Dirty Hands and Loyalty in Organisational Politics

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Provis
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Dirty Hands ◽  
Organisation Theory ◽  
Political Obligations ◽  
Initial Question ◽  
Close Personal Relationship ◽  
Organisational Politics

Abstract:Organisational politics can raise the problem of “dirty hands,” illustrated in this paper by an example drawn from a textbook on organisation theory. The initial question is whether the main character has different ethical and political obligations, but this leads on to the question to what extent we can distinguish various different categories of obligation. The example may be of special interest because of the importance of close personal relationship in organisational politics, which brings the dirty hands problem together with the question to what extent friendships generate distinctive obligations. However, it is doubtful whether the allocation of obligations to different categories can be sustained in a useful way. It may be that we can put aside loyalty to an organisation, as a consideration which does not generate any distinctive obligation, but balancing other factors against one another may require the sort of judgment that has sometimes been called “political wisdom,” and sometimes “moral imagination.”

scholarly journals Ethics in Context: The Thessalonians and their neighbours

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham J. Malherbe
Keyword(s):  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Ethical Teaching ◽  
Moral Model ◽  
Close Personal Relationship

First Thessalonians was written within a few months, following the conversion of Paul’s Greek readers, and reflects how his ethical teaching was part of his proclamation. Paul’s preaching of the gospel, intimately connected with the kind of person he was, brought about a close personal relationship between him and his converts. Whilst he stood as a moral model for them, he nevertheless spoke for God, and thus, his ethical instruction was grounded theologically. His converts would have understood how moral dicta, with which they were familiar, were derived from philosophy, but not from religion, as Jews and Christians held. In the overtly paraenetic sections of the letter (ch. 4 and 5), Paul was at great pains to underline this connection, which was the main point he was making. 

scholarly journals Jos Bouckaert als Mensch und Wissenschaftler aus deutscher Sicht [Jos Bouckaert, his person and his scientific career as seen from a German viewpoint]

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 395-403
Author(s):  
Werner KASIG
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
Northern Boundary ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Close Personal Relationship ◽  
Scientific Results

In the second half of the 20th century a trend-setting co-operation was formed in the research on the geology of the Upper Palaeozoic (Devonian - Carboniferous) at the northern boundary of the „Linksrheinische Schiefergebirge" and the Ardennes. This led to several fundamental scientific results. A major contribution in this regard was made by Jos Bouckaert and his students. The foundation for this was certainly in his brilliant personality. He understood perfectly how to bring geologists together on joined projects and inspire them alike and beyond any political boundaries. From this came the close personal relationship, which lasted for several decades.

Property rights and personal relationships: reflections on reform

Legal Studies ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 414-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mee
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
New South ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Close Personal Relationship ◽  
The Law ◽  
Point Of Departure

This paper considers the possible reform of the law governing property rights upon the termination of a close personal relationship, taking as its point of departure the Law Commission's Discussion Paper on Home-Sharing (2002). Having considered the reasons for the inconclusive outcome of the Law Commission's project (and the Discussion Paper's comments on the law of trusts), the paper moves on to consider the possible shape of future reform. It examines first the preliminary question of whether possible legislation should focus on unmarried cohabitees or whether a wider range of relationships should be encompassed (with or without a cohabitation requirement), The paper then looks at the form which a legislative scheme might take, examining the possibility of focusing on contributions (along the lines of New South Wales’ legislation) and the Law Society's proposals for a regime based on‘economic advantage and disadvantage’. The experience of the courts in the matrimonial context is considered with a view to extracting relevant lessons. In general, rather defending one particular model for reform, the paper attempts to identify and explore key issues which will be of relevance across a variety of approaches to reform.

