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Martin, Janece M. "Work ethics of twelfth grade students /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3052199.
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McLaverty, Thomas Christopher. "The influence of culture on senior leaders as they seek to resolve ethical dilemmas at work solve ethical dilemmas at work." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10158555.
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This dissertation explores some of the difficulties that arise when using the cognitive development model to explain ethical behaviour in the world of work. An alternative theoretical position is explored, one that was originally developed in anthropology by Richard Shweder and Jonathan Haidt. This position asserts that ethical behaviour is not universal, it is instead highly contextual and may be influenced by both organisational and ethnic/national culture. The influence of culture on ethical behaviour is explored using narrative research techniques. The research is based on thirty in depth interviews with senior executives who frequently faced ethical dilemmas at work. Interviewees represented a number of diverse cultural backgrounds (including British, Dutch, US, Indian, Saudi, Colombian and Brazilian) and a number of strong organisation cultures. The conclusions emphasize the importance of personal networks as a resource for resolving ethical dilemmas and the importance of different cultural approaches to managing power relations within personal networks. The conclusions question both the current and future role of compliance functions in global corporations and the effectiveness of leadership development and staff training in the field of values and ethics
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Sinnicks, Matthew. "A MacIntyrean philosophy of work." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/8822.
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This thesis outlines and defends a MacIntyrean account of contemporary work. MacIntyre's virtue ethics seems to entail a wholesale rejection of the modern order; throughout his writings MacIntyre is highly critical of capitalism, large-scale modern institutions, management, regulation, and indeed of our whole 'emotivistic' culture (as he sees it) which he regards as being inimical to our potential to virtuously flourish. MacIntyre's mature period, from After Virtue (2007, originally published 1981) contains much that is relevant to a philosophy of work. I will develop and update MacIntyre's own arguments and I will also argue that contemporary working life can be more MacIntyrean than MacIntyre himself realises. Because both work as a topic, and the relevant parts of MacIntyre's writings are extremely diverse, my strategy will be to examine the different key elements of a MacIntyrean philosophy of work without decontextualising the key notions of practices, virtues and institutions from MacIntyre's wider moral philosophy. I will argue that MacIntyre's key concept of a practice, the first stage in his definition of a virtue, is able to account for productive activities and can survive a variety of challenges. We are best able to make sense of the notion of the narrative unity of a whole life, the second stage in MacIntyre's definition of a virtue, if we distinguish between lived-narratives and the told-narratives that best allow us to understand our lives. Despite his broad endorsement of Marx's critique of capitalism, a MacIntyrean account of work differs from Marx's theory of alienation. I will argue that a fully MacIntyrean workplace will be small-scale, will not pressurise employees to identify with compartmentalised roles, and will allow trust to flourish. However, because MacIntyre overstates the extent to which people accept the definitions of ‘success’ that are dominant within modernity, he is unable to see the extent to which MacIntyrean communities can survive the threats posed by contemporary corporations. Another element of MacIntyre's account of work which needs modification is his critique of the character of the manager, and I will offer an emendation of this in order to make it applicable to contemporary forms of management. Finally I show that distinctively modern phenomena of workplace governance and regulation can serve MacIntyrean ends and can allow us to codify broadly MacIntyrean workplace initiatives. However, because of the deep context-sensitivity of the key MacIntyrean notions: practices, narrative-unity, and communities, such measures resist detailed and explicit formulation. My aim is to defend MacIntyre, to deepen our understanding of what a MacIntyrean philosophy of work entails, and to show that and how good work exists even within modernity.
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Cook, Roger. "Ethics at work : the discourse of business ethics : an investigation into ethical discourse in UK higher education and organisational contexts." Thesis, University of West London, 2014. https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1102/.
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This thesis aims to make an original contribution to the development of effective ethical discourse at work through the development of a conceptual model which reframes existent philosophical ideas and moral perspectives. Its intention is both to facilitate better personal understanding, and to enable improved moral communication between individuals, workforce communities and organisations. This is needed because the impacts of the banking crisis, and continued incidences of corporate wrongdoing are exposing the weaknesses in managerial capitalism, and provide evidence that the rhetoric of business values is sometimes at odds with reality. Contemporary organisations are also increasingly being required to explain and defend the values which shape their business conduct, an irreversible trend driven by factors such as the growth of the social media, increasing private ownership of wealth, shareholder activism, and stakeholder empowerment. The thesis presents a framework for ethical analysis and discourse. The research takes the form of transdisciplinary enquiry. Applying a critical realist perspective, relevant bodies of literature are reviewed, leading to the creation of a proposed analytical framework and an associated process model. It is proposed that together these comprise the tools to help the development of the ethical manager. Using a case study approach, the framework is first trialled among postgraduate professional MBA students. Based on initial research findings, a developed framework is then adapted and field-tested for relevance to practising managers in diverse organisational contexts, and potential further uses and applications considered. Concept testing demonstrates that a flexible managerial model of ethical analysis the thesis [proposes] is successfully developed for use by business practitioners, consultants and business ethicists. Management as a discipline is pragmatic in nature, drawing in an eclectic manner on differing academic disciplines, and the proposed model is similarly derived from a transdisciplinary approach to business ethics which seeks to gain insights from diverse disciplines, drawing from both moral philosophy and developmental psychology to create an original PREP framework and associated process model.
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Skalbeck, Paul A. "Key components to an effective ethics training program." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007skalbeckp.pdf.
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Kidwell, Jeremy. "Drawn into worship : a biblical ethics of work." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9452.
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In the 20th-century, the advent of Taylorism led to a radical reconceptualisation in the organisation of human work. The formal scientifically-conceived aim of increased “efficiency” behind this project masked the moral and psychological changes which were also inherent in the project which is still ongoing. Now, at the turn of the 21st century, given the profusion of corporate scandals and the complicity of unscrupulous business practice in the current ecological and economic crises, researchers in a number of fields focused on work and its organisation have begun to warm to the possible relevance of religious ethics to social responsibility in business practices, offering some promise for a new rapprochement. In this dissertation, I offer a close study of the biblical texts that have nourished a moral vision of work for Christian and Jewish communities. I seek to nuance my study of these texts in Hebrew and Greek with an agrarian sensibility in order to highlight the moral vision of human / non-human interaction in the forms of work described and the ecological sensibility which undergirds this ancient vision of “good work” which is preserved in these texts. More specifically, I explore the moral relationship between work and worship through a close study of two related themes. In Part 1, I begin with a sustained look at the details of “good work” as narrated in the Tabernacle construction account in Exodus 25-40. This study of Exodus provides a platform upon which to explore work themes of volition, design, tacit knowledge, and interaction between the sociality and agency of work. In subsequent chapters, I go on to analyse subsequent temple construction accounts in 1 Kings, Jeremiah 22, Isaiah 60, Zechariah 14, 1-2 Chronicles, and across the New Testament. In this deliberately intertextual study, I attend to the transformation of the meaning of the Tabernacle/Temple across the Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament, as temple building texts in particular assume an eschatological aspect. My study of these subsequent construction accounts also adds nuance and texture to my account of moral making in conversation with several contemporary theorists, particularly with regards to work agency, aesthetics, sociality, skill and wisdom, and the material culture of work. This section culminates with the conclusion that in the New Testament, the church becomes both the product and the site of moral work building a new “temple”. Following this conclusion, in Part 2 of the dissertation, I develop a more detailed account of the relational dynamic between work and worship as it is delineated in Hebrew and Christian offertory practice. For this study, I turn to close readings of offertory practices in the Hebrew Scriptures (with special focus on Leviticus 1-3 and other Pentateuchal offertory texts), the New Testament and early Christian (1-4c.) moral philosophy. I highlight the relationship between worship and work in these liturgies and argue that in their practical logic, work is “drawn into worship.” In particular, I argue that three aspects of offertory practice may provide a framework for rehabilitating contemporary worship so that it may once again draw work into a morally formative dynamic. These three aspects correspond to the material and practised details of specific offerings and include: (1) the relativisation of utility with the burnt offering (2) the engagement of work quality and aesthetics through consecratory firstfruits offerings and (3) the sociality of liturgical work with the shared meal in the peace offering. These texts and the early Christian practices through which their liturgies were deployed hint at possible avenues for a rehabilitation of the moral work life of contemporary Christians. I argue that the proper performance of worship must “draw in” and engage the ordinary work of the people of God, and that a rehabilitation of offertory practice, particularly in light of the rich range of practices demonstrated in the Christian tradition offers a promising place for the reconceptualisation of work.
