On the Road to an Encyclopedic Schema of Ethical Management: A Concoction of Multifarious Vedantic Philosophies

Think India ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Shivaji Banerjee ◽  
Shaunak Roy
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
The Road ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Face ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Ethical Vision ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Pragmatic Ethics

The past couple of chiliads have incalculably borne testimony to philosophical contemplation, which have steered the ethical practices of business and management. The presented content is thus, ingrained on the roots of the premise that values and ethics are as germane as skills for the effectual management of organisations. Globally competitive, domestically indispensable and sustainable are those enterprises, which in the long run nurture the seeds of pragmatic ethics and canonical human values. The authors engage in a scholarly discourse to put together a holistic perspective of Vedantic ethical vision, springing from the roots of the pietistic Bhagavad Gita, and in so doing, validate the practical relevance of these principles to the substantive realm of business. This would unequivocally unveil the depths of ethical behaviour, which in all societies is persisting in going to seed. Momentous acumens on the subject of an enriched business that focuses on altering the face of organisational culture, hence zeroing in on vaster expansiveness and ethical chastity have also been shed valuable light on. The pursuit of this goal by bureaucrats and policymakers embraces the key to integral ethicality and sustainability by living out the ‘nyay’ and the ‘niti’.

scholarly journals THE PENETRATION OF ENGINEERING BY ECONOMICS: McFADDEN AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ROAD DEMAND ESTIMATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-278
Author(s):  
Ariane Dupont-Kieffer ◽  
Sylvie Rivot ◽  
Jean-Loup Madre
Keyword(s):  
Road Network ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Demand Estimation ◽  
Demand Modeling ◽  
The Road ◽  
Collective Decisions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The 1960S

The golden age of road demand modeling began in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in the face of major road construction needs. These macro models, as well as the econometrics and the data to be processed, were provided mainly by engineers. A division of tasks can be observed between the engineers in charge of estimating the flows within the network and the transport economists in charge of managing these flows once they are on the road network. Yet the inability to explain their decision-making processes and individual drives gave some room to economists to introduce economic analysis, so as to better understand individual or collective decisions between transport alternatives. Economists, in particular Daniel McFadden, began to offer methods to improve the measure of utility linked to transport and to inform the engineering approach. This paper explores the challenges to the boundaries between economics and engineering in road demand analysis.

Grasshopper theology: Heading to the Promised Land instead of climate disaster

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-416
Author(s):  
Brooks Berndt
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
The Road ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Climate Crisis

Today’s climate crisis provokes dystopian and utopian narratives of the future faced by humanity. To navigate the theological terrain between the present and an uncertain future, this article explores passages pertaining to the journey of Moses and the Israelites to the Promised Land. The guiding point of orientation for this exploration comes from a verse that captures the seeming powerlessness of the Israelites in the face of the giants inhabiting the Promised Land. Numbers 13:33 reads, “To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” Of crucial importance in coming to terms with such honest self-assessment is the period of discernment and growth that comes from being in the wilderness with the presence of a God who loves and empowers grasshoppers in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Because the future of the Body of Christ is inseparable from how the climate crisis is confronted, the journey through the wilderness becomes not merely a story for self-coping but rather a story about churches finding a way forward, even as some dystopian narratives place churches on the road to irrelevance and ultimately extinction. This article explores how the story of exodus provides a sacred ground for imagining a different, even if difficult, future.

Reaganomics: A Watershed Moment on the Road to Trumpism

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Komlos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Road ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Class A ◽  
Long Run ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Trump Administration

Abstract The socio-economic impact of Reaganomics and its long-run deleterious legacy is documented. The empirical evidence indicates that the tax cuts of 1981 and 1986 failed to have an effect on economic growth. GDP did snap back to its potential but did not accelerate beyond the rates achieved in prior or subsequent decades. The supposed incentives of supply-side economics failed to materialize. People did not work more, they did not save or invest more than they did before, and the benefits trickled down like molasses and got stuck at the very top of the income distribution. Reagan’s presidency was a watershed in US economic development in the sense that it reversed many of the accomplishments of the New Deal and inaugurated an era in which low-skilled men’s wages began a long period of decline. His true legacy is a dual economy that accompanied the hollowing out of the middle class, a more business-friendly regulatory framework for Wall Street that ultimately led to the financial crisis, a stupendous increase in the national debt from 30% to 50% of GDP that put it on a path such that by 2012 it exceeded 100%, anti-statism that contributed to the rise of Trumpism, a remarkable rise in inequality that gave rise to an oligarchy, and the neglect of blue-collar workers who eventually became Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables.” Reagan put the economy on a trajectory that ultimately, even if not inevitably, led to the triumph of Trumpism and an economy of malaise [Johnston, David Cay, 2018. It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America. New York: Simon & Schuster.].

CONTENTIOUS ELITES IN CHINA: NEW EVIDENCE AND APPROACHES

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor C. Shih
Keyword(s):  
Committee Member ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
The Road ◽  
Elite Politics ◽  
Elite Level ◽  
The Face ◽  
On The Road ◽  
New Evidence

The purges of former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, former Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Xu Caihou, and the former head of the Central Committee Office Ling Jihua in 2014 re-excited a long-standing debate in the field of elite Chinese politics: how contentious is politics at the elite level? On the face of it, these purges, as well as the arrests of ninety nine senior officials associated with these three individuals and with other cases, seem to prove that elite politics remains highly contentious at the top (People's Daily 2015). This outcome was surprising considering that decades of institution building had taken place after the Cultural Revolution. However, proponents of institutionalized politics in the CCP argue that the leadership had a genuine desire to clean house, and that these arrests, even if politically motivated, instilled a renewed discipline in the party. Once the “bad apples” were eliminated, the leadership under Xi Jinping would have continued on the road of institutionalization (Li 2014). Cadre promotion institutions, regular meetings of the Politburo and its standing committee, party congresses, and retirement rules remain largely unaffected by the purges and will continue to ensure relatively harmonious decision making and predictable successions in the foreseeable future.

