Self-Awareness

2018 ◽  
pp. 860-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
A Company

The purpose of this chapter is to provide managers and employees with ways to internalize ethical behavior in a company. One of the ways to strengthen the effectiveness of management is to give managers the necessary tools that will enable employees of the post-modern age to internalize moral principles and ideas and to understand what is acceptable and what is prohibited. This theory relies on Wolf's (2008, 2013a) claim that man can be trained to be self-aware as the first step toward actual ethical conduct. Her approach is based on the principles of the humanist approach, which maintains that people are endowed with an “ethical sense” and wisdom as well as with the ability to correct their behavior and to choose their own course of action. This chapter utilizes the foundations and principles of this approach to explain what motivates a person to behave morally.

Self-Awareness

2015 ◽  
pp. 147-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
A Company

The purpose of this chapter is to provide managers and employees with ways to internalize ethical behavior in a company. One of the ways to strengthen the effectiveness of management is to give managers the necessary tools that will enable employees of the post-modern age to internalize moral principles and ideas and to understand what is acceptable and what is prohibited. This theory relies on Wolf's (2008, 2013a) claim that man can be trained to be self-aware as the first step toward actual ethical conduct. Her approach is based on the principles of the humanist approach, which maintains that people are endowed with an “ethical sense” and wisdom as well as with the ability to correct their behavior and to choose their own course of action. This chapter utilizes the foundations and principles of this approach to explain what motivates a person to behave morally.

Akrasia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Steward
Keyword(s):  
Intentional Action ◽  
General Term ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Weakness Of Will ◽  
Philosophy Of Action ◽  
Moral Philosopher ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Course Of Action

The Greek word ‘akrasia’ is usually said to translate literally as ‘lack of self-control’, but it has come to be used as a general term for the phenomenon known as weakness of will, or incontinence, the disposition to act contrary to one’s own considered judgment about what it is best to do. Since one variety of akrasia is the inability to act as one thinks right, akrasia is obviously important to the moral philosopher, but it is also frequently discussed in the context of philosophy of action. Akrasia is of interest to philosophers of action because although it seems clear that it does occur – that people often do act in ways which they believe to be contrary to their own best interests, moral principles or long-term goals – it also seems to follow from certain apparently plausible views about intentional action that akrasia is simply not possible. A famous version of the suggestion that genuine akrasia cannot exist is found in Socrates, as portrayed by Plato in the Protagoras. Socrates argues that it is impossible for a person’s knowledge of what is best to be overcome by such things as the desire for pleasure – that one cannot choose a course of action which one knows full well to be less good than some alternative known to be available. Anyone who chooses to do something which is in fact worse than something they know they could have done instead, must, according to Socrates, have wrongly judged the relative values of the actions.

Data mining: an ethical baseline for online privacy policies

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D Dean ◽  
Dinah M Payne ◽  
Brett J.L. Landry
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Online Privacy ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Thoughtful Discussion

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advocate for and provide guidance for the development of a code of ethical conduct surrounding online privacy policies, including those concerning data mining. The hope is that this research generates thoughtful discussion on the issue of how to make data mining more effective for the business stakeholder while at the same time making it a process done in an ethical way that remains effective for the consumer. The recognition of the privacy rights of data mining subjects is paramount within this discussion. Design/methodology/approach – The authors derive foundational principles for ethical data mining. First, philosophical literature on moral principles is used as the theoretical foundation. Then, using existing frameworks, including legislation and regulations from a range of jurisdictions, a compilation of foundational principles was derived. This compilation was then evaluated and honed through the integration of stakeholder perspective and the assimilation of moral and philosophical precepts. Evaluating a sample of privacy policies hints that current practice does not meet the proposed principles, indicating a need for changes in the way data mining is performed. Findings – A comprehensive framework for the development a contemporary code of conduct and proposed ethical practices for online data mining was constructed. Research limitations/implications – This paper provides a configuration upon which a code of ethical conduct for performing data mining, tailored to meet the particular needs of any organization, can be designed. Practical implications – The implications of data mining, and a code of ethical conduct regulating it, are far-reaching. Implementation of such principles serve to improve consumer and stakeholder confidence, ensure the enduring compliance of data providers and the integrity of its collectors, and foster confidence in the security of data mining. Originality/value – Existing legal mandates alone are insufficient to properly regulate data mining, therefore supplemental reference to ethical considerations and stakeholder interest is required. The adoption of a functional code of general application is essential to address the increasing proliferation of apprehension regarding online privacy.

scholarly journals Storia di un paradosso. Il mito di Giorgio Luti in Età Moderna

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-281
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Manenti
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
A Company

