Public Service
Public Services are important
services that
assists people who are in
need of help.
Public
services is what society pays for and supports, and
are usually provided by federal
government or by
local government in a particular area.
Public services helps to
reduce the
suffering of people and helps to
reduce the degradation
of communities that are
struggling to survive.
Services are associated with fundamental
human rights, such as the right to access
clean
water. Services should be available to all, regardless of
income,
physical
ability and/or
mental acuity. Every person in the
world has
value. Nearly
51 Million American Households can't afford
middle class basics, including
housing,
food,
child care,
health care,
security and
transportation. -
United Way Study.
Social Work is an academic and
professional discipline that seeks to
facilitate needed
assistance and
support of
communities, individuals and societies. It may
promote social change, development,
cohesion, and
empowerment. Underpinned
by theories of
social sciences and guided by
principles of social justice,
human rights, collective
responsibility, and respect for diversities,
social work engages people and structures to address life challenges and
enhance wellbeing. A practicing
professional with a
degree in social work
is called a social worker. Examples of
fields a social
worker may be
employed in are
child protection,
mental health,
poverty relief,
elderly care and
disabilities, to name a few.
Social Services are a range of
public services provided by governmental or private organizations. These
public services aim to create more effective organizations, build
stronger
communities, and promote equality and opportunity. Social services include
the benefits and facilities such as education,
food subsidies, health
care, job training and subsidized housing, adoption, community management,
policy research, and lobbying.
Value Added
Activities with
Low Value Extraction.
Ancillary is providing
necessary support to
the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution,
industry, or system.
Everyone should have
some type of supportive
function that
gives back, something that
equalizes what they have received so that it can help them to live a
sustaining life instead of a
degrading life.
Social Security -
Caregiving -
Support
-
Social Progress -
Public Good -
Dependency
Austerity is a set
of political-
economic policies that aim to
reduce
government budget
deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or a combination of both.
As the rich get richer, the
government takes more
from the poor, using a planned shrinkage to deliberate withdrawal city
services from the poor as a means of coping with dwindling tax revenues,
all because the
wealthy
greedy people take more money than they need.
Service is a transaction in which no physical goods are transferred
from the seller to the buyer. The benefits of such a
service are held to be demonstrated by
the buyer's willingness to make the exchange. Public services are those
that society (nation state, fiscal union or region) as a whole pays for.
Using resources, skill, ingenuity, and experience, service providers
benefit service
consumers. Service is
intangible in nature.
Service-Oriented Architecture is an architectural style that focuses
on discrete services instead of a monolithic design.
Co-Production in public services is a practice in the delivery of
public services in which
citizens are involved in the creation of public policies and services.
It is contrasted with a transaction based method of service delivery in
which citizens consume public services which are conceived of and provided
by governments. Co-production is possible in the private and non-profit
sectors in addition to the public sector. In contrast with traditional
citizen involvement, citizens are not only consulted, but are part of the
conception, design, steering, and management of service.
Public Learning -
Public Interest -
Public Good -
Social Progress -
Benefit Corporation -
Big 5 Needs -
Humanism -
Assistance
How Police and the Public can Create Safer Neighborhoods Together: Tracie
Keesee (video and text)
Humanitarian is marked by
humanistic values
and devotion to
human welfare. Someone devoted to the promotion of human
welfare and to social reforms. An
advocate of the
principles of humanism;
someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans.
Humanitarianism
is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby humans practice
benevolent treatment and
provide assistance to other humans, in order to
better humanity for moral,
altruistic and logical reasons. It is the
philosophical belief in movement toward the improvement of the human race
in a variety of areas, used to describe a wide number of activities
relating specifically to human welfare. A practitioner is known as a
humanitarian.
Humanitarian Aid is material and logistic assistance to people who
need help. It is usually short-term help until the long-term help by
government and other institutions replaces it. Among the people in need
are the homeless, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars and
famines. Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided
for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises
including
natural disasters and
man-made disaster. The primary
objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and
maintain human dignity. It may therefore be distinguished from development
aid, which seeks to address the underlying socioeconomic factors which may
have led to a crisis or emergency.
Social Safety Net is a collection of services provided by the state or
other institutions such as friendly societies. It includes welfare,
unemployment benefit, universal healthcare, right to healthcare, free
education, right to housing, legal aid, victims' rights, mutual funds,
superfund for pensioners and veterans, workers compensation, severance
package, consumer protection, social credit, private electricity, homeless
shelters, and sometimes subsidized services such as public transport,
which prevent individuals from falling into poverty beyond a certain
level. A practical example of how the safety net works would be a single
mother with several children, unable to work. By receiving money from the
government to support her children, along with universal health care and
free education, she can give her children a better chance at becoming
successful members of society, rather than be caught up in the
hopelessness of extreme poverty. Comparisons of systems are endless, such
as the depth of services available in Canada versus relatively minimal
services in the United States. Supporters of a strong social safety net
argue that these programs have resulted in a much lower crime rate and
general lower poverty levels in Canadian cities, and this benefits
everyone. Critics argue that the taxes required to support the safety net
inhibit growth and actually increase the barriers for socio-economic
advancement, and that the safety net itself creates a perverse incentive
to be unproductive and poor. A principal part of Canada's social safety
net is its universal healthcare, known as Medicare, along with various
other social benefit schemes (unemployment insurance, public pensions,
etc.). In South Africa there are grants for people unable to support
themselves. Many of the grants are focused on children. Social services
administer these grants.
Living Wage.
Safety Net is a net to protect people from injury after falling from
heights by limiting the distance they fall, and deflecting to dissipate
the impact energy. The term also refers to devices for arresting falling
or flying objects for the safety of people beyond or below the net. Safety
nets are used in construction, building maintenance, entertainment, or
other industries.
