The journal that I acquired from Proquest discusses about the audits of ethics and corporate governance in public sports organization. The main difference from the CRP is the subject of CRP is social audits while the Proquest journal has ethics audits as its subject. Below are the comparisons:
Title
CRP: Identification of Role of Social Audit by Stakeholders as Accountability Tool in Good Governance
Journal: Ethics Audits and Corporate Governance: The Case of Public Sector Sports Organizations
Topic
CRP: Social Audits and Good Corporate Governance
Journal: Ethics Audits and Good Corporate Governance
Theory used
CRP
- Accountability gives sanctity to power and makes it more meaningful and relevant in the scheme of governance. (Kumar, 2000)
- Accountability is a term that requires many specifications, namely whose accountability to whom and how. (Liberator, 2004)
- Social auditing provides an assessment of the impact of an organization’s non-financial objectives through systematically and regularly monitoring its performance and the views of its stakeholders. (Boys, 2005)
- Social audit is an exercise developed in response to this need and requirement where people are involved in assuring the performance and effectiveness. (Kessler et al., 1992)
- The guiding principles for local development are sustainability, a participatory approach, gender equity, good governance, decentralization, and human rights. (Jain S. P. and Wim Polman, 2003)
Journal
- Sports have provided a very fertile ground for the exploration of both the social scientific investigations of ethically problematic issues. (Tomlinson and Fleming, 1997)
- In sports, philosopher and social scientists have often been concerned with ethical discussion of individual behaviors such as the in/defensibility of “diving” in football or what rights children have in relation to coaches. (Brackenridge, 2001; Dubois, 1986)
- At a societal level there are other issues that shape the culture or moral atmosphere of sports – for instance, the un/acceptability of practices such as using performance enhancing supplements (Hoberman, 1992), the use of generic engineering (Miah, 2000), the intimidation of sports officials (Thomson, 1998), and harassment by coaches (Kirby et al., 2000)
- The institutions of sports that are charged with its governance have responsibilities for the good health of sports in moral and/or financial matters. (Houlihan, 1999)
- Ethics audit should be limited to an evaluation of the implementation of an organization’s code of conduct. (DuFrene, 2001; Gray, 1996)
- Individual or personal values shape the way that individuals experience the organization as employees. (DeSensi and Rosenberg, 1996)
Hypothesis
CRP: The social audit supports stability and reliability of ethical and environmental performance.
Journal: Ethics audit should proceed on a rational and relatively objective basis to create an effective corporate governance of a sports organization.
Variables used in research
CRP
- Reliability
- Validity
- Performance
Journal
- Respect
- Equity
- Responsibility
Method of analysis
CRP
- Test-Retest reliability
- Questionnaire
- Likert scale
Journal
- Interviews
Conclusion
CRP: High reliability and validity of the instrument developed on positive statement establishes the appropriateness of the tool designed for assessing the role of social audit and its likely benefits and utility to stakeholders.
Journal: In order to develop into a more ethically sound organizational culture, all personnel within sports organization must make a commitment to improvement in whatever particular form that takes.