Radioactive waste management ethics and public policy: a precautionary approach

The focus of the project is on how to regulate risky technologies, both old (such as nuclear waste management) and new (such as geoengineering). Thus, the project is aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the ethical, political, and socio-economic aspects of radioactive waste management-related risks. The goal of the project is to contribute to the current discussions on the case of the expansion of the Hungarian Nuclear Power Plant. The Paks II project allows us to present how to set up procedures where some radioactive waste-related risks will not derail decision-makers and how they can be held accountable by the public. The case of Paks II is also compelling; as of today there are only 19 countries in the world that are in the process of new reactor building (World Nuclear Association, 2021). The project is aimed at providing and defending a precautionary approach to radioactive waste management because it involves high levels of uncertainty and the possibility of causing irreversible harm on a global scale. When investigating procedural principles of radioactive waste management policies by three types of precautionary approaches, the project will look at risks that stem from the displacement of politics in public consultations in relation to large infrastructural projects. The practices of the emerging era of public engagement tap into the current debates on democratic politics in political theory with the emergence of deliberative democracy (Bohman and Rehg, 1997; Dryzek, 2000; Gutmann and Thompson, 2009), and radical democracy (Laclau and Mouffe, 2001; Mouffe, 1999, 2000). Specific attention will be paid to the fragmentation of public along with technical and non-technical, local and national, site-specific and general issues, and the role of different political platforms (public exhibition events, consultation documents, and public engagement sessions) in the way in which the political is displaced from the arena of public inquiries to legal challenges and debates about boundaries and geographies.

Management and Business Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to Special Issue

This special issue focuses on the developments in ethical standards in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) including the former Soviet Union. Over thirty years have elapsed since the demise of the Soviet Bloc and, despite some common institutional features, the societies have had very different experiences with uneven developments across the region since the collapse of communism. In this special issue, the authors explore business and management ethics situated within the context of the challenges that face these still transforming post-communist societies. The papers cover a range of issues and countries including Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia. Potential further avenues for research are identified in the field of business ethics in post-communist societies.

The Good Place in Your Classroom: Recommendations for Teaching Management Ethics

The sitcom The Good Place can be used by management instructors to teach ethical frameworks and concepts. This series, familiar to many undergraduate students in the US, features a Professor of Ethics and Moral Philosophy who gives mini lectures applied to what the characters are experiencing. These mini lectures can be shown to undergraduates studying ethics in a full course or as a subsection of courses such as management, organizational behavior, or leadership. This article provides information on particular clips that management instructors can use, recommendations for discussion topics with prompts provided, and a comparative pedagogical analysis of using this resource.

Gaya Kepemimpinan Kepala Madrasah dalam Meningkatkan Etika Manajemen di MAN 1 Kota Jambi

This study aims to describe the leadership style of madrasah heads in improving management ethics in MAN 1 Jambi City. This study uses qualitative methods. Data collection techniques using observations, interviews, and documentation. The results found that in improving management ethics in madrasah, the principal adhered to a democratic leadership style. The application of democratic leadership to establish management ethics goes well, resulting in positive values such as values of service orientation, integrity, commitment, discipline, cooperation and all actions based on ethical criteria, namely in terms of benefits, the fulfillment of rights, the justice side, and the maintenance side. There are three values of management ethics obtained, namely personal value as an ethical standard, terminal value (purpose); and instrumental value.

Corporate social reporting and assurance: The state of the art

Este trabajo realiza una revisión de la literatura sobre verificación y divulgación de información sobre responsabilidad social corporativa basada en 320 artículos en las 36 revistas principales indexadas en el Journal Citation Reports del Thomson Reuters InCities en las categorías de Business, Finance (Accounting), Management, Ethics y otras categorías relacionadas con Environmental Sciences/Planning and Development. El marco propuesto para el análisis se enfoca en los predictores de la verificación y divulgación de información social y medioambiental, categorizados en factores individuales, organizativos e institucionales; así como en los impactos, clasificándolos en externos (reacciones del mercado) o internos (resultado empresarial). Además, determinamos los moderadores y mediadores con el fin de examinar si la relación entre la verificación y la divulgación de información sobre responsabilidad social y sus predictores e impactos cambia. La revisión revela importantes lagunas en el estado actual de la investigación, permitiéndonos plantear sugerencias sobre futuras investigaciones. This research reviews the corporate social responsibility disclosure literature based on 330 articles in the 36 main journals in the Thomson Reuters InCities Journal Citation Reports categories of Business, Finance (Accounting), Management, Ethics and others related to Environmental Sciences/Planning and Development. The framework includes predictors of socially responsible disclosure and assurance related to individual, organizational and institutional factors, as well as impacts that we classify as external (i.e., market reactions) or internal (i.e., firm performance). In addition, we establish the moderator and mediator variables with a view to examining whether the relationship between social responsibility reporting/assurance services and its predictors and impacts change. The review reveals important research gaps that allow us to provide suggestions about future research in terms of empirical perspectives.

