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Leadership ethical dimension: a requirement in TQM implementation
2002
Deals with theoretical arguments that justify why the leadership of managers and its ethical dimension is a powerful enabler for TQM efforts to sustain, together with a systematic management. Starts by setting out a multidimensional conception of leadership in which the ethical sphere is explicitly considered. The principles articulating TQM are then analysed, studying the role of leadership and its ethical dimension, in their implementation. Concludes with five propositions, stating that the explicit consideration of leadership’s ethical dimension is required in order to achieve a complete, deep and sustained deployment of TQM principles. Draws implications for managers and researchers.
A roadmap towards improving managed security services from a privacy perspective
2014
Published version of an article in the journal: Ethics and Information Technology. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-014-9348-3 This paper proposes a roadmap for how privacy leakages from outsourced managed security services using intrusion detection systems can be controlled. The paper first analyses the risk of leaking private or confidential information from signature-based intrusion detection systems. It then discusses how the situation can be improved by developing adequate privacy enforcement methods and privacy leakage metrics in order to control and reduce the leakage of private and confidential information over time. Such metrics should allow fo…
Ethical Considerations in Crowdfunding
2020
AbstractThe current chapter addresses ethical issues in crowdfunding practice from a multiple stakeholder perspective. It draws on ethical principles outlined in both classical and business-specific approaches. The discussion first presents classical approaches to ethical decision making. It then discusses whether crowdfunding presents an ethical solution or a source of ethical problems. Later, it suggests a framework presenting a classification of potential ethical dilemmas and pitfalls in crowdfunding practice, as well as potential means for addressing them. The discussion concludes with concrete implications for crowdfunding ethics research and practice.
Predictors of employees` ethical choices in corporate settings in Germany, Austria and China
2018
Atsevišķu darbinieku neētiska rīcība rada starptautiskiem uzņēmumiem juridisku, komerciālu un reputācijas risku. Līdz ar to uzņēmumi īsteno rīcības kodeksus arī to ārvalstu filiālēs. Bet kodekss nav garantija, ka darbavietā tiks novērsta neētiska rīcība. Ir jāizprot dažādu kultūru ietekme uz individuālām (ne)ētiskajām izvēlēm un šīs atšķirības jāiekļauj uzņēmumu atbilstības politikās. Pēc jauna teorētiskā modeļa izstrādes un 421 Vācijas, Austrijas un Ķīnas darbinieku aptaujas tika intervēti pieci eksperti attiecībā uz aptaujas rezultātu novērtējumu. Secinājumi liecina, ka sociāliem tīkliem un kontaktiem ar sociāli līdzvērtīgiem partneriem ir vislielākā ietekme uz darbinieku biznesa ētiskajā…
Designing Ethical AI in the Shadow of Hume’s Guillotine
2020
Artificially intelligent systems can collect knowledge regarding epistemic information, but can they be used to derive new values? Epistemic information concerns facts, including how things are in the world, and ethical values concern how actions should be taken. The operation of artificial intelligence (AI) is based on facts, but it require values. A critical question here regards Hume’s Guillotine, which claims that one cannot derive values from facts. Hume’s Guillotine appears to divide AI systems into two ethical categories: weak and strong. Ethically weak AI systems can be applied only within given value rules, but ethically strong AI systems may be able to generate new values from fac…
Professionals’ views on children’s service user involvement
2021
Purpose Children are gradually attaining recognition as service users and their involvement in service development has been advanced in recent years. This study draws on empirical research in social and health-care services designed for children and families. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how professionals understand children’s involvement as experts by experience. The focus is on professionals’ views and intergenerational relations. Design/methodology/approach The research data comprise 25 individual and 10 group interviews with managers and professionals working in social and health-care services in one Finnish province. The data were analysed using qualitative thematic analysi…
Practitioners’ conceptions of ethical practice in social networking in career services
2018
AbstractThis article reports on a phenomenographic investigation into practitioners’ conceptions of ethical practice in social networking in career services. The results show that ethical practice was conceived as stemming from: (1) an information orientation, (2) a networking orientation, (3) an educational orientation, and (4) a collaborative orientation. Differences appeared along six dimensions including: approach, activities, level of usage, perception, strategy and ethical principles. The findings give us a more profound understanding of critical aspects that may have an important role in relation to further developments and the successful implementation of existing and emerging techn…
A Risk-Based Approach for Mitigating Ethical Lapses
2019
In early 2008, the CEO of Volkswagen announced a 10-year plan that called for tripling the company’s U.S. sales by 2018. The executive gave marching orders to engineers to come up with a new technology that would enable VW to lower emissions of the new cars. The engineers failed to come up with a device that could do the job. Instead they deployed a defeating software would defeat the testing process. The 2009 VW Jetta clean diesel was launched in April 2008 and followed by the introduction of similarly equipped VW Golfs and Audi A3s. Over 145,000 vehicles were sold in the U.S. in three years. The scheme was eventually exposed, costing the company millions of dollars. This paper describes t…
Excluding identities through ethical regulation: A Levinasian analysis of managerial practices to combat ill-treatment
2019
Thème du congrès : « Enlightening the Future:The Challenge for Organizations, Sub-theme 15: ‘Faking It’: Identity Work in an Age of Exclusion; International audience
Starppaaudžu attiecību ētiskie aspekti A. Smitas romānos "Rudens" un "Ziema"
2021
Kopš 20. gadsimta vidus demogrāfisko, tehnoloģisko un sociālpolitisko izmaiņu rezultātā pasaulē vienlaikus līdzāspastāv vairākas paaudzes ar izteikti atšķirīgām iezīmēm. Ir svarīgi uzturēt konstruktīvu, atvērtu dialogu starp dažadājām paaudzēm. Literatūra var piedāvāt telpu neierobežotai dialogu dažādībai. Ali Smitas gadalaiku kvartets ir uzrakstīts esošā laika solī, tādejādi atspoguļojot pašreizējos sociālos un politiskos notikumus Anglijā. Šā darba mērķis ir analizēt literāros paņēmienus, ar kuru palīdzību Ali Smita iesaista diskusijā par neatliekamiem ētikas un politikas jautājumiem starppaaudžu dialogā. Ali Smitas romānu “Rudens” un “Ziema” uzmanīga lasīšana atklāj, ka Smita patiesu not…