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The Human Aspects of the Operational Environment (HAOE) study explores those dimensions of human beings which would likely impact future NATO operations. It is designed to serve as the foundation for a follow-on Bi-Strategic Command (Bi-SC) capstone concept, which would inform the NATO Defence Planning Process (NDPP) and transform existing capabilities to better adapt to human requirements in operations. The HAOE study is based on shortfalls and gaps identified in recent operations as well as the work of seven distinct research panels. The HAOE study proposes capability transformations that can mitigate the challenges NATO might face in future operational environments as the human dimension becomes increasingly more important. The report concludes that increased cooperation and coordination with international organizations (IOs), governmental bodies, academia, think-tanks, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) using a Comprehensive Approach strategy would improve the Alliance's effectiveness in conducting Non-Article 5 Crises Response Operations (NA5CRO). However, the evolving characteristics of the security environment require NATO to build a common understanding of trends and inform its continuing transformation efforts. The HAOE research focuses on seven broad areas: main drivers of human action; understanding the human environment; complexity of cross-cultural communication; dynamics of the local situation; perception and acceptance of NATO operations; measurable indicators of a population's attitude toward NATO operations; and transforming NATO capabilities to better adapt to the human environment. A summarization of key findings from each research area is provided in the following paragraphs. Understanding the main drivers of human action enhances rapport building with the local population.

AbstractAddressing a global key sector area – the high technology manufacturing sector – we examine if there is truly a benefit of corporate social disclosure to the bottom line of organizations within this sector and if stakeholders should devote more attention to this strategic topic. Accordingly, we assess the potential effects of corporate social disclosure on financial performance, with a particular focus on employee and community aspects. This effect is examined for a sample of 405 companies operating within the sector. Additionally, we posit that the innovative nature of the sector adds a sub‐plot and possibly exaggerates the effect of corporate social disclosure on financial performance. The study offers guidance to stakeholders on how actions in the CSR realm may potentially affect company performance within this sector, as well as providing direction on the impact improved disclosure can have on financial performance. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

This book makes the case that school Health and Physical Education (HPE) can make a unique contribution to young people's physical, emotional and social health outcomes when teachers of HPE engage in pedagogies for social justice that emphasise inclusion, democracy and equity. Drawing on observations and teacher interviews across Sweden, Norway and New Zealand, the book explores successful school teaching practices that promote social justice and equitable health outcomes. In particular, it draws attention to the importance of building relationships, teaching for social cohesion and explicitly teaching about and acting on social inequities as pedagogies for social justice. The book also argues that context matters and that pedagogies for social justice need to recognise how both approaches to, and focus on, social justice vary in different contexts. This is essential reading for academics and students interested in social justice and working in the fields of education, HPE and teacher education.

Examining the changes in society in the United States, Beth Rubin explains how the current era differs fundamentally from the post-World War Two period; how and why that change has occurred; and what its meaning is to everyday life. She traces the changes from a domestic to a global economy, the transformation of the workplace, and the impact that these changes have had on how other people are experiencing social aspects of their lives: their families and interpersonal relations, their communities and their experience of the culture of mass society

What do we really know about the contributing causes of terrorism? Are all forms of terrorism created equal, or are there important differences in terrorisms that one must know about to customize effective counter-strategies? Does poverty cause terrorism? This book talks about the basic human ingredients that combust to produce violent extremism.

En examinant l'impact des politiques sociales et l'évolution du marché du travail, les auteurs évaluent les pratiques professionnelles d'intervention ainsi que les enjeux suscités par les notions d'intégration et d'insertion des chômeurs, des assistés sociaux, des jeunes de la rue, des toxicomanes et des ex-détenus

The departure point of this paper is the use of visualization as a tool in action case research. In such research, the researcher seeks a balance between interpreting qualitative data and intervening to solve the problem of the research partner. The communicative and knowledge aspects of visualization are highlighted. The research partner in this research, Flower Systems Ltd. (FSL), is a software company that has developed the ISOX 2000 document management system especially to meet the needs of social services in local governments. Over the last year, employees at various social service agencies have complained about the usability and user friendliness of ISOX. In the action case research two kinds of results are expected: concrete results, as in taking action in a problem solving context (here, the usability problem with ISOX), and conceptual results, as in listing proposed changes to a theoretical framework. The question raised in this paper is: What are the benefits of using visualization as a tool for building interpretations and understandings that are shared by both researchers and practitioners? The concrete results of the collaboration are 1) a more user-friendly, redesigned version of ISOX based on the use of different visualization techniques and 2) a change in how FSL works on redesign. The conceptual result is a list of proposed changes to the knowledge visualization framework, based on the empirical findings and theoretical framework regarding visualization