"
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your
teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my
lamp beside the golden door!" This quote comes from
Emma
Lazarus’ sonnet,
New Colossus.
Department of Health and Human Services is also known as the
Health Department, is a
cabinet-level department of the
U.S. federal government with the
goal of
protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human
services. Its motto is "
Improving the
health, safety, and well-being of America". Before the separate
federal Department of Education was created in 1979, it was called the
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). HHS is administered by
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is appointed by the
President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The United States
Public Health Service (PHS) is the main division of the HHS and is led by
the Assistant Secretary for Health. The current Secretary, Alex Azar,
assumed office on January 29, 2018, upon his appointment by President
Trump and confirmation by the Senate. The United States Public Health
Service Commissioned Corps, the uniformed service of the PHS, is led by
the Surgeon General who is responsible for addressing matters concerning
public health as authorized by the Secretary or by the Assistant Secretary
of Health in addition to his or her primary mission of administering the
Commissioned Corps. The Department of
Health &
Human Services' administers 115 programs across its 11 operating divisions.
The United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) aims to
"protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human services,
especially for those who are least able to help themselves." These federal
programs consist of social service programs, civil rights and healthcare
privacy programs, disaster preparedness programs, and health related
research. HHS offers a variety of social service programs geared toward
persons with low income, disabilities, military families, and senior
citizens. Healthcare rights are defined under HHS in the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) which protect patient's privacy
in regards to medical information, protects workers health insurance when
unemployed, and sets guidelines surrounding some health insurance. HHS
collaborates with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness
and Response and Office of
Emergency Management to prepare and respond to health emergencies. A
broad array of health related research is supported or completed under the
HHS; secondarily under HHS, the Health Resources & Service Administration
houses data warehouses and makes health data available surrounding a
multitude of topics. HHS also has vast offering of health related
resources and tools to help educate the public on health policies and
pertinent population health information. Some examples of available
resources include disease prevention, wellness, health insurance
information, as well as links to healthcare providers and facilities,
meaningful health related materials, public health and safety information.
Some highlights include: Health and social science research.
Preventing disease, including immunization services. Assuring food and
drug safety. Medicare (health insurance for elderly and disabled
Americans) and Medicaid (health insurance for low-income people).
Health information technology. Financial
assistance and services for low-income families. Improving maternal and
infant health, including a Nurse Home Visitation to support first-time
mothers. Head Start (pre-school education and services). Faith-based and
community initiatives.
Preventing child abuse and domestic violence. Substance abuse
treatment and prevention. Services for older Americans, including
home-delivered meals. Comprehensive health services for Native Americans.
Assets for Independence. Medical preparedness for emergencies, including
potential terrorism. Child support enforcement.
Social Services. This branch has everything to do with the
social justice, wellness, and care of all
people throughout the United States. This includes but is not limited to
people who need government assistance, foster care, unaccompanied alien
children, daycares (headstart included), adoption, senior citizens, and
disability programs. Social services is one of it not the largest branch
of programs underneath it that has a wide variety throughout the United
States at a state and local level.
Prevention and
Wellness. The prevention and wellness program's main idea is to
give the American people the ability to live the healthiest and best
lifestyle physically that they can. They are the ones who deal with
vaccines and immunizations, which fight from common diseases to deadly
ones. The nutrition & fitness program that are the basics of healthy
eating and regular exercise. Health screenings & family health history
which are crucial in the knowledge of each individual's health and body. A
severely important one especially in today's society is mental health &
substance abuse in where they help people with mental illness and drug
abuse. Lastly, they help with environmental health where people are
researching and studying how our environments both physical and
metaphorically have a short and long term effect on our health and
wellness.
Surgeon General is the operational head of the U.S. Public Health
Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on
matters of public health in the federal government of the United States.
The Surgeon General's office and staff are known as the Office of the
Surgeon General (OSG) which is housed within the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Health. The U.S. surgeon general is nominated by the
president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. The surgeon
general must be appointed from individuals who (1) are members of the
Regular Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, and (2) have specialized
training or significant experience in public health programs. The surgeon
general serves a four-year term of office and, depending on whether the
current assistant secretary for health is a Public Health Service
commissioned officer, is either the senior or next most senior uniformed
officer of the commissioned corps, holding the rank of a vice admiral. The
current surgeon general is Jerome Adams, having taken office on September
5, 2017.
Public Health Service is a division of the Department of Health and
Human Services concerned with public health. It contains eight out of the
department's eleven operating divisions. The Assistant Secretary for
Health (ASH) oversees the PHS. The Public Health Service Commissioned
Corps (PHSCC) is the federal uniformed service of the USPHS, and is one of
the eight uniformed services of the United States. Its origins can be
traced to the establishment in 1798 of a system of marine hospitals. In
1870 these were consolidated into the Marine Hospital Service, and the
position of Surgeon General was established. In 1889, the PHSCC was
established. As the system's scope grew, it was renamed the Public Health
Service in 1912. The Public Health Service Act of 1944 consolidated and
revised previous laws and is the current legal basis for the PHS. It
became part of the Federal Security Agency and later the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare, which became the Department of Health and
Human Services on May 4, 1980.
Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is the federal
uniformed service of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), and is one
of the eight uniformed services of the United States. The commissioned
corps primary mission is to the protection, promotion, and advancement of
health and safety of the general public. Along with the NOAA Commissioned
Officer Corps, the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is one of two
uniformed services that consist only of commissioned officers and has no
enlisted or warrant officer ranks, although warrant officers have been
authorized for use within the service. Officers of the commissioned corps
are classified as noncombatants, unless directed to serve as part of the
military by the President or detailed to a service branch of the military.
