This book is premised upon the assumption that the core purpose of universities is to create, preserve, transmit, validate, and find new applications for knowledge. It is written in the perspective of critical university studies, in which university governance processes should take ideas and discourse about ideas seriously, far more seriously than they are often taken within many of today's universities, since doing so is the key to achieving this purpose. Specifically, we assert that the best way for universities to take ideas seriously, and so to best achieve their purpose, is to consciously recognize and conserve the entire range of available ideas. Though the current emphasis upon factors such as student headcounts, increased efficiency and job creation are undoubtedly important, far more is at stake in universities than only these factors. From this premise, we deduce insights and arguments about academic freedom, as well as factors such as control and monitoring of the market place of ideas, the structure of information flows within universities, the role of language in university governance, and relationships between administrators, faculty members and students. We identify impediments to achieving the core purpose of universities, including the idea vetting systems of authoritarianism, corporatism, illiberalism, supernaturalism and political correctness. We elucidate how these impediments inhibit successful achievement of the core purpose of the university. In response to these impediments we prescribe relatively autonomous universities characterized by openness, transparency, dissent, and the maintenance of balance between conflicting perspectives, values, and interests.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Wie lebten homosexuelle, bi-, trans- und intersexuelle Menschen in der NS-Zeit? Welchen Verfolgungsmassnahmen waren sie ausgesetzt? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet der vorliegende Sammelband, fur den das Institut fur Zeitgeschichte Munchen-Berlin und die Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld verantwortlich zeichnen. Dabei stehen nicht nur Polizei und Justiz im Fokus, sondern auch die politisch-administrative und die gesellschaftliche Repression. UEberdies zeigen die Autorinnen und Autoren die ganze Vielfalt von Lebenssituationen auf - von Isolation uber Tolerierung bis zur Unterstutzung des Regimes. Neben der vergleichsweise gut erforschten Geschichte homosexueller Frauen und Manner geht es dabei auch um die bisher wenig beachteten Gruppen bi-, trans- und intersexueller Menschen - ein Ansatz, der Licht in ein kaum bekanntes Kapitel der Gesellschaftsgeschichte des Dritten Reichs bringt.

This volume constitutes the first compilation of work by leading international scholars who have adopted a structural approach to the study of business. It argues that corporate behavior cannot be understood in terms of the actions of individual firms alone, and that in order to understand how businesses operate, it is necessary to explore the relationships among them. It contains position statements by leading spokespersons for the two major structural perspectives on intercorporate relations--the resource dependence and social class views; essays on markets, money, and relations between corporations and cities; analyses of business structures in Europe, Latin America, Japan and the United States; and a chapter on transnational business relations. The volume as a whole will demonstrate to a wider public the significance and value of a structural approach to business studies.

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.

Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen die funfziger Jahre der DDR, in denen die DDR-Gesellschaft ihre wesentliche Formierung erlebte. Es wird versucht, der Entwicklung aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln der DDR-Gesellschaft gerecht zu werden. Wie und inwieweit bewirkte die durch den allgemeinen Umgestaltungsprozess ausgeloste gesellschaftliche Dynamik auch eine Teilakzeptanz des Regimes? Inwiefern verursachte die fehlende Akzeptanz der Gesellschaft umgekehrt auch politische Kursanderungen oder zumindest Kurswechsel? Die "exogenen" Faktoren der DDR-Entwicklung - die sowjetische Hegemonie und die deutsche Zweistaatlichkeit - werden sowohl in zwei separaten Aufsatzen als auch in den ubrigen Beitragen angemessen berucksichtigt. Aus dem Inhalt: Dierk Hoffmann/Michael Schwartz/Hermann Wentker Einleitung Gerhard A. Ritter, Traditionen und Bruche: Die DDR in den funfziger Jahren I. Determinanten Jan Foitzik Sowjetische Hegemonie und Ostintegration der DDR Hermann Wentker Die gesamtdeutsche Systemkonkurrenz und die durchlassige innerdeutsche Grenze. Herausforderung und Aktionsrahmen fur die DDR in den funfziger Jahren II. Die DDR-Arbeitsgesellschaft zwischen Egalisierung und Ungleichheit Christoph Klessmann "Fuhrende Klasse," Sozialpolitik und Egalisierung in der DDR Dierk Hoffmann Die Beseitigung der Arbeitslosigkeit in der DDR Peter Hubner Diktatur und Betrieb in der fruhen DDR (1949-1961). Aspekte einer schwierigen Beziehung Marcel Boldorf Die Marginalisierung der Sozialfursorge als Gradmesser fur den Aufbau des Sozialismus (1949-1961) III. "Aufbaugesellschaft" und Lebensstandards Burghard Ciesla "All das bremst uns, kann uns aber nicht aufhalten." Wohlstandsversprechen und Wirtschaftswachstum: Grundprobleme der SED-Wirtschaftspolitik in den funfziger Jahren Michael Schwartz Kriegsfolgelasten und "Aufbaugesellschaft": Vertriebene, Bombengeschadigte und Kriegsbeschadigte in den langen funfziger Jahren der DDR Judd Stitziel Konsumpolitik zwischen "Sortimentslucken" und "Uberplanbestanden" in der DDR der 1950er Jahre IV. Konflikte zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft Gunther Heydemann/Heidi Roth Systembedingte Konfliktpotentiale in der DDR der funfziger Jahre: Die Universitat Leipzig in den Jahren 1953, 1956 und 1961 Peter Skyba Massenorganisation ohne Massen. Jugendpolitik, Militarisierung und das Scheitern der FDJ V. Staatliche Perzeptionen und Krisenmanagement Elke Scherstjanoi/Ralph Sowart Vergleichende Betrachtungen zu Krisenverlauf, Krisenwahrnehmung und Krisenmanagement 1952/53 und 1960/61 Henrik Bispinck "Republikflucht": Flucht und Ausreise als Problem fur die DDR-Fuhrung Matthias Uhl "Westberlin stellt also ein grosses Loch inmitten unserer Republik dar." Die militarischen und politischen Planungen Moskaus und Ost-Berlins zum Mauerbau Kurt Sontheimer Der Bau der Berliner Mauer und seine Folgen"

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.

Inhalt: Klaus-Dietmar Henke: Zur politischen Auswirkung kollektiver Schlusselerfahrungen 1944/45 Adolf M. Birke: Die Siegermacht Grossbritannien Dieter Marc Schneider: Franzosische Besatzungspolitik in Deutschland Helmut Altrichter: Ziele und Konzeptionen sowjetischer Deutschlandpolitik 1945/46 Rainer Kalsch/Burghard Ciesla: Wandlungen der sowjetischen Reparationspolitik und ihre Umsetzung 1945/46 Wolfgang Merker: Konstituierung und Ausrichtung der SBZ-Verwaltungsspitze durch die SMAD Natalja Timofejewa: Das deutsche humanistische Erbe und die Politik der SMAD Gerhard Besier: Kommunistische Religionspolitik und kirchlicher Neuanfang 1945/46 Horst Dahn: Grundzuge der Kirchenpolitik der SMAD und KPD/SED Gunter Braun: Konturen, Probleme und Perspektiven der Arbeiterbewegung in der SBZ Hermann Wentker: Die Anfange der burgerlichen Parteien unter den Bedingungen der sowjetischen Besatzung Jurgen Falter/Cornelia Weins: Die Wahlen in der Sowjetisch Besetzten Zone von 1946 Michael Schwartz: Soziale und politische Dimensionen des Vertriebenenproblems in der fruhen SBZ Dierck Hoffmann: Kontinuitat und Wandel beim Aufbau der ostdeutschen Sozialversicherung 1945-1947 Michael Buddrus: Anmerkungen zur Jugendpolitik in der KPD 1945/46 Kerstiun Thons: Die Jugendfursorge in der SBZ im Spannungsfeld kommunistischer Programmatik Aus der Presse: " Der Band vermittelt eine Fulle von Kenntnissen und Einsichten, von denen beispielsweise der Nachweis, dass sozialpolitische Reformen, die in der Wimarer Republik von der SPD geplant worden waren, in der SBZ realisiert wurden, nicht am geringsten einzuschatzen ist." (Das Historisch-Politische Buch 47/5 / 2000)"