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Magiste, Edward John. "Effective Ethics Education for Graduate Social Work Students." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1450175285.
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Hunt, Matthew 1973. "Ethics beyond borders : how Canadian health professionals experience ethics in humanitarian assistance and development work." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98729.
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Canadian health professionals are involved in humanitarian assistance and development work in many regions of the world. They participate in primary health care, immunization campaigns, feeding programs, rehabilitation and hospital-based care. In the course of their work clinicians are frequently exposed to complex ethical issues. This thesis examines how health workers experience ethics in the course of humanitarian assistance and development work. A qualitative study was conducted to consider this question. Five core themes emerged from the data including experiencing a tension between respecting local customs and imposing values, knowing how to respond when basic care is impossible, addressing differing understandings of health and illness, questions of identity for health workers, and issues of trust and distrust. Recommendations are made for standards and organizational strategies that could help aid agencies better support and equip their staff as they respond to ethical issues.
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Esler, Marian Therese, and res cand@acu edu au. "‘What Should I do?’: a study of social work ethics, supervision and the ethical development of social workers." Australian Catholic University. School of Social Work, 2007. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp152.29052008.
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This thesis explores the ethical development of social workers and the role of supervision in that development. It begins with an examination of the social work context for the study, including the early history of social work and the ways in which it was influenced by the major social and cultural movements of the late 20th century, concluding with a discussion of both the threats posed and the possibilities emerging for social work in the 21st century. It then considers the ethical context for the study. It investigates the ethical theories and traditions that have contributed to the development of social work ethics and the role of professional ethics (including codes of ethics). It then proposes that a pluralist approach to social work ethics is the most appropriate way forward. This is followed by an examination of ethical development and the importance of reflection. Various models of ethical decision-making are compared and an inclusive, reflective model is found to be the most appropriate for social work in terms of both particular dilemmas faced and the overall development of workers as ethical decision-makers. The focus of the thesis then moves to supervision, exploring its history, its central place in social work and some of the problems that can arise for both supervisors and the social workers they supervise. It is argued that the reflection required to develop as ethical decision-makers is most logically located within the relationship and processes of supervision and that supervisors have an important role in guiding that reflection and development. The next part of the thesis describes the qualitative and action research strategies employed and examines the results emerging from the data. Participants in the focus groups were social workers who supervise other social workers, and they each met for two sessions, six months apart. Between the two sessions, they were asked to trial in supervision a framework for reflection on practice. The data emerging from the groups reflected the theoretical development begun in the early chapters, including the importance of reflection and the role of supervision in assisting the ethical development of workers, particularly in terms of deconstructing dilemmas and being able to articulate the reasons for decisions made. The thesis concludes that no one ethical theory is sufficient to support the ethical decision-making required for the practice of social work. Rather, a pluralist approach that allows a dilemma to be considered from a number of theoretical perspectives is more appropriate. Alongside this, an inclusive, reflective model of ethical decision-making reflects that pluralist approach and supports the ethical development of the individual worker. Supervision is vital in guiding the reflection required to make justifiable ethical decisions and to develop as ethical decision-makers.
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Buchanan, Aaron. "Investigating the Relationship Between Ethics Program Components, Individual Attributes, and Perceptions of Ethical Climate." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright161790100998243.
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Humphreys, Stephen John. "The work of Phase I ethics committees : expert and lay membership." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/10314.
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Previous research has noted that members of research ethics committees are unclear about the extent of their roles. In this study, research amongst members of independent ethics committees (IECs) about how the ‘expert’ and ‘lay’ roles are understood and operationalized offers an explanation for this lack of clarity. IECs were selected for study because they have only addressed one type of research (Phase 1 ‘healthy volunteer’ studies) and this limited remit suggested that it would be in such committees that the member roles would have become most pronounced. Drawing on findings from the sociology of professions and employing a phenomenological approach to understanding, 20 semi-structured interviews with both expert and lay members of these committees revealed that a number of members were not only unclear about the roles, but unclear too whether they, or certain of their colleagues, were in which membership category. Notwithstanding this fact, and paradoxically, the ‘expert’ designation was seen as granting its members a privileged position on the committees. The expert member was seen to be either a medically qualified member or one tightly associated with the medical model. Such a repository of expertise being with the medical model privileges this model in ethics review such that other matters formally to be scrutinized by ethics committees become marginalised. Participant safety was the prime concern of the ethics review for IEC members. This relegated other matters including the adequacy of the insurance arrangements, the readability of the consent forms, the fairness of the inclusion criteria, and so forth, into areas of lesser concern. That this occurs though when the science, the safety and the methodology of the trials are already – separately - subject to an independent analysis by a body of experts, whose statutory role is to concern itself with these issues such that no trial may occur without their sanction, is of significance. IEC members were cognizant of this duplication of role but unable to resolve it. The situation could be accounted for as due to capture by the medical model and a cognitive dissonant process. Members’ training and education were found to have been neglected because under the medical professions’ gaze no other type of knowledge was considered necessary in ethics review. The study revealed that the medical profession’s dominance of such committees accounts for the members’ role uncertainty and as such allies itself to Freidson’s theory of professional dominance. If such a concept has been thought to be an obsolete one, this study suggests such a notion of the status of the theory is premature. The medical model’s status is implicitly accepted such that nothing else need be considered. The research calls for further studies to corroborate such findings in other research ethics settings and for a debate about what society wants its ethics committees to focus upon in their review.
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Atkinson, Tyler Scott. "Singing at the winepress : Ecclesiastes and the ethics of work." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=202081.
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This thesis seeks to locate an ethic of work in the thought world presented by the book of Ecclesiastes. It proceeds first by exposing the lack in extended theological-ethical considerations of Ecclesiastes in both biblical studies and theological ethics, proposing modestly to make a start in filling this lack by exploring Qoheleth’s work ethic. In the first chapter, six topics pertinent for a theological-ethical consideration of Ecclesiastes are introduced: the significance of the figure of Solomon; the meaning of hevel (traditionally rendered, ‘vanity’); perception and epistemology; cult, economy and politics; time; and the socalled carpe diem refrain. The chapter closes by enlisting two figures, St. Bonaventure and Martin Luther, for assistance in further exploring these topics. In Chapter 2, Bonaventure’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes is encountered. Reading Ecclesiastes within a penitential framework, Bonaventure offers a version of the contemptus mundi tradition rooted in his metaphysics of emanation, exemplarity and consummation. Bonaventure’s commentary is ethically significant in that he detects the vice of curiositas as precipitating the fall from the vanitas mutabilitatis to the vanity of sin and guilt. Chapter 3 considers Luther’s ‘Notes on Ecclesiastes.’ Luther interprets Solomon as a wise economic-political administrator who preaches the good news of God’s involvement in the quotidian. This positive understanding of the character of Solomon enables Luther to read Ecclesiastes eschatologically, with labour being seen as a locus of divine activity. The upshot is that one may read Solomon’s refrain as an invitation to labour with the expectation of receiving God’s gifts in the present. The fourth and final chapter is the constructive portion of this thesis. It draws upon the previous chapters in order to make positive claims about Qoheleth’s work ethic. In sum, Ecclesiastes enhances conversations surrounding the theology and ethics of work by working protology and eschatology through christology.
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Asquith, Merrylyn. "Ideals, myths and realities a postmodern analysis of moral-ethical decision-making and professional ethics in social work practice." full text, 2002. http://www.dhs.sa.gov.au/dhs-library/documents/ideals,-myths-and-realities.pdf.
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Faith, Karen E. "Social work ethics in practice, a study of recent M.S.W. graduates." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0003/MQ46109.pdf.
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Phale, Antoinette Sephiwe. "Work ethics of employees in the platinum mine industry / A.S. Phale." Thesis, North-West University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/266.
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There are different factors that contribute to the development of work ethics. One such factor is
the individual in relation to the work, the organisation and the environment. Work ethics are
believed to be related to performance, productivity and the disciplining of extreme misconduct.
Work ethics are also associated with economic success. It is recommended that the organisation
should find out more about work ethics and how work ethics could be to the advantage of the
organisation.