Members of the commissioned corps wear the same uniforms as the United
States Navy, or the United States Coast Guard (when assigned to the Coast
Guard), with special PHS Commissioned Corps insignia, and hold naval ranks
equivalent to officers of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. Commissioned
corps officers typically receive their commissions through the
commissioned corps's direct commissioning program. As with its parent
division, the Public Health Service, the commissioned corps is under the
direction of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The commissioned corps is led by the Surgeon General, who holds the grade
of vice admiral. The Surgeon General reports directly to the Department of
Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Health; the Assistant
Secretary of Health may be appointed to the rank of admiral if he or she
is also a serving uniformed officer of the commissioned corps.
Deprivation strongly linked to hospital admissions.
International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's
largest humanitarian network and is guided by seven Fundamental
Principles: Humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary
service, universality and unity.
United
Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Social Support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for,
has
assistance available from other people, and
most popularly, that one is part of a
supportive social network.
These supportive resources can be emotional (e.g., nurturance),
informational (e.g., advice), or companionship (e.g., sense of belonging);
tangible (e.g., financial assistance) or intangible (e.g., personal
advice). Social support can be measured as the perception that one has
assistance available, the actual received assistance, or the degree to
which a person is integrated in a social network. Support can come from
many sources, such as family, friends, pets, neighbors, coworkers,
organizations, etc. There are four common functions of social support:
Emotional support is the
offering of empathy, concern, affection, love, trust, acceptance,
intimacy, encouragement, or caring. It is the warmth and nurturance
provided by sources of social support. Providing emotional support can let
the individual know that he or she is valued. Tangible support is the
provision of financial assistance, material goods, or services. Also
called instrumental support, this form of social support encompasses the
concrete, direct ways people assist others.
Informational support
is the provision of advice, guidance, suggestions, or useful information
to someone. This type of information has the potential to help others
problem-solve. Companionship support is the type of support that gives
someone a sense of social belonging (and is also called belonging). This
can be seen as the presence of companions to engage in shared social
activities. Formerly, it was also referred to as "esteem support" or
"appraisal support", but these have since developed into alternative forms
of support under the name "appraisal support" along with normative and
instrumental support.
Peer
Support -
New Deals and Social Programs.
Invisible
Support is a type of social support in which supportive exchanges are
not visible to recipients.
Standing
on the shoulders of Giants.
Volunteer - Assistance
Welfare is something that
aids or
promotes the
well-being of a person. A satisfied state
of being happy and healthy and
prosperous.
Assistance is the action of
helping someone with a job or
a task or with a difficult situation. The
provision
of
money, resources,
or information that would benefit someone or help someone in need.
Protection -
Assistance
Types (PDF).
Aid is a
voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another or from one
person or organization to another.
Help -
Rescue -
First Aid -
Kindness -
Financial Aid -
Intervention -
Hero -
Empathy
Mutual Aid is a voluntary
reciprocal exchange
of resources and services for
mutual benefit.
Mutual aid projects are a form of political participation in which people
take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political
conditions.
Recourse is a source of
help in a
difficult situation. The act of
asking for assistance. Something or someone turned to for assistance or
security.
Public Interest is the welfare or well-being of the general public.
Public Interest Law -
Common Good.
Social Impact Bond
is a contract with the public sector in which a commitment is made to pay
for improved social outcomes that result in public sector savings.
Social Prescribing is when health professionals refer patients to
support in the community, in order to improve their health and wellbeing.
The goals of social prescribing are to reduce the rise of healthcare costs
and easing pressure of general practice clinics. Doctors can refer some of
their patients to a social prescribing specialist or link worker who can
then suggest local social groups which they can participate in to improve
their health and wellbeing. These may include local volunteer groups.
Social Support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for,
has assistance available from other people, and most popularly, that one
is part of a supportive
social
network. These supportive resources can be emotional nurturance),
informational (e.g., advice), or companionship (e.g., sense of belonging);
tangible (e.g., financial assistance) or intangible (e.g., personal
advice). Social support can be measured as the perception that one has
assistance available, the actual received assistance, or the degree to
which a person is integrated in a social network. Support can come from
many sources, such as family, friends, pets, neighbors, coworkers,
organizations, etc.
Charity is a foundation created to promote the public good (not for
assistance to any particular individuals). An institution set up to
provide help to the needy. An activity or
gift that benefits the public at
large. A kindly and lenient attitude toward people.
Volunteering is generally considered an
altruistic activity where an
individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain "to
benefit another person, group or organization". Volunteering is also
renowned for skill development and is often intended to promote goodness
or to improve human quality of life. Volunteering may have positive
benefits for the volunteer as well as for the person or community served.
It is also intended to make contacts for possible employment. Many
volunteers are specifically trained in the areas they work, such as
medicine, education, or emergency rescue. Others serve on an as-needed
basis, such as in response to a
natural disaster.
Volunteer Resources.
Assistance is the action of helping someone with a job or a task.
The provision of money, resources, or information to help someone.
Unpaid
Work is defined as
labor that does not receive any direct
remuneration. This is a form of '
non-market
work' which can fall into one of two categories: (1) unpaid
work that is placed
within the production boundary of the System of National Accounts (SNA),
such as gross domestic product (GDP), and (2) unpaid work that falls
outside of the production boundary (non-SNA work), such as domestic labor
that occurs inside households for their consumption. Unpaid labor is
visible in many forms and isn't limited to activities within a household.
Other types of unpaid labor activities include volunteering as a form of
charity work and interning as a form of unpaid employment. According to
time-use surveys collected by the United Nations Statistics Division
(UNSD), women are the main undertakers of unpaid labor globally. This
uneven division of unpaid labor within households has implications for
women's involvement in both public and private spheres. One common form of
unpaid work is unpaid domestic work. The burden of this type of unpaid
work generally falls on the women in a household. Contributing so much
time to unpaid domestic work has major effects on women and their
participation in the labor market, which consequently affects children,
society, and the state.
