Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cosmin Briciu Title: Poverty in Romania: Dimensions of poverty and landmarks of poverty research Abstract: The first objective of the paper is to offer a synthetic account of the main research coordinates of scientific literature on poverty in Romania. In this respect, three main stages are distinguished: (i) accumulation of expertise at the national level with a divergence of methodologies and approaches being developed (ii) the temporary consensual adoption of the absolute poverty line; and (iii) the official alignment to the European relative poverty lines in parallel with a new mix of approaches: a social development-oriented approach, concurrently with the study of poverty and extreme poverty at the territorial and community level. The second main objective is to look at the level and dynamic of poverty in Romania using the most important measurement methodologies in order to establish linkages between poverty research and the actual situation and to stress research needs in the following period. Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 3 2014 File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/245/218 File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2014 Keywords: poverty profile; methodology; research; overview Pages: 3-18 Issue: 3 Year: 2014 Number: 3141 Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3141 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andries J. Du Plessis Title: Human resource`s role with business recovery during and after a recession to engage employees and retain talent Abstract: A comprehensive literature review in the area of leadership development, employee engagement and talent retention to determine what does HR need to do to create people advantage in this new era of business recovery; HR`s role in leadership development; if there is a shift in HR`s focus from human capital to social capital; and how could organisations engage employees in decision making using their talents to help recover from the recession. While countries such as South Africa, New Zealand and Australia continue to experience leadership talent shortages, and the recession forces organisations to review the effectiveness of their leadership development programmes, meaningful change seems essential. Developing countries have similar problems. How do these developing countries prepare (crouch), develop (touch) implement (pause) and engage (involve) their employees to develop leaders for the future? Some findings are that today`s business leaders need to get personally involved in mentoring future leaders and in guiding their development; leaders need to be values-centred leaders focused on building sustainable organisations that serve society; it is challenging for most organisations to make leadership development a priority while leaders face an ever growing list of challenges such as cost cutting and customer demands, strategic planning and successful innovation, and fewer resources available to achieve their goals. Human resource managers have a huge role to play in these issues and they have enormous challenges but also opportunities to put strategies in place to help to recover from the recession. Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 3 2014 File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/246/219 File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2014 Keywords: Recession; business recovery; leaders; development; talent retention Pages: 19-38 Issue: 3 Year: 2014 Number: 3142 Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claudia Petrescu Title: Comparative analysis regarding the level of development and spatial distribution of collective organizations in romania Abstract: The aim of this article is to provide structured information on the level of development and spatial distribution of collective organizations in Romania. Collective organizations are analyzed based on social economy theory. Building on the empirical research, the article identifies and highlights some regional disparities in the development of social economy entities. The comparative analysis regarding the level of development and spatial distribution of collective organisations in Romania draws on the secondary fiscal data analysis. The analysis of the regional profiles of Romanian social economy entities reveals that their socioeconomic power is bigger in the developed regions of the country. Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 3 2014 File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/247/220 File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2014 Keywords: Collective organizations; social economy; cooperatives; mutual aid associations; nonprofit Pages: 39-51 Issue: 3 Year: 2014 Number: 3143 Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mihnea Preotesi Title: Deindustrialization and underdevelopment. Case study: Valea Jiului Abstract: The paper is based on the preliminary results of the research project "Deindustrialization and under-development in the Romanian Transition. Individual/Collective Strategies and Reply Policies. Case study: Valea Jiului", that will be done within the POSDRU project "Plural and interdisciplinary in doctoral and post-doctoral programs". This paper intends to analyze the complex relation between economic development, social development and modernization. The basic hypothesis of the proposed analysis is that the economic development is not an irreversible process not even when it leads to social development as part of a modernizing program. Valea Jiului represents an example of how the economic and social development built on weak basis, become unsustainable. The collapse of this weak basis initiated after 1989 when the economy and the society changed and after a transition period produced a major negative social impact started with the restructuring of the mining. In less than 10 months, the number of the miners was reduced to half and the reduction continued. Today in Valea Jiului is only 15 % of the number of employees in 1989. The social effects of the mining restructuring were at communitarian level the underdevelopment, return to pre-modern occupations like the subsistence agriculture. A good example that will be deeply analyzed in this paper is the town Aninoasa, the first Romanian town in insolvency since 2013. Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 3 2014 File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/248/221 File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2014 Keywords: deindustrialization; social development; social change; the modernization theories Pages: 52-64 Issue: 3 Year: 2014 Number: 3144 Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Monica Serban Title: Defining migration policies from origin country perspective Abstract: The role state plays in international migration gathers more and more attention in migration studies, across different disciplines. Policies implemented in order to manage migration are a point of high interest in the space of destination countries. Yet, even though our knowledge from destination perspective has constantly increased, origin state is still under the shadow of a biased research agenda. We have little insights on the way migration policies at origin are built, enforced or on their effects on international movements. This paper addresses the gap, proposing a definition and a subsequent operationalization of migration policies at origin. Building on the few papers approaching the issue (de Haas & Vezzoli, 2011; Weinar, 2014), it advocates for a general definition, encompassing three fields of intervention: emigration, diaspora and return. The endeavour is part of a larger effort directed to evaluate migration policies in the case of origin liberal democratic states, origin of international migration, using policy on paper approach. Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 3 2014 File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/249/222 File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2014 Keywords: origin state; emigration; diaspora; return migration; migration policies Pages: 65-78 Issue: 3 Year: 2014 Number: 3145 Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3145 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anisur Rahman Khan Title: Community perceptions and activisms regarding domestic violence against women: Perspectives from rural Bangladesh Abstract: Community is a basic unit of social organisation, which influences many aspects in our lives and patterns of actions. The aspect of community is seldom addressed in the realm of domestic violence initiatives, although community`s perception and role, who are within women`s close network, is important in curbing domestic violence since members of the community easily see and hear what is happening against women. My research aimed at exploring community`s perceptions and activisms with regard to domestic violence against women at different rural settings of two Bangladeshi districts namely Netrokona and Mymensingh. Using interpretative qualitative approach, I excavated the perceptions and activism of the majority Bengali community as well as indigenous matriarchal Garo community. Living in strict patriarch rule, Bengali women usually are the easy victims of different forms of violence, but matriarchal structure also does not preclude Garo men to condone violence against women. Both the communities have some intervention mechanisms. Shalish or local arbitration is the most widely used community intervention in rural area although it has some in-built shortcomings. This study has significant implication in generating new knowledge and providing guidelines for future course of actions in redressing domestic violence. Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 3 2014 File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/250/223 File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2014 Keywords: Bangladesh; community; domestic violence; Bengali community; Garo community Pages: 79-98 Issue: 3 Year: 2014 Number: 3146 Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3146 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Raluca Popescu Title: Family policies in Romania within the European framework Abstract: Despite attempts to harmonize social policies, EU countries differ greatly in the support they provide. Social policies have different traditions that emerged and developed in different social and historical contexts, so there are considerable differences in terms of resources, organization and coverage. As a result, family policies are even more heterogeneous than is suggested by the standard welfare state regimes. Despite the fact that it was one of the few expansionary welfare areas from the European Union in the last years, family policy is characterized by a small degree of institutionalization. This paper studies the cross-country differences of state family support, using secondary data analysis on statistical indicators and legislative or formal documents information. The accounted types of support are financial transfers, leave entitlements, and provision of services. The study analyzes the specific features of these instruments and how they merge to form a more or less comprehensive policy package, with a special focus on Romania. The results reveal a scarcity model of family policy, with a familialisation trend doubled by the passive and rather reactive support. Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 3 2014 File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/251/224 File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2014 Keywords: models of social policies; family policies; leave entitlements; childcare Pages: 99-113 Issue: 3 Year: 2014 Number: 3147 Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alexandra Gheondea-eladi Title: Is qualitative research generalizable? Abstract: Many qualitative researchers are faced with the everlasting question of generalizability of their findings, especially when trying to support their research in front of quantitative researchers. Despite this state of affairs qualitative researchers rarely discuss generalizability of their data and argue that a deeper understanding of the phenomena is the goal of their endeavour and not statistical generalization. Furthermore, quantitative researchers usually dismiss the results of qualitative research based on the lack of generalizability. I argue that this state of affairs is a crude simplification of reality based on either a misconception about what qualitative data is or on a misconception of the aspects of qualitative data analysis that lead to generalizability like: the purpose of the research, the sampling method, the data analysis method and the coding strategy. The paper suggests that discussions on generalizability should become the standard for reporting qualitative report if the research question is phrased to demand a general answer. Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 3 2014 File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/252/225 File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2014 Keywords: qualitative research; generalization; external validity; non-probabilistic sampling Pages: 114-124 Issue: 3 Year: 2014 Number: 3148 Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3148