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INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND ETHICS MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND ETHICS MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND ETHICS MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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This article shows how different cultures might define integrity and ethical behavior differently. These definitions might work in a single culture but what to do when cultures meet in multi-cultural environments? Billions of people in all cultures, all organizations, all institutions agree the greatness of leaders having in common being respected across cultures and institutions. Indeed they have integrity, the art of creating wholeness through bridging opposites. In this article it is suggested is that integrity is creating wholeness through the integration of opposites. Something not taught at educational institutions.
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Faking is a hot item in nowadays newspapers. Especially in the context of modern media and the problem of what is called fake news. It is clear that political opponents fight each other by claiming that articles published in papers are made up, are fake. The truth, they claim is only found in publications from their side. In some quality newspapers they do fact checking to see if certain statements are “true”. There is evidence that this factchecking is however not really changing the beliefs of people reading these checks. The societal key problem is, that the belief in institutions that were trusted in the past as sources of truth are under attack. Many of the discussions on fake news are taking place in American news media. One can wonder if this struggle for finding truth is special for the American culture. And in how far truth is a cultural “construct”. This article will explore the way truth is defined in different cultural settings. It will also explore the treat for democracy if institutions that are supposed to be arbiters in heated ideological arguments are made suspicious.
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The emergence of multinationals has created many controversies in the context of globalization. Opinions about their effects on the economy are shared - on the one hand, it is believed that companies pursue their own interest, exploiting poor and developing economies and on the other hand are voices supporting their development because they create jobs and the economies can benefit of goods and services at much lower prices than those found on the local market.
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The article demonstrates the states growing responsibility in making management decision in the context of the world and national economies’ unstable development. Industrial policy is one of the key instruments for implementing managerial decisions. We identified the notions of industrial policy (in a broad sense) and structural policy. Further, we classified concepts of industrial policy according to the scale of regulation subject and the states role in economy. The appearance of a network aspect of industrial policy focused on the concept of digital state (e-state) was noted. 200 years of industrial policy’s evolution demonstrate its constantly growing obligation to be the guarantee of social welfare. Nevertheless, in Russia legal understanding of industrial policy does not include any aspects of social guarantees. Therefore, we analyzed industrial policy theoretical foundations showing the necessity for its reconstruction using a theory of new structural economics. We established premises and tools for the theory’s successful realization. Industrial Development Fund plays an important role in implementing industrial policy’s priorities as a variety of important programs including “Industry digitalization” are financed by this organization. On the level of regional economics, different regional funds are involved in the process of structural transformations.
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Doctors and patients are driven by the culture they are coming from. As a result the interaction between doctor and patients is highly sensitive to culture and will influence the necessary trust from the side of the patient. Authors describe the interaction doctor-patient by analyzing five dimensions of culture as found by professor Geert Hofstede. Hofstede carried out world- wide research into the dominant values of countries and the way they influence behavior in families, school, work and organizations. He measured the differences between countries and calculated the scores on each dimension in a range from 0-100. Authors found that in countries with a high score on hierarchy the consult is short, the doctor is informing the patient about his conclusions. In countries with a low score on this dimension the doctor tends to listen more to the patient. In highly individualistic countries the doctor comes direct to the point, as in countries with a low score the doctor tries to build up a relationship before starting the consultation. I highly masculine countries the patient expects the doctor to fulfill his role as an effective professional. In strong uncertainty-avoidance countries doctors emphasize their expert profile. In high scoring countries on long term orientation a combination of formal and alternative treatments by the doctor is possible. Authors end up with suggestions for an effective intercultural doctor-patient relationship
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This article looks at the new skills and competencies that are needed to do our future jobs more properly than with the skills we learned yesterday. The world is globalizing, digitalizing and sometimes humanizing. What does this mean for the skills we need to develop? Since the interconnectedness of the world is increasing we see an abundance of competencies that need to be updated or completely renewed. We will discuss this from an individual, team and organizational perspective. One thing is for sure: we need to be able to function in worlds of contradictions. And if we do so we need to become more innovative and agile as a process.
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Plagiarism is one of the most serious misconduct in scientific research which has a far-reaching negative impact on the scientific community, including the way it is seen and evaluated by society in general. In this paper the authors define plagiarism and analyze its characteristics. They also analyze the reasons behind the plagiarism as well as its consequences both at individual and at society level. The authors conclude that irrespective of the motivation of committing plagiarism, the desire to be a researcher must be accompanied by the assumption of all the responsibilities and respecting all the rules, as well as the assimilation of the necessary knowledge about good practice in research.
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The aim of this paper is to discover the main issues regarding the quality and ethics in higher education, including the nexus between them. It is based on a case study on The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEAA) within the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University (UAIC) in Iasi, Romania. The results indicate that it is essential to promote ethical values. Organizations in higher education implement clear quality and ethical standards, transparent procedures and openness in communication to increase accountability, promote mutual trust and support among members of the organization, along with transparent analysis of ethical issues and dilemmas that mark the existence of organizations. Due to the competitive and turbulent nature of higher education, even the best organizations will start experiencing performance problems if they are not willing or able to innovate and introduce change. Future research should focus on the concept of performance in higher education and the relationship between ethical and quality aspects.
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Cold War left hidden injuries in sense-making strategies of academic bureaucracies. Universities were left after three waves of expansion with an impossible mission. They had to embed the researchers-teachers-experts and to house the numerically increasing cohorts of future citizens and employees socialized into knowledge intensive societies. Are they succeeding? Brexit demonstrates that they do not. Citizens, if given a chance to bypass the established elites, reject the authority of the experts, and undertake the independent navigation of the information space, populist prejudice of the elites notwithstanding. Access to knowledge matters more than monopoly of patented intellectual property. Knowledge workers of the world unite? Hardly. Communism collapsed, neoliberalism failed. History of access to knowledge is no guarantee that a future will resemble it.
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Nowadays, most scientific articles are written by more than one author, and usually, each has a different contribution to the article. Overall, when a scientific article is ready to be published, the contributions of the authors in terms of actual involvement may be extremely different. Therefore, not all authors have equal, or even equivalent contributions, and this should be emphasized in the article. The purpose of this article is to review the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors criteria for authorship and to present a few ethical breaches in this regard, namely gift authorship, honorary authorship, prestige authorship, authorship exchange, the white bull effect, ghost authorship, and ghost management.
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The aim of this paper is to emphasize the social perception of the academic integrity. Beyond the theoretical framework this research aims: 1. to identify the main factors which are related to academic integrity starting from the student’s perception; 2. to estimate the magnitude of the association between academic trust and student’s motivation for choosing the BA programme; 3. to explore the nexus between initial perception of the academic performance, academic integrity and the current satisfaction related to academic activities. The research design is quantitative being based on a questionnaire applied to 55 participants, students in political sciences. The main findings of the paper reflect that academic integrity is perceived in terms of respect for human rights (r =0.463, p=0.003) and institutional transparency (r = 0.489, p = 0.002). Moreover we can stress the fact that there is a linear statistical relation between the satisfaction regarding the activity of the instructors and the satisfaction regarding the specialisation or the programme of study (r = 0.820, p < 0.001). Respect for human rights and human dignity, institutional transparency, academic trust, personal motivation for developing professional skills and knowledge and the quality of the academic staff are the main issues perceived by the students in political sciences as being predictors for academic integrity.
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Social entrepreneurship represents entrepreneurship that creates social value. The measure of value creation is creating a well-being which also enables financial self-sustainability and social return on investment. Social entrepreneurship can be found in the fields of education, health, culture, economic development and the environment. Certainly, there are different social problems that social entrepreneurs face depending on the country in which they are registered, such as the basics of providing health care, then improving organizational culture, providing services to people with disabilities, focusing on waste recycling and nature conservation. Social entrepreneurship in its entirety is characterized by support and assistance to the community or vulnerable social groups. It is the aim of this paper to show how much social entrepreneurship can be a significant factor in reducing social exclusion and poverty, and how much society actually needs to devote much more attention to this economic concept
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The contest between ‘bricks versus clicks’, with the disruptive effect of e-commerce on traditional retail formats, is starting to be felt in Thailand. Specifically, home improvement retailers are therefore having to adapt, by creating unique online shopping experiences, which is enhanced by sophisticated electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) systems designed to capture and retain a digitally savvy Thai consumer. Seeing the critical nature if the eCRM process, the researchers undertook an analysis of the opinions of 465 consumers who shopped at one of the five top Thai home improvement retailer stores. Using LISREL 9.10 software to examine the nine hypotheses structural equation model (SEM), it was determined that all the causal factors in the model have a positive influence on customer loyalty, which can be explained by 73% of the variance in Thai home improvement retailer customer loyalty (R2 ). The causal variables influencing customer loyalty ranked from highest to lowest, were SERVQUAL, customer satisfaction, corporate social responsibility, and eCRM, with a total value of the influence at 0.57, 0.38, 0.29 and 0.29, respectively. Additionally, the study revealed that extreme caution was needed when social media platforms are used in marketing, as overwhelming consumers with poorly targeted, ‘spray and pray’ style marketing campaigns can generate disenfranchised consumers who unsubscribe from the marketer’s channel.
