Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Szelągowska-Rudzka, Katarzyna I

Titel

University Social Responsibility and Direct Participation of Academic Teachers

Ist Teil von

• European Conference on Management, Leadership & Governance, 2018, p.264-XIII

Ort / Verlag

Kidmore End: Academic Conferences International Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The concept of social responsibility shall be interpreted as the responsibility of an organization for the impact of its decisions and actions on particular groups of stakeholders. In popular perception, it is viewed as the domain of enterprises, whereas each organization may have this idea reflected in their strategy. More often it refers also to universities. Since today modern universities are required to smoothly combine the mission of developing and transferring knowledge with actions aiming at building relations with the environment (stakeholders). The process of building relations with external stakeholders (e.g. university candidates and their families, secondary schools, enterprises, local governments, NGOs) shall begin from internal stakeholders - students and university employees - in particular, academic teachers. The socially responsible activities directed to the said group of employees are exemplified in employee direct participation. It can be defined as individual and group participation of academic teachers in managing the university - i.e. at taking decisions on various levels of organizational hierarchy (from workplace to strategic level), related to the functioning of university and employees as entities implementing the university processes. The participation makes academic teachers engaged in developing relations with the environment. It also reflects the socially responsible activities addressed to academic teachers. If the employees are the addressee of socially responsible activities at the university, they are encouraged and motivated to become involved in socially responsible activities addressed to other groups of internal stakeholders (first of all - students) as well as external ones. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify relations between direct participation of academic teachers in managing universities and socially responsible activities at the university, and to prove that DPAT is an example of CSR activities addressed to academic teachers contributing to their involvement in developing relations with other groups of stakeholders. Research methods include analysis of reference literature and case study of two Polish universities.