; The results allow us to offer an innovation model that prioritizes employees’ perceptions and break away from outdated behavior based on top-down industrial structure, in which the directors monopolize the decisions that restrict teams of workers to routine tasks.
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