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  • Human's well-being : a cause or a result of social responsibility
    Šarotar Žižek, Simona ; Mulej, Matjaž ; Potočnik, Amna
    The basis of each society consists of humans, being also essential parts of the concept of social responsibility (SR). SR is a contemporary version of informal systemic behavior aimed at requisite ... holism of behavior of influential persons and their organization. It requires their honest behavior, care, and end of abuse of their ownership rights in treatment of employees, business partners, broader society, and natural preconditions of humankind's survival; in ISO 2600 the topics of SR are even 7 and linked by principles of holism and interdependence. SR extends to governors, managers, and governments the managerial principle called 'process owners' that entitles subordinates to run parts of organizations with responsibility including their right of (efficient and effective!) use without their right of abuse. Standardizations cannot solve all the problems the society is facing, especially not if standards such as ISO 2600 are not mandatory but only recommendatory. Let`s put it another way: when would the organization take the SR more seriously and even be more holistic? Shall SR be an intangible asset of the organizations, incorporated as goodwill in financial statements? Then the high SR would enable organizations to be more competitive and survive. This solution would mean collecting and interpreting the data in a new, slightly different, but also broader, way, based on opportunity costs that are not visible in the usual accountancy. Well-being (WB) as a SR's component can rarely be attained without ethics of interdependence of professional specialists enabling requisite holism of approach and requisite wholeness of outcomes of work and life processes. WB as a complex construct is more than the absence of illness or pathology. WB has subjective and objective dimensions. It can be measured at the level of individuals, or organizations, or society, and it accounts for elements of life satisfaction that cannot be defined, explained or primarily influenced by economic growth. Many studies indicated significant life benefits for people with high subjective WB. Thus, the interventions to increase subjective WB are important, not only because people feel good about themselves: they have more positive work behavior and exhibit other desirable characteristics. The social and natural environmental conditions directly impact quality of people`s life and their actual choices (where to live, work), human health and wealth (through climatic variations, natural disasters). From the strategic point of view, the governments or organizations or managers are responsible to set up the framework conditions in which the potentials of co-workers can be revealed, results obtained and objectives attained. Their happiness is then a source of organizational viability and not vice versa. All mentioned concepts shall be treated in the complementary way in order to achieve the requisite holism/wholeness (RH).
    Source: IDIMT-2011 : interdisciplinarity in complex systems (Str. 175-189)
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2011
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 10776860

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