In Australia, there are only two publicly reported disciplinary cases against specialist medical administrators. In the most recent decision of Medical Board of Australia v Gruner, the Victorian ...Civil and Administrative Tribunal confirmed that specialist medical administrators owe patients and the public the same professional obligations as medical practitioners with direct patient contact. More controversially, the Tribunal also held that medical administrators have a professional obligation only to accept roles with clear position descriptions that afford them sufficient time and resources to ensure the safe delivery of health services. We argue that this imposes unrealistic expectations on medical administrators engaged by rural, regional, or private health services that already struggle to attract and retain specialist medical expertise. This may exacerbate existing health inequalities by disincentivising specialist medical administrators from seeking fractional appointments that assist under-funded areas of workforce shortage.
To stabilise climate change, fossil fuel businesses must accept responsibility for their part in the deterioration of environmental circumstances. Unfortunately, the regulatory structure is ...inadequate, making it challenging to hold fossil fuel businesses accountable. There is a significant increase in lawsuits against fossil fuel companies to make them accountable for their pollution. This study analyses litigations to hold fossil fuel companies responsible for climate change. We illustrate the present disadvantages, which can only be altered by crafting considerable modifications to business conduct's legal and ethical framework. The Social Contract Theory of Thomas Hobbes could be used to describe how businesses may be held accountable in the contemporary global economic system by re-engaging the social contract between citizens and government. This study contributes to the literature on climate change by stressing the convergence between fossil fuel firms' legal and ethical responsibilities to achieve genuine emission reduction through negotiating a new social contract.
•Our study demonstrates the inadequacy of climate change litigations with the following arguments.•Current market economy system fails to extend adequate agency to corporations to address climate change as their problem.•Companies employ shortcuts to navigate stringent legal systems by transferring rather than reducing polluting actions.•Litigations do not contribute substantially towards mitigating climate change as successful litigations are rare.•Most climate change cases are pending due to inadequate legislation and legal framework across jurisdictions.
Nurses have moral obligations incurred by membership in the profession to participate knowingly in health policy advocacy. Many barriers have historically hindered nurses from realizing their ...potential to advance health policy. The contemporary political context sets additional challenges to policy work due to polarization and conflict. Nursing education can help nurses recognize their role in advancing health through political advocacy in a manner that is consistent with disciplinary knowledge and ethical responsibilities. In this paper, the authors describe an exemplar of Elizabeth Barrett's “Power as Knowing Participation in Change” theory as a disciplinary lens within a doctoral nursing health policy course. Barrett (radically) emphasizes “power as freedom” instead of “power as control.” This approach is congruent with nursing disciplinary values and enhances awareness of personal freedom and building collaborative relationships in the policy process. The theory was used in concert with other traditional policy content and frameworks from nursing and other disciplines. We discuss the role of nursing ethics viewed as professional responsibility for policy action, an overview of Barrett's theory, and the design of the course. Four student reflections on how the course influenced their thinking about policy advocacy are included. While not specific to policymaking, Barrett's theory provides a disciplinary grounding to increase students' awareness of freedom and choices in political advocacy participation. Our experience suggests that Barrett's work can be fruitful for enhancing nurses' awareness of choices to participate in change across settings.
Little if any of the scholarly literature on nanotechnology (NT) and ethics is directed at NT researchers. Many of these practitioners believe that having clear ethical guidelines for the conduct of ...NT research is necessary. This work attempts to provide such guidelines. While no qualitatively new ethical issues unique to NT have yet been identified, the ethical responsibilities identified below merit serious attention by NT researchers. Thirteen specific ethical responsibilities arising at three levels are identified. They are derived by applying four fundamental ethical responsibilities of scientists and engineers to the specific conditions of NT research and researchers in contemporary Western societies. Since society is placing increasing importance on producing scientists and engineers who combine high technical competence with a sensitive ethical compass, study of the ethical dimension of NT, including the identified ethical responsibilities, should become a required element of the formal education of all NT researchers.