An international survey on AI in radiology in 1041 radiologists and radiology residents part 2: expectations, hurdles to implementation, and education

Objectives Currently, hurdles to implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology are a much-debated topic but have not been investigated in the community at large. Also, controversy exists if and to what extent AI should be incorporated into radiology residency programs. Methods Between April and July 2019, an international survey took place on AI regarding its impact on the profession and training. The survey was accessible for radiologists and residents and distributed through several radiological societies. Relationships of independent variables with opinions, hurdles, and education were assessed using multivariable logistic regression. Results The survey was completed by 1041 respondents from 54 countries. A majority (n = 855, 82%) expects that AI will cause a change to the radiology field within 10 years. Most frequently, expected roles of AI in clinical practice were second reader (n = 829, 78%) and work-flow optimization (n = 802, 77%). Ethical and legal issues (n = 630, 62%) and lack of knowledge (n = 584, 57%) were mentioned most often as hurdles to implementation. Expert respondents added lack of labelled images and generalizability issues. A majority (n = 819, 79%) indicated that AI should be incorporated in residency programs, while less support for imaging informatics and AI as a subspecialty was found (n = 241, 23%). Conclusions Broad community demand exists for incorporation of AI into residency programs. Based on the results of the current study, integration of AI education seems advisable for radiology residents, including issues related to data management, ethics, and legislation. Key Points • There is broad demand from the radiological community to incorporate AI into residency programs, but there is less support to recognize imaging informatics as a radiological subspecialty. • Ethical and legal issues and lack of knowledge are recognized as major bottlenecks for AI implementation by the radiological community, while the shortage in labeled data and IT-infrastructure issues are less often recognized as hurdles. • Integrating AI education in radiology curricula including technical aspects of data management, risk of bias, and ethical and legal issues may aid successful integration of AI into diagnostic radiology.

The Internalization of Immersive Virtual Teaching Approach in Management Ethics and Corporate Governance Course at Sultan Idris Education University: A Panacea to Teaching and Learning Issues during COVID-19 Pandemic

Our study examines the impact of immersive virtual teaching style on student’s performance in Management Ethics and Corporate Governance course at Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia. We perform learning activities in Management Ethics and Corporate Governance course using (1) Interactive Teaching Video (2) Edutainment Video (3) Massive Open Online Course & Facebook Group (4) Kahoot, as well as (5) Outside learning activities. We acknowledge that an issues on student’s engagement and performance are always become the center of attraction for many practitioners of e-learning, especially during COVID-19 pandemic where school and universities need to be closed and e-learning is taking over all of the traditional face to face classroom method. We therefore, intend to compare the performance of students that have been taught using (i) traditional approach of “chalk and talk” in Management Ethics and Corporate Governance course and (ii) Immersive Virtual Teaching approach where blended learning is widely executed in delivering and conveying the knowledge to the students. Our sample comprises of 71 students in Semester A171 and 134 Students in Semester A172, where in Semester A171 sample, students were exposed with traditional “chalk & talk” teaching approach, while in the Semester A172, an Immersive Virtual learning approach has been employed. Our result exhibit that the student’s performance in Semester A172 is significantly higher in the various assessment evaluation that had been conducted when compared to the performance of the students in Semester A171. We also document that the utilization of Immersive Virtual Teaching approach increases student’s engagement, improve student’s motivation and boost up student’s excitement to learn more about the course.

The role of management ethics on administrative creativity – An applied study on a group of school administrators in the Asir educational region –: دور أخلاقيات الإدارة على الإبداع الإداري – دراسة تطبيقية على مجموعة من الإداريات بالمدارس بمطقة عسير التعليمية –

This study aimed to address the issue of the role of management ethics on administrative creativity, an applied study on a group of school administrators in the Asir educational region - Khamis Mushait Governorate, and the study used the descriptive and analytical approach, and where the questionnaire was used as a main tool for data collection in this study, and the study reached a number of Among the most important results are: the presence of a statistically significant effect of administrative ethics in its dimensions on administrative creativity in the school administrations of the Asir educational region, and that there are no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α = 0.05) in the responses of the respondents on management ethics and administrative creativity in the school administrations of the Asir region In Khamis Mushayt governorate, the following demographic variables are attributed to (gender - age - years of experience - job title - workplace), and there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α = 0.05) in the responses of the respondents on management ethics and administrative creativity in the school administrations of the Asir region of the governorate Khamis Mushait attributed to the variable (scientific qualification), and based on these results, the researcher recommended a set of recommendations, the most important of which are: The need to increase The school administrations have created a research and development unit that undertakes the task of studying ways of creativity at the school level.