Trustworthiness: a dialectical perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senthil Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Dialectical Perspective ◽  
Employee Disengagement

Abstract Trustworthiness is the core feature of the most productive and effective organizations. While the market value of an economic or business entity would mostly correspond to its trust-equity, however, an erosion of trust-equity will cause the market-value to nose dive. Studies have demonstrated that the ‘distrust’ or a ‘lack of trustworthiness’ can cost a business or government billions of dollars. Lack of trust within an organization can result in employee disengagement and organizational atrophy. An untrustworthy organization will not only alienate its employees, it will also cause damage to customer interests. In this article, we postulate how trustworthiness can act as a dialectical fulcrum between the diametrically opposing market/social forces within an economic/political organization—such as self-interest versus public good, cooperation versus competition, freedom versus control, labor versus capital, and production versus consumption.

scholarly journals Corporate Responsibility: In the Dilemma between Fake and Trust?

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 143-147
Author(s):  
Simon Fietze ◽  
Wenzel Matiaske ◽  
Roland Menges
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Market Organization ◽  
Corporate Social

The accusation of whitewashing accompanied the discussion about corporate social responsibility (CSR) since its inception the 1950s. That's not surprising. Ever since its beginnings in Scottish moral philosophy, economics did not expect the general good to be enhanced by the individual's social orientation, but rather by its self-interest, a concept less liable to disappointment, and the work of the invisible hand (Hirschman, 1977). The latter aims to promote a common goal that individuals have not intended. Following his famous text, Adam Smith (2007 [1786], p. 350) continues: ‘I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.’ The ‘mistrust’ of the ‘goodwill’ of the capitalist lives on in various streams such as Marxism, (neo-)liberalism or sociological system theory, to name but a few schools of thought. Marxists do not expect societal progress any more than (neo-)liberals from benevolent capitalists who, demand more taxable profits, instead of social responsibility, in the framework of the market organization of companies. System theorists find that ethical demands are hardly transferable directly into the economy code of payment/non-payment. Although Adam Smith (2007 [1786], p. 350) shared the view that the claim of public good orientation is ‘indeed, not very common among merchants’, but that ‘very few words need to be employed in dissuading them from it.’

Revisiting Bolivian “Progressivism”: The Anticommunalism of the Plurinational State

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 148-162
Author(s):  
Huáscar Salazar Lohman
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Social

As the Bolivian government adopts increasingly conservative and authoritarian features, a policy meant to boost capitalist extractivism is becoming increasingly evident. This should be understood not as the end of a “progressive” government but as the consolidation of a new structure of state power sustained by an anticommunal stance that has involved a redefinition of the government’s alliance with the ruling classes and the systematic dismantling of the social forces that are now struggling to reappropriate political prerogatives in arenas of political organization unrelated to the state. A medida que el gobierno boliviano adopta características cada vez más conservadoras y autoritarias, se ha hecho cada vez más evidente una política destinada a impulsar el extractivismo capitalista. Esto no debe entenderse como el fin de un gobierno “progresista”, sino como la consolidación de una nueva estructura de poder estatal sostenida en una postura anticomunitaria que implica una redefinición de la alianza entre el gobierno y las clases dominantes, así como el desmantelamiento sistemático de las fuerzas sociales que ahora luchan por la reapropiación de prerrogativas políticas desde ámbitos no estatales de organización política.

The destruction of Hazor: Israelite history and the construction of history in Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-278
Author(s):  
Brendon C Benz
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Model ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Amarna Letters ◽  
Over Time

The present study presents an alternative model of pre-monarchic Israel’s political organization in tandem with an investigation into the role of place in the preservation of memory that explains how and why the tradition of Hazor’s demise was included in the Bible. Corresponding to the type of decentralized political organization attested in the Amarna letters, the core narratives in Judges depict Israel as a confederation of independent entities whose concerns revolved around local affairs. As the identity of Israel evolved over time, the memories of the most significant of these affairs were retained, often with the aid of material remains in the familiar landscape. The apparent injunction against building over Hazor’s 13th century palace ruins during Israel’s subsequent occupation and the inclusion of Hazor’s destruction from competing perspectives in the Bible suggest that it was an important event in Israel’s history, even if the entirety of Israel was not involved.

Electronic Surveillance for the Public Good

2007 ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
Liz Lee-Kelley ◽  
Ailsa Kolsaker
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Electronic Surveillance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

The central government in the UK is determined to employ new surveillance technology to combat the threat of terrorist activities. This chapter contributes to the important debate on the relationship between citizens and the government, by discussing not whether electronic surveillance should be used, but rather, when it is acceptable to the populace. From our analysis, we conclude that a reconciliation of state-interest and self-interest is critical for the success of e-governance; as such, electronic surveillance’s mission has to be about serving the law-abiding majority and their needs, and its scope and benefits must be clearly understood by the visionaries, implementers and the citizenry.

scholarly journals RELATIVE LOCALITY IN CURVED SPACETIME

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (22) ◽  
pp. 1350101 ◽  
Author(s):  
JERZY KOWALSKI-GLIKMAN ◽  
GIACOMO ROSATI
Keyword(s):  
Momentum Space ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Curved Spacetime ◽  
Soccer Ball ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Space Curvature ◽  
Curvature Deformation ◽  
Ball Problem

In this paper we construct the action describing dynamics of the particle moving in curved spacetime, with a nontrivial momentum space geometry. Curved momentum space is the core feature of theories where relative locality effects are present. So far aspects of nonlinearities in momentum space have been studied only for flat or constantly expanding (de Sitter) spacetimes, relying on their maximally symmetric nature. The extension of curved momentum space frameworks to arbitrary spacetime geometries could be relevant for the opportunities to test Planck-scale curvature/deformation of particles momentum space. As a first example of this construction we describe the particle with κ-Poincaré momentum space on a circular orbit in Schwarzschild spacetime, where the contributes of momentum space curvature turn out to be negligible. The analysis of this problem relies crucially on the solution of the soccer ball problem.

Mood Experience: Implications of a Dispositional Theory of Moods

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Siemer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Results ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Feature

The core feature that distinguishes moods from emotions is that moods, in contrast to emotions, are diffuse and global. This article outlines a dispositional theory of moods (DTM) that accounts for this and other features of mood experience. DTM holds that moods are temporary dispositions to have or to generate particular kinds of emotion-relevant appraisals. Furthermore, DTM assumes that the cognitions and appraisals one is disposed to have in a given mood partly constitute the experience of mood. This article outlines a number of implications of DTM (e.g., regarding the noncognitive causation and rationality of moods) and summarizes empirical results supporting the theory.

scholarly journals Private production of a public good in the information age

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 111-123
Author(s):  
Peter Zweifel ◽  
Xian XU
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Rare Event ◽  
Probability Of Detection ◽  
The Core ◽  
Good Deed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Type

The objective of this contribution is to model the behaviour of IT specialists who engage in open source activity while on the job thus privately provide a public good. Both the regular and the social types are assumed to be interested in income and leisure; however, for the social types effective leisure is enhanced by the number of external users, which enhances their intrinsic motivation because the ‘good deed’ can be made known to millions worldwide. The core finding is that contrary to the regular ones, social type may defy the threat of the employer (higher probability of detection, size of the sanction if detected) by engaging in more rather than less open source work, provided the number of external user is high enough. This finding suggests that the information age may facilitate the private production of a public good. The originality of this contribution lies in the prediction that certain type of workers may act against contractual incentives – a rare event in economics.

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