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Ideally suited to researchers, postgraduates and professionals
interested in key issues such as tax avoidance and corporate
privacy, the latest volume of Research in Ethical Issues in
Organizations examines how profit seeking and not for profit
organizations can be conceived and designed to satisfy legitimate
human needs in an ethical and meaningful way. The volume addresses
a range of contemporary issues in applied and professional ethics
and explores the unique role of organizational ethics in creating
and sustaining a pluralistic, free enterprise economy.
Most statements today about higher education begin with the
assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant,
however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance
depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental.
Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand
by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the
question emerges, relevant to what? Why? How? At what costs? And,
relevant in what sense? These are some of the central questions
animating this study. The Relevance of Higher Education: Exploring
a Contested Notion, edited by Timothy L. Simpson examines the
relevance of higher education by bringing together the work of
historians, political scientists, and educational philosophers. The
contributors probe the meaning of relevance in its many guises,
providing an historical and philosophical account of the roots of
this concept and its impact on the institution of higher education.
Furthermore, The Relevance of Higher Education provides a critical
evaluation of the impact of relevance on our understanding of the
political and economic relationship between higher education and
society. This study suggests views of relevance that could guide
the future of higher education. By providing penetrating analysis,
this text thoroughly explores relevance and its underlying
assumptions, potential implications and long-lasting effects on
higher education and society. The Relevance of Higher Education
provides the tools necessary to develop a rich framework for
understanding relevance and its impact on higher education and
society.
While many analysts emphasize Trump's uniqueness, he can also be
viewed as a symptom of a deeper systemic crisis. This collection
examines the roots, impacts, and future prospects of Trumpism as
well as the possibilities for combatting it. Chapters analyze the
role of racism and xenophobia, evangelical religion, and elite
support in enabling Trump's political ascent, demonstrating how
both his demagogic style and his policies draw from the historic
repertoire of the Right. The authors also trace the impacts of his
presidency on inequality, health, ecological destruction, and U.S.
empire. As far-right forces cement their hold on the Republican
Party, and as the Democratic Party appears unable to stop them,
what lies ahead? The authors argue that confronting Trumpism
requires a frontal attack on the conditions that incubated the
monster.
Most statements today about higher education begin with the
assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant,
however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance
depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental.
Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand
by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the
question emerges, relevant to what? Why? How? At what costs? And,
relevant in what sense? These are some of the central questions
animating this study. The Relevance of Higher Education: Exploring
a Contested Notion, edited by Timothy L. Simpson examines the
relevance of higher education by bringing together the work of
historians, political scientists, and educational philosophers. The
contributors probe the meaning of relevance in its many guises,
providing an historical and philosophical account of the roots of
this concept and its impact on the institution of higher education.
Furthermore, The Relevance of Higher Education provides a critical
evaluation of the impact of relevance on our understanding of the
political and economic relationship between higher education and
society. This study suggests views of relevance that could guide
the future of higher education. By providing penetrating analysis,
this text thoroughly explores relevance and its underlying
assumptions, potential implications and long-lasting effects on
higher education and society. The Relevance of Higher Education
provides the tools necessary to develop a rich framework for
understanding relevance and its impact on higher education and
society.
Leverage existing free open source software to build an identity
and access management (IAM) platform that can serve your
organization for the long term. With the emergence of open
standards and open source software, it's now easier than ever to
build and operate your own IAM stack. The most common culprit of
the largest hacks has been bad personal identification. In terms of
bang for your buck, effective access control is the best investment
you can make. Financially, it's more valuable to prevent than to
detect a security breach. That's why Identity and Access Management
(IAM) is a critical component of an organization's security
infrastructure. In the past, IAM software has been available only
from large enterprise software vendors. Commercial IAM offerings
are bundled as "suites" because IAM is not just one component. It's
a number of components working together, including web,
authentication, authorization, cryptographic, and persistence
services. Securing the Perimeter documents a recipe to take
advantage of open standards to build an enterprise-class IAM
service using free open source software. This recipe can be adapted
to meet the needs of both small and large organizations. While not
a comprehensive guide for every application, this book provides the
key concepts and patterns to help administrators and developers
leverage a central security infrastructure. Cloud IAM service
providers would have you believe that managing an IAM is too hard.
Anything unfamiliar is hard, but with the right road map, it can be
mastered. You may find SaaS identity solutions too rigid or too
expensive. Or perhaps you don't like the idea of a third party
holding the credentials of your users-the keys to your kingdom.
Open source IAM provides an alternative. Take control of your IAM
infrastructure if digital services are key to your organization's
success. What You'll Learn Understand why you should deploy a
centralized authentication and policy management infrastructure Use
the SAML or Open ID Standards for web or single sign-on, and OAuth
for API Access Management Synchronize data from existing identity
repositories such as Active Directory Deploy two-factor
authentication services Who This Book Is For Security architects
(CISO, CSO), system engineers/administrators, and software
developers
Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO) is a
double-blind, peer-reviewed series that publishes rigorous academic
research into organizational ethics from a wide variety of
disciplinary perspectives. In this volume, Educating for Ethical
Survival, a special section focuses on the challenges of teaching
ethics to practically minded students, aiming to make the task of
teaching applied ethics more tractable and constructive. Further
contributions explore a range of aspects of ethical survival.
