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University Ethics in a Time of Threat to Democracy and in Need of Social Trust
Humanitas, 2024
The essay highlights that though universities teach every field of professional ethics (for physicians, nurses, business people, finance, journalism, etc.) the university does not teach any courses for administrators or
Subject: University Ethics, Adjunct Faculty, Ethics, Social Trust.
The Problem of Trust - Comparative Analysis of Two Research Approaches
COLLECTED PAPERS OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2023
Trust in a comparative analysis of Rother's social learning theory and social capital theory (in Bulgarian).
Subject: Social Trust.
Restoring Social Trust
From Populism to Synodality
Theological Studies, 2023
Social trust has been compromised locally, nationally, and globally, and very recently more and more social scientists, ethicists, theologians, and civic leaders have highlighted its necessity for the function of social
Subject: Religion, Ethics, Social Trust, Theology.
Social Trust and the Ethics of Our Institutions
Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2022
Social trust is the basic resource for our institutions and is notably maintained by leaders who have what I call a vulnerable style and a vigilant capacity to recognize ethical challenges on the horizon. The essay follows five steps: a meditation on social trust, an introduction to the notion of style, and a proposal for a vulnerable style so as to become collectively capacious for recognition. Then it turns to the two institutions under examination at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE): the church and the academy.
Subject: Religion, Ethics, Social Trust, Theology.
Inspiring Trust
Church Communications and Organizational Vulnerability
Edusc, 2021
Cultural and social changes, together with scandals and the incoherence of some groups, led citizens to evaluate organisations more rigorously than ever before. Since then, a culture of suspicion towards political parties, financial institutions, trade unions, the media and also - of course - the Church, has been the norm. This book contains a collection of articles by a variety of authors on a central theme: trust. As a background, the current distrust of the Catholic Church is addressed in many cases.
Subject: Religion, Social Trust.
Ethics of Care
Values, Virtues and Dialogue
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021
When we want to provide good care, we often take the will of care users as our starting point. However, how do we do this for vulnerable people who are highly dependent on care? This book offers a practical and theory-based method for ethical deliberation. It encourages care providers to engage in ethical empowerment, making their own ethically responsible decisions based on values, virtues and dialogue. This method is applied to important social developments that care providers are challenging today: from evolutions around networks and confidentiality, decision-making capacity and informed consent, assertive care and restriction of freedom, to euthanasia. The foundation of this method is a relational care ethics, linking everyone who participates in care with the other parties involved. This relationship forms the link between the care user, the next of kin and the care providers. Good care starts from the connection between people. This book will appeal to all professionals in the various care sectors, as well as teachers and students the ethics of care.
Subject: Ethics.
Second Acts and Second Chances
The Bumpy Road to Redemption
Journal of Management Inquiry, 2021
Throughout history, there are numerous examples of business and government leaders who have fallen from grace only to rise again, and have a “second act” and a “second chance” as a legitimate social actor or leader—that is, they achieved redemption. We explore “the road to redemption” of leaders—when and why it occurs, and what “bumps” prevent it. In our analysis, we conceptualize redemption as a process with three elements—remorse, rehabilitation, and restoration—and as an outcome (the restoration of legitimacy). We argue that achieving redemption is not a product of chance; rather, it is a social construction process of narrative creation and identity construction involving many parties. Also, the road to redemption is shaped by cultural-specific factors—and it is temporally dependent. From this framework, we identify new directions for the theory and practice of leadership.
Subject: Redemption, Leadership, Management, Business.
Ohne Vertrauen geht es nicht
Zur praktischen Bedeutung von Vertrauen
Religionsunterricht an höheren Schulen 52 , 2009
The article explores the metaethical question of what specific normative structures trust has and how the normativity of trust differs from the normativity of norms.
Subject: Normativity, Trust, Ethics.
Vertrauen durch Selbstbestimmung – Selbstbestimmung durch Vertrauen
Ein Beitrag zur ethischen Reflexion professioneller Helferbeziehungen
Religionsunterricht an höheren Schulen 52 (2009) , 2009
Trust plays an important role in professional caregiver relationships. The article discusses the extent to which trust strengthens autonomy in helping relationships and how autonomy can promote trust.
Subject: Care, Autonomy, Normativity, Trust, Ethics.
Trust and Distrust
New Relationships and Realities
The Academy of Management Review, 1998
We propose a new theoretical framework for understanding simultaneous trust and distrust within relationships, grounded in assumptions of multidimensionality and the inherent tensions of relationships, and we separate th
Subject: Management, Distrust, Business.