Akram Hatami

University of Oulu · Department of Marketing, Management and International Business

Global social, ecological and economic crises are contributing to the need for meaningfulness in different spheres of life, including work, as an increasing concern to employees. However, the current understanding of meaningfulness is bound by its normativity and thus does not meet the uncertainty present in today’s work. We utilize the Levinasian...

In this study, we focus on a key concept of sustainability, co-responsibility. To date, the traditional discussion on responsibility in sustainable development has failed to address the world’s inequality, in particular the inequality in the Global South resulting from colonization. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates a considerable gap between the...

The book focuses on humanistic aspects of contemporary management, generating win-win-win opportunities for companies, their employees and societies the companies operate in. Corporate volunteering is one of the ways to navigate for sustainable future in the unpredictable world in which various forces such as global pandemics, wars, unsustainable b...

Purpose To respond to recent calls for better understanding of the complexities related to happiness management, especially from the employees' perspective, this study examines how corporate volunteering (CV), as one form of corporate social responsibility (CSR), creates sustainable happiness in business organizations. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – To succeed in today’s dynamic and unpredictable business world, businesses are increasingly required to gain the trust of and inform the society in which they operate about the social and environmental consequences of their actions. Corporations’ claims regarding the responsibility and ethicality of their actions, however, have been shown...

In this article, we apply a distributed perspective on leadership to the study of co-responsibility and social sustainability in corporate volunteering. An approach to leadership as a distributed and collective phenomenon, in which leadership is shared, is highlighted as a method of developing a more responsible and people-focused approach to susta...

Companies increasingly engage in corporate volunteering (CV), in which employees are encouraged to partake in societally beneficial activities that are organized by their employer in collaboration with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In addition to direct effects for CV beneficiaries, company–NGO relationships in CV also generate a variety o...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how employee competences can be developed through corporate volunteering (CV). Specifically, this study focuses on diversity of volunteering studies categorized according to the type of beneficiaries and intensity of volunteer contact with them. The study examines how the beneficiary-employee relation...

Tervetuloa tutustumaan työelämäpedagogiikan moninaisuuteen! Tämä kirja on toteutettu opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön tukeman Työelämäpedagogiikka korkeakoulutuksessa (Työpeda) -hankkeen lopputuotoksena. Tarkoituksena on jakaa hankkeessa pilotoituja toimintatapoja, välineitä ja malleja kaikkien korkeakoulujen käyttöön. Työelämäpedagogiikka on määrit...

In the current global economy that is usually described as post-industrial, third wave and information-based, we should know how to explore on a sea of uncertainties. In such an environment, ethical decision-making due to ongoing dilemmas and difficulties is complex. So ethics should be understood as a learning process that constructs our identity....

In this paper, we reflect on the role of the Other in ethical decision‐making in corporations. The Other, in the form of a corporation's stakeholders, has already been discussed in the scientific literature, but there are still some Others that remain unconsidered and that call on corporations to be responsible. Drawing on the philosophy of Levinas...

Because knowledge is increasingly considered to be a key resource for companies, organizations must create and foster knowledge-sharing culture. A clear plan and strategy for knowledge creating, sharing it, and managing it provides sustainable competitive advantages for knowledge-based organizations. Knowledge as an important source of capital for...