Topics covered include: propensity to moral disengagement ability
to survive ethically amid discord finding ethical survival globally
ethical survival of students content of social ethics courses why
reflection is important in personal learning as a global citizen.
Suited for professionals, educators and researchers, this book
poses questions about the nature of ethical survival in a rapidly
changing world and about the role of ethics in organizations.
The influence of the global South is increasing in the conduct and
governance of multinationals, in the growing interest in the
'bottom of the pyramid', in the debates over the environment, trade
and international law. There are questions aplenty. Complexities
and tensions, differing ethical interpretations. The volume
includes works by authors from the global South and contributions
about ethical issues in the global South, including the responses
to famine in East Africa, India and Indonesia, and the
applicability of international guidelines and ethical frameworks in
South Africa. Other contributions examine the roles of beliefs and
philosophies in the establishment of ethical traditions.
Organizations promote all sorts of activities. Indeed it is
difficult to think of any activity today that is not reliant on an
organization. This volume of Research in Ethical Issues in
Organizations contains two kinds of papers. First, papers that
discuss what an organization provides to society, whether it be
fast food, hypermarkets, education, training, supply chains or
hamburgers, and an explanation of the ethical aspects of that
particular contribution. Second, the ethics of the consumer's
response in society to what an organization provides, be that the
buying or boycotting of products, social approval or social
condemnation.
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 21st annual
'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics'
Conference. It addresses the key theme of Political Leadership,
Professional Ethics, and the Problem of Dirty Hands. 'Dirty hands'
is a somewhat nebulous concept. It may refer to professions whose
objectives are so consequential that some ethical violations are
considered justifiable. In another sense it might suggest
situations where professional obligations might require the
performance of deeds that contradict one's own moral beliefs. The
term is perhaps most synonymous with political leadership and
raises the question: Should leaders ever get their hands dirty? For
applied ethicists, recognizing that sometimes there are compelling
arguments in favor of certain moral violations is a professional
necessity. This volume contains papers on a broad range of issues
including discussions of medical ethics, military ethics, domestic
political matters, and the very nature of 'professions' themselves.
It will be of interest to those interested in politics, as well as
those involved in research or training in ethics and professional
practice.
This volume is a selection of papers from the 20th annual
'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics'
Conference. Topics covered include athletes as role models, sports
ethics and sports governance, the separation of powers as an
integrity mechanism, and virtues in just war theory.
Alasdair MacIntyre described humans as storytelling animals.
Stories are essential to any organization. They help organizations
define who they are, what they do, and how they do it. Tom Peters
and Robert Waterman, in explaining their well-known search for
excellence in leading organizations, wrote how they "were struck by
the dominant use of story, slogan, and legend as people tried to
explain the characteristics of their own great institutions" and
how those "convey(ed) the organization's shared values, or
culture". Indeed there is the distinct possibility of those
inherited stories, slogans and legends creating ethical
organizations. Fiction incorporates not only literature but movies,
television, poetry and plays. Friedrich Nietzsche who has been
described, perhaps unfairly, as not a philosopher but a writer
described fiction as a lie which enabled us to see the truth. Nina
Rosenstand argued that such fiction can "be used to question moral
rules and to examine morally ambiguous situations". In this issue
we consider how fiction has questioned the moral rules, and
examined such situations, and in doing so how it has contributed to
our understanding of organizational ethics.
The purpose of the books in this series is to explore the central
and unique role of organizational ethics in creating and sustaining
a pluralistic, free enterprise economy. The primary goal of the
research studies published here is to examine how profit seeking
and not for profit organizations can be conceived and designed to
satisfy legitimate human needs in an ethical and meaningful way.
This volume is a selection of papers from the 19th annual
'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics'
Conference. Topics covered include journalism ethics, organ
donation, as well as an essay drawn from Daniel Wueste's keynote
address on the conditions and implications of trust for the
professions. Other papers include research on the ethical perils of
university researchers, a values based approach to ethical culture,
the ethics of hospitality-tourism practice and pedagogy, and
ethical decision making processes for research in Small and Medium
Enterprises.
In this razor-sharp analysis, TomDispatch.com commentator Michael
Schwartz shows how the US occupation is fuelling civil war in Iraq
and beyond. He punctures all the myths used to sell the idea of an
endless war in this incisive and hard-hitting argument.
Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO) is a
double-blind, peer-reviewed series that publishes rigorous academic
research into organizational ethics from a wide variety of
disciplinary perspectives including, but not limited to, business
management, philosophy, sociology, psychology, religion,
accounting, and marketing. In this volume, War, Peace and
Organizational Ethics, expert contributors draw upon philosophers
such as Aristotle, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Emmanuel Levinas in
order to explore how the ethics of war and peace resonate with
organizational ethics. The topics covered include: the role of
business in the "War on Terror"; the ethics of robot
decision-making in military contexts; the use of force in UN
peacekeeping missions; John Wooden's conception of moral
leadership; the implementation of meaningful change in relation to
well-being in and outside of work; unethical pro-organizational
behaviour; forsaking Aristotle's Mean and pursuing the extreme.
