The role and ethics of professionals in business and economics have been questioned, especially after the financial crisis of 2008. Some suggest a reorientation using concepts such as craftsmanship. In this article, I will explore professional practices within the context of behavioural theory and business ethics. I suggest that scholars of behavioural theory need a strategy to deal with normative questions to meet their ambition of practical relevance. Evidence-based management (EBMgt), a recent behavioural approach, may assist business ethics scholars in understanding how professionals infer ‘evidence’ to make decisions. For a professional, ethical issues are an integral part of decision-making at critical moments. As reflective practitioners, they develop insights related to ethical concerns when collecting and assessing evidence within decision-making processes.
This paper discusses sustainable real estate and the role of ethics within real estate. Both terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘ethics’ needs an explanation. With this discussion the tripartite system of ‘morals – principles - laws’ is described in order to have more grip on sustainable real estate and ethics.
A relatively small but intellectually robust strand in the Christian religion is the Reformed tradition. Especially, its Calvinist sensibilities inform this Protestant stance towards human culture in general and vocations in particular. Correspondingly, there are some small but robust contributions to academic discourse in nursing ethics. So far there has been no attempt to bring those together as a distinct approach. This article suggests such a Reformed Christian, especially Calvinist, account of nursing ethics. Central to the Reformed perspective is the notion that God is sovereign over all of creation and culture and hence that there can be no religiously or morally neutral area in human life. Consequently, nursing is not seen as professional to the extent it is based on research evidence or theoretical models, but to the extent it serves the ultimate purpose of the practice of care. In the Reformed view, this purpose is fostering the well-being of human beings in need as intrinsically valuable. Nurses are professionals who accept this responsibility, that is, the whole of expectations holding for personal qualities, conduct and outcomes, required to serve the purpose of care. As this is a moral purpose, succeeding or failing to live up to these expectations is the source of moral issues in nursing.
'The Data Tales' is een langdurig samenwerkingsverband van onderzoekers en bedrijven die samen projecten uitvoeren en vragen beantwoorden als: hoe kan data ons helpen de relatie met klanten te verbeteren en hoe beschermen we privacy van de klant als we die klant ook beter van dienst zijn willen zijn met data technieken?Doel The Data Tales consortium wil bedrijven helpen om beter met hun klanten om te gaan. Want als bedrijven naar hun klanten luisteren, versterken ze hun band. Techniek biedt allerlei opties om sneller, gerichter en zinvoller te reageren op de behoeften van klanten. Daarbij moeten de toon, inhoud en presentatie van de boodschap aansluiten bij de geadresseerde. Het doel van The Data Tales is om samen met onderwijs, bedrijven en technologie-ontwikkelaars te werken aan technieken om direct inzicht te geven in hoe hun klanten de interactie met organisaties ervaren. Daarbij wordt altijd gewerkt volgens het principe 'ethics by design' Resultaten Consortium The Data Tales vormde de basis voor het KIEM-project, VERBIND. Dat staat voor verantwoorde, belevingsgerichte interactie op basis van data-analyse. VERBIND brengt meerdere invalshoeken samen. We kijken niet alleen naar wat technisch mogelijk is bij dataverzameling, maar ook naar ethische keuzes die bedrijven maken. Op thedatatales.org lees je meer over het project VERBIND. Looptijd 01 januari 2018 - 31 december 2020 Aanpak In het Data Tales consortium komen de volgende vakgebieden samen: Customer Journey & marketing Data Science, waaronder process mining, text mining en andere vormen van data mining Recht en Ethiek, waaronder AVG Gedragswetenschappen ICT
'The Data Tales' is een langdurig samenwerkingsverband van onderzoekers en bedrijven die samen projecten uitvoeren en vragen beantwoorden als: hoe kan data ons helpen de relatie met klanten te verbeteren en hoe beschermen we privacy van de klant als we die klant ook beter van dienst zijn willen zijn met data technieken?Doel The Data Tales consortium wil bedrijven helpen om beter met hun klanten om te gaan. Want als bedrijven naar hun klanten luisteren, versterken ze hun band. Techniek biedt allerlei opties om sneller, gerichter en zinvoller te reageren op de behoeften van klanten. Daarbij moeten de toon, inhoud en presentatie van de boodschap aansluiten bij de geadresseerde. Het doel van The Data Tales is om samen met onderwijs, bedrijven en technologie-ontwikkelaars te werken aan technieken om direct inzicht te geven in hoe hun klanten de interactie met organisaties ervaren. Daarbij wordt altijd gewerkt volgens het principe 'ethics by design' Resultaten Consortium The Data Tales vormde de basis voor het KIEM-project, VERBIND. Dat staat voor verantwoorde, belevingsgerichte interactie op basis van data-analyse. VERBIND brengt meerdere invalshoeken samen. We kijken niet alleen naar wat technisch mogelijk is bij dataverzameling, maar ook naar ethische keuzes die bedrijven maken. Op thedatatales.org lees je meer over het project VERBIND. Looptijd 01 januari 2018 - 31 december 2020 Aanpak In het Data Tales consortium komen de volgende vakgebieden samen: Customer Journey & marketing Data Science, waaronder process mining, text mining en andere vormen van data mining Recht en Ethiek, waaronder AVG Gedragswetenschappen ICT
