Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik hat sich als wissenschaftliche Disziplin durchgesetzt. Aber ist Ethik ein effektiver Weichensteller für die Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft? Ist sie auch in ökonomischen Angelegenheiten verlässlich? Funktionieren operative Ansätze bei den Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensleitbildern wirklich oder verdecken sie die Risslinien unserer Gesellschaft? Deutlich zeigt dieser Band, dass im Bereich der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik ein hohes und wichtiges Entwicklungspotential vorhanden ist. Denn immer stärker wird die Wirtschaft zu einem gesamtgesellschaftlichen Gesprächsstoff. Dieser zunehmende Konversationscharakter verbindet Unternehmer, Akteure, Konsumenten, Betrachter und Mitmacher in einer permanenten Auseinandersetzung um die Sinn- und Werthaftigkeit der ökonomischen Prozesse.

Nuclear family and kibbutz childrearing practices are compared from a Rawlsian perspective of justice. Based upon the kibbutz educational system, which has reinstituted the family, Geiger and Fischer propose a model of educational change for consideration in the United States. This model is designed to strengthen the nuclear family while improving the prospects of disadvantaged, anomic, and unattached youth.

Geiger and Fischer examine, within a Rawlsian perspective, several child-rearing institutions affecting children. Justice as fairness would consider a child-rearing institution and its inequalities as fair if there are no alternative arrangements under which the prospects of least-advantaged children could be improved. Among these least-advantaged children are those who are neglected, abused, and stripped of self-respect. As the nuclear family disintegrates, the authors ask whether it can fulfill its child-rearing function. Utilizing a self-report study conducted on socialization and delinquency in Israel as well as several other observational studies, the authors demonstrate that in a more egalitarian structure such as the kibbutz, least-advantaged children have more opportunities to develop into autonomous responsible individuals. For Americans, the kibbutz educational system shows new paths for change from nursery school through high school that would allow for greater bonds between the family, school, work, and the community. An emerging sense of community would also stimulate the moral and intellectual growth of disadvantaged youth. This book is recommended to researchers and policy makers in the areas of education, delinquency, and social welfare.

This book recounts a successful effort to resocialize criminal offenders placed in Kibbutzim. Social scientist Michael Fischer and educational philosopher Brenda Geiger describe the events and experiences that unfolded when a Kibbutz adopted an Israeli ex-convict as a temporary member of its collective. They conclude that resocialization is achievable: that a world of hard work, interdependence, and self-denial can successfully compete against the temptations for adventure and diversion in an offender's past and present. Fischer and Geiger reconstruct the subjective experiences of the Israeli ex-convicts who were invited to live and work as members on separate Kibbutzim. They detail how a protective environment, daily routines, egalitarianism, peer group support, acceptance, and trust yielded involvement, commitment, and higher self-esteem on the part of the offenders. Relating the kibbutz experience to theories of social psychology and criminology, Fischer and Geiger offer a model for resocialization combining group dynamics with social learning in a context of meaningful work and acceptance. This study is valuable to students and scholars of social psychology, criminology, and Judaic Studies.

As increasing numbers of social anthropoloists use computers for wordprocessing, interest in other applications inevitably follows. "Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists" addresses this interest and encourages researchers to make full use of their computers to help them organize data. Firstly, the author discusses computing applications in relation to research activities shared by all anthropologists - ethnographic fieldwork, management and analysis of footnotes and the use of visual and aural material. The book then illustrates the way in which computer-based representations can satisfy the requirements of anthropological methods with a detailed examination of representing kinship relations in an original way. Nal developments in the representation of visual and aural data on computers, as well as possible applications of knowledge based models are also introduced.

While the implementation of evidence-based medicine guidelines is well studied, there has been little investigation into the extent to which a parallel evidence-based management movement has been influential within health care organizations. This book explores the various management knowledges and associated texts apparent in English health care organizations, and considers how the local reception of these texts was influenced by the macro level political economy of public services reform evident during the period of the politics of austerity. The research outlined in this volume shows that very few evidence-based management texts are apparent within health care organizations, despite the influence of certain knowledge producers, such as national agencies, think tanks, management consultancies, and business schools in the industry. Bringing together the often disconnected academic literature on management knowledge and public policy, the volume addresses the ways in which preferred management knowledges and texts in these publicly funded settings are sensitive to the macro level political economy of public services reform, offering an empirically grounded critique of the evidence-based management movement.

Stanley Cavell's work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom Cavell offers major readings of Thoreau, Emerson, Shakespeare, and others. In this first book-length study of Cavell's writings, Michael Fischer examines Cavell's relevance to the controversies surrounding poststructuralist literary theory, particularly works by Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man, and Stanley Fish.
Throughout his study, Fischer focuses on skepticism, a central concern of Cavell's multifaceted work. Cavell, following J. L. Austin and Wittgenstein, does not refute the radical epistemological questioning of Descartes, Hume, and others, but rather characterizes skepticism as a significant human possibility or temptation. As presented by Fischer, Cavell's accounts of both external-world and other-minds skepticism share significant affinities with deconstruction, a connection overlooked by contemporary literary theorists.
Fischer follows Cavell's lead in examining how different genres address the problems raised by skepticism and goes on to show how Cavell draws on American and English romanticism in fashioning a response to it. He concludes by analyzing Cavell's remarks about current critical theory, focusing on Cavell's uneasiness with some of the conclusions reached by its practitioners. Fischer shows that Cavell's insights, grounded in powerful analyses of Descartes, Hume, and Wittgenstein, permit a fresh view of Derrida, Miller, de Man, and Fish. The result is not only a revealing characterizationof deconstruction but a much-needed and insightful introduction to Cavell's rich but difficult oeuvre.