Time Use Data
is data that shows how many minutes or hours individuals devote to
activities such as paid work, unpaid work including household chores and
childcare, leisure, and self-care activities.
Temporary Workers.
Non-Primary Production refers to
everyone else that is not carrying on a
business.
Primary Producer is an individual,
partnership, trust or company operating a primary production business if
they undertake: plant or animal cultivation (or both) fishing or pearling
(or both) tree farming or felling (or both).
Global
Citizenship is idea of all persons having rights and civic
responsibilities that come with being a member of the World, with
whole-world philosophy and sensibilities, rather than as a citizen of a
particular nation or place. The idea is that one’s identity transcends
geography or political borders and that responsibilities or rights are
derived from membership in a broader class: "humanity". This does not mean
that such a person denounces or waives their nationality or other, more
local identities, but such identities are given "second place" to their
membership in a global community. Extended, the idea leads to questions
about the state of global society in the age of globalization. In general
usage, the term may have much the same meaning as "world citizen" or
cosmopolitan, but it also has additional, specialized meanings in
differing contexts. Various organizations, such as the World Service
Authority, have advocated global citizenship.
Citizen Journalism.
Emergency Preparedness
Service Innovation is the concept of Service
Innovation was first
discussed in Miles (1993) and has been developed in the past 2 decades. It
is used to refer to many things. These include but not limited to:
1: Innovation in services, in service
products – new or improved service products (commodities or public
services). Often this is contrasted with “technological innovation”,
though service products can have technological elements. This sense of
service innovation is closely related to Service design and "new service
development".
2: Innovation in service
processes – new or improved ways of designing and producing services. This
may include innovation in service delivery systems, though often this will
be regarded instead as a service product innovation. Innovation of this
sort may be technological, technique- or expertise-based, or a matter
of work organization (e.g. restructuring work between professionals and
paraprofessionals).
3: Innovation in
service firms, organizations, and industries – organizational innovations,
as well as service product and process innovations, and the management of
innovation processes, within service organizations.
Service Design
is a form of conceptual design that involves the activity of planning and
organizing people, infrastructure,
communication and material components of a service in order to improve
its quality and the interaction between the service provider and its
customers. Service design may function as a way to inform changes to an
existing service or create a new service entirely. The purpose of service
design
methodologies is to establish
best practices for designing
services according to both the needs of customers and the competencies and
capabilities of service providers. If a successful method of service
design is employed, the service will be
user-friendly and
relevant to the customers, while being
sustainable and competitive for the service provider. For this
purpose, service design uses methods and tools derived from different
disciplines, ranging from ethnography to
information and management science.
Service design concepts and ideas are typically portrayed visually, using
different representation techniques according to the culture, skill and
level of understanding of the stakeholders involved in the service
processes.
Request for Proposal is a solicitation, often made through a
bidding process, by an
agency or company interested in procurement of a commodity, service or
valuable asset, to potential suppliers to submit business proposals. It is
submitted early in the procurement cycle, either at the preliminary study,
or procurement stage. The RFP presents preliminary requirements for the
commodity or service, and may dictate to varying degrees the exact
structure and format of the supplier's response. Effective RFPs typically
reflect the strategy and short/long-term business objectives, providing
detailed insight upon which suppliers will be able to offer a matching perspective.
Civil Service
Civil Service
is a
civil servant or
public servant who is a person employed in
the public sector by a government department or agency, administrators who
are hired on
professional merit
rather than appointed or elected. Civil or public servants work for
government departments, and answer to the government and not answer to a
political party.
Ethics -
Civics.
Community Service is a
not-for-pay activity that is
performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or
its institutions. Performing community service is not the same as
volunteering, since it is not always performed on a voluntary basis. It
may be performed for a variety of reasons.
Public
Services -
Social Progress -
Public
Good -
Debt Relief
Public
Interest is the
welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth. Also means
appeal or
relevance to the general populace.
A news story of
public interest."
Highest Paid US Public Employees by State (image)
Federal Civil Service is the
civilian workforce or the non-elected and non-military public
sector employees of the United States federal government's
departments and agencies. The federal civil service was established in
1871 (5 U.S.C. § 2101). U.S. state and local government entities often
have comparable civil service systems that are modeled on the national
system, in varying degrees. According to the Office of Personnel
Management, as of December 2011, there were approximately
2.79 million civil servants employed by the U.S.
government. This includes employees in the departments and agencies
run by any of the three
branches of government (the executive branch, legislative branch, and
judicial branch), such as
over 600,000 employees
in the U.S. Postal Service.
Service
in
economics is a transaction in which no physical goods are
transferred from the seller to the buyer. The benefits of such a
service are held to be demonstrated by
the buyer's willingness to make the exchange.
Social Progress - Social Enterprise - Benefit Corporation
Public Sector is
the part of the economy concerned with providing various governmental
services. The composition of the
public sector varies by country, but in
most countries the public sector includes such services as the military,
police,
infrastructure (public roads, bridges, tunnels, water supply,
sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, etc.), public transit,
public education, along with health care and those working for the
government itself, such as elected officials. The public sector might
provide services that a non-payer cannot be excluded from (such as street
lighting), services which benefit all of society rather than just the
individual who uses the service.
Responsibility -
Care -
Best Practice
-
Learning Society -
Sustainable
Social Progress
is when societies
improve in terms of their social, political, and
economic structures. This may happen as a result of direct
human action, as in
social enterprise or
through
social activism, or as a natural part
of sociocultural evolution.
Innovation.
Social Progress Index measures the extent to which countries
provide for the social and environmental needs of their citizens.
Basic Human Needs, Foundations of Well-being, and Opportunity.
Social Progress Imperative.