One of the most characteristic features of the modern development of the world economy is globalisation, which has led to a new form of competition created by going beyond one country, establishment and development of a global system of competition that requires good governance. To ensure its viability, an industrial company strives to ensure economic development. The concept of development is one of the fundamental and extremely widespread in various branches of natural, philosophical, social, and economic sciences. In this regard, the formulation of the proposed development strategy is a very important issue. The purpose of this study is to investigate the theoretical and methodological aspects of enterprise development. Risk analysis of the company's development strategy is especially important, since modern companies operate in a dynamic market with a high level of uncertainty in the external environment and are exposed to many risks; therefore, risk analysis of the company's development strategies becomes especially important. The purpose of the study is to investigate and systematise the essence and methods of evaluating the company's development strategy. The literature review demonstrates the level of coverage of the problem of enterprise development. The study investigates the system of management of innovative development of the enterprise, identifies the mechanism of management of innovative activity. The level of innovative development of Ukrainian enterprises is established, and the main factors limiting their innovative activity are identified.

The relevance of the research is due to the need to form a methodological basis for research on the spatial dimension of modernization processes in the tourism sector of the region, which due to the current global threats are of particular importance. The purpose of the article is to develop theoretical and methodological foundations for the study of spatial patterns of modernization of the tourism sector of the region from the standpoint of a systematic approach. The key in the research are the system approach, as well as the modernization paradigm of regional development, which allow to form a comprehensive concept of spatial development of tourism in the region. The article formulates the main provisions of the spatial dimension of modernization processes in the region; the stages of recreational development of the territory are singled out; the interrelations between the development of tourism and the processes of urbanization are analyzed; the essence of tourist clustering is substantiated and the principles of cluster formation in this sphere are singled out; the effect of "expansion" of tourist space in destinations is characterized. The results of the study can be useful for scientists researching the spatial aspects of tourism development as a type of economic activity and as a social phenomenon at the regional level, as well as for practitioners of state and regional government, representatives of the tourism business.

The aim of the study was to identify and substantiate the psychological and pedagogic conditions for the prevention of violence in school educational environment based on analysis of regional specificities. Studying the characteristics of bullying in Kostroma schools using the Smob questionnaire and comparing with the results of Austrian and Moscow scholars showed that there are both universal tendencies in the manifestation of bullying, independent of gender, age, ethnicity, place of residence, and specific features characteristic of provincial region. As a result of the study, it was proved that the system of psychological and pedagogic conditions for the prevention of violence in school educational environment, on the one hand, is determined by the universal characteristics of the manifestation of violence and bullying, and on the other hand, should be aligned with regional specificities. The violence prevention programme in school e educational environment should be aimed at developing pupils' skills of constructive aggression management and is based on the principles of systematic diagnostic, correctional, preventive and developmental tasks; taking into account age-psychological and individual characteristics of pupils; the complexity of the methods of civilised psychological impact; active involvement of the nearest social environment; reliance on the events of school life.

La tradición racionalista occidental ha intentado reiteradamente expulsar la conflictividad de la vida individual y colectiva; pero no ha tenido éxito en tal aspiración, pese a las numerosas propuestas teóricas (desde los griegos hasta la actualidad) orientadas a lograr tal meta. Este artículo, por el contrario, tiene por propósito enfatizar la dimensión agonal de la política. En consecuencia, intenta demostrar que el conflicto es una realidad omnipresente; sólo cambia su intensidad (polémica o agonal) o el escenario en él que irrumpe (intersubjetivo o intrasíquico), pero nunca se extingue. Los argumentos que en este artículo se exponen están enraizados, en última instancia, en la tradición del realismo político, por consiguiente, tras sus líneas subyace una concepción trágica de la política. ; The western rationalist tradition has repeatedly attempted to eject the conflict of individual and collective life; but has not succeeded in this aspiration, despite the numerous theoretical proposals (from the Greeks to the present) aimed at achieving this goal. This paper, by contrast, is intended to emphasize the agonal dimension of politics. Consequently, attempts to prove that the conflict is an omnipresent reality; only changes its intensity (polemic or agonal) or the stage at which it breaks (or intersubjective intra-psychic), but never extinguished. The arguments presented in this article are based, ultimately, in the tradition of political realism, therefore, behind their lines lies a tragic conception of politics. ; Serie: Derecho Político ; Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales