Ethical leadership: A review and future directions

Our literature review focuses on the emerging construct of ethical leadership and compares this construct with related concepts that share a common concern for a moral dimension of leadership (e.g., spiritual, authentic, and transformational leadership). Drawing broadly from the intersection of the ethics and leadership literatures, we offer propositions about the antecedents and outcomes of ethical leadership. We also identify issues and questions to be addressed in the future and discuss their implications for research and practice. Our review indicates that ethical leadership remains largely unexplored, offering researchers opportunities for new discoveries and leaders opportunities to improve their effectiveness.     

The impact of the 2nd intifada on Israeli Arab and Jewish social workers

This paper presents an analysis of interviews with Israeli social workers conducted as part of a study investigating the impact of the 2nd Intifada on the work, clients, views and feelings of Israeli Arab and Jewish social workers. The data were generated from 58 interviews with social workers who volunteered to do so. Coming from a sociological perspective, the study focused on how a violent political conflict impacts on two groups of social workers who live and work in the same society, but are likely to have different views about it. Their actions, views, well-being, and values were researched in a context likely to test universal social work values. The findings document a high level of tension and anxiety generated for both groups, very negative impact on clients’ life and views, largely negative effect on welfare services, co-existing with continuous professional development. Social workers’ views of their own national group and the other national group within the Intifada context highlight primarily the empathy with one's own group while lacking in empathy towards the other group, coupled with suspicion and some hostility. The struggle to maintain professional values is expressed only by a minority. The discussion and conclusions look at what social work can learn from the findings in understanding such complex contexts and the response to the challenge they pose to social work.     

The ethical implications of short-termism: Leadership failure in the executive suite

The author argues that managing to maximize short-term performance in ordinary circumstances is a failure not only of sound management practice but of moral principle. Management for the short term is largely a manifestation of self-interest which is unethical when it harms the long-term competitiveness and viability of the firm and, thus, the interests of all stakeholders but transient speculators and management itself.     

“角色”意识:《易传》之“定位”观念与正义问题——角色伦理学与生活儒学比较

"角色伦理学"与"生活儒学"及其伦理层级上的"中国正义论"之间颇有相通之处,但也存在着重大差异。一个人的"角色"是由其所居之"位"规定的,因此,可以从儒家《易传》"位"或"定位"观念来切入这个问题:1、"正位"并且"当位"指的是恪守既定的位置及其角色,这是行为正义问题,角色伦理学与生活儒学对此都有基本的确认;2、"得位"指的是获得一种新的位,即对原有之位置与角色的超越,角色伦理学与生活儒学对此的理解有所不同;3、"设位"指的是对社会角色秩序本身的设置或重置,这是制度正义问题,角色伦理学未触及这个问题,而生活儒学则通过中国正义论的重建来探索这个问题。     

《淮南子》对道家生态伦理观的积极阐释

《淮南子》综合先秦道儒法诸子思想,以天人合一为纲领,强调以人法天、人道合于天道,在对自然规律认识的基础上使人的活动顺应自然,建立自然生态伦理模式。依据道生万物、物无贵贱的生态价值基础以及因顺自然、取法天道的生态价值原则,《淮南子》把以人法天的基本思想落实到实践层面,以“因”、“利”、“节”三个关键概念为核心,阐释了系统...     

“思想道德修养与法律基础”课情境式教学模式的应用研究

在“思想道德修养与法律基础”课程中引入情境式教学是教学改革的有益尝试,它有利于提高学生的学习兴趣和综合能力.基本做法是问题创设情境,角色扮演体验情境,运用多媒体创设情境,运用生动的语言创设情境.在情境创设中既要符合教学大纲的要求,也要符合思想性、时代性的要求.     

Managing Risk in Community Care of Older People: Perspectives from the Frontline

Abstract

Since the mid-1980s, Australian governments have focused on expanding community and home-based services for older people. This has led to increased levels of dependency, vulnerability, and complexity to be managed in the community. Consequently, aged care services have had to develop mechanisms for regulating and managing these increased risks, and risk management has become more central to the practices of professional workers in this field. This paper reports on some findings from a large-scale study that explores the way risk management policies have been translated into practice by community-based services in Victoria, Australia. Drawing on interviews with 18 frontline and management professionals employed in community aged care, we found that these workers were wrestling with a diverse and new range of institutional risks beyond those encountered in the actual delivery of frontline care. We found that these workers experienced “risk” in four different contexts, which often created demands for contradictory or conflicting responses. Here we examine these “contexts of risk practice”: professional workers' relationships with their clients, relationships with other service providers, the unregulated nature of the home as a work environment, and community expectations about the management of risk. Despite tensions that frequently arose, workers expressed strong professional commitments to their clients and were motivated to find positive resolutions amid competing interests. We conclude that tensions experienced by workers were embedded in the structural dimensions of institutional relationships and the systematic absence of shared understandings of “acceptable” risks in the community care of older people, rather than in the failure of professional agency.     

辅导员心理需求与职业认同——基于心理契约理论的研究视角

辅导员职业认可度偏低是高校辅导员队伍不稳定的重要原因,文章结合心理契约理论分析了辅导员的职业现状以及满足辅导员心理需求的必要性,从辅导员的专业化、工作成就、个人目标、职业发展、素质提升和学校支持等方面指出了提高辅导员职业认同的具体路径。     

学前教育《专业英语》教学模块构建

随着我国对学前教育重视程度的日益提高,优秀专业人才的培养成为当务之急。学前教育《专业英语》课程的合理设置及其内容构建会直接影响本专业的人才培养质量。根据专业特点、学生自身情况以及社会需求等因素,高师院校学前教育《专业英语》的教学内容可涵盖专业经典英语文献选读、幼儿英语教育教学能力的培养以及学前教育专业英语语言工具的运用等方面。     

A Bioethics Approach to Social Work Practice With Transgender Clients

Increased advocacy for the informed consent model of transgender health care specifies that patients should be in control of access to receiving medical interventions such as hormone therapy or surgery. However, in practice, mental health clinicians, including clinical social workers, are increasingly called upon by medical providers to serve as gatekeepers for these processes. It is frequently the role of social workers to assess transgender clients’ baseline mental health and their understanding of the consequences of treatment, and to forward recommendations to medical providers regarding the readiness of patients to transition. Therefore, social workers assisting transgender clients must be aware of the ethical standards that are particularly pertinent to their work with this marginalized and oppressed population. They must also be prepared to address unique ethical dilemmas that may be especially challenging to resolve. In this article we apply the most commonly utilized bioethical framework known as Principlism to describe the ethical standards and values that are particularly important to consider when working with transgender clients, namely autonomy; beneficence; nonmaleficence; and social justice. Because clinical social workers are frequently in the position of balancing client self-determination with their role as gatekeepers, a framework for resolving resulting ethical dilemmas is described (I CARE) and applied to three case examples.