The general aim of this research was to determine the work ethic of the employees in the
Platinum mine industry. Work ethics were defined in detail from the literature and the most
important factors that influence it were analysed.
A qualitative research design based on the phenomenological approach was used. The purpose of
this was to understand the individual in his or her totality and to make a qualitative analysis of a
person's conscious world. A questionnaire and interviews were used to determine employees'
experience of work ethics. Content analysis was done to define, examine, analyse, quantify and
interpret the research findings.
The results of the empirical study were discussed according to the themes of religion, culture,
individualism, group dynamics and organisational factors. It was found that factors influencing
work ethics have different effects on different people. Etiology, determinants and work-related
beliefs in different settings must also be taken into account. It was evident that people who
espouse work ethics are more productive, successful and satisfied.
Recommendations for future research were indicated.Thesis (MA (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004.
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Hardy, Samuel Andrew. "Interrogating archaeological ethics in conflict zones : cultural heritage work in cyprus." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7344/.
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Much affected by viewing the Yugoslav Wars' ruins, I resolved to study archaeology in conflict. I wanted to explore archaeology's role in conflict and archaeologists' responsibilities in conflict zones; but unable to conduct such work in Kosova/Kosovo, I went to Cyprus. Drawing together professional documentation and public education, professional and community interactions and interviews, and cultural heritage site visits, I researched the destruction of community places, the looting of cultural heritage, and the coping strategies of archaeologists. The key questions of this thesis are: is it legal and ethical to conduct archaeological work in occupied and secessionist territories? How is public knowledge of cultural heritage looting and destruction constructed? What are cultural heritage professionals' responsibilities for knowledge production during conflict? How ought cultural heritage professionals to combat the looting and illicit trading of antiquities? I have addressed these questions by concentrating upon cultural heritage workers' narratives of looting and destruction from 1955 until the present in professional discussion and mass education. First, I argue that archaeologists have misinterpreted international law, and through boycotting and blacklisting of rescue archaeology in northern Cyprus, harmed both the profession and the cultural heritage. Second, I argue that cultural heritage workers have been unwillingly coopted, or actively complicit in the conflict, in the production of nationalist histories, and thus nationalist communities, therefore in the reproduction of nationalist conflict. Third, I argue that cultural heritage workers have knowingly contributed to the conflict and its destruction, through their nationalist policies on the paramilitary-dominated illicit antiquities trade. My conclusions are: that an ethical antiquities policy would cut funding to and thereby reduce conflict-fuelling extremist activity; and that, where they have the freedom to practice it, professional and ethical archaeologies of destruction would promote intracommunal and intercommunal peace.
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Morton, J. W. "Mapping the review of ethics in research : the work of National Health Service (NHS) Research Ethics Committees in England." Thesis, University of Salford, 2016. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/41543/.
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Background: The effects of ethical regulation in the form of review and bureaucratic procedures on research are perceived as challenging for researchers. The centrality of the achievement of informed consent in ethical regulation and review has also been problematised from a range of perspectives which view it as unachievable in some methodologies, as necessary but problematic, or as an overly bureaucratic requirement which makes it informed but not genuine. However, in the existing critiques of regulation, there is limited attention paid to ethics review which is where decisions are made about the ethics of research. Much is claimed about the barriers and limitations the review of ethics presents to researchers, however, there is little evidence which starts from the standpoint of committee members and explores how the work of National Health Service Research Ethics Committees (NHSRECs) is accomplished in the everyday contexts in which decisions are made. This study aimed to reveal new knowledge about how NHSECs work to reach decisions about applications with a particular emphasis on consent and capacity. The RECs included in the study were ‘flagged’ for capacity which meant that members had undergone additional training in the requirements for research with people who lack capacity in the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Methods: The study used ethnographic approaches and institutional methodology to ‘map’ the work of RECs. Theoretically, institutional ethnography starts with the standpoint of those involved in the seemingly mundane and everyday work of institutions. The research sought to deepen understanding and provide insights into how committee members view their work and their perspectives on research and researchers. Interpreting the everyday is foundational to institutional ethnography and the endeavour also seeks to describe how work is shaped and organised by wider social discourses. The methods employed were observation, interview and an analysis of a significant text. Altogether, there were nine observations of RECs with a total of seventeen research applications heard. Twelve interviews were conducted with reviewers and eight with researchers who had attended the REC at the time of my observations. Data was managed using NVivo software, organised into themes and then analysed with the aim of producing a detailed ethnographic description of the work undertaken. Findings: The study produced an ethnographic ‘mapping’ of the work of NHSRECs. Findings and subsequent analysis revealed (i) how the setting, order and membership of committees shaped their work and supported the institutional and social imperatives for ethics review to be transparent, fair and objective; (ii) that ‘judgement’ and ‘decisions’ could be distinguished in deliberations. Much of reviewers’ discussion of applications is subjective and discerning. Relationships with each other and with researchers were significant. Committee members considered abstracted principles of ethical regulation and the framework of bureaucratic procedure, but used subjective means to translate these into meaningful and practical concepts and requirements; (iii) that ‘texts’ in the form of requirements were important in decision-making. Committee members made reference to procedures in order to legitimise their judgements. Finally, a text used in NHSRECs, the ‘Mental Capacity Checklist’ is the focus of analysis and this demonstrates how committees make their judgements ‘fit’ with requirements, looking for evidence of the required categories in the application and in the dialogue with researchers Conclusions and implications: NHSREC reviewers are committed to their work, to research and researchers in general regardless of the nature of research. However, procedural ethics delineates and draws boundaries around the field of review. In addition, wider social structures and discourses of trust and transparency influence and shape formal review. These may constrain and limit REC members as much as researchers. RECs may benefit from a reflexive analysis of their work which would enable them to consider the local and wider influences on their judgements and decision-making. There is potential for this to be included in training programmes which already exist for REC members. Researchers may benefit from gaining insights from ‘within’ the ethics committee increasing their knowledge of review from the perspective of those making decisions. This may assist in them feeling better equipped to overcome the challenges of ethics review. Approvals and scientific review: Organisational approval for the study was given by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) whose functions became part of the Health Research Authority during the course of this study. Scientific review of this study was undertaken by my Lead Supervisor at the start of the PhD and reviewed internally by the Executive Committee of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Salford. The University of Salford’s Research Ethics Committee gave ethical approval.
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Price, Robert Lesley. "Enabling people of Cornerstone Baptist Church to apply Christian values in the marketplace." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Giannou, D. "The meaning of ethics and ethical dilemmas in social work practice : a qualitative study of Greek social workers." Thesis, Brunel University, 2009. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4197.
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Social work struggles between the dichotomy of “individual” and “society” as it is characterized as enhancing both individual well-being and social justice. As these are not always easily balanced and social work has limited autonomy, social workers must develop their capacity for making moral judgments and defend these within their various roles and responsibilities. Studies which explore the role of ethics in social work practice enhance the potential for maintaining a common identity. This exploration permits a deeper understanding of social work ethics and reinforces a common framework inclusive of purpose and standards for the profession. These studies also capture the contextual factors impacting on the moral agency of social workers, and thus substantiate the role for social work in a world with structured oppression. The purpose of this study was to obtain an in-depth understanding of social work ethics in the practice context of public hospitals in Greece. Using a case study design, data was gathered to explore and understand the role of social work ethics in daily practice and the formation of what is perceived as “good” practice. The analysis followed Yin‟s (1993) descriptive strategy. Data collection included fifteen in-depth interviews with hospital social workers, a group interview with social work academics, and a thematic analysis of the social work journal of the Hellenic Association of Social Workers (HASW). The meaning of ethical dilemmas and problems appeared to be constructed by personally held values, a lack of attention in social work education and the HASW on social work ethics, a professional emphasis on individualism rather than collectivism, and insufficient social protection in Greece. Importantly, these factors led to a fairly consistent response to ethical problems. “Having a clear conscience”, character traits such as bravery and imaginativeness, as well as the use of psychotherapy emerged as characteristics of “good” social work practice. These findings are of value to those who try to restore the values and ethics as central in social work. Values and ethics as key elements of social work expertise can lead social workers to a more competent and effective practice in terms of their ethical engagements.
