The Crisis in Professionalism and the Need for a Normative Approach

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Gerrit Glas
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
Working Processes

This chapter analyzes the crisis in professionalism from a historical and conceptual point of view. It describes the development of professional practices as part of the process of modernization (i.e., the rationalization of working processes and the increasing division and specialization of labor). This process was successful, but has also been accompanied by tendencies to bureaucracy, alienation, meaninglessness, and dehumanization. The chapter describes a set of desiderata for a conceptual framework that successfully avoids these pitfalls and sketches how a so-called normative practice approach could provide a conceptual and normative framework that enables professionals to disentangle and remedy the tensions and ambivalences within their professional practices.

Corporate Communication

2019 ◽  
pp. 231-249
Author(s):  
Jan van der Stoep ◽  
Peter Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Public Trust ◽  
Corporate Communication ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Car Exhaust ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
Volkswagen Group ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
To Come ◽  
Specific Duty

In September 2015, it appeared that the Volkswagen Group had circumvented the rules for testing diesel car exhaust gases. Although the organization presents itself as eco-friendly, it used a “default device” for diesel cars to produce less CO2 during test situations. Due to this kind of scandal, corporate communication is often associated with greenwashing and the manipulation of minds. Using the normative practice approach, the authors introduce some basic distinctions that may help to come to a better understanding of what the specific duty and responsibility of communication professionals is. They argue that corporate communication stands or falls with public trust. Building confidence and public legitimation is the main task of communication professionals. Although communication is about the construction of a communal world, that does not mean that framing and strategic reasoning are not important. In order to bring in a legitimate point of view, one has to present this point of view in an impactful way. Communication professionals have to balance between the interests of the organization and the requirements of public legitimation. They also have to make convincingly clear how their personal biography and the narrative of the organization are interrelated.

Professional Practices and User Practices: An Explorative Study in Health Care

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten J. Verkerk ◽  
Fred C. Holtkamp ◽  
Eveline J.M. Wouters ◽  
Joost van Hoof
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Present System ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
Care System

In Western countries the health care system faces numerous challenges. We explore the potential of the normative practice approach to analyze the present system, to provide new insights in the redesign of the health care network, and to offer new concepts to understand the needs and wishes of patients. We present a case study of assistive devices in orthopaedics. This article shows that the Triple I variant of the practice model is very fruitful to understand the organizational embedding of professional practices, to understand the health care system as chains of professional practices, and to understand the influence of stakeholders. In this study we introduce the idea of user practices to investigate the social environment of patients and to make the needs and wishes of patients explicit.

TRANSLATION OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TERMINOLOGY OF CHINESE LANGUAGE AS A PROCESS OF NORMATIVE PRACTICE IN CONTEXT MODELS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-182
Author(s):  
Saodat Nosirova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
Context Models

The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the socio -political terminology of the modern Chinese language.The purpose of the article is to search for an integrated approach to the study of the cognitive side of social and political terms of the Chinese language from the point of view of law enforcement in the process of translating official materials from Chinese into Uzbek and / or Russian and vice versa

scholarly journals Linking the spare parts management with the total costs of ownership: An agenda for future research

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orlando Duran ◽  
Irene Roda ◽  
Marco Macchi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Spare Parts Management ◽  
Physical Asset

Purpose: This manuscript explores the link between Spare Parts Management and Total Costs of Ownership or Life Cycle Costs (LCC).Design/methodology/approach: First, this work enumerates the different managerial decisions instances in spare parts management that are present during the life cycle of a physical asset. Second, we analyse how those decision instances could affect the TCO of a physical asset (from the economic point of view). Finally, we propose a conceptual framework for incorporating the spare parts management into a TCO model.Findings: The recent literature lacks discussions on the integration of spare parts management with the Total Costs of Ownership (TCO). Based in an extensive literature revision we can declare that the computation of costs related to spare parts management has been neglected by TCO models.Originality/value: The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, a literature review and identification of a series of spare parts management decision instances and its relationship with TCOs is presented in this paper. Second, a conceptual framework is suggested for linking those decisions instances to a total cost of ownership perspective. Some research questions and future research challenges are presented at the end of this work.