Social
Enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to
maximize improvements in human and
environmental well-being.
Corporation is
an
organization—usually a group of people or
a
company—authorized by the
state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and
public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context)
and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.
Monopolies.
Benefit Corporation maintains
positive impact on society, workers, the
community and the environment in addition to
profit
as its legally defined goals. Benefit corporations differ from traditional
C corporations in purpose,
accountability, and transparency, but not in
taxation.
B-Corp
(Total Societal Impact).
B-Corporation Certification Requirements -
Public
Interest
Participatory Design is an approach to design attempting to actively
involve all stakeholders (e.g. employees, partners, customers, citizens,
end users) in the design process to help ensure the result meets their
needs and is usable.
B-Impact Assessment -
how it works
Participatory Management is the practice of empowering members of a
group, such as employees of a company or citizens of a community, to
participate in organizational decision making. It is used as an
alternative to traditional vertical management structures, which has shown
to be less effective as participants are growing less interested in their
leader's expectations due to a lack of recognition of the participant's
effort or opinion.
Participatory Organization is an organization which is built based on
public participation rather than their contract obligations.
Worker Cooperatives
(employee owned businesses)
Corporate Social Responsibility is when a business monitors and
ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical
standards and national or international norms.
Corporate Responsibility is a form of corporate
self-regulation integrated into a business model. CSR policy functions as
a self-regulatory mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensures its
active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards and
national or international norms. With some models, a firm's implementation
of CSR goes beyond compliance and statutory requirements, which engages in
"actions that appear to further some social good, beyond the interests of
the firm and that which is required by law". The binary choice between
'complying' with the law and 'going beyond' the law must be qualified with
some nuance. In many areas such as environmental or labor regulations,
employers can choose to comply with the law, to go beyond the law, but
they can also choose to not comply with the law, such as when they
deliberately ignore gender equality or the mandate to hire disabled
workers. There must be a recognition that many so-called 'hard' laws are
also 'weak' laws, weak in the sense that they are poorly enforced, with no
or little control and/or no or few sanctions in case of non-compliance.
'Weak' law must not be confused with soft law. The aim is to increase
long-term profits and shareholder trust through positive public relations
and high ethical standards to reduce business and legal risk by taking
responsibility for corporate actions. CSR strategies encourage the company
to make a positive impact on the environment and stakeholders including
consumers, employees, investors, communities, and others. Proponents argue
that corporations increase long-term profits by operating with a CSR
perspective, while critics argue that CSR distracts from businesses'
economic role. A 2000 study compared existing econometric studies of the
relationship between social and financial performance, concluding that the
contradictory results of previous studies reporting positive, negative,
and neutral financial impact, were due to flawed empirical analysis and
claimed when the study is properly specified, CSR has a neutral impact on
financial outcomes. Critics questioned the "lofty" and sometimes
"unrealistic expectations" in CSR. or that CSR is merely window-dressing,
or an attempt to pre-empt the role of governments as a watchdog over
powerful multinational corporations. Political sociologists became
interested in CSR in the context of theories of globalization,
neoliberalism and late capitalism. Some sociologists viewed CSR as a form
of capitalist legitimacy and in particular point out that what began as a
social movement against uninhibited corporate power was transformed by
corporations into a 'business model' and a 'risk management' device, often
with questionable results. CSR is titled to aid an organization's mission
as well as serve as a guide to what the company represents for its
consumers. Business ethics is the part of applied ethics that examines
ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a
business environment. ISO 26000 is the recognized international standard
for CSR. Public sector organizations (the United Nations for example)
adhere to the triple bottom line (TBL). It is widely accepted that CSR
adheres to similar principles, but with no formal act of legislation.
Sustainable Market Orientation or
market orientation, focuses on microenvironment and the functional
management of an organization. SMO combines the principles of MO with a
macro marketing systems management approach, a stakeholder approach to
integrated corporate social responsibility and marketing strategy, and the
use of the sustainability management concept. SMO will serve to move
corporate management beyond the micro economic and functional management
prescribed by MO and provide a more comprehensive, stakeholder based
approach.
Benevolent Dictatorship is a government in which an authoritarian
leader exercises
absolute
political power over the state, but is perceived to do so with regard
for benefit of the population as a whole, standing in contrast to the
decidedly malevolent stereotype of a dictator who focuses on their
supporters and their own self-interests. A benevolent dictator may allow
for some civil liberties or democratic decision-making to exist, such as
through public referendums or elected representatives with limited power,
and can make preparations for a transition to genuine democracy during or
after their.
Benevolent is a well
meaning and
kindly activity
that is
charitable
serving rather than a
profit-making purpose.
Social Benefit - Common Good
Public Benefit or
Public Good is the
consumption of one individual who does not actually or potentially reduce
the amount available to be consumed by another individual. It is a good
that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous in that individuals cannot
be effectively excluded from use and where
use by one individual does not
reduce availability to others. Public goods include fresh air, knowledge,
national security, common language(s), flood control systems, lighthouses,
and street lighting. Public goods that are available everywhere are
sometimes referred to as global public goods. There is an important
conceptual difference between the sense of 'a' public good, or public
'goods' in economics, and the more generalized idea of 'the public good'
(or common good, or
public interest),"‘the’ public good is a shorthand
signal for
shared benefit at a societal level [this]
(philosophical/political) sense should not be reduced to the established
specific (economic) sense of ‘a’ public good.
Social Capital -
Human
Capital -
Social Learning -
Public
Interest -
Coop
Common Good refers
to either what is
shared
and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or
alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship,
collective action, and
active participation in the realm of politics and public service.
Greater Good.