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Esler, Marian Therese. "'What should I do?': A study of social work ethics, supervision and the ethical development of social workers." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2007. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/01847b657efb0652f03b72aed027abe9c1c96c98b1d818a9add3cb5c40aaeaeb/966895/64860_downloaded_stream_85.pdf.
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This thesis explores the ethical development of social workers and the role of supervision in that development. It begins with an examination of the social work context for the study, including the early history of social work and the ways in which it was influenced by the major social and cultural movements of the late 20th century, concluding with a discussion of both the threats posed and the possibilities emerging for social work in the 21st century.
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Kalinoski, Zachary Thomas. "Recognizing the Implicit and Explicit Aspects of Ethical Decision-Making: Schemas, Work Climates, and Counterproductive Work Behaviors." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1339789100.
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Price, Ellen. "Recognition ethics and cultural work in Harper Lee's "To kill a mockingbird" /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1186775706.
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Schouten, Linda Geertruida Maria. "The Impact of Caregiver Employment Experiences and Support on Adolescents’ Work Ethics." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5338.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between adolescent work ethics and caregiver support and employment experiences. For this study, 114 adolescents from a local High School and their caregivers completed questionnaires. The adolescent’s questionnaire contained questions on demographics, caregivers support, perceptions of optimism and pessimism toward employment, and work ethics. The caregiver’s questionnaire included questions on demographics, educational attainment, and employment situation, status and type. Caregiver support and adolescents’ perceived optimism toward employment had a significant relationship with adolescents’ work ethics, where more support was associated with stronger work ethics, affecting a considerable number of the work ethic dimensions. The caregiver employment variables had a lesser impact, where any significant outcomes showed a relationship with only one or two of the adolescents’ work ethic dimensions. Overall, the caregiver group that was identified as primarily mothers had a stronger effect on the adolescents’ work ethics than the other caregiver group of mostly fathers.
These findings suggest that caregiver support and the perceived optimism adolescents have toward employment, when evaluating their caregivers’ employment experiences, have a stronger influence on adolescents’ work ethics than the caregiver employment situation, status, or type. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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Wragge-Morley, Alexander Ibbetson. "Knowledge and ethics in the work of representing natural things, 1650-1720." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610202.
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Hirskyj, Peter. "An application of Habermas's work on communication and discourse ethics to advocacy." Thesis, Swansea University, 2003. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42991.
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The aim in this thesis is to form a link between Habermas' work on discourse to that of writers on advocacy. There has been a demonstrable need for advocacy in differing societies and this is apparent when one considers the developments that have occurred, for example, concerning the treatment and care of patients and clients in the British Health and Social Services. In this thesis, instances of client and patient care that are less than satisfactory are described and illustrated, as in the Pink case. These demonstrate an identified need for patient and client support. Also, it is acknowledged that the act of becoming a nursing advocate may involve the exposure of the nurse to personal risk. The thesis considers the views of two British and three United States writers on advocacy. I have come to the conclusion that the USA based perspective, as offered by Sally Gadow (1983), can be considered the most convincing. Gadow has been able to form a philosophical basis for advocacy that can be applied globally. This is founded on the premise that a patient ought to be the person making decisions concerning his or her treatment and care. Gadow takes the view that the role of the nurse advocate ought to involve that of supporting patients, while at the same time offering respect with regard to their wishes. A description of Habermas' (1995) work on communication and discourse ethics, his framework for an evaluation of competing norms and communication with reference to relevant theory is offered. A link is made between Habermas' work and that of advocacy theorists as Gadow and to my knowledge, this is the first time that such a link has been made.
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Price, Ellen E. "Recognition: Ethics and Cultural Work in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1186775706.
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Pett, Sarah. "Reading and writing chronic illness, 1990-2012 : ethics and aesthetics at work." Thesis, University of York, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6645/.
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This thesis is about autobiographical and fictional accounts of chronic illness professionally published between 1990 and 2012. It begins with a survey of popular and critical thinking about illness accounts, in which I show how both the medical humanities and literary studies have placed restrictions on what these accounts can mean, and thus on the kinds of cultural work they can do: restrictions that frequently belie the complexity of the aesthetics and ethics at work in many of the texts considered in this thesis. I build on this claim through close reading of a cross-section of contemporary illness accounts in which I flag up the presence of aesthetic elements distinct to the literary—including aspects of imagery, form, symbolic structure, address, and so on—, and show how these elements work not just to underscore the informative content of these illness accounts, but also to create new patterns of meaning, new networks of relation, and new modes of engagement. Though this project focuses on the contemporary, Virginia Woolf’s essay On Being Ill (1926) acts as its theoretical nucleus. In chapter 2, I show how On Being Ill provides a productive framework within which to explore the relationship between illness, literary aesthetics, and ethics. I also tease out the themes that are to define the chapters that follow, for, as Woolf demonstrates, at stake in the representation of the embodied self and the sensations it experiences are issues such as the referentiality of language and of fiction; the workings of metaphor and allegory; and the possibilities and limitations of the discursive sediment that accrues around words, images, and narrative tropes. In chapter 3, I explore this latter issue in a study of the construction of the narrative self and of the body in four autoethnographies by women academics. In chapter 4, I look at the representational experiments that Hilary Mantel and Paul West undertake in their memoirs as they seek to describe the physical and psychological effects of illness. Finally, in chapter 5 I consider how two South African fictions of illness—J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron (1990) and Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat (2006)—provide a valuable case study for thinking about the relationship between illness and allegory in fiction. My conclusion draws these strands together, arguing that illness accounts can contribute not just to our understanding of the illness experience, but to our thinking about the nature of the literary and its participation in the ethical also.
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Munter, Dan. "Ethics at work : Two essays on the firm's moral responsibilities towards its employees." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Filosofi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-129983.
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Essay I analyses a sample of corporate codes in the Swedish banking sector. The purpose is to investigate the codes’ ethical status. Are they consistent with the values of fairness or are they instead at a risk of harming the employees? With regard to employees, eight of the nine codes in the material were found to (a) focus one-sidedly on their duties and responsibilities, (b) lack statements regarding their value to the firm, while carefully stating the importance of several other stakeholders, (c) have an anonymous or authoritarian tone, (d) say little regarding the substantial reasons why certain behaviour is forbidden or expected; some of the codes also (e) contained problematic freedom restrictions. The empirical investigation of code content and design leads us to the normative issue of whether such a design can be unfair and risks harming the employees. Departing from the values of equality, reciprocity, care and respect, eight of the nine codes are found to be at risk of being in conflict with these values. The socially responsible firm, which avoids risking employees’ welfare and self-respect, must consider rewriting such corporate codes. Essay II seeks to provide a richer moral assessment of the transactions, offers and working conditions in the labour market. Some of the most influential accounts have focused on either the act of consent (Nozick), the background conditions (Peter) or the quality of the offers (Olsaretti). I argue that all these aspects are ethically relevant and necessary to make agreements morally justified. This leads me to the conclusion that (a) unreasonable offers remain ethically flawed regardless of employees’ consent and adequate background conditions; (b) the mere act of consent is, nonetheless, ethically valuable; (c) there exist different kinds of demands, affected differently by whether they are properly consented to. Then, in a well-ordered liberal democracy (which constitute the necessary background conditions), to ascertain whether a firm’s offers and working conditions are morally sound, we need to know both their quality (how reasonable they are) and whether they have been properly consented to. A firm ends up with three moral responsibilities: (i) not to exploit the workers’ disadvantaged position in the labour market, which requires that they are offered only reasonable proposals, (ii) to inform employees in the contract situation of all the relevant aspects and working conditions associated with the job, thereby enabling proper consent, and (iii) once the worker is employed, to only implement working conditions of the kind that are possible to justify and consistent with treating the employees as persons.QC 20131010
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Webster, Paul. "A critical analytic literature review of virtue ethics for social work : beyond codified conduct towards virtuous social work." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7085/.
