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This study contributes to our understanding of the social and communication processes that affect students' engagement in design work. We examine ethical considerations in a multidisciplinary design projects as students work through the challenges of team collaboration and struggle to integrate the ethical and technical aspects of engineering work. We use a mixed methods approach to investigate how...
Human experience with technology has shifted from technological contexts requiring occasional intervention by a fraction of people mostly in command of technologies, to technological contexts that require constant ongoing participation from most people to complete tasks. We examine the current state of ‘mixed-use’ new technologies integration with legacy systems, and whether the human assistance required...
This paper aims to approach from the ethical perspective the relationship between medical education of healthcare services providers and globalization. Starting from the argument that the approach from the ethical perspective of medical education within the context of globalization allows for a better understanding of the requirements of contemporary medical act, the main issues refer to the ethical...
The motivation of the special session was to allow engineering educators and researchers to explore different cultural perspectives of engineering ethics, and understand how that would affect both individual and team ethical decision-making. This will inform how we teach and assess engineering ethics, especially in diverse project teams, and equip educators with tools for using these instruments as...
Engineering is becoming an increasingly global profession, requiring interaction with diverse sets of people from different countries, cultures, and traditions. This diversity introduces more social and ethical complexity to the profession and highlights the importance of enabling engineers to work collaboratively and develop strong ethical decision-making skills. This study examines the relationship...
The critique of techno science happens as consequence of the implementation of the industrial process of mass production and the consequent conditions of employment of workers, and later with the trauma of World Wars with their concentration camps, with their atomic bombs that taken millions of lives in the course of countless battles. It is in this context later wars that intellectuals and politicians...
Corruption is arguably one of the main hindrances to development. In their effort to combat corruption, governments in developing countries turn to information technology to enhance transparency in decision making. However, implementation of an information system in this context is not straightforward. Premised upon institutional theory, this interpretive case study traces the role of institutional...
This paper considers the cultural resources for corporate action tied into stakeholder models, criticizes current stakeholder models, and develops a perspective based in ethics and the political model of the stakeholder. The purpose of this analysis is to lay out models which recognize the cultural challenges related to the blurring of the boundaries of the corporation and the needs of different cultural...
The goal of this paper is to propose a method of modelling the evolution of social norms in different cultural settings. We analyse the role of culture in shaping agents' normative reasoning and hence their behaviour. The general notion of 'value' is discussed from the perspective of the BDI framework as a means to represent cultural regularities in social interactions. Culture is described as a system...
To investigate the public service motivation (PSM) of public and private employees in Chinese context, a comparative study is conducted with two independent samples. In Study 1, confirmatory factor analysis is implemented to test the existence of PSM based on 250 public employees. In Study 2, 247 respondents from private companies are evaluated. These studies not only provide evidence for the construct...
In a globalized world health needs are a priority, and the need for cross- and inter-cultural health education subscribes to this priority. Cross-cultural-oriented medical education is a promising way to provide clinicians and public health professionals with complex interpersonal skills, which are a must for efficient healthcare providers worldwide, in a multicultural and multinational context. The...
Current approaches to the design of interactive systems emphasize openness, dynamic behavior, and evolution of the system. There is also a growing interest in accounting for human values and norms. This paper takes a universal perspective informed by discourse ethics and it argues that value and norm issues cannot be fully resolved in the design process and that they require the continuous participation...
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