Sin and Missing the Mark in Management: A Lukan Perspective

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Bruno Dyck
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Positive Deviance ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Client Relationships ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Will

This paper draws on biblical writings to contribute to our understanding of sin, a catchphrase commonly used in everyday discourse and the scholarly literature with little reference to its underlying meaning. A biblical understanding of “sin” draws attention to whether behaviors are consistent with religious teachings and/or with the will of God. This study develops a Lukan understanding of sin and management—grounded in the socio-economic context in which the biblical text was written—that calls for the development of management theory and practices that liberate relationships (rather than promote patron-client relationships), de-marginalize the poor and oppressed (rather than widen gaps between rich and poor), promote positive deviance (rather than stigmatize diversity), provide fresh ways of thinking (rather than perpetuate the status quo), and facilitate connection to the spiritual (rather than reject spirituality). The conclusion describes practical examples and implications associated with the Lukan approach.

Die Verfassung der Jakobiner von 1793 und ihr historischer Kontext

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Heyer
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Form ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
French Nation ◽  
The Revolution

On 10 August 1793, the French nation celebrated the adoption of the Constitution by the people in a gigantic procession. The Constitution of 1793 was not only an attempt to codify the status quo and the achievements of the Revolution, to cast it into a solid and fundamental form, to create a foundation on which to continue developing. It was also a reaction to the present, to the crises and catastrophes, to the internal and external war instigated by the bourgeoisie (the Gironde) and to the capitalist gifts bestowed on the poor and disenfranchised: hunger, need, misery and despair. Last but not least, the Constitution was the result of numerous debates and discussions, but above all of a multifaceted compromise. The democratic and emancipatory ideas of the Jacobin Constitution of 1793 have never again been achieved or implemented in any constituent society. Is this one of the reasons why the Jacobins around Robespierre are mostly demonised and reduced to the terror they supposedly created, in order to discredit the memory of their political visions and their humanist heritage?

Peace Education: Imagination and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed

1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marguerite Rivage-Seul
Keyword(s):  
Peace Education ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Nuclear Arms Race

Arguing that peace education in the United States is constrained by its tenacious adherence to technical reason, Marguerite K. Rivage-Seul underscores the need for peace educators and their students to cultivate "moral imagination." The author first examines concepts of moral imagination recently advanced by educational theorists and peace educators, and demonstrates that these concepts also fail to transcend the limits of technical thought regarding the nuclear arms race. She then carefully develops a view of moral imagination around the ideas of Paulo Freire and Franz Hinkelammert; one that is grounded in an understanding of human intersubjectivity, and in the ways in which the poor "read" the world and perceive possibilities for human welfare beyond the status quo.

Why African American Economists Should Abandon Mainstream Economic Theory ASAP

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-275
Author(s):  
John Komlos
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Opportunistic Behavior ◽  
Mainstream Economic ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status ◽  
Long Time ◽  
African American Economists ◽  
Poor Children

Markets have 14 Achilles heels that reduce the chances of those born into poverty to succeed in today’s complex economy. These intrinsic imperfections, generally overlooked in mainstream Econ 101, include costly information that implies that its acquisition by poor people requires a greater share of their income. Because of inferior schooling opportunities, the poor are more exposed to the myriad of problems associated with bounded rationality. That tastes are assumed to be exogenous is hardly a benign oversight, because people enter the market as children; so the market has a long time to affect their character. This has a harsh effect especially on poor children because they are particularly vulnerable to advertisements and Pavlovian conditioning. Opportunistic behavior means that people with better information can take advantage of others in an immoral, unprincipled, cunning, crafty or deceptive manner. Because of less information at their disposal and because of inferior schooling, minorities are more exposed to the vagaries of predatory advertisements. This often leads to exploitation by people with more power. Mainstream Econ 101 overlooks these Achilles heels. Hence, economists who teach conventional economics provide succor for the maintenance of the status quo which finds minorities in a disadvantageous position in U.S. society.

Evolving Political Discourse on Poverty Alleviation in Sri Lanka

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 171-181
Author(s):  
Upul Abeyrathne
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government

There is a voluminous literature on poverty alleviation efforts of Sri Lanka. The present engagement with discourse on evolving political discourse on poverty alleviation touches a different aspect, i.e. instrumental utility of policy in keeping and maintaining the status quo. The study is based on examination of the content of public policies depending on the major strand of thought associated in different eras since colonial presence in Sri Lanka. It helps to identify the continuities and discontinuities of policy discourse. The discussion on the evolution of public policy on poverty alleviation revealed that issues of the poor has occupied a priority in the political agenda of the government whenever a political movement is active in politicizing the poor. However, the very objective of such policies were not aimed at empowering the poor but keeping them subordinated. The study concludes that poverty remains unresolved due to poverty of politics.

The Russian Siloviki & Political Change

Daedalus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 146 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Will ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
The Stability

The siloviki – Russian security and military personnel – are a key part of Team Putin. They are not, however, a coherent group, and there are important organizational and factional cleavages among the siloviki. Compared with some security and military forces around the world, Russian military and security forces generally lack the attributes that would make them a proactive and cohesive actor in bringing about fundamental political change in Russia. In the face of potential revolutionary change, most Russian military and security bodies do not have the cohesion or the will to defend the regime with significant violence. Russian siloviki are a conservativeforce supportive of the status quo. Future efforts by the siloviki to maintain the stability of the existing political order are most likely to be reactive, divided, and behind the scenes.

