As organizações e a ISO 26000: revisão dos conceitos, dos motivadores e das barreiras de implementação

ISO 26000, published in 2010, focuses on corporate social responsibility. This study presents a systematic review conducted in ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) and Elsevier's Scopus databases to answer the following question: What are the barriers and motivators affecting the adoption of ISO 26000 by organizations? The articles were selected using filters that applied two inclusion criteria. The data were summarized in a table covering the concepts of ISO 26000, the motivators, and the barriers. The motivators were globalization or competition in international markets, congruence with management systems, reputation or image, relationship with employees and improvement of the organizational environment, improvement in the relationship with external stakeholders, competitive advantage and strategy, guide to corporate social responsibility (CSR), and reduction of business risks. The barriers were lack of alignment between CSR and organizational strategy; business (national and international); unfamiliarity with ISO 26000; lack of communication, tools and sensitivity to the subject; short-term focus; knowledge management; fear of not fulfilling the standard; and financial resources. Finally, an agenda for future studies was prepared.

O sofrimento psíquico contemporâneo no imaginário coletivo de estudantes de psicologia

Profound socio‑cultural transformations that the world has undergone have been followed by new subjective configurations and manifestations of psychic suffering, whose impact and resonance in the psychology clinic, demand especial understanding and management. The aim of this study was to investigate the collective imaginary of Psychology students about contemporary psychic suffering. In the light of the psychoanalytic method, this research utilized the procedure of drawings‑stories with theme in group interview. The set of productions of the drawings‑stories, based on the psychoanalytic narratives written after each group interview, was interpretatively analyzed and allowed the apprehension of the following fields of affective‑emotional meaning: "Loneliness", “Essays on suffering", "Agony of non‑being", "Human contact with suffering", "Avoidance: the great defense", "Non lived lives", "Human despair" and "Multifacetated suffering". The set of analyses allowed the understanding of a collective imaginary in which suffering, that occurs nowadays, consists mainly of feelings of loneliness, for‑ saking, uselessness, spuriousness and existential void.

Trade Liberalization, Corn Prices and a Rural Community in Guatemala

Trade liberalization policies in Guatemala have impacted agricultural production. This thesis focuses on how trade liberalization has happened, what have been the impacts at a national level and describes how a community has adapted to the implementation of these policies. The implementation of trade was influenced by several, international and national institutions. Among the international institutions are the World Bank, the World Trade Organization and the United States Agency for International Development. At the national level the institutions that have partaken in shaping the trade policies are the military and the owners of capital and labor. The implementation of trade policies at a national level has affected national corn prices, population level diets and to some extent reduced poverty levels. At a local level trade liberalization policies have impacted land holdings, increased intensification of agriculture, including agrochemical, machinery and crop plantations per year, and consumption rates of corn have been affected. Maximization of the benefits and minimization of the detrimental effects can happen with the implementation of policies that promote food security, improve access to health and education, and prevent environmental and human health consequences from the intensification of agriculture and at the same time continue with the production of non-traditional agricultural products.

¿Jornadas de acogida en la alfabetización informacional?

La alfabetización informacional debería ser un elemento estratégico de las universidades en el proceso de adaptación de los estudios universitarios al EEES. Esto obliga a las bibliotecas a diseñar planes de formación que abarquen todos los niveles educativos. La adaptación de las jornadas de acogida al EEES pasa por la adaptación de su contenido al sistema de crédito europeo (ECTS) en aquellas universidades que hasta ahora han dado créditos por las mismas y, por supuesto, por la utilización del entorno virtual. En nuestra propuesta intentamos conjugar las enseñanzas presenciales con las virtuales diseñando para el campus virtual herramientas como archivos pdf multimedia, flash, vídeo.

Las Bibliotecas Universitarias en un entorno de enseñanza virtual

Las bibliotecas universitarias, en los inicios del siglo XXI, se están enfrentado a un nuevo modelo de enseñanza, donde el entorno virtual es fundamental. Dichas bibliotecas, en sus funciones como CRAI, se verán en el reto de adaptar sus colecciones y servicios a las plataformas de enseñanza, apoyar al profesorado en la elaboración de productos multimedia y diseñar una política de alfabetización de información. La alfabetización informacional se ha convertido en un eje fundamental en el nuevo modelo de enseñanza definido por el Espacio Europeo de Enseñanza Superior, por lo que una parte importante de nuestros esfuerzos deben dirigirse hacia su integración en la nueva propuesta educativa.

El legado del turismo británico en las Islas Canarias

Diploma de Estudios Europeos