Wellbeing & Work
Introduction
An institution’s people define its character and capacity to perform; and so, an institution’s achievements can only be as strong as its community. An institution can bolster the strength of its community by offering benefits, wages, and other assistance that serve to respectfully and ethically compensate workers and by acting to protect and positively affect the health, safety and wellbeing of the campus community.
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Art and Science Collaboration: The Key to a Sustainable Future
- Antioch College (OH)
- Pacific Northwest College of Art (OR)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Camden Campus (NJ)
- AASHE (MA)
This webinar is dedicated to art and science collaboration. As this topic has increased in importance to both artistic and scientific communities, Art and Science Collaboration: The Key to a …
- Posted Nov. 2, 2017
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Higher Education’s Anchor Mission: Measuring Place-Based Engagement
- Cleveland State University (OH)
- Drexel University (PA)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark Campus (NJ)
- SUNY Buffalo State (NY)
- University of Missouri-St. Louis (MO)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
The report examines how an ongoing—and expanding—effort to track the impact of colleges and universities on the financial and social well-being of their surrounding neighborhoods is helping these anchor institutions …
- Posted Oct. 25, 2017
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W&M Park Rx
- College of William & Mary (VA)
Madelyn Phillips, a Student Park Ambassador for the Campus Park Rx program at William & Mary, prescribes time outside to her fellow students with the goal of improving mental and …
- Posted Oct. 20, 2017
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Oregon State U Provides SNAP Benefit on Campus
- Oregon State University (OR)
To help combat the issue of food insecurity among college students, Oregon State University was the first campus to participate in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) at its …
- Posted Oct. 18, 2017
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Portlandia Farmstandia
- Portland Community College (OR)
Student volunteers and learning garden staff host the first farm stand of the season, affectionately known as Portlandia Farmstandia, at Portland Community College Rock Creek campus.
- Posted Oct. 14, 2017
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Healthy Herd Team Facilitators
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)
The Healthy Herd Wellness Group at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a staff-developed and managed program that goes well above and beyond a typical wellness initiative. The award-winning program incorporates nutrition, …
- Posted Oct. 12, 2017
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Bike to Breakfast at Utah State University
- Utah State University (UT)
USU bikes to breakfast to celebrate the beginning and end of the National Bike Challenge. USU celebrated its 5th year and 4th win in the National Bike Challenge.
- Posted Oct. 6, 2017
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Highlights from the 2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey
- AASHE (MA)
The 2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey Report examines the nature of sustainability positions at colleges and universities, providing insights into salaries, funding, supervision, job satisfaction, challenges and more. AASHE …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2017
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Careers in Sustainability: Current Job Trends and Future Growth
This report, based on interviews with 658 Canadian organizations, provides insight on key sustainability employment trends in Canada. It finds that over 50,000 professionals spend 50% or more of their …
- Posted Sept. 21, 2017
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Careers in organic food production
This article describes the workers who are involved in producing organic food, certifying it, and bringing it to consumers. Although the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does not collect …
- Posted Sept. 21, 2017
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2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report
- United States Department of Energy (DC)
The 2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) finds that the Traditional Energy and Energy Efficiency sectors today employ approximately 6.4 million Americans. These sectors increased in 2016 by just …
- Posted Sept. 21, 2017
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Now Hiring: The Growth of America’s Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs
- Environmental Defense Fund (DC)
This report examines the growth of sustainability jobs in the United States. Key findings include:
- Sustainability jobs represent a large and growing portion of the U.S. workforce across multiple sectors. …
- Posted Sept. 21, 2017
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Hospitality employers’ perceptions of technology for sustainable development: The implications for graduate employability
This paper investigates hospitality employers’ perspectives of two key interdisciplinary subjects, i.e. sustainable development and information technology in the context of hospitality education, particularly graduate employability. A qualitative approach is …
- Posted Sept. 11, 2017
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Solar Training and Hiring Insights 2017
This report aims to increase understanding of U.S. solar training, hiring practices, and market trends to help the industry make better, more informed decisions. It aggregates and analyzes data from …
- Posted Sept. 11, 2017
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Renewable Energy and Jobs - Annual Review 2017
Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2017 presents the status of renewable energy employment, both by technology and in selected countries, over the past year. In this fourth edition, …
- Posted Sept. 11, 2017
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Redacted Data: 2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey
- AASHE (MA)
For the first time, AASHE is making a redacted version of the Higher Education Sustainabilty Staffing Survey available to AASHE members for further analysis. Our hope is that this resource …
- Posted Sept. 1, 2017
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2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey
- AASHE (MA)
The 2017 staffing survey report examines the nature of sustainability positions at colleges and universities, providing insights into salaries, funding, supervision, job satisfaction, challenges and more. This year’s survey and …
- Posted Sept. 1, 2017
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Sustainability at Work: Finding Purpose and Profit in Your Career
- AASHE (MA)
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)