Public Good is a good that is both
non-excludable and
non-rivalrous. Use by
one person neither prevents access by other people, nor does it reduce
availability to others. Therefore, the good can be used simultaneously by
more than one person. This is in contrast to a common good, such as wild
fish stocks in the ocean, which is non-excludable but rivalrous to a
certain degree. If too many fish were harvested, the stocks would deplete,
limiting the access of fish for others. A public good must be valuable to
more than one user, otherwise, its simultaneous availability to more than
one person would be economically irrelevant.
Civics.
Net Positive occurs when an entity has an
impact that is more positive
than negative overall, generally in a specific domain. It's a logical way
of doing business which
puts back more
into society and the environment and the global economy than it takes out.
Social
Responsibility is an
ethical framework and suggests that an entity, be it an organization
or individual, has an obligation to act for the benefit of society at
large. Social responsibility is a duty every individual has to perform so
as to
maintain a
balance between the
economy and the ecosystems.
A trade-off may exist between economic development, in the material sense,
and the welfare of the society and environment, though this has been
challenged by many reports over the past decade. Social responsibility
means
sustaining the equilibrium between
the two. It pertains not only to business organizations but also to
everyone whose any action impacts the environment. This
responsibility can
be done by avoiding or engaging in socially harmful acts, or active, by
performing activities that directly
advance social goals.
Distributive Justice concerns the nature of a socially just
Allocation of Goods in a society. A society in which incidental
inequalities in outcome do not arise would be considered a society guided
by the principles of distributive justice. The concept includes the
available quantities of goods, the process by which goods are to be
distributed, and the resulting allocation of the goods to the members of
the society.
Redistribution of Wealth.
Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance
are central factors in measuring the sustainability and
ethical impact.
Organic Organization
can react quickly and easily to changes in the environment, thus it is
said to be the most adaptive form of organization. A
Public Service instead of being
rapists and murderers.
Self
Management -
Workforce Development
-
Jobs
Nonprofit Organization is an organization with the purpose of which is
something other than
making a profit. A
nonprofit organization is often dedicated to furthering a particular
social cause or advocating for a particular point of view. In economic
terms, a nonprofit organization uses its surplus revenues to further
achieve its purpose or mission, rather than distributing its surplus
income to the organization's shareholders (or equivalents) as profit or
dividends. This is known as the non-distribution constraint. The decision
to adopt a nonprofit legal structure is one that will often have taxation
implications, particularly where the nonprofit seeks income tax exemption,
charitable status and so on. (NPO).
Non Profit keeps the money in
the system and with the service and with the employees. A for profit is
when the CEO's takes most of the money for themselves, at the expense of
the service, at the expense of the employees, and at the expense of the
communities they are supposed to serve. But be aware, some non profits can
be
corrupt just like a lot of for
profits are.
CEOs earn big bucks at nonprofit hospitals.
Solidarity Economy is an economy based on efforts that seek to
increase the quality of life of a region or community through
not-for-profit endeavors. It mainly consists of activities organized to
address and transform exploitation under capitalist economics and the
corporation executive, large shareholder-dominated economy, and can
include diverse phenomena. For some, it refers to a set of strategies and
a struggle aimed at the abolition of capitalism and the social relations
that it supports and encourages; for others, it names strategies for
"humanizing" the capitalist economy—seeking to supplement capitalist
globalization with community-based "social safety nets".
Community Engagement - Community Management
Community Engagement refers to the process by which
community benefit
organizations and individuals build ongoing, permanent relationships for
the purpose of applying a collective vision for the benefit of a
community. While community organizing involves the process of building a
grassroots movement involving
communities, community engagement primarily
deals with the practice of moving communities toward change, usually from
a stalled or similarly suspended position.
Community Management common-pool resource management is the management
of a common resource or issue by a community through the collective action
of volunteers and stakeholders. The resource managed can be either
material or informational. Examples include the management of common
grazing and water rights; fisheries and
open-source
software. In the case of physical resources, community management
strategies are frequently employed to avoid the tragedy of the commons and
to encourage
sustainability.
Community Organization covers a series of activities at the
community
level aimed at bringing about desired improvement in the social well being
of individuals, groups and neighborhoods. A process by which a community
identifies needs and takes action, and in doing so... develops
co-operative attitudes and practices.
Community-Based Program Design is a social program design method that
enables social service providers, organizers, designers and evaluators to
serve specific communities in their own environment. This program design
approach depends on the participatory approach of community development
often associated with community-based social work, and is often employed
by community organizations. From this approach, program designers assess
the needs and resources existing within a community, and, involving
community stakeholders in the process, attempt to create a sustainable and
equitable solution to address the community's needs.
Ambidextrous Organization refers to an organization’s
ability to be efficient in its management of today’s business and also
adaptable for coping with tomorrow’s changing demand. Just as being
ambidextrous means being able to use both the left and right hand equally,
organizational ambidexterity requires the organizations to use both
exploration and exploitation techniques to be successful.
Social Economy studies the relationship between
economy and social
behavior. It analyzes how consumer behavior is influenced by social
morals, ethics and other humanitarian philosophies. The social economy
examines activity that is related to economics amongst the community
and exposes the information to the community, this includes the social
enterprise and voluntary sectors.
Non-Profit Technology is the deliberative use of technology by
nonprofit organizations to maximize potential in numerous areas, primarily
in supporting the organization mission and meeting reporting requirements
to funders and regulators.
Non-Governmental Organization is a
not-for-profit organization that is
independent from states and international governmental organizations. They
are usually funded by donations but some avoid formal funding altogether
and are run primarily by volunteers. NGO's are highly diverse groups of
organizations engaged in a wide range of activities, and take different
forms in different parts of the world. Some may have charitable status,
while others may be registered for tax exemption based on recognition of
social purposes. Others may be fronts for political, religious, or other
interests.