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This submission is based on a critical analytical literature review of the moral paradigm of virtue ethics and a specific application of this to social work value discourse in search of lost identity. It echoes the philosophical academy's paradigmatic wars between 'act' and 'agent' appraisals in moral theory. Act appraisal theories focus on a person's act as the primary source of moral value whereas agent appraisal theories - whether 'agentprior' or stricter 'agent-based' versions - focus on a person's disposition to act morally. This generates a philosophical debate about which type of appraisal should take precedence in making an overall evaluation of a person's moral performance. My starting point is that at core social work is an altruistic activity entailing a deep commitment, a 'moral impulse', towards the distressed 'other'. This should privilege dispositional models of value that stress character and good motivation correctly applied - in effect making for an ethical career built upon the requisite moral virtues. However, the neo-liberal and neo-conservative state hegemony has all but vanquished the moral impulse and its correct application. In virtue ethical language, we live in 'vicious' times. I claim that social work's adherence to act appraisal Kantian and Utilitarian models is implicated in this loss. Kantian 'deontic' theory stresses inviolable moral principle to be obeyed irrespective of outcome: Utilitarian 'consequentualist' theory calculates the best moral outcome measured against principle. The withering of social work as a morally active profession has culminated in the state regulator's Code of Practice. This makes for a conformity of behaviour which I call 'proto-ethical' to distinguish it from 'ethics proper'. The Code demands that de-moralised practitioners dutifully follow policy, rules, procedures and targets - ersatz, piecemeal and simplistic forms of deontic and consequentualist act appraisals. Numerous inquiries into social work failures indict practitioners for such behaviour. I draw upon mainstream virtue ethical theory and the emergent social work counter discourse to get beyond both code and the simplified under-theoretisation of social work value. I defend a thesis regarding an identity-defining cluster of social work specific virtues. I propose two modules: 'righteous indignation' to capture the heartfelt moral impulse, and 'just generosity' to mindfully delineate the scope and legitimacy of the former. Their operation generates an exchange relationship with the client whereby the social worker builds 'surplus value' to give back more than must be taken in the transaction. I construct a social work specific minimal-maximal 'stability standard' to anchor the morally correct expression of these two modules and the estimation of surplus value. In satisficing terms, the standard describes what is good enough but is also potentially expansive. A derivative social work practice of moral value is embedded in an historic 'care and control' dialectic. The uncomfortable landscape is one of moral ambiguity and paradoxicality, to be navigated well in virtue terms. I argue that it is incongruous to speak of charactereological social worker virtues and vices and then not to employ the same paradigm to the client's moral world. This invites a functional analysis of virtue. The telos of social work - our moral impulse at work - directs us to scrutiny of the unsafe household. Our mandate is the well-being of the putative client within, discoursed in terms of functional life-stage virtues and vicious circumstance. I employ the allegorical device of a personal ethical journey from interested lay person to committed social worker, tracking the character-building moral peregrinations. I focus on two criticisms of virtue ethics - a philosophical fork. It is said that virtue ethical theory cannot of itself generate any reliable, independently validated action guidance. In so far as it does, the theory will endorse an as-given, even reactionary, criterion of right action, making 'virtue and vice' talk the bastion of the establishment power holders who control knowledge. I seek to repudiate these claims. Given that this demands a new approach to moral pedagogy, the practical implications for the suitability and training of social workers are discussed.
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Weisbord, Noah. "[The] Law and Ethics in Gacaca: balancing Justice and Healing in post-genocide Rwanda." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92134.
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Kallestad, Tommy. "Social Work Values : Empowerment, organizational values & professional doxa inside the social work field." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-55153.
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This study explores the field of social work values in the social work profession. The aim of the study is to explore how social work values are related to empowerment practices and organizational structures inside the social work field. By using the perspective of empowerment and professional doxa these structures inside the social work field are explored in interviews with nine social workers. These nine interviews show how social workers relate to values insides their profession, how empowerment practices are done, and what kind of organizational conflicts social workers may experience. By using the perspectives of empowerment and professional doxa the interviews been analysed and connected to both local and global concerns for the social work field. Many professional conflicts were found by taking these perspectives that are discussed in this study, as for example role conflicts social workers could experience. Other conflicts were those of structural failures that caused harm to client contacts and economic factors that were deemed more important for organizations than good client outcomes.
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Kelly, Conor M. "Service and Justice, Peace and Solidarity: Theology and Ethics for Work and Leisure." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104055.
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Thesis advisor: James F. KeenanThis dissertation examines the significance of work and leisure from the perspective of Christian theology and ethics. Specifying work as obligatory activity and leisure as discretionary activity, the dissertation argues that a theological vision for work as a form of service and leisure as a form of peace can challenge some of the most damaging assumptions about paid employment and the use of free time. In the process, the dissertation also identifies the personal and social transformations necessary to make the theological vision a reality, and it proposes a distinct methodology for linking ethics with both lived experience and substantive theological claims. Chapter one outlines the current state of work in the United States, asserting that changes in the nature of work, the demographics of the workforce, and the structure of business have made workers more dependent on paid employment and less secure in their jobs. After discussing the implications of these changes for gender assumptions and family life, this chapter argues that the root causes of dependence and insecurity lie in an increasingly individualistic culture and its concomitant spirit of consumerism. Responding to the problems identified in chapter one, chapter two offers a theological vision for what work could become if Christian theological convictions were integrated more fully into this sphere of life. A critical overview of the traditional language of vocation yields a "charismatic-vocational" understanding of work, which stresses the dynamic nature of both God's call and an individual's response. This vision is further refined with insights about the relational nature of the human person and about Jesus' work for the kingdom of God. Christians, then, are encouraged to see their work as an intrinsic good that uses their particular charisms to serve God and neighbor. Chapter three uses the virtue of justice--biblically defined as right relationship--to pinpoint the structural reforms needed to make the theological vision for work more viable. In conversation with Catholic social teaching, this yields a constructive vision for just remuneration and a necessary critique of executive compensation practices. The result is a more relational understanding of work for employers and employees alike. Shifting to leisure, chapter four notes that the two most common leisure activities (watching TV and using digital media) are defined by superficiality and isolation. The former is described in opposition to depth and "flow," and the latter in contrast to robust community ties. In both cases, relationships are identified as the key casualty. Chapter five distinguishes leisure (flow-like activities) from recreation (non-flow activities) and engages Christian eschatology to insist that leisure is properly a temporary prefiguration of peaceful rest in God while recreation serves as a form of recuperation that helps one fulfill his or her charismatic-vocational responsibilities. Augustine's classic categories of enjoyment and use are then adapted to create a balanced approach to leisure and recreation that avoids idolatrous extremes. Chapter six develops a general ethics for leisure and recreation by relying on the virtue of solidarity. The distinctively Christian notion of this virtue yields a defense of a weekly day of rest for every worker. Parallels with Aquinas then create an ordering of leisure as well as guidelines for the ethical evaluation of particular recreational pursuits. The conclusion addresses the central benefits of the overall project, highlighting the value and necessity of promoting the practice of ethical discernment in everyday life
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Davies, Bethany Sian. "Mobile phone use in hospital care practices : boundary work, spillover and empirical ethics." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2016. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/78cc6a15-6868-40ae-addf-309567f7a619.
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Strategic drives and policy initiatives position mobile technology – or mHealth - as a means of addressing current healthcare challenges. However, mobile phones differ from other health technologies due to their ‘ground-up’ adoption, personal ownership and multiplicity of purpose. Prevailing paradigms in mHealth research cannot account for the range of ways mobile phone use is enacted in the hospital setting and therefore cannot support the level of enquiry required to explore new possibilities for care and learning. By adopting a ‘practice’ approach that draws focus to how mobile phone use is enacted in situ, this research reconceptualises care and phone use as sociomaterial practice, enabling the mutual shaping of mobile phones and social practices to be described. To achieve this end, the ward round was selected as a ‘case’ through which the mobile phone use of patients, clinical staff and students could be observed. Ethnographic methods of observation were combined with interviews to collect data from two different wards within the same hospital trust over a six month period in 2013. The primary research question addressed was “How are mobile phones being integrated into healthcare practices in the hospital setting?” Findings from this research show that phones are enacted as transient members of the ward round; visible at moments, then hidden from view. They contribute to the distributed and shared nature of care, loosening the constraints of time and space that are so critical to the ward round whilst simultaneously reproducing them. As such they play an important role in boundary work and in enabling and constraining boundary ‘spillover’. Participants using mobile phones on the ward found ways to benefit from the potentialities of mobile phone use but also had to engage with the complexities of spillover, how to ‘be’ on the ward and how to use phones appropriately. This research shows that the spaces and rhythms within which care is enacted on the ward produce ‘boundary work’ which mobile phone users learn to negotiate. Each episode of use is distinct, contingent and requires nuanced judgements that balance possibilities with safety and ethics. The thesis concludes by arguing top-down hospital safety and quality efforts are likely to struggle to address all the variables of situated practice relevant to mHealth. Nonetheless, working with, rather than against mobile phones in care practice requires an appreciation of empirical ethics and open discussion to allow new practices to emerge whilst safeguarding the interests of all involved.