When Dissident Citizens Are Militant Mamas: Intersectional Gender and Agonistic Struggle in Welfare Rights Activism

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 623-647
Author(s):  
Holloway Sparks
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
Welfare Rights ◽  
Welfare Rights Movement ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
Democratic Practices ◽  
The Status ◽  
Agonistic Democracy

In this article, I argue that contemporary theories of agonistic democracy offer provocative insights into democratic activism and protest but require a more robust account of intersectional gender to adequately theorize the challenges of disruptive dissent. To this end, I propose an agonistic and feminist account of “dissident citizenship,” the democratic practices of disruption used to problematize and disturb the status quo when formal channels of democratic change are inadequate. My account foregrounds how intersectional gender formations pervade dissident practices, including activists’ ongoing struggles with their critics over their democratic standing and performances of disruption. I illustrate these theoretical claims through a case study of dissident citizenship drawn from U.S. politics, the welfare rights movement of 1966–75. Intersectional gender formations assisted welfare activists in claiming democratic standing as loving, hardworking mothers and in becoming bold dissidents. It was nonetheless exceedingly difficult for the poor, usually minority “militant mamas” to remain intelligible as full citizens when critics rejected their claims as the greediness of “breeders” and “cheaters” and dismissed their democratic disruptions as offensive, violence-causing disorders. Attending to intersectional gender dynamics highlights critical dimensions of democratic contestation that agonistic theories must address more carefully.

scholarly journals The Status Quo of Doctors’ Occupational Burnout and Its Correlation with the Cognition of Doctor-patient Relationship Tensity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Lan ◽  
Meng-Ying Li ◽  
Ya-Wei Chen ◽  
Meng-Yang Xu ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship ◽  
Occupational Burnout ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status ◽  
Poor Cognition

IntroductionTo understand the status quo of doctors’ occupational burnout, analyze the correlation between the occupational burnout and cognition of tensity of doctor-patient relationship (DPR).Material and methodsTake 265 doctors in a general hospital in China as respondents, conduct a survey of the degree of occupational burnout with Maslach Burnout Inventory, score the cognitive quantification of DPR tensity with Difficult Doctor-Patient Relationship Questionnaire-8, and analyze the correlation between them. The cognitive quantitative scores of DPR tensity were also given to 782 inpatients and compared with the doctors’ cognitive scores.ResultsThe degrees of occupational burnout in doctors, including three dimensions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and sense of personal achievement, were high. The proportions of moderate or more burnout were 49.8%, 53.2% and 48.7%, respectively. There was a statistical difference in occupational burnout among doctors of different ages and professional titles (P<0.05). Doctors’ cognition of DPR tensity was significantly worse than patients’ cognition (P<0.01). The degrees of emotional exhaustion and dehumanization were positively correlated with the poor cognition of DPR tensity in doctors (P<0.001). The degree of sense of personal achievement was negatively correlated with the poor cognition in doctors (P<0.001).ConclusionsDoctors’ age and professional title are important factors that affect the high degree of occupational burnout. Doctors do not have positive cognition of DPR tensity, which is different from that of patiens. The degree of occupational burnout is closely related to the poor cognition of DPR tensity in doctors.

Improving the Present

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas van der Vossen ◽  
Jason Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Collective Ownership ◽  
Thomas Pogge ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status

An influential set of arguments defends policies of global redistribution as a response to the currently existing unjust global order. Thomas Pogge argues that this order actively harms the poor, and that the appropriate response is to tax citizens of wealthy countries to redistribute resources. The authors agree that a number of elements of the global order are unjust, such as resource and borrowing privileges, and ought to be reformed. However, Pogge’s desired redistributive conclusions require implausible assumptions about responsibility and globalization. The chapter turns to a more promising proposal to fix the problems surrounding natural resources, offered by Leif Wenar. While this proposal would be an improvement over the status quo, it still invokes a seriously problematic notion of collective ownership of natural resources. The best approach remains to treat individuals as the owners of their private property, and protect them in the freedoms for which this book argues.

Iran may abandon austerity to pacify protesters

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government

Significance Beginning in the conservative city of Mashhad, the mostly small-scale and leaderless demonstrations spread across many provincial towns over several days, sometimes turning violent. Following the publication of President Hassan Rouhani’s proposed 2018/19 ‘austerity’ budget, key slogans protested government corruption and neglect of the poor and unemployed -- although the basis of the regime itself also came under fire. Impacts US support for the protesters and announcement of new sanctions will assist Tehran’s efforts to portray recent events as foreign ‘sedition’. Inflation could spike on the back of populist economic policies and exchange rate deterioration as foreign investment prospects recede. The central bank will not implement exchange rate unification plans, since the government profits from the status quo.

Pathways to urban transformation: From dispossession to climate justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 030913252096285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Paiva Henrique ◽  
Petra Tschakert
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Global South ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Climatic Extremes ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status

Cities in the Global South are quintessential sites for climate adaptation; many are rapidly expanding, struggle with increasing inequalities and experience unprecedented harm from climatic extremes. Despite scholarly recognition that adaptation pathways should reduce multidimensional vulnerabilities and inequalities, current adaptation efforts largely preserve the status quo. Many benefit powerful actors while further entrenching the poor and disadvantaged in cycles of dispossession. We bring together scholarship on adaptation pathways, politics and practice to deconstruct adaptation trajectories. We propose three conceptual steps – acknowledging injustices, embracing deliberation and nurturing responsibility for human and more-than-human others – to chart inclusive pathways towards just climate futures.

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