Franz Michael Fischer investigates the relationships between the application of the controllability principle and managers' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses. The author further explores the impact of several important contextual factors on the basic relationships and, thus, develops moderated mediation models. He reveals that the application of the controllability principle has a significant effect on role stress and role orientation which, in turn, are related to managerial performance and affective constructs.

Wie lasst sich der Zusammenhang von Ethik und Bildung im 21. Jahrhundert beschreiben? Was ist das Gute am Wissen? Wo liegen die Grenzen der Wissenschaftsfreiheit und ist es uberhaupt moeglich, Ethik in der Wissenschaftspolitik zu verankern? Ist die Idee der Universitat noch aktuell? Lasst sich Ethik im Unterricht aktuell integrieren, und wie liegen da die Zusammenhange zu den Pisa-Studien?

Werte setzen stets Grenzen. So entstehen Ethikraume, Kulturraume mit ihren je spezifischen Politiken. Doch was herrscht jenseits dieser Grenzen? Eine Welt anderer Wertvorstellungen? Eine Welt der Barbarei? Welche Rolle spielt wirklich Europas propagiertes Wertesystem, was konstituiert seine Wertegemeinschaft und damit auch die konkrete Wertepraxis der EU? Politik ist insofern auch ein Management von Grenzerfahrungen und Grenzuberschreitungen. Wie verlaufen Wertewandelprozesse in einzelnen Landern, etwa in OEsterreich? Welche Rolle spielen Kunst, Literatur und Sport als offener, ethischer Raum und der Wunsch nach UEberschaubarkeit und Geborgenheit, der sich im emotionalen Wert Heimat spiegelt?

Wenn von Europa die Rede ist, kommt die Kunst und das kulturelle Erbe ins Spiel. Beide gelten als integratives Instrument neben den treibenden Motoren Politik und Wirtschaft. Im Hofmannsthalschen Sinne ist die Kunst ein Lebensmittel, das die Menschen fur ein sinnerfulltes Dasein benoetigen. Die dringenden existentiellen Fragen haben sich von Philosophie und Religion in Richtung Kunst verlagert. Sie ist das grosse Experimentierfeld fur moegliche Antworten. Der Band enthalt neben prinzipiellen UEberlegungen zur Kunst ein breites Spektrum von Fallstudien, die alle im Zusammenhang mit der Kunst als Marke europaischer Identitat stehen. Etliche Beitrage verbindet die These, dass gerade die Buhnenkunste ein Medium des europaischen Aufklarungsprozesses sind.

For the first time ever, the "Martin" family has come forth to share a secret that they have kept private all of their lives. Until now. Read, in their own words, the true accounts of this genuine, Mexican family as they reveal numerous encounters with what appears to be extra-terrestrial. As well as some shocking information they have learned that is not of this world. This is one of the most profound and informative cases of close encounters of the fourth kind ever to be made public. Their true story begins with the mysterious arrival of their first known "Martin" relative nearly 200 years ago. For more info, visit: martinfamilybooks.com

Subtitle on cover: Financial literacy through 937 questions and answers.

We all need to save and invest intelligently - in today's world this stuff is too important to ignore. Relying on someone else to make all the decisions can also lead to disaster. If we never get the full picture, we are relying on snippets that are often opinions, or even worse - biased opinions, when in reality the facts are what should matter most. Fortunately saving, investing and our financial system are very straightforward if we get the full picture once. After that everything makes sense! "Saving and Investing" brings the world of investing to an easy-to-read and understand level. The book covers compounding, how companies make money, financial markets, debt, equity, bonds, stocks, mutual funds and unit trusts, hedge funds, real estate, commodities, other investments, the economy and all of the related terminology, the impact of time, dollar cost averaging, taxes and compounding, diversification and transaction cost as well as getting started. If you are not intimately familiar with these concepts that can be amazingly straightforward when properly explained - then you should read this book! The book is different because it highlights facts and principles that will withstand the test of time and because of all of this comes from a professional practioner in the field. After reading this book, the simplicity will seem astounding, and the path towards financial independence and freedom so much clearer.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, grade: 2,3, Technical University of Munich (Informatik), course: Kommunikationsnetze, language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: Successive to a preceding study about Service Discovery, this thesis covers the topics Service Description and Service Access. Starting with an analysis and comparison of existing technologies, a new protocol for the service access was developed and an operating environment, capable of accessing services of any type was programmed. Thereby emphasis is placed an high scalability, extensibility, modularity and comprehensive documentation, to provide easy association with existing or future works. The first part deals with the various versions of Service Descriptions, followed by a description of the service access methods and concluding with a comprising comparison. All technologies or protocols qualified for Service Discovery and Access discovered during this diploma thesis are discussed. The main part comprises the software implementation which was written in Java, including a comprehensive documentation containing, among others, the protocol specification, software architecture, an user guide and proposals for advancements. Zusammenfassung: Aufbauend auf einer vorangegangenen Arbeit uber Service Discovery, werden in dieser Diplomarbeit die Themen Service Description und Service Access behandelt. Beginnend mit einer Analyse und dem Vergleich existierender Techologien, wurde ein neues Protokoll fur den dynamischen Dienstzugriff entwickelt und eine funktionsfahige Umgebung programmiert, die mittels dieses Protokolls auf Dienste jeglicher Art zugreifen kann. Dabei wurde das Augenmerk auf eine hohe Skalierbarkeit, Erweiterbarkeit, Modularitat und umfassende Dokumentation gelegt, so dass es nicht schwer fallen sollte, die Software mit folgenden oder existierenden Arbeiten zu verknupfen. Im ersten Teil wird auf die verschiedenen Varianten der Dienstbeschreibu