Search results for "Neutrality"

Neutral Reputation and Public Sector Organizations

2007

Despite the strides taken in reputation research during recent decades, the reputation of public sector organizations has remained rather neglected. Public sector organizations often measure intangibles with instruments designed for corporations, although their raison d’etre differs fundamentally from that of the latter. This paper attempts to fill the gap in reputation research on public sector organizations by developing the proposition that for public sector organizations a neutral rather than excellent reputation is ideal, as neutrality enables a critical operating distance, and the resources for maintaining an excellent reputation are scarce. To test the idea of neutral reputation in p…

Conoscere il diritto

2023

Il modo di concepire la conoscenza del diritto varia nel corso del tempo ed è influenzato da molteplici fattori. Seguendo Norberto Bobbio è possibile distinguere due modelli ideal-tipici di giurista: il “custode” di un diritto pre-esistente e il “creatore” di un diritto perennemente in fieri e indeterminato. Tale alternativa è tuttavia soltanto apparente; anche quando la scienza giuridica postula l’esistenza di un diritto-oggetto in attesa di essere conosciuto, essa in effetti non fa altro che presupporre una immagine ideologicamente caratterizzata del diritto. Di conseguenza, lo studioso del diritto non è mai un osservatore neutrale. Così anche il diritto-oggetto “custodito” dalla scienza …

Muzeum jako instytucja odpowiedzialna społecznie. Rola muzeum w debacie na temat zmian klimatycznych

2019

W artykule analizuję możliwości zaangażowania muzeum w problem zmian klimatycznych. Zagadnienie to jest na tyle istotną kwestią w dzisiejszym dyskursie społecznym, że pomimo jego trudnych konotacji politycznych nie może być pomijane przez muzea, szczególnie jeśli rozpatrujemy je jako instytucje sfery publicznej. Zmiana klimatu to jedno z największych wyzwań, z jakim musimy się zmierzyć w XXI w. Następstwa zmian klimatycznych są długotrwałe, wielowymiarowe i mają charakter globalny – będą miały również bezpośredni wpływ na przyszłą działalność muzeum. Muzeum – jako instytucja publiczna – nieustannie dostosowuje swoją ofertę do zmieniających się okoliczności społecznych. Zaangażowanie muzeum …

Finnish dairy farmers’ perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming

2022

Highlights • Finnish dairy farmers' perceptions of issues with carbon neutrality were examined. • Concerns include farming profitability, farmer blaming, and use of peatlands. • Public policy guidance is needed for carbon-neutral, sustainable agriculture. Environmental and political debate concerning the role of agriculture in sustainability has long been on the agenda. However, owing to climate change, an analysis of the transition to a low-carbon society must also be considered from the perspective of justice. Dairy farming, in particular, faces pressure in this context, when contemplating changing consumer behaviors and reduction in the carbon footprint of dairy products. Accordingly, ma…

Moderating cultural effects in a higher e-education context? Supervisor's tone of voice in recorded audio feedback

2017

Providing feedback to learners on their writing assignments is one of the most important and time-consuming tasks that a supervisor performs. In e-Education environments, especially in the case of distance learning, giving feedback becomes more challenging because there are often no opportunities for face-to-face interaction. Typically, a supervisor provides comments to learners in written form via email; however, the use of recorded audio feedback (RAF) in e-Education environments has become a viable alternative. This work in progress reports on learners’ perceptions of RAF in a multi-cultural higher eEducation context. Our observations indicate that learners tend to have positive feelings…

Neutralność światopoglądowa a katolickie wychowanie w polskiej szkole

2015

Gender Neutrality in Legislative Drafting Techniques. Where conventionality in English Language Meets Creativity in a Diachronic Perspective

2019

Over the last decades, proposals to modernise legislative drafting have been choral and among the specific causes generally mentioned there are sentences of undue length, overuse of archaic expressions, repeated definitions and expressions, partiality of nominalisations, lack of gender neutrality. The aim of this analysis is to explore the legislative techniques adopted by drafters of English-speaking countries over the last decades, who are asked to write legal sentences aiming at gender fair and symmetric representation of men and women. The issue examined from a lexico-grammatical perspective culminates in the proposed questions whether certain techniques used to implement gender-neutral…

Relazioni di genere e forme di dominio simbolico. Il caso della professione dell'assistente sociale

2019

The article highlights how the cultural models currently prevalent in some professional contexts in Italy - such as that of social workers - are still influenced by "male domination" (Bourdieu 1998). It develops a gender segregation that reproduces inequalities and asymmetries also in professional contexts traditionally female and imposes professional models based on "gender neutrality", which for the most part disregard relational and communicative skills fundamental in the care professions.

Review of carbon emissions offsetting guidelines using instructional criteria

2023

Abstract Purpose Carbon offsetting is one of the tools that companies can use to achieve their climate targets. The ability of a company to offset its emissions successfully depends on the availability and quality of guidance on the subject. This study explores how well existing offsetting guidelines equip corporations to achieve successful emissions offsetting. Methods Instructional criteria were developed and used to evaluate seven guidelines. The contents of each guideline were assessed based on how they instruct a company to achieve emissions offsetting that fulfills five criteria for appropriate offsetting: target affiliation, Paris compatibility, effectiveness, prioritizing removals, …

“GENDER NEUTRALITY” E “GENDER SEGREGATION” IN UNA PROFESSIONE TRADIZIONALMENTE FEMMINILE

2016

L’ingresso progressivo delle donne nel mondo del lavoro è stato accompagnato da una sostanziale “gender segregation”, che si evidenzia soprattutto in talune professioni di cura, fra cui quella dell’assistente sociale. Secondo l’autrice, non si è trattato solo, nel XX secolo, di separare foucultianamente le professioni maschili da quelle femminili, favorendo di fatto un ingresso di “genere” alle professioni, quanto di imporre un modello culturale e un habitus comportamentale “ gender neutrality” alle lavoratrici e alle professioniste. L’autrice individua una possibile causa dell’imposizione del modello “gender neutral” in un retaggio culturale “positivista e razionalista”, volto a sminuire ‒…