AbstractCorporate social responsibility (CSR) serves as a company strategy to fulfill ethical responsibilities in business. However, CSR requires conceptual support to operationalize this strategy at ...the individual level. This study aims to analyze the mediating role of CSR in the effect of responsible leadership on organizational citizenship behavior. The research method used in this study was an explanatory survey. A questionnaire was distributed to 230 randomly recruited respondents from the four largest cement companies in Indonesia (196 men and 34 women). The data were analyzed using SEM variance with partial least squares (PLS-SEM) technique. The results showed that responsible leadership affected organizational citizenship behavior directly and indirectly. In this regard, CSR should be organized based on ethical considerations to maintain balance among stakeholders. Conclusion: CSR as a strategy to achieve a balance between mediate some of the influence of responsible leadership on organizational citizenship behavior. Theoretical implications: the need to develop CSR concepts based on stakeholder theory perspectives to maintain the balance of interests of the company’s stakeholders. Practical implications: CSR implementation aims to strengthen the internal structure in terms of staffing which ultimately strengthens the organizational structure to realize organizational citizenship behavior.
Emancipatory Photovoice Research: A Primer Evans-Agnew, Robin A.; Rosemberg, Marie-Anne S.; Boutain, Doris M.
Health promotion practice,
03/2022, Letnik:
23, Številka:
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Photovoice can be more than a research method for communities to identify and mitigate social oppressions. Photovoice has the potential for emancipatory outcomes and the transformation of power ...relations. This article serves as a primer for beginning researchers who are new to the emancipatory power of the photovoice method or for advanced researchers who would like to re-imagine their current use of the photovoice method to an emancipatory approach that elevates and empowers. Our purpose is to provide a framework for deciding structures, processes, and outcomes of emancipatory photovoice. We specifically prescribe steps with respect to power relations among partners, design prompts or heuristics, and the anticipated and unanticipated outcomes. We base our perspectives on over a decade of photovoice research experiences. Emancipatory photovoice research, if implemented thoughtfully, can facilitate power sharing, collective learning, healing, and growth.
•This case has students manage transportation resources in a familiar school system setting based on actual real-world events.•Students use managerial accounting data analytic techniques to assess ...outsourcing decisions with capital budget analyses.•The case requires students to balance data analyses with considerations of ethical responsibilities.•Suggestions, solutions, spreadsheets, video and article resources are available.
In today’s competitive global environment, companies often wrestle with outsourcing decisions to manage operations. This fictional case inspired by recent actual events presents you with an outsourcing decision to manage a school’s educational operations and resources. The case provides you the opportunity to practice managerial accounting data analysis techniques using Excel to assess outsourcing decisions with capital budgeting analyses. You have the opportunity to connect and balance these data analyses with considerations of ethical responsibilities since both play critical roles in outsourcing decisions. To recognize ethical responsibilities, the case encourages use of the IMA Statement of Ethical Professional Practice. Because the case blends outsourcing decisions with capital budgeting data analyses and ethics, it is suitable in managerial accounting and accounting ethics courses. Additional teaching resources and materials bring the case to life and can help you connect the outsourcing challenges in a familiar and relatable local educational setting to corresponding larger-scale outsourcing challenges in international corporate settings.
To what extent do nanotechnology researchers discern specific work-related ethical responsibilities that are incumbent upon them? A questionnaire was designed and administered to answer this ...question. Analysis of responses to 11 ethical responsibility statements (ERSs) by 213 researchers at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility revealed widespread agreement about a number of work-related ethical responsibilities and substantial divergence in the views about several others. Explanations of this divergence are proposed. A new variable is defined that gauges the respondent’s overall level of discernment of the ethical responsibilities referenced in the ERSs. The mean discernment level score for respondents who had taken a course that included discussion of ethical issues closely related to science, technology, or engineering was significantly higher than for those who had not. Further, among respondents who had taken such a course, the mean discernment level score for those who had taken an ethics course devoted to exploration of ethical issues closely related to science, technology, or engineering was significantly higher than for those who had taken a technical science or engineering course that typically pays only fleeting attention to such issues. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Using a five-point Likert scale survey and a follow-up open-ended questionnaire, this study examined Chinese participants' perceptions of their ethical responsibilities as educational researchers as ...well as their ethical awareness as human subjects. The participants were 418 faculty and graduate students from two specific Chinese schools, where the first two educational research ethics committees were recently established in Chinese higher education. Results indicate that participants demonstrate basic understanding of their ethical responsibilities as educational researchers and develop their general sense of ethical awareness as human subjects. Further, there are significant gender, faculty versus graduate student status, and research experience effects on their perceptions of general ethical issues in educational research. Important implications for research ethics education in China are discussed.