This webinar provides career guidance for pursuing sustainability in every imaginable career. Using the SURF Framework that the presenter developed, and professional narratives from various sectors (agriculture, health, science & …
- Posted Aug. 17, 2017
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Modeling the Relationship Among Perceived Corporate Citizenship, Firms’ Attractiveness, and Career Success Expectation
Drawing on propositions from the signaling theory and expectancy theory, this study hypothesizes that the perceived corporate citizenship of job seekers positively affects a firm’s attractiveness and career success expectation. …
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Corporate environmental responsibility, employer reputation and employee commitment: an empirical study in developed and emerging economies
Employer reputation is relevant not only to attract but also to retain qualified employees. While in the past financial incentives have been the most important instrument, corporate environmental responsibility (CER) …
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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The contribution of corporate social responsibility to organizational commitment
This study investigates the relationship between organizational commitment and employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) within a model that draws on social identity theory. Specifically, we examine the impact …
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Corporate social responsibility and labor turnover
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
This paper aims to estimate empirically the effect on the voluntary turnover (quit) rate of employees when a large public corporation already judged as an outstanding employer is also ranked …
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Organizational Commitment in Manufacturing Employees: Relationships With Corporate Social Performance
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Despite the numerous forays into understanding the concept and consequences of Corporate Social Performance (CSP), very little is known about how CSP impacts employees. In response, this study examines the …
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Is Employee Organizational Commitment Related to Firm Environmental Sustainability?
Organizational commitment refers to an individual’s identification and involvement with an organization. This paper examines the organizational commitment of employees toward firms with varying levels of environmental sustainability efforts. Analysis …
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
Corporate social responsibility has received an increasing amount of attention from practitioners and scholars alike in recent years. However, very little is known about whether or how corporate social responsibility …
- Posted Aug. 1, 2017
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Modeling the relationship between perceived corporate citizenship and organizational commitment considering organizational trust as a moderator
This study proposes a research model based on social identity theory, which examines the moderating role of organizational trust on the relationship between corporate citizenship and organizational commitment. In the …
- Posted Aug. 1, 2017
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Understanding employees' responses to corporate social responsibility: mediating roles of overall justice and organisational identification
Prior research has suggested that corporate social responsibility (CSR) contributes to organisations' competitive advantage by influencing stakeholders' attitudes. While existing research indicates that CSR relates to some employee outcomes, the …
- Posted Aug. 1, 2017
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‘Employees response to corporate social responsibility: Exploring the role of employees’ collectivist orientation’
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
Since the extant literature largely ignores the conditions that moderate the impact of CSR on employees’ related outcomes, we examine the moderating effect of employees’ collectivist orientation on the relationship …
- Posted Aug. 1, 2017
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Perceptions of corporate social responsibility, organizational commitment and job satisfaction
This paper aims to, first, investigate the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR)’s various dimensions on organizational commitment and job satisfaction, and, second, to examine the moderating role of employee …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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The effect of employee CSR attitudes on job satisfaction and organizational commitment: evidence from the Bangladeshi banking industry
This paper aims to investigate the relations between employee corporate social responsibility (CSR) attitudes on job satisfaction (JS) and organizational commitment (OC) in the context of Bangladeshi banks in the …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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The influence of corporate social responsibility on employee satisfaction
The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employee satisfaction. The study proposes and empirically tests two hypotheses: that CSR is positively …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Examining the effects of corporate social responsibility and ethical leadership on turnover intention
The purpose of this paper is to apply the self-concept theory and conservation of resources theory to develop a model that explains how both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethical …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Employable graduates for responsible employers
- Higher Education Academy (York)
This report explores links between sustainability and employability in the graduate job market in relation to higher education teaching and learning. This was achieved in two ways - firstly, by …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Corporate Social Performance And Organizational Attractiveness To Prospective Employees
Drawing on propositions from social identity theory and signaling theory, we hypothesized that firms' corporate social performance (CSP) is related positively to their reputations and to their attractiveness as employers. …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Green not (only) for profit: An empirical examination of the effect of environmental-related standards on employees’ recruitment☆
Thanks to an original database on French firms we investigate the impact of environmental-related standards on employees’ recruitment. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that voluntary environmental-related standards (i.e., …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Modeling Corporate Social Performance and Job Pursuit Intention: Mediating Mechanisms of Corporate Reputation and Job Advancement Prospects
An important issue for successful recruitment is to increase the pursuit intention of job seekers. This study discusses such issue by proposing a research model based on the signaling theory …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Tell me your socially responsible practices, I will tell you how attractive for recruitment you are! The impact of perceived CSR on organizational attractiveness