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Sjöberg, Emma, and Nilsson Amanada Johansson. ""Får jag ta med mig brukaren hem på julafton?" : En kvalitativ studie om vart gränsen går mellan att vara professionell och privat inom personlig assistans." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-86290.
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The purpose of this study is to illustrate where the boundary between being professional and being private in the line of work as a personal assistant lie, this study will focus on the perspective of the unit manager. This to clarify the ethical approach in the assistance matters for the unit manager. To answer the study's purpose and questions, six individual semi-structured interviews have been held with unit managers responsible for personal assistance in municipal activities. During the interviews, the unit managers shared their own experiences about the subject of the study. The empirical material has been analyzed with the help of normative ethics theories of duty and sense ethics. The result of the study shows that unit managers find it difficult to take a stand as where the boundary between being professional and being private in personal assistance lies. There are many different factors to take into consideration when discussion where the boundary lies for each individual. Having good municipal guidelines regarding the work of the assistance is something the unit managers see as a good tool for taking a position on questions about the work of the assistants. The empirical material also highlights that there is a lot of ethical dilemmas in the matter of personal assistance, and how the unit managers handle these.
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Naude, Ingrid. "Factors impacting on ethical behaviour in organisations." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06202005-115533.
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Scott, Liesel. "The meaning of work : an ethical perspective." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21439.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central idea developed in this thesis is that meaningful work provides the normative standard of what work should be for all human beings, based on the normative idea that being human entails a realization of one’s potential and the expression of one’s intellect and creativity as a necessary part of living a full and flourishing life. Thus the key ethical foundation upon which my argument was built rests primarily upon classic Aristotelian ethical theory as well as more contemporary adaptations thereof. In reality, however, research reveals that up to eighty percent of people engage in work that is not meaningful in the sense that they are unable to experience both excellence and enjoyment through their work. This problem has been labeled as “employee disengagement” and has been acknowledged by organizations as a disturbingly growing trend particularly because of the financial cost it carries through lost productivity. My objective in this thesis was to outline the scope of the problem, and to make a strong case for the recognition of employee disengagement as a moral problem, and not simply as an economic one. Thus a major focus of this thesis was to unpack the concept of meaningful work and to argue for its moral value. Throughout my thesis, the importance of understanding meaningful work as a balance between both the subjective and objective elements that make work meaningful for the individual was emphasized. Having established employee disengagement as a moral problem, my attention then turned towards analyzing the potential causes of the problem at a systemic, organizational and individual level. My primary conclusion was that the modern paradigm facilitated a certain way of organizing business activity as well as a certain way of construing the relationship between work and life that has ultimately had a deep seated causal effect upon the absence of meaningful work. Thus addressing the problem entails a detachment from this paradigm and challenging some of the basic assumptions about organizational life. Finally, I proposed a business model that serves as a framework for a new way of working which has the capacity to be more fulfilling to the human spirit. This model assumes the tenets of virtue ethics as its core. In this model, individual employees, the organization as a community and leaders in the business all have specific roles and responsibilities to bring the model to life, and thus the quest for meaningful work has to be undertaken as a collaborative effort. The field of business ethics, with a refreshed Aristotelian mindset, has a lot of value to add in offering much needed ethical guidance to help steer this radical, yet exciting workplace transformation process in the right direction.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die kerngedagte van hierdie tesis is dat betekenisvolle arbeid die normatiewe standaard sou skep van wat werk vandonderstel is om vir die mensdom te beteken. Dit berus op die veronderstelling dat menswees meebring dat die individu se volle potensiaal, intelligensie en kreatiwiteit sal lei tot ‘n betekenisvolle bestaan. Die sleutelargument steun primêr die klassieke Aristoteliese etiese teorie asook hendendaagse aanpassings daarvan. Navorsing bewys egter dat tot 80% van die arbeidsmag betrokke is in betekenislose (sinlose) arbeid in die sin dat hulle geen genot of uitnemendheid ervaar nie. Die probleem word geetiketteer as “werknemersonttrekking” en word deur maatskappye beskou as ‘n onstellende tendens ten opsigte van die finansiële impak en die gepaardgaande verlies van produktiwiteit. Die oogmerk van die tesis is om die omvang van die probleem uit te lig en om redes aan te voer dat werknemers onttrekking as ‘n morele vraagstuk aangespreek moet word en nie net gesien sal word as ‘n finansiële dilemma nie. Die beweegrede van die tesis is om die begrip van betekenisvolle arbeid te ondersoek en om die morele aspek daarvan te debatteer. Die belangrikheid van die begrip, betekenisvolle arbeid, as ‘n balans tussen beide die subjektiewe en objektiewe beginsels word deurgaans onderstreep. Aangesien “werknemersonttrekking” as ‘n morele probleem beskou word is die oogmerk om die oorsake van die probleem te analiseer, op ‘n sistematiese, organisatoriese en individuele vlak. Die gevolgtrekking is dan dat die moderne paradigma ‘n sekere invloed het op die organisasie se besigheidsaktiwiteite en is ook ‘n metode om die verhouding tussen werk en bestaan te bepaal, wat uiteindelik ‘n diepgesete redegewende invloed het in die afwesigheid van sinvolle arbeid. ‘n Skeiding van die voorbeeld en die basiese veronderstelling van georganiseerde bestaan word benodig om begenoemde begrip te bevraagteken. Laastens is daar ‘n besigheidsmodel wat dien as ‘n raamwerk vir ‘n nuwe manier van werk, wat sal meebring dat werk meer vervulling aan die menslike gees sal bied. Díe model, veronderstel die beginsel van eerbare etiek as die grondslag. Werknemers van organisasies, die organisasie as ‘n gemeenskap en besigheidsleiers het spesifieke rolle en verantwoordelikhede, om lewe te gee aan die model. Daarvolgens moet die soeke na sinvolle arbied as ‘n kollektiewe poging beskou word. Die gebied van besigheidsetiek , met ‘n vernuwende Aristoteliese denkwyse, het tot voordeel , ‘n waardevolle bydrae tot ‘n onmisbare etiese leiding, om hierdie radikale maar opwindende transformasie in die werkplek mee te bring.
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Mahembe, B., and C. Chimpunza. "JOB SATISFACTION AND WORK ETHICS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN A SOUTH AFRICAN AND A ZIMBABWEAN GROUP." Interim : Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 13, Issue 2: Central University of Technology Free State Bloemfontein, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/288.
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Published ArticleThe purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and work ethics using participants from a South African and Zimbabwean University. 200 participants took part in the study. 60 academic and 40 non-academic members of staff were randomly drawn from each of two universities, one form each country. Significant correlations were reported between overall satisfaction and having a lot of money and investing it, working like a slave at everything one does until satisfaction, hard and succeeding, life meaningfulness and leisure time, leisure time interesting than work, and learning better on the job by striking out boldly on their own than by following the advice of others. Overall, a comparison between the South African and Zimbabwean group showed that the two groups differ on 25 out of the 65 variables with the South African group exhibiting higher mean scores.
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Morrice, Andrew Alexander George. "'Honour and interests' : medical ethics in Britain and the work of the British Medical Association's Central Ethical Committee, 1902-1939." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391665.
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Black, Rufus. "Towards an ecumenical ethic : reconciling the work of Germain Grisez, Stanley Hauerwas and Oliver O'Donovan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:54c9f2bd-c748-4142-be39-e75a8b2acb43.