The essay resumes, with new historical sources, the research concerning the biography of the Sienese Jesuat Giorgio Luti, the prophecy of 1491 attributed to him and the exegetical evolution of this text in the Modern Age, published in Giorgio Luti da Siena a Lucca. Il viaggio di un mito fra Umanesimo e Controriforma, Siena, Accademia degli Intronati (Monografie di storia e letteratura senese, XV) 2008. The essay is divided into two parts. The first is a study of historical sources on Giorgio Luti in the Venetian area. The second part is dedicated to the study of historians from Lucca who lived between the XVI and XVIII centuries: Gherardo Sergiusti, Giovanni Cividale, Giuseppe Bonafede and Giovanni Domenico Mansi. They paid attention to the content of the Sienese prophecy for the description about wars and devastation of the Towers of Lucca, the conversion of Islamic peoples to Christianity, thanks to a company of Lucca men and women, attributing a meaning of political pacification and religious palingenesis. Overall, however, the evolution of the myth about Giorgio Luti, paradoxically, reflects in particulary the identity crisis of the Jesuats between the XV and XVI centuries.

scholarly journals The Strategic Potential Formation of the Security-Oriented Development of an Enterprise

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (46) ◽  
pp. 256-264
Author(s):  
R. P. Shkreben ◽  
◽  
M. V. Kharnam ◽  
I. P. Otenko ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
A Company

The development of information economy, Ukraine’s integration into the world economic space, globalization processes and the resulting increase in competition exacerbate the problem of high-quality and efficient management of business processes at industrial enterprises. The necessity to increase the scale of high-tech production, to expand the range of innovative products and new requirements for their quality, cause attention focusing on the processes of forming the strategic potential of enterprises, namely, learning and finding new strategic opportunities, implementing organizational forms and tools, creating conditions for sustainable innovation and security-oriented development of domestic enterprises. The formation of strategic potential as an object of development management begins at the stage of intentions emergence and goals selection. Strategies, mechanisms (coordination, training, regulation, preservation and protection), organizational methods, forms of strategic management of economic security, as well as methods of selecting and coordinating adaptive measures that meet the guidelines of enterprise development are the strategic tools for security-oriented enterprise development. The division of development security strategies into types includes, first of all, the types of passive and active strategic behavior of an enterprise in the market. Passive survival strategies use available opportunities and are a typical course of action for a company in a stable and predictable environment; this "passivity" is determined by the fact that a company does not try to influence the external environment. Active survival strategies are aimed at actively searching for enterprise opportunities and effectively using them, and are implemented through transforming the internal structure of an enterprise and using complex strategic forms of behavior in the market. Strategies of actively influencing the external environment are realized through actively searching for new opportunities for innovative enterprise development and creating them.

scholarly journals Mission statements of universities worldwide: Text mining and visualization

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julián David Cortés Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
University Planning ◽  
Private And Public

Purpose: To conduct a transnational study of universities’ mission statements (MS) through content analysis to identify characteristics related to language (e.g. number of words, the most and least frequently used words) and if those characteristics are related to universities’ location, size, focus, research output, age band and status (i.e. private or public). Design/methodology/approach: Content analysis by using Voyant Tools.Findings: The main results showed: (1) a necessity for self-awareness; (2) an overall emphasis on society and students, as stakeholders; (3) there were no discernible similarities in terms between firms and universities; (4) MS tend to be longer in universities from Asia and shorter from Europe; (5) the absence of quantitative elements; (6) small universities prioritized knowledge over research; (7) the youngest universities tend to use more of the least frequently used terms; (8) public universities emphasized students and private universities emphasized education; and (9) the private sector has a noticeable interest in the society and the public sector on community.Research limitations/implications: Sub-samples of certain regions should more inclusive in further studies. Considering that the mean sample of MS studies was 89.6, this study used a sample more than two times larger. Although, the African (4) and Latin-American (5) samples were not significant compared with European (94) or North American (79) subsamples. Thus, further studies should consider a more-inclusive ranking in research databases than the QS world university ranking.Practical implications: University planning offices can use these results and the digital database to construct a global outlook on MS trends or uncommonly used terms to define the purpose of their university and future course of action, embrace an overall isomorphism, or seek a distinctive strategy to differentiate their institution from others. In addition, this research can be used by strategic planning scholars to conduct regionally or nationally focused studies.Social Implications: Universities’ MS serve as public pronouncements of their purpose, ambition, and values. In this study, we presented and analyzed the contents of those purposes, in which mission-oriented universities, some of them as global influencers, seek to perform in multiple levels of importance for every country (i.e. education, research, and services with both private and public sectors and the community).Originality/value: Most of the previous studies are restricted to national contexts and based on reduced samples with no open access digital data. In this study we considered a wide sample of universities from Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and Africa; and delivered a digital open access database of MS from those universities.

