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Leadership its a topic of interest in organizational research because the impact of the leaders and managers behavior in their teams and the results. Thus, the 3D theory of Reddin (1983) suggests that the behavior of managers is related to behavioral styles related to task orientation and relationships. The purpose of this research was to identify whether the factorial configuration, reliability and validity of the Managerial Effectiveness Diagnosis (MED) (Reddin, 1983). For the we use a non-probabilistic random sample of 94’819 participants, all active managers’ companies in Latin America from 2010 to 2014; to identify if the test kept their psychometric values over time. Also we use a non-probabilistic sample of 726 participants to replicate the studies originally conducted by the author. All they were managers with at least one year in the position and one person in charge. Research shows that this remains a useful test without cultural bias that can be used in organizations for information about the behavior to indicate their basic style, management style and degree effectiveness in performing their chores.

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Reflection “Communication-Education” is not limited to the analysis of practices, teaching-learning methodologies, the role of subjects in the dyad or the ideological issue that crosses the educational policies, but discuss the triad “teacher-knowledge-student” every time in a historical context. The binomial referred should also be enriched by scientific inquiry, which accounts for (among many other aspects) effective job placement of professionals (conceived as the fruit of this educational process of “Communication-Education”) in the immediate organizational environment of the higher education institutions. With this objective in view, an exploratory research was carried out (as a first and necessary step) to know more about the demand of social communicators in organizations (public, private or mixed) in the city of Chilecito, province of La Rioja (Argentina), an area which National University of Chilecito is inserted in period 2013-2014.

Organizations are areas of professional intervention for Social Communicators with Institutional orientation: it is a wide and complex area of socio-cultural, administrative, economic, financial, political and ideological realities where they can deploy versatility of the competences and skills acquired during their degree training. On the other hand, investigating characteristics of the demand of these professionals constitutes a valuable resource at the moment of recognizing the feasibility and suitability of educational offer. These aspects have been the main motivations that have guided the development of the present paper.

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The communication between organizations and their stakeholders has evolved as the waves of competitive challenges that have marked technological innovations (Kanter, 2006). Since 2006 it has become necessary not only to increase interaction particularly via social media, but also to incorporate aspects of organizational responsibility and its foundations in values (Kotler, Kartajava, & Setiawan, 2011) which directly influence in building its image (Capriotti, 2009) and reputation (Villafañe, 2004). This article analyzes the image and reputation of some private organizations in Mexico through the study of the activity they have in this social media. The results of this research suggest some conclusions regarding the importance of strategy in the use of Twitter as a basis for building the reputation of the organizations which must recognize the communication as a two-way process that accounts for interaction processes and mutual influence over time.

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This research work will address business issues and related to social responsibility. Likewise, a comparison will be made between continents to know the different aspects according to the location of the companies and their participants. In the same way, an analysis will be approached mentioning different definitions regarding this topic and the role of an industrial engineer in these aspects. After arguing and overcoming all the issues about socially responsible companies, an example will be presented that meets all the previously established points. Before concluding, from the social point of view, possible scenarios in which the implementation of corporate social responsibility could be feasible will be illustrated and finally the factors that influence organizations or companies to fail to comply with social responsibility will be established.