The project aims to improve palliative care in China through the competence development of Chinese teachers, professionals, and students focusing on the horizontal priority of digital transformation.Palliative care (PC) has been recognised as a public health priority, and during recent years, has seen advances in several aspects. However, severe inequities in the access and availability of PC worldwide remain. Annually, approximately 56.8 million people need palliative care, where 25.7% of the care focuses on the last year of person’s life (Connor, 2020).China has set aims for reaching the health care standards of the developed countries by 2030 through the Healthy China Strategy 2030, where one of the improvement areas in health care includes palliative care, thus continuing the previous efforts.The project provides a constructive, holistic, and innovative set of actions aimed at resulting in lasting outcomes and continued development of palliative care education and services. Raising the awareness of all stakeholders on palliative care, including the public, is highly relevant and needed. Evidence based practice guidelines and education are urgently required for both general and specialised palliative care levels, to increase the competencies for health educators, professionals, and students. This is to improve the availability and quality of person-centered palliative care in China. Considering the aging population, increase in various chronic illnesses, the challenging care environment, and the moderate health care resources, competence development and the utilisation of digitalisation in palliative care are paramount in supporting the transition of experts into the palliative care practice environment.General objective of the project is to enhance the competences in palliative care in China through education and training to improve the quality of life for citizens. Project develops the competences of current and future health care professionals in China to transform the palliative care theory and practice to impact the target groups and the society in the long-term. As recognised by the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), palliative care competences need to be developed in collaboration. This includes shared willingness to learn from each other to improve the sought outcomes in palliative care (EAPC 2019). Since all individuals have a right to health care, project develops person-centered and culturally sensitive practices taking into consideration ethics and social norms. As concepts around palliative care can focus on physical, psychological, social, or spiritual related illnesses (WHO 2020), project develops innovative pedagogy focusing on evidence-based practice, communication, and competence development utilising digital methods and tools. Concepts of reflection, values and views are in the forefront to improve palliative care for the future. Important aspects in project development include health promotion, digital competences and digital health literacy skills of professionals, patients, and their caregivers. Project objective is tied to the principles of the European Commission’s (EU) Digital Decade that stresses the importance of placing people and their rights in the forefront of the digital transformation, while enhancing solidarity, inclusion, freedom of choice and participation. In addition, concepts of safety, security, empowerment, and the promotion of sustainable actions are valued. (European Commission: Digital targets for 2030).Through the existing collaboration, strategic focus areas of the partners, and the principles of the call, the PalcNet project consortium was formed by the following partners: JAMK University of Applied Sciences (JAMK ), Ramon Llull University (URL), Hanze University of Applied Sciences (HUAS), Beijing Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Guangzhou Health Science College (GHSC), Beihua University (BHU), and Harbin Medical University (HMU). As project develops new knowledge, innovations and practice through capacity building, finalisation of the consortium considered partners development strategy regarding health care, (especially palliative care), ability to create long-term impact, including the focus on enhancing higher education according to the horizontal priority. In addition, partners’ expertise and geographical location was also considered important to facilitate long-term impact of the results.Primary target groups of the project include partner country’s (China) staff members, teachers, researchers, health care professionals and bachelor level students engaging in project implementation. Secondary target groups include those groups who will use the outputs and results and continue in further development in palliative care upon the lifetime of the project.
