Social Good Science and Practice: A New Framework for Organizational and Managerial Research in Human Service Organizations

Barak, Michàlle E. Mor

doi:10.1080/23303131.2019.1669759

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“…Social good is linked to environmental justice in general, and science and technology for environmental justice including in relation to marginalized groups [48,49]. It is argued that human actions negatively impact environmental systems, which increase risks to well-being, including for marginalized groups [50].…”

Section: Environment and Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential Impact of Environmental Activism: A Survey and a Scoping Review

Wolbring

Gill

2023

Sustainability

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Environmental issues increasingly impact the well-being, the ability to have a good life, of people, especially members of marginalized groups. Dealing with environmental issues is a long-standing and increasing focus of activism. Youth are increasingly involved in environmental activism. One focus of environmental education is how to instill the role of being a change agent into students. Marginalized groups experience many problems in relation to environmental issues, and environmental activism impacts the lived experience of marginalized groups in diverse ways. A pre-study scoping review suggested a gap in academic inquiry around “the impact of environmental activism”. The aim of our study was to decrease this gap and to better understand the perceived impact of environmental activism. We used two approaches to achieve this aim. In the first step, we used a survey to ask undergraduate students about their views on the impact of environmental activism. Given the results of the survey and that students need access to information to be able to fulfill their roles as critical thinkers and change agents, we then performed a scoping review of abstracts from Scopus, Web of Science, and the 70 databases accessible through EBSCO-HOST to ascertain what topics and which marginalized groups are engaged with in the academic inquiry of environmental activism. We found that participants felt that environmental activism has an impact on all the social groups and entities we gave them as choices, although there were differences in how positively they viewed the different groups and entities being affected. The participants also indicated that many of the well-being indicators were impacted by environmental activism, although around 30% felt that they did not have information they needed to form an opinion. Finally, our participants felt that different social groups have different ability expectations. Our scoping review found that many of the groups and indicators that our participants felt were impacted by environmental activism were not covered in the abstracts we analyzed. Our findings suggest many gaps and the need for actions and opportunities in relation to the topic of the “impact of environmental activism”.

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Section: Environment and Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential Impact of Environmental Activism: A Survey and a Scoping Review

Wolbring

Gill

2023

Sustainability

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“…Although diversity and inclusion are frequently used interchangeably, they are thought to be conceptually distinct and refer to related but differing ideas (Mor Barak, 2019;Roberson, 2006). Cunningham (2015) defines diversity as "the presence of socially meaningful differences among members of a dyad or group" (p. 6) and inclusion as "the degree into which individuals are free to express themselves and have a sense of workplace connectedness and belonging" (p. 7).…”

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Diverse and inclusive tennis governance: Threading inclusive leadership practices into director selection

Molloy,

McCallum,

Ferkins

et al. 2023

ITF Co. & Sp. Sc. Rev.

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The purpose of our article is to demonstrate how inclusive leadership practices can be threaded into the director selection process as a way to achieve more diverse and inclusive tennis governance. In this review article, we have brought together a growing body of knowledge on inclusive leadership practices for sport boards. We use this knowledge to propose suggestions for the director selection processes. We break down the concepts of diversity and inclusion, as well as director selection as they apply to sport governance to offer tangible ways for tennis boards to become more diverse and inclusive.

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Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good

Huang¹,

Ford²,

Zimmermann³

2021

2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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When inspiring software developers to contribute to open source software, the act is often referenced as an opportunity to build tools to support the developer community. However, that is not the only charge that propels contributionsgrowing interest in open source has also been attributed to software developers deciding to use their technical skills to benefit a common societal good. To understand how developers identify these projects, their motivations for contributing, and challenges they face, we conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with OSS for Social Good (OSS4SG) contributors. From our interview analysis, we identified themes of contribution styles that we wanted to understand at scale by deploying a survey to over 5765 OSS and Open Source Software for Social Good contributors. From our quantitative analysis of 517 responses, we find that the majority of contributors demonstrate a distinction between OSS4SG and OSS. Likewise, contributors described definitions based on what societal issue the project was to mitigate and who the outcomes of the project were going to benefit. In addition, we find that OSS4SG contributors focus less on benefiting themselves by padding their resume with new technology skills and are more interested in leaving their mark on society at statistically significant levels. We also find that OSS4SG contributors evaluate the owners of the project significantly more than OSS contributors. These findings inform implications to help contributors identify high societal impact projects, help project maintainers reduce barriers to entry, and help organizations understand why contributors are drawn to these projects to sustain active participation.

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Social Good Science and Practice: A New Framework for Organizational and Managerial Research in Human Service Organizations

Cited by 3 publications

References 50 publications

Potential Impact of Environmental Activism: A Survey and a Scoping Review

Potential Impact of Environmental Activism: A Survey and a Scoping Review

Diverse and inclusive tennis governance: Threading inclusive leadership practices into director selection

Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good

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