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This thesis is concerned to further the renewal of moral theology in an age of ecumenism by drawing three of its important contemporary protagonists - Germain Grisez, Stanley Hauerwas and Oliver O'Donovan - into an ecumenical dialogue in the hope of reconciling their different approaches. This dialogue occurs in five stages. First, the question, what makes Christian ethics Christian? is considered using O'Donovan's and Hauerwas' emphasis on the distinct epistemological foundations and content of a Christian ethic as a benchmark. An interpretation of Grisez's natural law ethic is then offered which satisfies these conditions. Secondly, the relationship between O'Donovan's and Grisez's essentially realist theories is considered. The difference between them emerges as being primarily one of emphasis, with O'Donovan giving priority to the need for a Christian ethic to be unequivocally realist, while Grisez focuses on the need for sound philosophical argument. A reconciliation of their approaches which seeks to do justice to both sets of concerns is then suggested in the form of a Christian realist theory. Thirdly, a careful interpretation of Hauerwas' narrative ethic, which suggests that it is less subjectivist than is usually thought to be the case, provides the basis for its reconciliation with a Christian realist theory as a complementary form of ethics. An exploration of the possibilities and limitations of narrative for moral deliberation suggests that such a complementary relationship is necessary. Fourthly, the possibility of such a relationship is secured when an analysis of Grisez's theory reveals that it is capable of meeting Hauerwas' concerns about the centrality of character, the particularity of the person in shaping moral obligations and the place of the emotions in the moral life. Finally, it is concluded that the ecumenical ethic towards which the thesis moves will be one which describes this complementary operation of a Christian realist theory and a narrative ethic from the perspective of Christian worship.
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Helenius, Timo Sakari. "The Culture of Recognition: Another Reading of Paul Ricoeur's Work." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3298.
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Thesis advisor: Richard KearneyThis dissertation work examines culture as a condition, as a context, and, finally, as an achievement. The research objectives for this examination are both historical and philosophical. The historical objective is to retrace the appearance of the notion of culture in the works of Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), and to demonstrate that Ricoeur adopts and adapts the term to his philosophical vocabulary. The accompanying philosophical objective, the proper task of this dissertation, is equally twofold. At the scholarly level this dissertation reconstructs - in the form of a hermeneutic of cultural recognition - Paul Ricoeur's cultural theory, and explicates why such a theory is necessary relative to Ricoeur's more openly-argued anthropological phenomenology of "being able." I maintain that all anthropological thought requires the support of cultural understanding, as no comprehensive anthropology is possible without the philosophical elaboration of the cultural condition that concerns human situatedness. The ultimate aim of this dissertation, however, is to go beyond this scholarly analysis and point out a subjective cultural hermeneutic process under the peculiar "dramatic" modality of this dissertation. This postcritical process is what I sum up with the term re-con-naissance. The reception of a cultural heritage is reaffirmed in the incessant task of acquiring a notion of one's self through hermeneutic reappropriation, or, as a perpetual task of freedom and the fulfillment of fundamental human possibilities in the interpretation of one's culture. Put differently, the matter of this dissertation is to recognize (reconnaître) this level of cultural hermeneutics that is unceasingly present; to expose a postcritical depth structure that takes place in the reader's own reconfigurative process as culturally enabled re-con-naissance. Since this hermeneutic concerns the postcritical interpretive reflection of a living, acting and struggling human subject - and is, therefore, not directly explainable - this reconfiguration can only be pointed at or suggested. In spite of its postcritical aim, therefore, the dissertation remains an academic work that functions at the level of critical explanation. The postcritical cultural hermeneutics has to be approached through the critical means that are exemplified by the scholarly analysis in this dissertation; our analysis stands for the critical and objectifying (academic) culture within which the reader reads this dissertation as a cultural and interpretive subject. After having propaedeutically explained the critical scholarly course and the ultimate postcritical task of this dissertation in part one, part two then breaks open the realm of cultural hermeneutics in the work of Paul Ricoeur by "letting it appear" through the critical analysis of the different perceptions concerning his last major work The Course of Recognition. This is the moment of "re-" or re-membering again the cultural condition. Ricoeur's post-Hegelian notion of "cultural objectification" necessitates, however, examining the synthetic moment of "con." Part three analyzes this "con" by pointing out a trajectory of Ricoeur's "post-Hegelian Kantian" though in his early works that runs from the condition of objectivity to cultural objectivity, and furthermore to a poetically constituted hermeneutic of culture. In turn, part four contrasts Ricoeur's thought with that of Martin Heidegger, focusing on Ricoeur's later works that propose an etho-poetics of culture that is manifested in institution. Part four, which closes off the scholarly analysis of Ricoeur's cultural hermeneutics, thereby displays the moment of "naissance," or "having-been-born-as-an-ethico-political-subject." The last part of this dissertation, part five, distances itself from the academic or scholarly mode by revealing the underlying "dramatic" structure of this dissertation. As a re-reading of the reading of Ricoeur's work in parts two, three, and four, part five exposes a new dimension to the whole of this work; namely, an experiential one that concerns the current reader of the work and his or her cultural re-con-naissance
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Sellers, Jeff M. "New age or kingdom come? description and critique of the "new business spirituality" in light of a biblical spirituality of work /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2000. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0244.
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Ritter, Hans Walter. "Überlegungen zu ethischen Grundsätzen wirtschaftlichen Handelns Abwägung biblischer Begründungen evangelischer Ansätze zur Wirtschaftsethik : Beschreibende Untersuchung zur evangelischen Wirtschaftsethik /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions, 1996.Abstrakt. English title: Thoughts on ethical principles relating to business activities : a survey of biblical foundations of Christian approaches to business ethics. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [123]-129).
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Mben, Joseph. "Empowering Disempowered Working Women: A Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107972.
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Thesis advisor: Lisa Sowle CahillThe goal of this dissertation is to elaborate a contextual gendered African Christian social ethics that addresses the oppression and marginalization of working women in Africa. The author argues that in order to meet this goal, it is necessary to contextualize CST, to introduce a feminist hermeneutics along with works from African women theologians, to include African liberation theology and to add the analysis of the social sciences. The dissertation has four chapters. The first chapter presents how CST (Roman magisterium and African bishops) has tackled the issue of the empowerment of workers in general and that of women in particular in post-conciliar documents. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of CST. The following chapters address those weaknesses. The second chapter offers a systematic analysis of the condition of working women with the help of social sciences. The third chapter presents the theoretical components of a gendered African social ethics. The latter relies on African liberation theology, CST principles, and elements of feminist thought. The fourth chapter deepens the analysis of the notion of empowerment and suggests four concrete practices to empower working women, namely, socializing the feminine, the church’s conversion, biblical storytelling and partnering with other institutions
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Hamilton, Rex. "Ethics is theology, theology is ethics : atonement, moral formation, and the justification of Christian doctrine in the work of James Wm. McClendon, Jr." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2004. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU192141.
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This project examines the relationship of doctrine and moral formation or ethics in the work of James Wm. McClendon, Jr. The general thesis is that McClendon understood ethics to relate to doctrine in such a way that ethics constitutes a type of justification for the truthfulness of doctrinal confession. After introducing the logic for considering atonement and moral formation together in this manner, the project proceeds by explaining McClendon's "narrative" epistemology. This introductory material is followed by an examination of historical Anabaptism and "postmodernism" as communities of reference that contribute to McClendon's epistemological vision. The project then moves to an explication of McClendon's own presentation of the nature of doctrine (specifically the atonement) and ethics, primarily as seen in his three-volume systematic theology, followed by an analysis of McClendon's presentation of his own epistemological method from his book Convections. The final chapter before the Conclusion examines the way the material in the first 5 chapters is manifest in, and depends on, McClendon's sense of the nature of ecclesiology. The Conclusion then summarizes the argument and draws attention to several areas where McClendon's vision and methodology open to several critical questions. My conclusion is that McClendon's understanding of the nature of the atonement is manifest in his sense of the place and function of moral formation of the church, and that this relationship explains how McClendon understands Christian confession to be justifiably held by the Church.
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Pullen, Sansfacon Annie Marie. "Statutory social work, the voluntary sector and social action settings : a comparison of ethics." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4912.
