The Swiss Federal Administration in the Context of Downsizing: Public Servants’ Perception about their Work Environment and Ethical Issues

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Emery ◽  
Carole Wyser
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Federal Administration

scholarly journals PEMIKIRAN EKONOMI ISLAM: ANALISIS PEMIKIRAN M. YASIR NASUTION TENTANG ETIKA DALAM BISNIS PERBANKAN ISLAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syahbudi ◽  
Lili Puspita Sari
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The State ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Know How ◽  
Banking Business ◽  
Islamic View ◽  
Formal Rules ◽  
Thought Leaders

The preparation of this article is based on the ethical issues that are applied in business activities in the Islamic banking business institutions associated with legal status in the Islamic view. Articles in exciting to do because they want to know how the application of ethics which should be implemented in the institution of Islamic banking business in running the business. For example in matters of operations and services to customers. This article carried on a Professor of Islamic Economics at the State Islamic University of North Sumatera. Focus on the issues of thought leaders M. Yasir Nasution on Ethics in Islamic Banking Business. Some of the discussion, the ethics that should be applied to the Islamic banking business is not only formed on the formal rules but also must understand the substantive sharia. By applying dormant qualities cultivate Apostles in the work environment will allow businesses to be able to carry out its activities with the principles of Islam.Penulisan artikel ini didasari pada permasalahan etika yang diterapkan dalam kegiatan bisnis di perbankan Islam dan dikaitkan dengan status hukumnya dalam pandangan Islam. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana penerapan etika yang seharusnya diterapkan di perbankan Islam ketika menjalankan bisnisnya, terutama dalam kegiatan operasional dan pelayanan terhadap nasabah. Penelitian ini dilakukan terhadap seorang Guru Besar Ekonomi Islam di Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sumatera Utara. Fokus permasalahan adalah pada pemikiran M. Yasir Nasution tentang Etika dalam bisnis perbankan Islam. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa etika yang seharusnya diterapkan pada bisnis perbankan Islam tidak hanya terbentuk pada aturan formal tetapi juga harus memahami substantif syariahnya. Dengan menerapkan sifat-sifat terpuji Rasul dalam lingkungan pekerjaan, maka akan memudahkan pelaku bisnis untuk dapat menjalankan kegiatannya sesuai dengan prinsip-prinsip Islam.

scholarly journals Ethics in the operating room; the anesthesiologist's responsibility

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos R Degrandi Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Withdrawal Period ◽  
Interpersonal Conflicts ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
Public Expectations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Face

Anesthesiologists are professionals who practice their expertise in an acute process with a very short withdrawal period, which does not allow them many philosophical ramblings. However, they are professionals who must be increasingly concerned with ethical issues if they are to survive in the market and succeed in the face of ever-increasing public expectations that all physicians must take care of in a shrinking world of today due to rapidly expanding social and electronic media. The operating room is particularly a place prone to interpersonal conflicts, as a wide range of healthcare professionals perform their tasks here, with overlapping and sometimes poorly defined areas of responsibility. Acting on behalf of their patients, anesthesiologists can be considered their moral agents and guardians in their shared work environment. Citation: Oliveira CRD. Ethics in the operating room; the anesthesiologist's responsibility. Anaesth. pain & intensive care 2019;23(4):__

scholarly journals Professionalizing bureaucracy and building state capacities: are there unequal advances in Brazilian public administration?

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciro Campos Christo Fernandes ◽  
Pedro Lucas de Moura Palotti
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Basic Functions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Federal Administration ◽  
State Functions

Abstract This article contributes to the discussion on public administration in Brazil. It examines the differences between the four functions of the state (basic functions, welfare, infrastructure and development, and emerging functions), based on the positions and careers of public servants. The data were collected in 2014 using a survey with public managers from different agencies of the Brazilian federal administration. The results point to distinctions regarding the roles played by middle managers, considering their distribution by state functions, profile, and activities. In a historical perspective, although there are basic functions that constitute the state, the creation of new careers and the recruitment of staff in the bureaucracy resulted in unequal development of the different state functions, generating imbalance and asymmetries. Also, emerging functions are generating new, more flexible, and dynamic ways for managers to work, which have renewed the Brazilian bureaucracy, albeit in a limited and heterogeneous way.

Recalibrating healthcare to create a more equitable post-pandemic work environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 084047042110541
Author(s):  
W. Glen Pyle ◽  
Frances C. Roesch
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Team Dynamics ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Employee Needs

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for flexible arrangements, including asynchronous work and working from home. These arrangements may be necessary to comply with public health directives and are manageable when few other options exist. It can be difficult to lead in an environment when team members have divergent core working hours and are not available for collaboration. This can be compounded by the perception of inequitable treatment of employee needs or preferences by management, which can further strain team dynamics. As the pandemic eases, it may be difficult for all employees to revert to a fully on-site arrangement; some may be unable and others unwilling. Leaders will need to consider ethical issues in reaching organizational goals in this new reality. Equity, diversity, and inclusion principles will be critical when balancing the needs of the individual and the team. Supportive arrangements and a culture of inclusion will be key to retaining top talent.

