Hållbarhet har blivit allt mer aktuellt i dagens samhälle. Den framväxande kunskapen har bidragit till att företag redovisar sitt hållbarhetsarbete i en allt större omfattning. En viktig del av samhället är bostadsutvecklare, vilka även står för en stor del Sveriges utsläpp idag. Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka vilken förändring som skett gällande omfattningen av bostadsutvecklare hållbarhetsredovisningar. Studien sträcker sig över åren 2009-2019 och JM:s, HSB:s och Riksbyggens hållbarhetsredovisningar har analyserats genom ett kodningsschema. Även hur frekvent förekommande fotografier var i hållbarhetsredovisningarna har studerats. Studien finner att begreppsanvändandet generellt sett har ökat såväl som antalet sidor som hållbarhetsredovisningarna presenteras på. Däremot går det inte att dra några tydliga slutsatser beträffande hur fotografier används hållbarhetsredovisningarna.

Hållbart företagande har blivit en grundpelare i dagens företagsamma Sverige. Företag redovisar en hållbarhetsrapport för att kommunicera ut sitt hållbara företagande till intressenterna. Den har blivit viktigare för företag att bry sig om för att möta omgivningens och intressenternas förväntningar. Förväntningarna på företag att redovisa en högkvalitativ hållbarhetsrapport är höga men samtidigt är regleringar och rapporteringsstandarder av fri karaktär. Det är svårt att bestämma vilka faktorer som utgör en högkvalitativ hållbarhetsrapport och forskningen är begränsad. Syftet med studien är att analysera svenska hållbarhetsansvarigas uppfattningar om vilka faktorer som bidrar till högkvalitativa hållbarhetsrapporter utifrån Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) rapporteringsprinciper för kvalitet. För att undersöka det används institutionell teori, legitimitetsteori, impression management, GRI-ramverket och tidigare forskning. Empirin samlas in genom kvalitativ metod i form av semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Resultatet visar att faktorer som tydligare och striktare lagstiftning, utökade resurser, ett hållbarhetsorienterat ledarskap och extern revision är kvalitetshöjande faktorer när det kommer till hållbarhetsrapporter.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study investigated choices made by fundraisers when crafting appeals to unknown potential donors. Specifically, it asked if and how fundraisers’ choices vary depending on whether they were raising money for a population that faced societal stigma. Research on fundraising often focuses on donor behavior, without considering the type of the beneficiary and the discretionary decisions made by fundraisers. This study drew on literature about stigma and literature about fundraising communication. It employed mixed methodologies to explore this research question. The first part of the study used an online experimental survey, in which 76 practicing fundraisers wrote an acquisition appeal letter for a nonprofit after random assignment to benefit either clients with mental illness (stigmatized population) or older adults (non-stigmatized population), then answered attitudinal questions about the beneficiary population. Participants believed individuals with mental illness were more stigmatized than older adults. Analysis of the letters using linguistic software showed that fundraisers used more humanizing language when writing about the non-stigmatized population, compared to the stigmatized population. Several aspects of the appeal letters, identified through existing theory, were examined but did not vary at statistically significant levels between the groups. Exploratory factor analysis showed several patterns of elements recurring within the letters. One of these patterns, addressing social expectations, varied significantly by client group. In the second part of the study, semi-structured interviews with fifteen participants showed that writing for the stigmatized client population raised special concerns in communicating with potential donors: many interviewees described identifying client stories and evidence to justify helping stigmatized clients in a way that wasn’t thought as necessary for non-stigmatized clients. They also attempted to mitigate threatening stereotypes to maintain readers’ comfort levels. Fundraisers regularly evaluated how readers were likely to think of different kinds of clients. Fundraisers’ own implicit assumptions also came into play.

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Research and anecdotal evidence (e.g., the media) have suggested that individuals’ dress choice could lead to workplace success (e.g., Christman & Branson, 1990; Damhorst, 1990; Johnson & Roach-Higgins, 1987). Invoked in this notion is the premise that the favorable impression formed from wearing a particular dress result in positive treatment from others. While forming a positive impression is an important component of success (Reid, Lancuba, Morrow, 1997; Stuart & Fuller, 1991), workplace success could be a manifestation of the wearer’s daily dress driving changes in their own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in a workplace relevant manner. Thus, my dissertation focuses on employees’ daily dress aesthetics, dress conformity, and dress comfort to examine whether these variables affect how one feels (i.e., relaxedness) and evaluates oneself (i.e., state self-esteem), thereby further influencing important workplace behaviors (i.e., task withdrawal, goal progress, helping, interaction avoidance). This dissertation also investigates clothing interest, impression management motives, trait self-esteem, and daily dress compliments as boundary conditions that amplify or attenuate the effects of dress aesthetics and dress conformity on work behaviors through self-esteem and relaxedness. / Business Administration/Human Resource Management

Previous research has shown that it is common for job candidates to use faking tactics in the context of employment interviews, but situational antecedents of applicant faking has been understudied. Using an experimental design, we aimed to investigate if descriptive and injunctive norms interact to influence the intention to engage in mild types of faking during job interviews.The data were collected through an online survey, where participants (N = 447) were asked to rate their intentions to fake in a hypothetical scenario after being exposed to one out of four norm conditions or being assigned to a no norm control condition. The results did not support the hypotheses, as the respondents presented with both descriptive and injunctive honesty norms did not express significantly lower faking intentions than the respondents that were exposed to two unaligned norms or those in the control group. Moreover, no difference was observed between the participants that were presented with both descriptive and injunctive faking norms and the respondents in the norm condition in which a descriptive faking norm and an injunctive honesty norm were signaled. The participants presented with two faking norms also did not differ significantly from the control group. Thus, the findings do not support the idea that the exposure to two aligned norms influences people’s faking intentions, at least in this specific context. However, more research is needed on this topic before any general conclusions can be drawn.

This dissertation explores the presentational strategies the Toronto Police Service (TPS) used to respond to three controversies involving its relationship with marginalized and racialized communities - the removal of the TPS from the Toronto Pride parade; the investigation of the serial killer case involving Bruce McArthur; and the Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020. Using an interpretive approach and a variety of conceptual frameworks derived from Goffman’s work on impression management and applying a grounded theory methodology combined with qualitative media analysis (QMA), the dissertation identifies the image management strategies the TPS adopted in each case. The findings show that the strategies were context specific in the sense that they were directed to the precise criticisms being leveled at the TPS in each case. However, there were common themes across the cases which involved acknowledging a problematic past and committing to corrective actions in the future. The main difference in strategies had to do with the degree to which the TPS was prepared to push back on the claims made against the organization and defend its actions. The dissertation speaks to the broader question of how police organizations are attempting to negotiate their legitimacy in a climate where social media has made police-citizen encounters more visible and where recent high profile incidents involving police violence and abuse of power have shaken public confidence and threatened police legitimacy. I argue that taken together, the TPS responses offer a glimpse into how one police organization is seeking to defend its legitimacy by projecting an image of the kind of police service it is aspiring to become, particularly in relation to the marginalized and racialized communities it serves. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation explores how the Toronto Police Service (TPS) responded to three controversies involving its relationship with marginalized and racialized communities - the removal of the TPS from the Toronto Pride parade; the investigation of the serial killer case involving Bruce McArthur; and the Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020. Using an interpretivist approach and qualitative methods the dissertation identifies the image management strategies the TPS adopted in each case and discusses similarities and differences. The analysis contributes to a better understanding of how the police attempt to negotiate their legitimacy with communities with which they have traditionally had problematic relationships in a context where the increased visibility of police violence has created a legitimacy crisis.

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