Help others--and help your career

Carter Helping Others to Help Business ?

There has been substantial growth in the level of charitable giving by firms, with many corporations hoping to attract new customers through an increase in social responsibility. This paper investigated the effect of this increase in corporate giving on sales using a fixed effects panel method. An investigation for the years 2001-2007 found no significant relationship between corporate giving a...

Helping your patients to help themselves.

A little help from your friends.

Getting help from others: the effects of demand and supply.

OBJECTIVES This article investigates whether the help with care needs that is received from others depends on the potential supply of family helpers. METHODS Data from the first round of survey data collected in the National Health and Aging Trends Study are used to create measures of whether help is received, the number of helpers, and the hours of help received. Regression analysis is used ...

Young children help others to achieve their social goals.

From early in development, humans have strong prosocial tendencies. Much research has documented young children's propensity to help others achieve their unfulfilled goals toward physical objects. Yet many of our most common and important goals are social--directed toward other people. Here we demonstrate that children are also inclined, and able, to help others achieve their social goals. Thre...