scholarly journals The problem of studying the Montenegrin legislation of the early 20th century: normative and sociological approaches

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-282
Author(s):  
Varvara B. Khlebnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Legal Science ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Legislative Activities

The author of the article considers the development of Montenegrin law in the 19th - early 20th centuries and tries to assess the results of the legislative activities of the Montenegrin authorities, that issued new regulations and carried out large-scale codification work on regular basis. From the point of view of the normative approach, widely used in legal science, these activities seemed quite successful; the laws that met urgent needs of the state's development were created within short periods of time. However according to the sociological approach, one has to admit that the significant part of Montenegrin legislation was just a formality and was hardly implemented in practice.

Freedom of Association as a Core Labor Right and the ILO: Toward a Normative Framework

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faina Milman-Sivan
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Labor Right

Freedom of association operates as an organizational "meta-norm," appreciated both as an independent value and as a touchstone for the institutional design of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Despite the renewed interest of the ILO in various aspects of the norm, its understanding of freedom of association lacks a comprehensive normative framework. This article presents such a conceptual framework and a critical in-depth analysis of current ILO freedom of association jurisprudence. Freedom of association should be understood in terms of equitable dialogue (ED), a term offered and developed herein, as an understanding that is already partly embedded in ILO jurisprudence.

scholarly journals Towards a human-centred approach for enhancing place prosperity: defining and operating within the basic human needs

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisha Abubakar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
Basic Human Needs ◽  
Context Specific

PurposeThe concept of basic human needs, though diversely interpreted, remains a policy and practice approach to combat poverty and improve wellbeing. Meanwhile, defining locally sensitive basic needs to support context-specific improvement is still an essential requirement. The paper examines basic human needs fulfilment in the context of effective improvement strategies and proposes a Basic Human Needs Glossary, a definition framework and tool for understanding needs pursuits and helping to streamline responses towards establishing their potential.Design/methodology/approachThe proposal for basic needs and development by the economist Manfred Max-Neef is examined from an operative point of view, including the role that the actualization of needs-centred goals performs in the pursuit of prosperity. The paper then adopts, adapts and defines the basic needs proposed by Max-Neef and outlines Basic Terms of Pursuit (BToP) for these through qualitative content analysis.FindingsIt is possible to breakdown the basic needs concepts into smaller subsets of traits, which are framed within the interrelated dimensions of personal and social interactions of people, and of people and environment (natural and man-made).Research limitations/implicationsThe glossary with BToP is not conclusive, however. There is still potential to advance and further refine these through further content, qualitative and ethnographic research.Originality/valueEnabling capacities for progressive needs fulfilment is, in theory, key to facilitating paths to prosperity, especially in intervention processes to improve vulnerable communities, like slums. A deeper clarification of needs pursuit presented by the glossary adds rigor to this task and to enhancing wellbeing standards overall. Thus, it can play an important resource role in urban practice.

scholarly journals The role of professional practices of primary school mathematics teachers in developing the skills of creative solution to mathematical problems among their students from the point of view of specialists: دور الممارسات المهنية لمعلمي رياضيات المرحلة الابتدائية في تنمية مهارات الحل الإبداعي للمشكلات الرياضية لدى طلابهم من وجهة نظر المختصين

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (33) ◽  
pp. 82-61
Author(s):  
Muhannad Muhammad Al-Amary Muhannad Muhammad Al-Amary
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Mathematics Problems ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Educational Supervisor ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Development Of Students