Ideally suited for researchers and professionals, this book poses
questions that go to the very heart of the role organizations play
in greater social conflicts, as well as the role that conflict
plays in shaping organizations.
Mintz and Schwartz offer a fascinating tour of the corporate world.
Through an intensive study of interlocking corporate directorates,
they show that for the first time in American history the loan
making and stock purchasing and selling powers are concentrated in
the same hands: the leadership of major financial firms. Their
detailed descriptions of corporate case histories include the
forced ouster of Howard Hughes from TWA in the late fifties as a
result of lenders' pressure; the collapse of Chrysler in the late
seventies owing to banks' refusal to provide further capital
infusions; and the very different "rescues" of Pan American
Airlines and Braniff Airlines by bank intervention in the
seventies.
The role of organizations in society, the international and
multidisciplinary scope of business ethics, and the importance of
narrative were concerns that were raised in early volumes of
Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO). That these
topics remain of interest is perhaps sobering, and a cause for
reflection in the business ethics community. What has the
discipline of business ethics achieved over the last 20 years?
Where is at in 2019? Where is it headed? Written to celebrate the
founding of the series 20 years ago, the volume tackles the
tendency to see business as something spawned in recent times.
REIO's founders, even in 2001, were contemplating the next phase of
business ethics, and saw it linked to both good corporate practice
and a multidisciplinary heritage stretching back in time. This
volume considers whether scholars, practitioners, and business
professionals have been slow to act, or whether the problems are
intractable. The role of film and narrative in the development of
ethical standards and in business ethics education is addressed.
Individual submissions also consider corporate responsibility,
redemption, and the nature of boundaries in organizations and
personal life. The volume will appeal to academics in the business
ethics field and related disciplines.
This volume includes six varied contributions to the study of
visual ethics in organizations. The implications of our visual
world for organizational life and personal behaviour have received
scant research attention. This volume sets out to address that lack
of research. It includes contributions on empirical studies, film,
personal portraits, social research using the photovoice method,
bureaucracy and critical theory. Contributors show how the
application of disciplines developed for the study of films can
help us to understand how organizations are perceived, and how
visual images can be used in empirical research about
organizations, ethics and organizational citizenship behaviour.
Some say philosophy has abandoned art, some that humans lack moral
vision. A number of contributors show how a careful and informed
study of art can enhance our understanding of organizational life.
This volume seeks to put the visual back into ethics and
organizations.
The late Patrick Primeaux, a past editor of this series, was an
outstanding teacher of business ethics and a longtime chair of the
Theology Department at St John's University in New York City.
Patrick, through his teachings, research articles and books, had a
profound influence on how many contemporary business ethicists both
teach and think about business ethics. Some contributions in this
volume are from his colleagues and reflect his influence as both a
business ethics teacher and as a scholar. Others are the result of
a conference held in June, 2011 at the University of Tasmania by
the Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics.
Those contributions too reflect Patrick's influence and also argue
themes which Patrick would have fully endorsed.
This is an essential guide to understanding how to live a healthy
life. The book includes natural keys to healing your body and mind,
preventing viruses and free radical damage, stoking your immune
system with vital nutrients, and much more.
It's no secret that the 1%-the business elite that commands the
largest corporations and the connected network of public and
private institutions-exercise enormous control over the US
government. While this control is usually attributed to campaign
donations and lobbying, Levers of Power argues that corporate power
derives from control over the economic resources on which daily
life depends. Government officials must constantly strive to keep
capitalists happy, lest they go on "capital strike"-that is, refuse
to invest in particular industries or locations, or move their
holdings to other countries-and therefore impose material hardship
on specific groups or the economy as a whole. For this reason, even
politicians who are not dependent on corporations for their
electoral success must fend off the interruption of corporate
investment. Levers of Power documents the pervasive power of
corporations and other institutions with decision-making control
over large pools of capital, particularly the Pentagon. It also
shows that the most successful reform movements in recent US
history-for workers' rights, for civil rights, and against
imperialist wars-succeeded by directly targeting the corporations
and other institutional adversaries that initiated and benefitted
from oppressive policies. Though most of today's social movements
focus on elections and politicians, movements of the 99% are most
effective when they inflict direct costs on corporations and their
allied institutions. This strategy is also more conducive to
building a revolutionary mass movement that can replace current
institutions with democratic alternatives.
"Michael Schwartz's book is really three books in one--an analysis
of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive
social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy
economy and the system of institutionalized racism and
authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the
fragile economic arrangement); a theoretical analysis of the
origins, mobilization, and outcome of insurgent challenges; and a
meticulous application of that theory to the rise and collapse of
the Populist movement."--Craig Jenkins, "Theory and Society
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