This experimental study seeks to extend the current knowledge about the impact of corporate social responsibility on organizational attractiveness by analyzing the mediating role of corporate image. To the best …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Green and nongreen recruitment practices for attracting job applicants: exploring independent and interactive effects
The study is based on the reactions of a sample of Italian graduate students to the websites of seven companies operating in Italy. It addresses two specific issues in the …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Illuminating the Signals Job Seekers Receive from an Employer's Community Involvement and Environmental Sustainability Practices: Insights into Why Most Job Seekers Are Attracted, Others Are Indifferent, and a Few Are Repelled
- University of Vermont (VT)
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
Evidence shows that job seekers tend to be attracted to employers known for their corporate social responsibility (CSR), but relatively little is known about the underlying psychological processes. Moreover, the …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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A moderated mediation model of CSR and organizational attractiveness among job applicants: Roles of perceived overall justice and attributed motives
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of perceived overall justice and the moderating effect of self- and other-centered motives in the relationship between organizational corporate …
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Corporate social responsibility and organizational attractiveness: implications for talent management
Talent management is a twenty-first-century concern. Attracting talented individuals to organizations is an important source for firm competitive advantage. Building on signaling theory, this paper proposes that corporate social responsibility …
- Posted July 27, 2017
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The Relationship between Perceptions of Corporate Citizenship and Organizational Commitment
- Missouri State University (MO)
The results of a survey of business professionals verified a relationship between perceptions of corporate citizenship and organizational commitment. More important, the results demonstrated that the relationship between corporate citizenship …
- Posted July 25, 2017
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Corporate Social Performance and Attractiveness as an Employer to Different Job Seeking Populations
- Concordia University Wisconsin (WI)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
This study investigates the hypothesis that the advantage corporate social performance (CSP) yields in attracting human resources depends on the degree of job choice possessed by the job seeking population. …
- Posted July 25, 2017
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Calibrating MBA Job Preferences for the 21st Century
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
Our research studies what MBAs in the 21st century care about during their job searches. We update the MBA job preference literature by using adaptive conjoint analysis to calibrate the …
- Posted July 21, 2017
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Corporate Social Performance As a Competitive Advantage in Attracting a Quality Workforce
- University of Missouri (MO)
Several researchers have suggested that a talented, quality workforce will become a more important source of competitive advantage for firms in the future. Drawing on social identity theory and signaling …
- Posted July 21, 2017
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Linking Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility and Intention to Quit: The Mediating Role of Job Embeddedness
Systematic research regarding the effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on organizational stakeholder groups, like employees, remains sparse. This article examines employees’ reaction to CSR programmes at the attitudinal level …
- Posted July 21, 2017
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The Relationship Between Norwegian and Swedish Employees’ Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility and Affective Commitment
Corporations are spending a substantial and increasing amount of money on corporate social responsibility (CSR). However, little is known about the effects on key stakeholders of these activities. This study …
- Posted July 21, 2017
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Job Choice Intentions: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
- Dalhousie University (NS)
A theory of planned behavior (TPB) framework was employed to investigate the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) perceptions on the job choice intentions of American, Chinese, and Lebanese college …
- Posted July 21, 2017
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CSR as Organization–Employee Relationship Management Strategy: A Case Study of Socially Responsible Information Technology Companies in India
- National University of Singapore
This study examined corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a probable relationship management strategy that could strengthen relationships between organizations and their employees. Specifically, this study explored linkages between employee perceptions …
- Posted July 21, 2017
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Exploring the Relationship Between Corporate Social Performance and Employer Attractiveness
- State University of New York at New Paltz (NY)
Building on existing studies suggesting that corporate social performance (CSP) is important in the job choice process, the authors investigate job seekers’ perceptions of importance of CSP and explore effects …
- Posted July 21, 2017
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This tab provides access to data collected through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS). STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. STARS enables meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community.
All responses reference content from reports under the latest version of STARS, version 2.2. AASHE membership and log-in is required.
PA 12: Employee Compensation
- Local living wage for a family of 4
- Percent of employees that receive a living wage
- Living wage policy or commitment
- Website URL - Employee compensation
PA 13: Assessing Employee Satisfaction
- Methodology for evaluating employee satisfaction and engagement
- Website URL - Assessing employee satisfaction
PA 14: Wellness program
- Description of the institution’s wellness program
- Smoke-free policy (upload)
- Smoke-free policy (description)
- Website URL - Wellness programs
PA 14: Workplace Health & Safety
- Annual number of employee work-related injury incidents per 100 FTE employees
- Website URL - Workplace health and safety
Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.