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02:19

What is digital citizenship?

The concept of citizenship is complex, multidimensional, and can be understood at different levels. Citizenship can indeed be seen as a status—that of being a citizen. This status arises both from official recognition by the State and from the individual’s acceptance of the community’s codes, in other words, their duties, rights, and freedoms. But citizenship is also an attitude, an ideal, or even a virtue for some—one that reflects a sense of commitment and a perceived and assumed individual responsibility toward the community, whether through decision-making (such as voting in an election) or through everyday behavior.

FOLCHER Pauline - Montpellier Management |

Management Dictionary
Organizational Theory, Public Management

04:14

What is Social Responsability of Territories?

Territorial Social Responsibility (TSR) follows on from Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), encouraging organizations to consider their actions within a territory defined either as a shared geographical space or as a unifying project. TSR allows organizations to transcend organizational boundaries and explore solutions that generate partnership-based value.

GOUJON BELGHIT Anne - IAE Bordeaux |

Management Dictionary
Sustainable Development and CSR

03:04

What is the anthropocene?

The Anthropocene refers to an era in which human activities are profoundly disrupting the planet's natural balance, threatening life on Earth. In response to this reality, companies must urgently rethink their strategies by integrating biophysical and climate data. Yet many continue to overlook these sciences, relying instead on economic projections that are disconnected from ecological constraints. This disconnect further exacerbates planetary imbalances, and failing to account for Earth's limits has now become a matter of strategic irresponsibility.

GAUTHIER Thomas - |

Management Dictionary
Strategic Management, Sustainable Development and CSR

02:38

What is strategy?

Military strategy was born at the same time in China and Greece, nearly 2,500 years ago. It was only very recently (at the beginning of the 20th century) that strategy was applied to the fields of management and business, gradually evolving into what is now known as "strategic management." Drawing from various disciplines in the humanities and life sciences, several academic approaches to strategic management have progressively emerged: strategy as adaptation, positioning, or intention. Today, strategic management—alongside other disciplines—is called upon to address the major challenges of our time (natural resources, biodiversity, energy, climate, health, etc.).

GOY Hervé - iaelyon School of Management |

Management Dictionary
Strategic Management

02:53

What is employer branding?

The concept of employer brand refers to the set of benefits associated with a job that help identify a company as an employer (employer brand), but also to the management activity of the employer brand (employer branding), which aims to articulate the company’s employer brand in order to appear as both an attractive and distinctive employer compared to competitors.

GUILLOT-SOULEZ Chloé - iaelyon School of Management |

Management Dictionary
Human Resources Management, Marketing, Sales and Communication, Organizational Theory

02:52

What is management instrumentation?

Management is a practice mediated by instruments. It is therefore not solely a matter of decision-making and action. It cannot exist without the mediation of management instrumentation. This notion encompasses all instruments (indicators, dashboards, formalized models, analytical methods, and other tools) through which management techniques are implemented. Based on collective representations of organized action, it possesses structuring properties that transform information into data and contribute to organizing production relationships.

GILBERT Patrick - IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School |

Management Dictionary
Organizational Theory

03:09

What are competencies?

The notion of competence refers to stable sets of knowledge, reasoning patterns, capacities for action, and typical behaviors. The definitions are numerous, due to the variety of fields of application, but they point to a few common features: reference to tasks, human activities, or problems to be solved in identifiable circumstances; the expected effectiveness of individuals or groups when these tasks, activities, or problems are to be carried out or solved; the structured nature of the processes of mobilizing knowledge, know-how, and behavioral attitudes that ensures effectiveness.

GILBERT Patrick - IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School |

Management Dictionary
Human Resources Management

05:12

What if, for a woman, earning more than her partner actually held back… her own career?

Even when women earn more than their partners, they still take on more household work, which holds back their careers. This imbalance is driven by persistent social norms around masculinity and women’s roles. Only couples with equal incomes escape this dynamic. Addressing it requires open conversations between partners, but also public policies and company initiatives.

YU Elise - NEOMA Business School |

Research
Human Resources Management

02:30

Gender, network recall, and structural holes

Women tend to remember social connections better than men, thanks to a mental shortcut called the closure schema. This strategy, shaped by socialization, works best in cohesive networks. It's not biological, but socially constructed. This helps explain why women are underrepresented in network broker roles. Managers should consider these biases to better train and value all talents.

GONZÁLEZ-GÓMEZ Hélena - NEOMA Business School |

Research
Organizational behavior

02:48

What is the metaverse?

The metaverse is a computer-generated 3D virtual space where users can connect and interact. The term “metaverse” carries multiple meanings. For some, it is a user-defined virtual space — a digital reflection of everyday life, or even a digital twin of the physical world. For others, it is an interconnected and limitless virtual world that offers users an extension of their physical identities. The metaverse reflects a trend in which it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish our real lives from our digital ones, and where it is becoming harder to live without technology — whether it be our smartphones or even social media.

CASTELLANO Sylvaine - EM Normandie |

KHELLADI Insaf - EMLV |

LEJEALLE Catherine - |

Management Dictionary
Digital Transformation, Human Resources Management

01:19

What is organizational justice?

Organizational justice is the field of study concerned with perceptions of fairness within organizations. The term also refers to employees' own feelings of justice and injustice.

NADISIC Thierry - emlyon business school |

Management Dictionary
Human Resources Management, Organizational behavior

03:04

What is equity?

Equity is a key concept in accounting. It includes share capital, which represents the contributions from shareholders, and reserves, which are past profits not distributed to the shareholders. High equity indicates that the company has generated profits and has not fully distributed them. It is therefore a sign of financial health and prudence.

BASSIN Claire - iaelyon School of Management |

Management Dictionary
Accounting and editing

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