Perceived threats of terrorism and helping behavior: the role of dispositional mindfulness in an ethical dilemma

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-579
Author(s):  
Ubedullah Memon ◽  
Anees Janee Ali ◽  
Zaib Un Nisa ◽  
Zahid Hussain Pathan
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to curtail the negative effect of job stress on the female teachers’ helping behavior amidst terrorism threat through their dispositional mindfulness. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative research design surveyed a self-administered questionnaire from the female teachers serving in the hard areas of Pakistan. To analyze the data, descriptive and interferential statistics were performed in SPSS (version 23) and SmartPLS3. Findings The results revealed the significant positive relationship between teachers’ perceived threats of terrorism and their job stress. The findings also confirmed the significant negative relationship between teachers’ job stress and their helping behavior, and vice-versa. Further, the indirect effect of teachers’ perceived threats of terrorism on helping behavior through their job stress was confirmed. Finally, the moderating effect of dispositional mindfulness to weaken the negative relationship between teachers’ job stress and their helping behavior was also found significant. The results also showed that the job stress of female teachers accounted for 12.9% of variance in their helping behavior. Research limitations/implications To address complex ethical issues, relying solely on a research method cannot provide deep insights. Hence, future scholars are directed to combine elements of quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate female teachers’ helping behavior in grievous conditions. Notwithstanding, the present study revitalizes educational institutions through teachers’ helping behavior in the risky work environment. Originality/value Since the past two decades, female education has witnessed exponential growth in terrorist attacks, but there is a scanty research on the vulnerability of female teachers in Pakistan. Nevertheless, the present study is limited yet of the highest importance to foster teachers’ helping behavior in the risky work environment.

scholarly journals Profissionalizando a burocracia e construindo capacidades: avanços desiguais na administração pública brasileira?

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-710
Author(s):  
Ciro Campos Christo Fernandes ◽  
Pedro Lucas de Moura Palotti
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Basic Functions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Federal Administration ◽  
State Functions

Abstract This article contributes to the discussion on public administration in Brazil. It examines the differences between the four functions of the state (basic functions, welfare, infrastructure and development, and emerging functions), based on the positions and careers of public servants. The data were collected in 2014 using a survey with public managers from different agencies of the Brazilian federal administration. The results point to distinctions regarding the roles played by middle managers, considering their distribution by state functions, profile, and activities. In a historical perspective, although there are basic functions that constitute the state, the creation of new careers and the recruitment of staff in the bureaucracy resulted in unequal development of the different state functions, generating imbalance and asymmetries. Also, emerging functions are generating new, more flexible, and dynamic ways for managers to work, which have renewed the Brazilian bureaucracy, albeit in a limited and heterogeneous way.

Ethics and the public interest

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Elcock
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Business World ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business Values ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Neoliberal Economics ◽  
Just Society

Since 1979, under governments of both major parties, the thrust of British public policy has been radically changed in the direction of neoliberal economics and the ‘New Public Management’ (NPM). This has had profound effects on the priorities that politicians and the officials who advise them are expected to pursue. The traditional public service values of equity, probity and integrity have been displaced by the business values of economy, efficiency and effectiveness – the ‘Three Es’ ( Hood, 1991 ). Many of the provisions and regulations that were designed to reduce risks of corrupt or otherwise improper behaviour were relaxed in favour of generating more entrepreneurial attitudes among public servants and recruiting entrepreneurial talent from the business world. The benefits of enterprise have been significant in terms of gains in innovation, efficiency and improved relations with the public; but on the other hand, corrupt, selfish and greedy behaviour by some politicians and public servants has seriously eroded public respect for politics and public administration alike. More generally, markets and their values have increasingly dominated political, economic and social discourses and decision making, with the result that markets are now used to determine outcomes that would formerly have been regarded as inappropriate for the application of market methods and which arguably are still inappropriate issues for markets alone to determine (Sandel, 2012). Hence a review of the ethical issues that underpin public policymaking, administration and management is urgently required. Michael Sandel (2010) has argued that we need to rethink the importance of justice and related values in our public life, albeit that we disagree among ourselves about many moral and religious issues: ‘A politics of moral engagement is not only a more inspiring ideal than a politics of avoidance. It is also a more promising basis for a just society’ (Sandel, 2010: 269).

Facilitators and inhibitors in developing professional values in nursing students

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahnaz Shafakhah ◽  
Zahra Molazem ◽  
Mojgan Khademi ◽  
Farkhondeh Sharif
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
The Impact

Background: Values are the basis of nursing practice, especially in making decisions about complicated ethical issues. Despite their key role in nursing, little information exists on the factors affecting their development and manifestation in nursing students. Objective: This study identifies and describes the facilitators and inhibitors of the development and manifestation of professional values based on the experiences of nursing students and instructors and nurses. Research design: Data were collected through 29 semi-structured interviews and two focus group interviews in 2013–2015 and were analyzed using the conventional content analysis method of Elo and Kyngäs. Participants and research context: In total, 18 nursing undergraduates, five nursing instructors, and five nurses from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and one of the teaching hospitals in Shiraz were selected through purposive sampling. Ethical considerations: The research was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and the teaching hospital examined. Findings: The findings consisted of two categories: personal and environmental factors. Personal factors consisted of the two subcategories of personal stimuli (work experience and past relationships, inner beliefs and acting on values, belief in God and a divine worldview) and personal inhibitors (the lack of professional motivation and enthusiasm, negative emotions). Environmental factors consisted of the two subcategories of environmental stimuli (cooperation, order and discipline) and environmental inhibitors (unfavorable work environment, society’s negative attitude toward nursing, the violation of rights). Discussion and conclusion: Given the impact of personal and environmental factors on the development and manifestation of professional values in nursing students, it is upon the education authorities to take account of them in their planning, and nursing managers are also recommended to further address these factors in their development of a proper work environment, provision of standard facilities and removal of barriers.

The Ethical Implications of the Virtual Work Environment

2010 ◽  
pp. 68-86
Author(s):  
Rachel N. Byers
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Virtual Work Environment ◽  
Major Factors

Ethical issues due to the following four major factors inherent to virtual work are examined: (1) organizational culture, (2) trust, (3) cross-cultural diversity, and (4) monitoring. The author proposes that the negative ethical implications of the virtual work environment can be overcome by following the suggested steps and proposed guidelines. Areas for potential future research are included and are followed by an overall discussion of the issues covered and some closing remarks.

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