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We spend a substantial part of our lives in employment, in the work environment among our co-workers. A working group is comprised of people who are very different but converge together in their need for communication and joint action. Therefore, especially in the workplace, standards of social behaviour must be respected. The ability to create, maintain and lead work teams is one of the most important...
Our analysis will focus on evaluating organizational ethics as a new theoretical paradigm and presenting its practical dimension. We will point out its interdisciplinary nature, the context of new trends in managerial and organizational theory. We consider applied ethics to be an important prerequisite for building its theoretical and practical intent. This specific scientific area is significantly...
The current labor market requires dynamic and broadly competent university graduates. An international trend is to promote the teaching of transversal competences. These are not only related to a particular study program or future profession, but are universally applicable in different professions, thus promoting job mobility and flexibility of persons. This is a system of competence-based learning...
At present, there is a renewed interest in interdisciplinarity in connection with the new mission of the humanities. It is related to their longer-term adaptation to new scientific challenges and social trends. Also, in Slovakia, there is a strong call for a more active activation of the humanities to interdisciplinary cooperation and participation in social change. It is necessary to overcome these...
The paper focuses on the role of applied ethics as an academic science and its contribution to society. We cannot agree with the claim that the current crisis related to humanities is due to the fact that they are "not profitable". We want to point to the importance and usefulness of humanities and confirm that their current crisis is not caused by a lack of their profit. As today´s social...
Building the credibility of different businesses and organizations is currently a complex process, but a very effective tool in practice and hard competition. They are increasingly confronted with a challenging environment in which credibility is very perceived and strategically important. Not only business entities, but also public institutions, strive for good reputation. They care about it as politicians,...
Mapping values and goals of sustainable development has resulted in a number of diverse evaluation instruments – sustainability indicators. For the experts in applied ethics, this inventory of indicators represents a general value inventory, which requires attention, ethical review and ethical audit to determine the extent to which these values support the sustainability ethos and are a desirable...
The European area should become a competitive dynamic and science supporting economic, dynamic and living area of the world in the 21st century. The Ministries of Education and Research in the European Union meet this intention in the strategy of the various framework programs of the national universities aimed at sustainable development.
As a historical excursion suggests in terms of medical ethics and health care, we can only confirm that healthcare occupies a prominent place in every society. In the modern era, this care is reported in the form of organized care and through specialized health institutions. Although they also fulfill an important ethical mission, their activity is often perceived rather in an economic sense than...
Celem podejmowanej aktywności edukacyjnej jest samodoskonalenie się, zdobywanie wiedzy, umiejętności i nowych kompetencji. Dydaktyka jest dyscypliną nieustannie rozwijającą się i unowocześnianą, aby mogła sprostać współczesnym realiom, potrzebom odbiorców i aktualnym wymaganiom rynkowym. W tym kontekście coraz bardziej popularne są metody stawiające w centrum indywidualne potrzeby człowieka. Taki...
Today, the pursuit of sustainability has new horizons and new Approaches as an expedient heuristic that understands sustainability as the importance of balancing the competing priorities: the environmental protection, the economic growth, and the social equity. That is more a practical effort, rather than as a purely scientific concept. Recent vision of Human Development was equated only by economic...
The company's good name is its price and value in the market, longterm market stability, good public response and pride, higher loyalty as well as employee motivation. In the long run, this important attribute has been associated with the economic aspect and quality. Today, however, we recognize that good name should be built and maintained not only by economic instruments but also by corporate culture...
The 21st century man desires happiness (happier, better life), just like his forefront in the dawn of history. What, however, do the movements of the contemporary differ in fulfilling the ideal of happiness from the man of the past? Who or what could help to achieve this ideal? The study attempts to point to different areas of life of man and society in fulfilling the model of happiness. We assume...
Demograficzny aspekt związany ze starzeniem się społeczeństwa jest ostrzeżeniem. Z jednej strony, jest to rzeczywisty naturalny proces życia człowieka i społeczeństwa, ale z drugiej strony w ostatnim czasie zaobserwować można niepokojący fakt – społeczeństwo zbyt szybko starzeje się, a nowych ludzi rodzi się coraz mniej. Prezentowany artykuł próbuje odpowiedzieć na pytania: kogo obecnie nazywamy starym...
The solving of actual problems requires an innovative approach in the form of suggested epistemic community. We characterize the epistemic community as a cooperative group consisting of different participants, aimed to the solving of actual problems in the aspect of improving the well-being. The contribution of the epistemic community is in improving of implementation of ethics to the different areas...
Sustainability and sustainable development are the keywords of the 21st Century – the frequently used magic symbol of policies, strategies, programmes, plans in the form of sustainable communities, regions and responsible organisational practice. It is obvious that the approach to developmental needs to change from the outdated qualitative, Aristotelian, and Rortyan viewpoints and a shift towards...
Artykuł odnosi się do zasad etycznych obecnych w idei zrównoważonego rozwoju. Autorzy wskazują, jak w narodowej koncepcji zrównoważonego rozwoju Słowacji obecne jest stosowanie zasad etycznych. Ponadto w artykule wskazano, jakie są możliwości wdrożenia nowego paradygmatu etyki stosowanej w koncepcji zrównoważonego rozwoju i jaka jest rola różnych subdyscyplin etyki stosowanej w rozwiązywaniu problemów...
Our reasoning is based on the belief that contemporary applied ethics are closely related to innovation and the creation of good life. At present, it is increasingly connected with technical sciences or art. An increased risk has shown that applied ethics are not only a fashion trend, but also an important part of human protection, control of dubious practices of companies and public institutions,...
The study deals with the current development of business ethics as well as with actual discourse in Slovakia and abroad. In principle, there is a stronger trend in the application of methodical paradigms within the so-called weak peoples. In this context, it is not just about ethical coherence, contextualism and communitarism, but also about postfundationism. To reflect on the need for changes in...
Business activities are currently in a difficult environment. To win economic profile is accompanied by the struggle for values and maintaining a reputation. Ethical credibility today is an important factor of economic prestige and business success. In this article we will deal with the question of how they build ethical credibility in organizations with an emphasis on Slovak business environment.
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