Food advertisements during children's television programming in 2007: Comparison with ads in 1994 and the 2005 dietary recommendations

Childhood overweight and obesity are two major public health problems that are of economic and medical concern in the world today (Lobstein, Baur, & Uauy, 2004). Overweight conditions in childhood are important because they are widely prevalent, serious, and carry lifetime consequences for health and well being (Lobstein et al., 2004). Several studies have shown an association between television viewing and obesity in all age groups (Caroli, Argentieri, Cardone, & Masi, 2004; Harper, 2006; Vandewater & Huang, 2006; Wiecha et al., 2006). One mechanism that potentially links television viewing to childhood obesity is food advertising (Story, 2003). ^ The purpose of this study was to examine the types of foods advertised on children's television programming and to determine if there have been any changes in the number and types of commercials over the last 13 years. In addition, the food content of the advertisements was compared to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines to determine if the foods targeted were consistent with the current recommendations. Finally, each television network was analyzed individually to determine any differences between advertising on cable and regular programming. ^ A descriptive analysis was conducted on the most commonly advertised commercials during children's television programming on Saturday morning from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. A total of 10 major television networks were viewed on three different Saturday mornings during June and July 2007. Commercial advertising accounted for approximately 19% of children's total viewing time. Of the 3,185 commercials, 28.5% were for foods, 67.7% were for non-food items, and 3.8% were PSAs. On average, there were 30 commercial advertisements and PSAs per hour, of which approximately nine were for food. ^ Of the 907 food advertisements, 72.0% were for foods classified in the fats, oils, and sugar group. The next largest group (17.3%) was for restaurant food of which 15.3% were for unhealthy/fast food restaurant fare. The most frequently advertised food product on Saturday morning television was regular cereal, accounting for 43.9% of all food advertisements. ^ Cable and regular programming stations varied slightly in the amount, length, and category of commercials. Cable television had about 50% less commercials and PSAs (1098) than regular programming (2087), but only had approximately 150 minutes less total commercial and PSA time; therefore, cable, in general, had longer commercials than regular programming. Overall, cable programming had more advertisements encouraging increased physical activity and positive nutrition behavior with less commercials focusing on the fats, oils, and sugar groups, compared to regular programming. ^ During the last 13 years, food advertisements have not improved, despite the recent IOM report on marketing foods to children (Institute of Medicine-Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth, 2005), although the frequency of food advertisements has improved slightly. Children are now viewing an average of one food advertisement every 7 minutes, compared to one food advertisement every 5 minutes in 1994 (Kotz & Story, 1994). Therefore, manufacturers are putting a greater emphasis on advertising other products to children. Despite the recent attention to the issue of marketing unhealthy foods to children through television advertisements, not much progress has been noted since 1994. Further advocacy and regulatory issues concerning the content of advertisements during Saturday morning TV need to be explored. ^

Family Business in Mexico: Responses to Human Resource Limitations and Management Succession

Indigenous firms in Mexico, as in most developing countries, take the shape of family businesses. Regardless of size, the most predominant ones are those owned and managed by one or more families or descendent families of the founders. From the point of view of economics and business administration, family business is considered to have variety of limitations when it seeks to grow. One of the serious limitations is concerning human resource, which is revealed at the time of management succession. Big family businesses in Mexico deal with human resource limitations adopting measures such as the education and training of the successors, the establishment of management structure that makes control by the owner family possible and divisions of roles among the owner family members, and between the owner family members and the salaried managers. Institutionalization is a strategy that considerable number of family businesses have adopted in order to undergo the succession process without committing serious errors. Institutionalization is observed in such aspects as the establishment of the requisite condition to be met by the candidate of future successor and the screening by an institution which is independent of the owner family. At present these measures allow for the continuation of family businesses in an extremely competitive environment.

Corporate Governance in Indonesia: A Study on Governance of Business Groups

This study deals with the issue of corporate governance in the case of Indonesian business groups. It examines what factors can be attributed to failures of corporate governance. Through case studies of six different types of business groups, it evidences that self-governance by owner-managers can function well if there is no other key stakeholder and no collusion with the government. When this is not the case, however, self-governance does not work, and governance by creditors or professional managers over owner-managers has limitations. For better corporate governance, there is a need not only for building internal governance mechanism of business groups, but also for strengthening external monitoring institutions including creditors, capital markets, the governmental as well as non-governmental systems.

Perspectivas em exercício: Uma investigação sobre a lógica administrativa e o engajamento subjetivo no trabalho

Esta pesquisa tem como tema os discursos que circulam e estruturam o ambiente de trabalho nas empresas. De forma geral, busca-se compreender a lógica administrativa que, no limite, exerce uma condução da subjetividade dos trabalhadores. Temos por objetivos: 1) identificar como nas escolas do pensamento administrativo do século XX o engajamento do trabalho é requerido dos trabalhadores; 2) pretendemos discutir uma possível caracterização do discurso e dos usos da administração, como campo de conhecimento sobre o trabalho, dentro das organizações. Para tanto, estabelecemos como panorama teórico-metodológico nas ideias centrais de Michel Foucault em suas análises sobre a funcionalidade do poder e seus dispositivos. Propusemos uma perspectiva arqueogenealógica para a estudar o tema trabalho por meio da lógica da administração e do engajamento. Para estruturar esta análise, selecionamos disciplinas oferecidas e examinamos ementas e referências de leituras nos cursos de graduação da Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (EAESP-FGV) e do curso de Administração da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo (FEA-USP). Diante do contato com a discursividade administrativa pudemos formular algumas reflexões. A Administração de Empresas é a ciência da demonstração, pautada na dominação da realidade por uma dita eficiência. É o que se faz produtivo da realidade ou o que se produz nela que se torna científico. Não há discussão, nos registros aqui investigados, de um questionamento sobre o discurso de eficiência, de melhores práticas e da localização das organizações como construções historicamente produzidas, apenas como produtoras de determinações. Não parece haver a possibilidade de desnaturalizar a empresa. A administração parece estar pautada em uma duplicação da dominação como a profissão que é moldada ao moldar o trabalho. Partimos também da análise do que se nomeia engajamento para compreender o que é requerido do trabalhador para além do contrato de trabalho e de sua produtividade material. Neste sentido, o trabalho torna-se uma experiência de educação em contínua e ininterrupta vigilância pedagógica. O efeito moral das técnicas e das provas nas correntes de pensamento da administração permite uma condução técnica e do modo de viver dos trabalhadores. Nesse sentido, a administração, propõe o aperfeiçoamento do cuidado de si no trabalho e para o trabalho. As disciplinas então se duplicam: pelo exterior, por meio da regra pautada na estrutura formal da autoridade da fábrica/empresa com o governo dos corpos; e pelo interior por meio de uma sujeição por identidade, pela estilização da vida

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