  This study aimed to identify the role played by the professional practices done by Mathematics teachers at primary schools in the development of students’ skills in solving Mathematics problems creatively from a professional point of view. In addition, the study aimed to identify any statistically significant differences in the professional practices according to some variants (job titles, years of experience, and qualifications). To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the descriptive approach in surveys. A questionnaire has been designed as a tool to collect data. The questionnaire has been proved valid, reliable and practical when responded to by a sample included 80 Mathematics teachers and supervisors at Jeddah Directorate of Education (31) educational supervisors and (49) primary teachers. The questionnaire has been analyzed and statistically processed by SPSS. The research has formulated a list of professional practices done by Mathematics teachers at primary schools to develop students’ creativity skills in solving Mathematics problems, which all were of equal high importance and came in a descending order in three axes: understanding the problem, execution planning, and generating ideas. Also, the study found that there are statistically significant differences in the responses in average for the job title (educational supervisor, teacher) variant concerning the role played by Mathematics teachers at primary schools in the development of students’ skills in solving Mathematics problems creatively in all axes and in the questionnaire as whole. In addition, there is a statistically significant difference at ≥α)0.05) between the averages of responses of professionals according to the qualifications and years of experience on the role played by Mathematics teachers at primary schools in the development of students’ skills in solving Mathematics problems creatively for both the understanding problems and generating ideas axes. There are not any statistically significant differences in the execution and planning axis. Hence, the study set a model proposal for the roles to be played and practiced professionally by Mathematics teachers at primary schools to develop students’ skills in solving Mathematics problems creatively. In the light of the study, the researcher introduced a set of recommendations and suggestions.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Application of the Wa‘d Concept in the Issuance Project Based Sukuk (PBS) in Indonesia

AL- ADALAH ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taufiq Kurniawan ◽  
Asmak Ab Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
The Government ◽  
Muslim Communities

Indonesia, in recent years, has been trying to accelerate economic development, especially in the field of infrastructure development. This effort requires enormous funding, both from abroad and domestically. To expand funding sources from within the country, the government issued Project Based Sukuk (PBS) which aims to finance infrastructure development through sharia-based financing instruments. PBS is indeed an alternative for Muslim communities who are interested in building the country's economy without being overshadowed by the element of usury. This instrument has a main contract in the form of ijarah, supporting contracts and promises (wa'd). The application of these contracts can only be said to be valid from the point of view of the Shari'ah if all the rules and conditions are fully complied with. This study tries to analyze the application of the wa'd concept in PBS, to find out whether all the rules and conditions set by Syara' have been implemented properly. Data were collected through interviews and literature review which were then analyzed using a normative approach. This study concludes that the application of the al-wa'd concept to PBS is in line with sharia principles, although there are still two issues that still need to be fixed, namely first: the problem of investor ownership of PBS assets which is only for benefits, not accompanied by ownership of the goods; both mechanisms for reselling PBS assets at a price equivalent to the nominal value of PBS, even though according to AAOIFI and Majma' al-Fiqh al-Islāmī al-Duwali sukuk assets may not be resold at a price equivalent to the nominal value of the sukuk.

scholarly journals Individuality as Embodiment of Culture and the Problem of Inclusion: an Outsider’s Perspective

2015 ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
L. S. Chernyak
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Major Obstacle ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Intuitive Notion ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
Mode Of Being

Human Individuality as Embodiment of Culture and the Problem of Inclusion: an Outsider’s Perspective (by Leon Chernyak). The article considers the problem of inclusion from the point of view of a philosopher working in the area of ontological anthropology. Proceeding from this ontological perspective, it argues that the notion of a human being as the embodiment of culture (and, consequently, of the human individual as an embodied entity) constitutes the major obstacle for the development of a theoretically consistent conceptual framework for the intuitive notion of inclusion of people with disabilities. The notion of a human individual as a corporeal (or bodily) entity is proposed as an alternative to the notion of human individual as an embodied entity. On the basis of the notion of the human individual as a corporeal (bodily) entity, the concept of culture as the only form of objectification of the human mode of being is proposed, and, in its turn, on the basis of this concept of culture the following concepts are formulated: health (the integrity of the organism), medical norm, and disease.

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