Applied geoethics: CITI199’s essays from the Austral University of Chile

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandor Mulsow ◽  
Beatriz Barrales ◽  
Nicolas Espinoza ◽  
Magdalena Flandez ◽  
Leandro Ledezma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Life Process ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Common ◽  
Biological Environment ◽  
The University ◽  
Maximum Expression

<p>Geoethics is a term that describes the internal knowledge of values ​​which must be reflected in the interaction with other people and with the physical and biological environment that surrounds us.</p><p>When talking about ethics or specifically geoethics, exact definitions are sought which always seem to be short and very difficult to write in a sentence. One of the reasons may be is that it is about minimizing a life process to a noun, adjective or adverb. "It is a life process," is an awareness of the maximum expression of that part that we call human, internal, which maintains a balanced posture. This self-awareness is essential since it allows to relate to the environment (including peers) in the same way, tolerant, dignified, respectful humanly and environmentally speaking</p><p>In 2020, during the pandemic, we have undertaken a challenge at our University by teaching a course on Geoethics in Earth Sciences (CITI199). This course was designed following the general guidelines of IAPG. The adaptation to the Chilean reality was given by the same students. After assimilating the bases of ethics, values ​​and moral principles, through the interventions of anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and native peoples, we have generated 2 unpublished activities in Chile, a student survey on the state of knowledge of geoethics in the School of Geology and applied the geoethical foundations in the daily life of Chile.</p><p>In this series of presentations we report the results and analysis of the survey and recommendations to continue with the process of offering the university community the value of having an initial geoethical position in professional development. Later in the session, 4 situations in which society interacts with the environment from a geoethical perspective are evaluated and analyzed: 1) degradation and use of soils, 2) massive production of exotic salmon, 3) use of fresh water and 4 ) privatization of the common heritage of humanity in international waters.</p>

The Role of Character in Business Ethics

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin M. Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Psychological Explanation ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Technical Terms

Abstract:There is good reason to take a virtue-based approach to business ethics. Moral principles are fairly useful in assessing actions, but understanding how moral people behave and how they become moral requires reference to virtues, some of which are important in business. We must go beyond virtues and refer to character, of which virtues are components, to grasp the relationship between moral assessment and psychological explanation. Virtues and other character traits are closely related to (in technical terms, they supervene on) personality traits postulated by personality psychologists. They may therefore be featured in respectable psychological explanations. But good character fits no familiar psychological pattern. A person of good character is sufficiently self-aware and rational that his or her virtues are not accompanied by the vices that psychologists find usually associated with them. A course in business ethics can help develop this self-awareness, which a good life in business requires.

Hegel's Occasional Writings: State and Individual

1983 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-208
Author(s):  
Peter J. Steinberger
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Basic Task ◽  
Personal Morality ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

Perhaps the most basic and enduring theme in political philosophy is that which concerns the inherent tension between individual values and social values. Indeed, the task of reconciling, in thought, the individual and social is virtually a definition of political philosophy. Of course, in much secondary work, and some primary work as well, this basic task often gets lost in a maze of more particular considerations, including the analysis of moral principles and the elaboration of special institutional arrangements or particular causal patterns. Nonetheless, major theorists, virtually without exception, have recognized that the basic individual values (e.g., freedom, privacy, personal morality) may well be politically undesirable and, similarly, that the requirements of political life (e.g., order, obedience, ethical behavior) may significantly compromise individual goals.

scholarly journals ETHICAL NORMSIN THE ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC SERVICE ENTITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-131
Author(s):  
VESELOV Mykola ◽  
YEPRYNTSEV Pylyp
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
To Receive

Background. The choice of the topic of the article is dictated by the presence of significant theoretical problems and the need to improve the understanding and legal definition of the principle and rules of ethical behaviorin the activities of public service entities in Ukraine. The aim of the article is to obtain new scientific results in the form of substantiated conclusions and proposals for solving current theoretical, applied and legal problems of determining the principle and rules of ethical behaviorin the activities of public service entities in Ukraine. Materials and methods. The empirical basis of the study were legal acts of legislation of Ukraine and some other countries, scientific works of other scholars in the field of administrative law. Thanks to a combination of general scientific and special methods of cognition it was possible to process the specified empirical material and to receive own scientific conclusions. Results. It is noted that there is no clear definition and common understanding of the concept of the principle of ethical conduct of public service entities in the Ukrainian legislation. It is stated that the normative consolidation of ethical norms for different categories of public service entities in Ukraine takes place mainly at the by-law level and has a sectoral nature. It is established that the terms «principle of ethical conduct» and «rules of ethical conduct» are interdependent concepts, but not identical. Conclusion. According to the results of the research, the author’s vision is given to the concepts of «principle of ethical behavior» and «rules of ethical behavior». It is emphasized that the provisions of the Codes of Ethics or the Code of Ethics should also include requirements that would regulate the conduct of the public service entity in the off-hours. The necessity of unification of basic principles of public service in profile laws is substantiated, which should be reflected in general provisions of branch Rules and Codes of ethics together with special norms which will embody specificity of this or that public activity. Keywords: public service, the subject of public service, principles of activity, ethical behavior, rules, norms.

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