Implementing Social Sustainability for Innovative Industrial Work Environments

Sundström, Agneta; Ahmadi, Zahra; Mickelsson, Kristina

doi:10.3390/su11123402

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“…This learning organizational process helps the globe to predict new ventures that may happen suddenly and change the global economic, social, cultural, technological, political and environmental dimensions. According to the study of Agneta et al [13] implementing social sustainable innovation is important for industrial development of workplace environment.…”

Section: How To Designate Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace Innovation for Social Sustainable Development

Jilcha¹

2021

Sustainable Organizations - Models, Applications, and New Perspectives

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The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the importance of workplace innovation to sustainable development of the organizational change process. Workplace innovation has been distinguished from the technical innovation and its significance to intangible service improvements. It has addressed how sustainable development is affected by workplace safety, health, productivity, and wellbeing at the workplace. The chapter also attempted to see the three pillars of sustainable development against the six pillars of sustainable development dimensions from prospective points of the previous studies. The previous studies' findings considered sustainable development dimensions as economic, social, and environmental dimension, while the recent study has introduced additional three new sustainable development dimensions emanating from the existing dimension such as cultural, political and technological dimensions. Therefore, the paper tried to address the workplace innovation, its importance, model, and its impact on sustainable development of the global society.

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Section: How To Designate Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace Innovation for Social Sustainable Development

Jilcha¹

2021

Sustainable Organizations - Models, Applications, and New Perspectives

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“…The tepid reporting of diversity data in environmental nonprofits is in line with research that finds that some corporations do not emphasize diversity and pay scant attention to it [57,58]. However, some scholars report that, increasingly, corporations view diversity as an essential element of their business operations.…”

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confidence: 52%

“…A recent study of corporations found that though firms consider social sustainability in order to attract new workers, corporations place a low emphasis on it and do not consider it as essential as they do environmental sustainability. Hence, efforts to incorporate social sustainability initiatives are sometimes symbolic rather than substantive [57,58]. However, other scholars argue that, increasingly, firms pay attention to social responsibility and see it as a mechanism to gain a competitive edge [59,60].…”

Section: Social Responsibility and Social Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Salience of Publicly Disclosing Demographic Data in American Environmental Nonprofits

2019

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There has been a scholarly interest in the demographic characteristics of American environmental organizations since the 1960s, but until recently there was no readily available way of knowing the composition of the staff or board of these institutions as few revealed any of their demographic data publicly. For the past five years, there has been a high-profile campaign to get environmental nonprofits to disclose their demographic data. This paper examines 12,054 small, medium-sized, and large environmental organizations to find out how many of them have released diversity data on GuideStar. The article also examines how the state in which organizations are located, region of the country, urban or rural setting, organizational typology, amount of revenue, size of the staff, size of the board, gender of the chief executive officer (CEO), race of the CEO, and the year of completion of the GuideStar profile influenced the disclosure of diversity data. The researchers collected financial data from Internal Revenue Service tax forms and diversity data from GuideStar. The study found that 3.7% of the nonprofits studied divulged diversity data. However, organizations in the Pacific and Mid-Atlantic regions were most likely and nonprofits in the South least likely to report diversity data. Urban nonprofits were more likely to divulge diversity data than those located in the suburbs or in the rural areas. The highest level of reporting was in Washington, D.C. In addition, environmental justice organizations were more likely to disclose diversity data than other types of organizations. The larger the staff and the higher the revenue, the more likely it is that the organization divulged its diversity data. Organizations with female CEOs were more likely to reveal diversity data than male-headed nonprofits. Environmental organizations with ethnic/racial minority CEOs were also more likely to disclose demographic data than organizations with white CEOs.

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“…Formal employment can provide stability and other financial and social securities that contribute to overall well-being andto some extent-job satisfaction, both of which are key components of social sustainability [35]. Additionally, there is growing public expectations that industry and business will act ethically by formalizing their structures in order to contribute to the common goals of sustainable development [36].…”

Section: Normalized Fossil Energy Ratiomentioning

confidence: 99%

A Methodological Framework for Assessing the Sustainability of Solid Biofuels Systems

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This paper introduces a methodological framework for assessing the sustainability of solid biofuels in Mexico. The designed framework comprises 13 normalized indicators and two diagnostic studies, covering the economic, social, environmental, and institutional sustainability dimensions, and their intersections. Indicators are normalized using the concept of load capacity of a system, similarly to the planetary boundaries. Thus, the graphical representation of results facilitates their multidimensional analysis. The framework was applied to three case studies: traditional fuelwood in rural households, charcoal for restaurant grilling, and electricity cogeneration from sugarcane bagasse. This was part of an iterative process of testing and refining the framework and simultaneously demonstrating its application in the Mexican bioenergy context. This led to the conclusion that the resulting framework (a) provides a useful, quantitative, and comprehensive overview of both broad and specific sustainability aspects of the assessed system; (b) requires a balance of accessible but also scattered or sensitive data, similarly to most existing frameworks; (c) is highly flexible and applicable to both modern and traditional solid biofuels; and (d) is simple to communicate and interpret for a wide audience. Key directions for improvement of the framework are also discussed.

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Implementing Social Sustainability for Innovative Industrial Work Environments

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

Workplace Innovation for Social Sustainable Development

Workplace Innovation for Social Sustainable Development

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Salience of Publicly Disclosing Demographic Data in American Environmental Nonprofits

A Methodological Framework for Assessing the Sustainability of Solid Biofuels Systems

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