BAME Staff and Public Service Motivation: The Mediating Role of Perceived Fairness in English Local Government.Wen Wang &RogerSeifert -2018 -Journal of Business Ethics 161 (3):653-664.detailsThis study aims to examine the perceptions of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff in English local government on the ethical nature of their treatment at work, and its mediating effect on their Public Service Motivation. This is a particular imperative in a sector which itself delivers social justice within a strong regulatory system designed to ensure workplace equality and therefore is expected to be a model employer for other organisations. Employees place great importance on their fair treatment by their (...) employers and, in particular, the endeavour of managerial authority to implement equality at work based on their discretionary powers. 2580 valid responses were collected from 15,000 questionnaires sent to staff in five local councils in England. Our analyses show that BAME employees have a significantly stronger PSM than their white colleagues; however, this has been eroded by their perception of unfair treatment: being underpaid allied with a lack of effort from management to ensure an equal work environment, to be specific, to prevent discrimination, bullying, and racism at workplace. Most importantly, the perceived exertion made by management to ensure an equal work environment has a significantly strong mediating effect on PSM and a compensational effect on perceived lower pay. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. (shrink)
The End of Meaningful Work in the Not-for-Profit Sector? A Case Study of Ethics in Employee Relations Under the New Business-Like Operation Regime.Wen Wang &RogerSeifert -2021 -Journal of Business Ethics 181 (1):1-14.detailsAbstractDeveloped from meaningful work and business ethics, we investigate the motivational effect of meaningful work on paid staff (not volunteers) with a “shortage” of ethical employment practices situated in the Not-for-Profit sector. We tested the traditional notion of meaningful work by nature and by line manager support (under its business-like practices) to compensate for the “sacrifice” (low pay and job stress caused by poor employment terms) of front line staff working alongside professional managers paid the market rate. Using a mixed-method (...) case study, we employed SEM modelling to analyse a staff survey of 125 valid responses and administrative records of staff resignation, alongside interviews. The results show that meaningful work by nature and by line manager support are positively and significantly associated with job satisfaction but neither has a significant effect on staff resignation action. There is no empirical evidence to support the compensating effect of meaningful work by nature; meaningful work by line manager support has a stronger effect only through reduced job stress, rather than compensating for the low pay, in preventing resignation. The qualitative analysis reveals that continued low pay and using precarious employment contracts have evoked the questioning of ethics of employment practices in this sector. We discuss the implications and suggest further areas of research. (shrink)
Anima amata.Elisa Grimi -2014 -Philosophical News 8.detailsAd aprire questo volume è l’eccezionale testo Über Leib und Seele di Max Scheler sinora rimasto inedito. Seguono le interviste aRoger Scruton e Pierangelo Sequeri. Nella storia dell’Occidente il concetto di anima ha radici profonde. Esso sembra essere in uso principalmente in un contesto cristiano, la sua origine però è contemporaneo l’anima ha però subito una trasformazione, per cui pare lecito parlarne in contesti religiosi mentre sembra sempre più opportuno trattare di mente o cervello in altri ambiti. Questo (...) volume, attraverso una corale di contributi, vuole offrire uno studio sul tema dell’anima, mettendo in evidenza la trasformazione che nella storia della cultura tale concetto ha subito. Sono qui inclusi gli studi di Gianfranco Basti, Christopher Hughes, Joseph Karbowski, Andrea Lavazza, Antonio Petagine, Vittorio Possenti, Josef M.Seifert. Chiude il volume una ricca sezione di cronache di convegni e testi di recente pubblicazione. (shrink)
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Responsibility.Roger T. Ames,Thomas M. Chappell,M. David Eckel,Anna Lännström,Margaret R. Miles,Andrea Nightingale,Bhikhu Parekh,Steven C. Rockefeller,David Roochnik,Alfred I. Tauber &Michael Zank -2007 - Lexington Books.detailsIn this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle.
A conceptual lexicon for classical Confucian philosophy.Roger T. Ames -2022 - Albany: SUNY Press.detailsUses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.
Caste and Buddhist Philosophy: Continuity of Some Buddhist Arguments against the Realist Interpretation of Social Denominations. By Vincent Eltschinger. Translated by Raynald Prévèreau in collaboration with the author.Roger P. Jackson -2021 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 136 (1).detailsCaste and Buddhist Philosophy: Continuity of Some Buddhist Arguments against the Realist Interpretation of Social Denominations. By Vincent Eltschinger. Translated by Raynald Prévèreau in collaboration with the author. Buddhist Traditions Series, vol. 60. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2012. Pp. xxi + 235. INR 650.
Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis, and Critique.Roger W. H. Savage (ed.) -2015 - Lanham: Lexington Books.detailsThis volume brings together eleven essays that address a range of issues extending from broader questions of social justice to the sexual intimacy that bears the mark of our fleshly existence. Collectively, these essays extend the reach of Paul Ricoeur’s early to late works by taking up some of the major social, political and religious challenges facing us in a postmodern, ultrapluralistic world.
Politics Jurisprudence.Roger Cotterrell -2003 - Oxford University Press UK.detailsThis text explores what jurisprudence is about, what it seeks to do and how. The book considers how the conclusions of jurisprudence can be brought to bear on everyday problems of legal practice and major social, moral or political issues.
Petites expériences de philosophie entre amis.Roger-Pol Droit -2012 - [Paris]: Plon.detailsInventer des pays, mesurer le monde avec un camembert, choisir une coiffure pour écouter les Beatles, capter la saveur des lumières, prendre un repas à l'envers, tenter d'oublier son nom, contempler un embouteillage comme un tableau, fabriquer sur place des décalages horaires... Une chose est sûre, pas de philosophie sans étonnement. Mais comment le retrouver? En créant de vraies surprises avec trois bouts de ficelle, en fissurant le monde familier, en suscitant des déclics, de légers chocs qui mettent en route (...) la pensée. Chaque fois, seul ou entre amis, il s'agit ici de jouer à s'inventer des vies, des identités, des profils, des souvenirs, des réseaux... pour éprouver par soi-même quelques interrogations clés de la philosophie. (shrink)
Readings in Modern Philosophy, Volume 2: Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Associated Texts.Roger Ariew &Eric Watkins (eds.) -2000 - Hackett Publishing Company.detailsThis anthology offers the key works of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in their entirety or in substantial selections, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period.
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Fichte and Schelling.Roger Hausheer -1999 -Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44:1-24.detailsIntellectual historians have often remarked that German thought from its earliest beginnings is marked by two major features that distinguish it from the greater part of the remainder of Western European thought. These are, first, the tendency to seek some kind of participatory relationship with nature and the universe conceived in quasi-animistic terms, which represents a kind of reversion to a much older, much more primitive way of conceiving the world and man's place in it, and has led to all (...) kinds of mysticism. It is a strain in the history of German thought which has been brought out very clearly by Lévy-Bruhl and others. (shrink)