Optimizing Opportunities for Brain Injury Survivors

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-73
Author(s):  
Rohn Kessler ◽  
Paco
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Face ◽  
On The Road

In this paper, the authors (a doctor and his patient) share their complex journey into cognitive rehabilitation and a relationship that propels healing in the face of complexity against all odds. The patient came to S.O.G. unable to walk, with unclear speech and cognitive deficits but nothing could stop the indomitable resolve that spearheaded his recovery after 2 months in a coma. The patient was to blossom as a writer, an artist and a patient volunteer. His insights and skills were gently mentored by the doctor as they traveled together on the road to success and healing. This is their story.

The Troubling Persistence of Race in Pharmacogenomics

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 873-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Genomic Medicine ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
The Road ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The Face ◽  
Friedrich Engels ◽  
On The Road

In 1878, Friedrich Engels famously wrote that on the road to realizing the communist utopia, “the state is not abolished, it withers away.” In a similar manner, biomedical researchers telling us that come the promised land of individualized genomic medicine, the need for using race will also “wither away” in the face of scientific progress. Such millennial hopes are, no doubt, sincere, but they enable the continued casual proliferation of racial categories throughout biomedical research, product development, marketing, and clinical practice. My contrasting quotation to frame this article is drawn from the 20th century pioneer of rock and roll, Buddy Holly (né Charles Hardin Holley) whose 1957 hit “Not Fade Away” begins with the line, “I’m gonna tell you how it's gonna be” — the point being that far from withering away, race is persisting even as genomic milestones are being reached and passed.

scholarly journals On the Road to the Word

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
Olha Derkachova
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
The Face ◽  
On The Road

In Moral Letters to Lucilius, Seneca wrote: “It was once more simple because men's sins were on a smaller scale, and could be cured with but slight trouble; in the face, however, of all this moral topsy-turvy men must leave no remedy untried. And would that this pest might so at last be overcome! We are mad, not only individually, but nationally.”

Part-Task Simulation Training of Drivers' Passing Judgments

1973 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lucas ◽  
Norman Heimstra ◽  
Douglas Spiegel
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Training ◽  
Training Session ◽  
The Road ◽  
Oncoming Vehicle ◽  
The Face ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Task Simulation ◽  
Lead Vehicle

Subjects were pretested in an on-the-road situation requiring that they estimate the last possible moment for safely passing a lead vehicle in the face of an oncoming vehicle. The subjects were then exposed to a number of filmed scenes and again required to estimate the last possible safe moment for passing. Half the subjects received feedback concerning the accuracy of their estimates while the others did not. A posttest conducted on the road showed that there was a significant improvement in the performance of the group that had received feedback during the training session.

Blue Collar Brawlers and Harley Vagabonds: Masculinity in the Tavern and on the Road

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Melcher
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Public Space ◽  
White Men ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Face ◽  
Motorcycle Clubs ◽  
On The Road

Outlaw motorcycle clubs, such as the Hells Angels, provide a modern interpretation of male working-class culture. Most notably, 19th century working-class taverns and fraternal orders can be seen as forerunners to the culture of outlaw motorcycle clubs, or ‘bikers.’ Within the confines of these spaces, men were able not only to learn male behaviour from others, but to reinforce their own masculinity through ritualized acts, such as drinking, singing, and fighting, resulting in an earned image for the culture and the space as one of violence, filth, and danger to those outside of the culture. This cultural reputation has carried over into the modern context of bikers. Originally formed to provide an adventurous outlet to, predominantly, young white men, biker culture has now become a complex and powerful subculture and image. Where early tavern culture was practiced largely in private, biker culture is defined and practiced in the public space, reinforcing its own reputation and image in the process. Despite, or perhaps because, of this public image, bikers have become deeply rooted in our collective subconscious, and represent, to some, a modern reinterpretation of the lone cowboy, making their own society in the face of all challenges. Bikers provide a modern examination of gendered spaces and masculinity. They have an element of danger and homosocial activities that make them particularly appealing to men looking for a masculine identity within a culture that they otherwise found less than welcoming – and which, in turn, did not welcome them.

Police Academy in Szczytno, Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-283
Author(s):  
Paweł Musiał
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Police Academy ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Face ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Bad Weather ◽  
Modern Technologies

Traffic accidents are a very common cause of death or disability in people. They usually involve users of various vehicles on the road or pedestrians. They are also among the main problems of public health in Poland. Accidents cause many human tragedies every year. Every day, many people die on Polish roads for many different reasons. The motorcycle season tends to change its time-frame from year to year, taking the form of a year-round. Recklessness, non-compliance with road rules, excessive speed, bad weather conditions and mistakes made by car drivers cause many traffic accidents that involve motorcyclists. They result in severe multi-organ trauma or instant death of the victims. Modern technologies designed to improve the safety of motorcycles as well as the protections used in helmets and protective clothing are helpless in the face of traffic accident mechanisms. The author analyzed the data obtained from the Police Headquarters Road Traffic Department, showing the number of road incidents involving motorcyclists in 2019. The material shows the scale of accidents broken down into causes, number of road incidents in individual months and age of the perpetrators. The references to data from previous years show the problem of accidents on Polish roads and the position of Poland in the European statistics as a country with a high percentage of fatalities in traffic accidents.

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