Mutual Organization is a company or business based on the principle of
mutuality. Unlike a true cooperative, members usually do not contribute to
the capital of the company by direct investment, but derive their right to
profits and votes through their customer relationship. A mutual
organization or society is often simply referred to as a mutual.
Barn Raising is a
collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members
is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.
Communal Work
describes people
working
together in a social group. A gathering for mutually accomplishing a
task or for communal fundraising help given by neighbors.
Voluntary Sector or community sector is the duty of social activity undertaken by
organizations that are
not-for-profit and non-governmental. This sector is
also called the third sector, in contrast to the public sector and the
private sector. Civic sector or social sector are other terms for the
sector, emphasizing its relationship to civil society. (also non-profit
sector or "
not-for-profit" sector)
Civil Society is the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and
institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens. Civil
society includes the family and the private sphere, referred to as the
"third sector" of society, distinct from government and business. By other
authors, "civil society" is used in the sense of 1) the aggregate of
non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests
and will of citizens or 2) individuals and organizations in a society
which are independent of the
government.
Social
Progress Imperative A country having vast economic wealth does not
necessarily guarantee a greater quality of life for its citizens.
Health Care -
Emergency ServicesCommunication Center for Monitoring
Services, Traffic and
Emergency Response.
"You need a good plan, more then
just randomly putting a few Band-Aids here and there."
Network Operations Center network management center", is one
or more locations from which network monitoring and control, or network
management, is exercised over a computer, telecommunication or satellite
network.
First Aid -
Public Safety
-
Public
Labor -
Teamwork
Oaths of Service -
Maintenance
-
Ethics -
Civics
Service Club is a
voluntary non-profit organization where
members meet regularly to perform charitable works either by direct
hands-on efforts or by raising money for other organizations. A service
club is defined firstly by its service mission and secondly its membership
benefits, such as social occasions, networking, and personal growth
opportunities that encourage involvement.
You have to know the difference
between
Servitude and providing
Services and Jobs that actually Make a Difference.
Social Services Problems
Social Services are great, and most of the people who work for
Social Services are fantastic, but sadly there are too many
Social Workers who don't fully understand
the process of
helping people. Social workers are paid to help people, but
sadly some Social Workers spend too much time harassing and abusing
people. This has caused many lawsuits against Social Services. If social
services spent there time helping people,
instead of attacking poor people, this would save every state in
America millions of dollars in lawsuits and
Lost Productivity. This problem comes from the lack of training, the
lack of education, and the lack of improvements. There is a
breakdown of communication between the people seeking help and
the people who are responsible for providing help. People in
need do not always know how to accurately explain their
situation, and social workers do not know the right questions to
ask in order to avoid the misunderstandings that always results
in delaying peoples needs, or people not being helped properly.
There has been improvements with the
questioning process, and in
the roll of questioning process as a whole, but we are not
making improvements quick enough, and that is because we do not
have enough trained and educated people who can make
improvements in a timely manner. But if we made the process more
open and more transparent, then the
combined intelligence of people can help solve these
problems.
We need to
incentivize people and pool our resources and group our buying power,
and at the same time, help
local farmers
and also help people learn how to
grow healthy food at home or
in
Community Gardens.
Customer Service.
Human bias in public assistance systems has created deep inequalities for
decades.
Secret Laws -
Profiling.
It's sad to know that we have some
ignorant and
malicious people working in social services, which is another
reason why we need to
improve education and
training. People who are
paid to help
others should do so, they should not be allowed to make things worse for
people and cause people more problems, because they're just wasting more time,
people, resources and money, which is criminal. And then they have the
gall to treat other people like they're the criminals, how
ironic.
Malicious is feeling a need to
see
others suffer. The quality of
threatening evil.
A
scumbag.
You just can't talk
about what horrible people did to you, you also have to talk about what
people did not do for you. When people intentionally avoid helping you or
ignore your request for help, that is they same type of abuse that comes
from people violently attacking you. It's hard for a corrupt ignorant
person to show compassion and listen to someone or understand someone or
feel the pain and suffering that someone else is experiencing. You can't
blame someone for their distress. And you can't blame someone for their
perception of reality. Instead of blaming each other, we should start
learning from each other. There's no point in stopping now, especially
knowing that we have just started to learn, so we're just getting started.
To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation: Jessica Pryce
(video and text) - When children were white, it is more likely that their
family stays together after that visit. Research done at the University of
Pennsylvania found that white families, on average, have access to more
help and more support from the child welfare system. And their cases are
less likely to go through a full investigation. But on the other hand,
if those kids are black, they
are four times more likely to be removed, they spend longer periods of
time in foster care, and it's harder to find them a stable foster
placement.
Child Abuse.
Peacekeepers Turned
Perpetrators (youtube) - Sex for food rations, and women and children
violently raped by UN peacekeepers.
Defenseless Civilians in Need are vulnerable to criminals.
Learning Specialists -
Food Security
Young people not in School and not involved in Positive Employment or
Training. In the United States, 14.4 percent of young people age
15-29 are
NEET's, according to the OECD. The high number of NEETs also
represents a major economic cost, estimated at between USD 360 billion and
USD 605 billion, equivalent to between 0.9% and 1.5% of OECD GDP. Positive
Education, Positive Employment and Positive Training are needed to
guarantee that our actions are progressively working on solving our
problems.
Hilary Cottam: Social Services are Broken. How we can fix them
(video and interactive text) -
Stress.
Circle
Relational Welfare can outperformed existing services at a
fraction of the cost. -
Child
Development.