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For decades, ethical issues have been seen as a problem throughout the social work profession, not just in the UK but also internationally. In the English context, the Care Standards Act 2000, which led to the establishment of the General Social Care Council, aimed to protect service users, employers and social workers/social care practitioners through the publication of codes of practice. As Strom-Gottfried and 0'Aprix (2006) have noted, however, the plethora of codes of ethics and codes of conduct have failed to address explicitly the issues faced by those regulated by them. Consequently, the actual situation in England remains the same: practitioners work in difficult situations that frequently result in ethical dilemmas, yet the guidance fails to address the actual complexity of the situations in which practitioners find themselves. The aim of this research was to investigate the expenences of practitioners In England working for statutory social services in comparison with those of practitioners from social action organisations and who work for the voluntary sector, in relation to their conduct, ethics and professional values. The methodological framework was based on Grounded Theory. The data were collected VIa focus groups, semi-structured interviews, semi-structured questionnaires and vignette-based interviews. Constant comparisons were made between sectors during the data analysis. The research was validated by intertriangulation and by communicative validation. The concept of power remained the sole category of the Grounded Theory process once the research had reached saturation. The key conclusion was that, by adopting a Foucaultian perspective, the "organisational context of work" is an expression of the power relationships that influence the ethical decision-making of social workers and social care practitioners. The concept of virtue ethics was introduced in the discussion of the data to counteract the effect of power felt by social workers and social care practitioners. The research concluded by proposing ways of incorporating the findings into the teaching of social work at the higher educational level and among qualified practitioners, emphasising the concept of practical reasoning (MacIntyre 1999) at the collective level.
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Ward, Michael J. "The development of spirituality and ethics in the work of Arthur Koestler, 1937-1959." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30890.
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This thesis examines the development of Arthur Koestler's ethics, from the publication of The Gladiators in 1939 to The Sleepwalkers twenty years later, drawing upon the extensive material within Edinburgh's Koestler Archive. Whereas his work has often been divided into "political" and "scientific" phases, this thesis adopts a unified approach based on the single hierarchical system that arose from Koestler's analysis of human freedom. The ethical trilogy - The Gladiators, Darkness At Noon and Arrival and Departure - revealed Koestler's continuing abhorrence of the deterministic philosophy he had espoused within the Communist Party. After his abandonment of revolutionary ethics, Koestler proposed an ethical hierarchy to understand the allegorical figures of his eponymous essay, The Yogi and the Commissar. Arthur Koestler viewed society as constantly shifting between the polar opposites of Yogi and Commissar. Hierarchical ethics sought to transcend both poles. What emerged was a more optimistic, life-enhancing ethic than has hitherto been acknowledged. The work of Richard Hillary, George Orwell and Michael Polanyi enabled Koestler to refine his theory, the outcome of which was evident in the 1946 League and the anti-hanging campaign a decade later.In his scientific writing, Koestler sought to understand the movement of individuals within the hierarchy. If scientific models could be utilised to explain moral and creative insight, he also became convinced, earlier than one might suppose, that the evolution of the human brain was the cause behind the failure of the species to ascend the ethical hierarchy. Biological factors alone do not account for the irrational ethic that survives Koestler's dystopic vision. The thesis presents evidence that this ethical system contains an essential spiritual element traceable to its author's mystical experience whilst imprisoned in Seville. Thus the principle underlying his work and aspirations for humankind, post-Hiroshima, is of a spiritual reality, the admission of which is necessary before a holistic working ethic can be embraced.
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Kälvemark, Sporrong Sofia. "Ethical Competence and Moral Distress in the Health Care Sector : A Prospective Evaluation of Ethics Rounds." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7493.
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Ongoing structural and financial changes in the health care sector have resulted in increased risks for ethical dilemmas and moral distress. It is purported that increased ethical competence will help staff manage ethical dilemmas and hence decrease moral distress. To enhance ethical competence several approaches may be used – theoretical education, and methods focusing on reflection and decision-making abilities.
Ethics rounds are a widespread systematic method hypothesized to improve ethical competence, nurture a reflective climate, and help in ethical decision-making. Despite its popularity, its effects on moral distress have hitherto never been evaluated in a controlled study.
The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate the impact of an intervention, including ethics rounds; the hypothesis being that the intervention would decrease perceived moral distress. An additional aim was exploring the concept of moral distress in various health care establishments, including pharmacies.
Focus groups were conducted to explore the concept of moral distress. To evaluate the intervention a scale assessing staff-perceived moral distress was designed, validated, and implemented.
Results showed that moral distress is evident in diverse health care settings. Some factors associated with this were lack of resources, conflicts of interest, and rules that are incompatible with practice. An expanded definition of moral distress was presented.
The training program was much appreciated by participants. However, no significant effects on perceived moral distress were found. Reasons could be that the intervention was too short or otherwise ineffective, there is no association between ethical competence and moral distress, the assessment scale was not sensitive enough, or management was not sufficiently involved.
There is a need to further refine the various aspects of ethical dilemmas in clinical settings, and to evaluate the most efficient means to enhance skills for dealing with ethical dilemmas, for the benefit of staff, patients, institutions, and society.
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Schindley, Wanda Beatrice Higbee. "Work in the calling in Max Weber's Protestant ethic thesis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2668/.
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Objectives. Scholars have debated Max Weber's theory of the relationship between religion and capitalism for almost 100 years. Still, the debate is clouded by confusion over Weber's claims about religious doctrine and over the supporting evidence. The purpose of this study is to clarify Max Weber's claims regarding the concept of the calling and the related "anti-mammon" injunction and concept of "good works" and substantiate with historical evidence the religious doctrine Weber describes. Methods. Comparative analysis of early Protestant Lutheran and Calvinist documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was used to flesh out a history of ideas to determine whether evidence exists to support Weber's claims related to religious doctrine. Results. Historical analyses revealed that the concept of the calling pre-dated Luther in the Bible. Luther's innovation was not in his use of the word beruf but in his application of the concept of the calling to the common people and his teaching of that idea. The idea of sanctified work was key in both Lutheran and Calvinist documents. There was an increased emphasis on work and encouragement to accumulate wealth in Calvinist documents. Conclusion. Weber's etymological evidence surrounding Martin Luther's use of the word beruf in his German translation of the bible is idiosyncratic and not important to the transmission of the concept of the calling. Luther's application of the concept of the calling to the laity and idea of sanctified work, however, is the foundation on which the Protestant ethic rests, as Weber claims. Weber's other claims regarding the concept of work in early Protestantism are also supported here. Weber did not overstate the implications for societal transformation in early Protestant theology.
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de, Dios Anjeline Eloisa J. "Crossing Boundaries : The Ethics of the Pubic/Private Divide in Migrant Domestic Work in Europe." Thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-19155.
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The central objective of this thesis is to demonstrate how the concept—or concepts—of the public/private divide actively shapes the conditions of migrant domestic work in Europe. In doing so, I aim to show how European states’ current treatment of migrant domestic work is ethically problematic, and that a sufficient moral response to this dilemma entails a re-evaluation of any operative notions of the public/private distinction.
The premise of my thesis is that migrants working as domestics suffer human rights abuses due to two distinct but inseparable factors: their gender-based mode of employment and their legal status. I will make the claim that states fail to prevent these abuses, and secure the conditions necessary for the fulfillment of migrants’ human rights, because they assume a morally problematic understanding of the public/private distinction.
In arguing for a re-evaluation of the public/private sphere, I will likewise propose that certain revisions be accordingly made in several levels and domains of legislation—regional and national, as well as labor and immigration. Less concrete, though no less important, is my contention that receiving and sending countries alike need to undertake a more profound re-examination of the moral status of domestic work, and, more fundamentally, care work itself.
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Roberts, Jane. "Ethics Adherence as a Predictor of Age Bias in Social Work Practice with Older Adults." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30031.
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The purpose of this study was the examination of age bias in social work professionals
who have direct and influential contact with a growing segment of the population:
older adults. Those who work most closely with older people may be at risk for
age bias, although much of the research on age bias has been conducted with students
rather than with those who work with older people. This study adds to the research
on prejudice; the sources from which attitudes, values, prejudices, and stereotypical
thinking arise were addressed. Key experiences with older individuals were found
to predict age bias. Because social work ethical principles closely align with
conditions known to reduce prejudice, it was hypothesized that higher ethics adherence
would be associated with less age bias. Specific experiential factors were found
to influence prejudice toward older people. Influences from family beliefs and
from television and other media were associated with a non-biased attitude, as
were influences from caregiving to older people. These sources of one's values
and beliefs about older individuals were also found to predict the extent of one's
knowledge of aging processes. Although ethics adherence was not a predictor of
age bias, the discovery of the influence of family beliefs, media portrayals,
and caregiving experiences revealed a need for awareness of ageist beliefs in
a professional population that works extensively with older adults.Ph. D.