S. Bobrov’s Poem «Ancient Night of the Universe, or the Wandering Blind» and the Concept of Russian Freemasonry of the XVIII–Early XIX Centuries

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Anna Bulgakova
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Image Formation ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Ethical Systems

The purpose of the article is to study the poem «The Ancient Night of the Universe, or the Wandering Blind» by Semyon Bobrov from the viewpoint of the doctrine belonged to Russian Freemasonry of the 18th –early 19th centuries. It is based on a combinationof mystical, esoteric, Christian (Orthodox) and en-lightening ideas which allowed this movement to organically fit into the socio-cultural context of the pre-romantic epoch. The analysis of the poem as a philo-sophical, allegorical and esoteric text, in turn, has revealed Russian Freema-sonry’s specificity consisted in the close interaction of various religious, philo-sophical and ethical systems. The special eclecticism of S. Bobrov’s thinking is reflected in the onto-logical, epistemological and axiological problems of the poem and expressed at all levels of the poetic text such as ideological-thematic, figurative, composi-tional and poetological ones. «Dreamy mysticism», consonant with the pre-romantic worldview, creates a general atmosphere of mystery in thepoem and serves as the basis for the image formation of Nesham, the main character, as well as a system of symbols (an eye, a ray, a circle, a temple, a mirror, an oil lamp, etc.). Moreover, S. Bobrov builds the poem structure according to the cat-egories and principles of esoteric thinking like universal correspondences, liv-ing nature (the world as a «chain of being»), mediation and imagination, trans-mutation and concordance. At the same time, a special place in the poem is occupied by the ideas of inner freedom and morality, mercy and compassion, which testifies to the poet’s closeness to Orthodox culture. S. Bobrov’s human-istic orientation, special interest to the category of intellect and attention to epistemological problems testify an «enlightenment» trace in the poet’s worldview. Thereby, the combination of heterogeneous religious, philosophical and cultural concepts in S. Bobrov’s work can be explained by the poet’s close-ness to Russian masons of the 18th –early 19th centuries.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Egon Eiermann: The Dictate of Order

1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Immo Boyken ◽  
Hans J. Oestmann
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
World War ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Close Personal Relationship ◽  
Mies Van Der Rohe

A comparison of the works of two of Germany's most important architects, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Egon Eiermann, reveals two similar but subtly different approaches to theory and design in the years following World War II. While there is no evidence of a close personal relationship between the two architects, their theoretical views were largely compatible. Both believed in the "universal validity" of pre-determined architectural forms, and they adhered closely to the principle of architectural "order." Eiermann's designs, however, are never as rigid as those of Mies, and he made many more allowances for technology and human need in his buildings. As a result, Eiermann's architecture is characterized today by a certain charm that sets it apart from the strict formalism of Mies van der Rohe.

Crystalloid Inclusions in Hepatocyte Mitochondria and Their Similarity to Cytoplasmic Crystalloids

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 198-199
Author(s):  
Odell T. Minick ◽  
Hidejiro Yokoo
Keyword(s):  
Liver Disease ◽  
Alcoholic Liver Disease ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Structural Variations ◽  
Mitochondrial Alterations ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Crystalloid Inclusions ◽  
Liver Biopsies

Mitochondrial alterations were studied in 25 liver biopsies from patients with alcoholic liver disease. Of special interest were the morphologic resemblance of certain fine structural variations in mitochondria and crystalloid inclusions. Four types of alterations within mitochondria were found that seemed to relate to cytoplasmic crystalloids.Type 1 alteration consisted of localized groups of cristae, usually oriented in the long direction of the organelle (Fig. 1A). In this plane they appeared serrated at the periphery with blind endings in the matrix. Other sections revealed a system of equally-spaced diagonal lines lengthwise in the mitochondrion with cristae protruding from both ends (Fig. 1B). Profiles of this inclusion were not unlike tangential cuts of a crystalloid structure frequently seen in enlarged mitochondria described below.

Grammatical Morpheme Intervention Issues for Students Who Use AAC

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Binger
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Research Results ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Grammar Acquisition ◽  
Device Use

Abstract Many children who use AAC experience difficulties with acquiring grammar. At the 9th Annual Conference of ASHA's Special Interest Division 12, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Binger presented recent research results from an intervention program designed to facilitate the bound morpheme acquisition of three school-aged children who used augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Results indicated that the children quickly began to use the bound morphemes that were taught; however, the morphemes were not maintained until a contrastive approach to intervention was introduced. After the research results were presented, the conference participants discussed a wide variety of issues relating to grammar acquisition for children who use AAC. Some of the main topics of discussion included the following: provision of supports for grammar comprehension and expression, intervention techniques to support grammatical morpheme acquisition, and issues relating to AAC device use when teaching grammatical morpheme use.

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