Calculating Damages in Negligence Lawsuits against Departments
of Human Services
Social Worker Malpractice
Lawsuits against Social Workers has increased steadily (PDF)
Malpractice Claims against Social Workers
Social workers are obligated to avoid any knowingly dishonest,
fraudulent, or deceptive activities(falsify documentation)
County loses $4.9 million lawsuit challenge over lying Social
Workers
Social Work: Ethical Misconduct
Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities and Code of Ethics
Social
Worker
National
Association of Social Workers
Social Work
Licensure and Certification Requirements
Public Services
(professions) -
Service Oaths
(commitments)
How
Private Companies Steal From The Welfare State (youtube)
Flawed Fraud Protections Deny Unemployment To Millions. When rules are
used as weapons against innocent people.
Department of Transitional Assistance assists and empowers low-income
individuals and families to meet their basic needs, improve their quality
of life, and achieve long term economic self-sufficiency. DTA serves one
in eight residents of the Commonwealth with direct economic assistance
(cash benefits) and food assistance (SNAP benefits), as well as workforce
training opportunities.
He Ain't Heavy,
He's My Brother - The Hollies (youtube) - The road is long, with
many a winding turn, that leads us to who knows where, who knows where, but I'm strong,
strong enough to carry him, he ain't heavy, he's my
brother, so on we go, his welfare is of my concern, no burden is he
to bear, we'll get there, for I know, he would not encumber me, he ain't heavy, he's my brother,
if I'm laden at all, I'm laden with
sadness, that everyone's heart, isn't filled with the gladness, of
love for one another, it's a long, long road, from which there is no
return, while we're on the way to there, why not share, and the load, doesn't weigh me down at all,
he ain't heavy he's my brother, He's my
brother, he ain't heavy, he's my brother, he ain't heavy.
Encumber is to hold back, restrain or
restrict.
Laden is to be burdened
psychologically or mentally.
Burdened is
supporting a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities.
Holding up a physically heavy weight or load.
Beast of Burden is an animal used
for carrying heavy loads or pulling heavy loads, such as a donkey, mule,
llama, camel, horse, or ox. Someone who carries another's burdens,
insecurities, or issues.
Put A Little Love
In Your Heart.
I would be true
Howard Walter
(August 19, 1883 – November 1, 1918) - I would be true, for there are
those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I
would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for
there is much to dare. I would be friend of all—the foe, the
friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be
humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love,
and lift. I would be faithful through each passing moment; I would
be constantly in touch with God; I would be strong to follow where He
leads me; I would have faith to keep the path Christ trod. Who is so
low that I am not his brother? Who is so high that I’ve no path to him?
Who is so poor I may not feel his hunger? Who is so rich I may not pity
him? Who is so hurt I may not know his heartache? Who sings for joy
my heart may never share? Who in God’s heav’n has passed beyond my
vision? Who to hell’s depths where I may never fare? May none, then,
call on me for understanding, May none, then, turn to me for help in
pain, And drain alone his bitter cup of sorrow, Or find he knocks
upon my heart in vain.
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am
involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell
tolls; it tolls for thee."
John Donne (wiki)
Truth in Charity -
Benedict XVI - Thursday, December
1, 2016
I am aware of the ways in which
charity has been and
continues to be
misconstrued and emptied of meaning, with the
consequent risk of being misinterpreted, detached from ethical living
and, in any event, undervalued. In the social, juridical, cultural,
political and economic fields — the
contexts, in other words, that are
most exposed to this danger — it is easily dismissed as irrelevant for
interpreting and giving direction to moral responsibility. Hence the
need to link charity with truth not only in the sequence, pointed out
by Saint Paul, of veritas in caritate (Eph 4:15), but also in the
inverse and complementary sequence of caritas in veritate.
Truth needs
to be sought, found and expressed within the “economy” of charity, but
charity in its turn needs to be understood, confirmed and practised in
the light of truth. In this way, not only do we do a service to charity
enlightened by truth, but we also help give credibility to truth,
demonstrating its persuasive and authenticating power in the practical
setting of social living. This is a matter of no small account today,
in a social and cultural context which relativizes truth, often paying
little heed to it and showing increasing reluctance to acknowledge its
existence. Through this close link with truth, charity can be
recognized as an authentic expression of humanity and as an element of
fundamental importance in human relations, including those of a public
nature. Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can
charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning
and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the
light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and
supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift,
acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into
sentimentality.
Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an
arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk
facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions,
the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes
to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an
emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of
a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space. In
the truth, charity reflects the personal yet public dimension of faith
in the God of the Bible, who is both Agápe and Lógos: Charity and
Truth, Love and Word. – from Caritas in Veritate (2009).
Caritas in Veritate
(English: "Charity in Truth").
Charity in
Truth, to which Jesus
Christ bore witness by his earthly life and especially by his death
and
resurrection, is the principal driving force behind the
authentic
development of every person and of all humanity. Love — caritas — is an
extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and
generous engagement in the field of
justice and
peace. It is a force
that has its origin in God, Eternal Love and Absolute Truth. Each
person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to
realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through
adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8:32).
To defend the
truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and
to bear
witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms
of charity. Charity, in fact, “rejoices in the truth” (1 Cor 13:6).
All people feel the interior impulse to
love authentically: love and
truth never abandon them completely, because these are the
vocation
planted by God in the heart and mind of every human person. The search for
love and truth is purified and liberated by Jesus Christ from the
impoverishment that our humanity brings to it, and he reveals to us in
all its fullness the initiative of love and the plan for true life
that God has prepared for us. In Christ, charity in truth becomes the
Face of his Person, a vocation for us to love our brothers and sisters
in the truth of his plan. Indeed, he himself is the Truth (cf. Jn
14:6).
Charity by virtue is considered as one of the seven virtues and is
understood by Thomas Aquinas as "the friendship of man for God", which
"unites us to God". He holds it as "the most excellent of the virtues".
Further, Aquinas holds that "the habit of charity extends not only to the
love of God, but also to the
love of our neighbor".