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The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of the obligations of bank employees in the protection of information contained in ethical codes on the background of the EU regulations on the protection of personal data and the Polish Act on the protection of personal data implementing GDPR to the Polish law system. This analysis is aimed at finding the answer to the question whether and to what extent the entry into force of the GDP has affected the obligations of bank employees and whether the code of ethics as a source of obligations for bank employees is in fact complementary to the applicable national and European legislation on personal data protection. The author analyzes the regulations included in the Code of Banking Ethics of 2013, as well as the draft of a new Code of good practice from 2018 currently being developed by the Polish Bank Association (at the social consultations stage) – this analysis is preceded by a commentary on EU regulations concerning both procedures for creating such codes, resulting directly from the provisions of the RODO. The result of the analyses made by the author is an attempt to assess whether there is a real need to create sectoral codes of good practice in this area.
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The publication presents dilemmas related to accounting in the modern global economy. In economic discourses, it is explicitly indicated that accounting as a transcription technique is only an instrument, like all techniques, for achieving different goals. The question arises, are we the accountants approving these statements, this diagnosis? Did it affect the status of accounting as a science in the Polish academic environment? Why finance, especially financial economics, which in quantitative terms, such as the theoretical innovations of H. Markowitz (and other Nobel Prize winners, eg E. Famy) that made it possible to convince investment fund managements that their portfolios are still just as safe, despite the fact that have they become more and more risky, have they not suffered as a scientific discipline? These are difficult questions that were (and are) formulated by many representatives not only of our scientific discipline – among others also many Nobel Prize winners, eg J. Stiglitz, R. Schiller pointing out the “weaknesses” of the theory of finance, especially economy. One can ask the question – on the basis of searching the scientific literature (perhaps its debatable choice) – about the value of prediction of accounting theory implying predictions of economic facts, as well as the question about new accounting pragmatism, about corporate social responsibility, about risk management in the context of rationality in the sense of Aristotle, J. Kant, M. Heller, T. Kotarbiński. The aim of the publication is to indicate for what reasons the discourse on the change in accounting pragmatism should begin, so that this opportunity, apart from purely logical, becomes a real possibility. In the preparation of the publication, the analytical method of research was used, which was supported by the induction and deduction method.
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Purpose – The aim of this study was to determine the effect of spiritual well-being on organizational citizenship behavior. Design/methodology/approach – This research is a quantitative study. The study was carried out in a special production enterprise which is performing the furniture manufacturing with 340 employees in Ankara. The data were obtained from the questionnaire form from 230 employees. Findings – It was observed that spiritual well-being had a positive and significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior (β = 0.562, p¬<0.05). Discussion – Research shows that the meaning of the job and appreciation of the employee positively affect the organizational citizenship behavior. The fact that the research is carried out through a single sector is an important constraint that prevents the generalization of the results. In the subsequent studies, it is envisaged that the results will be diversified and generalized by repeating the research in different sectors.
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Purpose – In this study, the role of the perceived corporate reputation on the impact of ethical leadership on the intention to quit is examined. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical research was carried out in a public institution operating in Turkey. The data collected by Brown et al. (2005)'s ethical leadership, Rosin and Korabik (1995)'s turnover intention, Ponz et al. (2011)'s corporate reputation scales were analyzed by Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Model. Findings – It has been determined that ethical leadership has a negative and significant effect on the turnover intention; affects perceived corporate reputation in a positive and meaningful way. Another finding of the study is that the perceived corporate reputation has a negative and significant effect on turnover intention. It is also found that perceived corporate reputation has a partial mediation role in the effect of the ethical leadership on the turnover intention. Discussion – Ethical management and the dynamics of the employee relationship, which are tried to be explained by private sector based studies, are also determinant from public institutions. Ethical approaches of managers have an impact on employees' perceptions of reputation At the same time, perceived reputation is decisive in the approach of employees to their work. It is thought that these findings contribute to the field.
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