In this work we have been researching how Ethic Education influences the pupils behaviour and the social climate in the classroom. For this research we have used a mixed quantitative and a qualitative methodology. In the quantitative part we have realized our research through the natural experiment with one observed independent variable which applicated the programme of Ethic Education for basic school pupils and secondary school students. We have observed these dependant variables of pupils behaviour: the amount of the prosocial behavior, the amount of anxiety and the amount of the behavioural problems. In a group we have observed: the quality of the social climate and the amount of the trust. In the qualitative part we have tried to examine how pupils and teachers perceive Ethic Education and what principles they use for it. We have used these methods of collecting information: a nomination technigue, a questionary About Your Fellowstudents, a questionary About Your Emotions, a questionary CES, a questionary SDQ. In the qualitative part we have used a questionary with this open question. We think that we can make a conclusion about this research that in the quantitative part the hypothese proved that Ethic Education reduces the amount of the anxiety and the other emocional aspects within the pupils...

The goal of this thesis will be to analyze ethical tools in organizations and the breadth of application of ethical codes in personnel work. First, attention will be paid to ethics, morality and law, then to professional ethics and the anti-discrimination law. The work will further deal with ethics in the context of organizational culture, standards of conduct, codes of ethics and ethical aspects of individual personnel activities. The diploma thesis will include a quantitative survey, which will be carried out in the form of online questionnaires. The respondents will be HR professionals working in approximately thirty selected large organizations in the Czech Republic. The aim of the survey will be to analyze the application of codes of ethics in these organizations, ie the use of codes of ethics governing the activities of personnel departments, the existence of professional codes of ethics for HR professionals, the influence of organizational culture on the use of ethical tools. Key words: ethic, code of ethics, personnel work, ethic in business, human resources

The work ethic has been a popular topic for public comment and for research in the social sciences. The work ethic is usually understood to embody the values, beliefs and principles an individual has in relation to work. Work is an important dimension of human experience. Governments and employers are particularly interested in increasing productivity and competitiveness in connection with work and the work ethic is perceived as an important catalyst in achieving these goals. The main point of reference for discussion about the work ethic in the past century has been Max Weber's Protestant ethic thesis. Weber's thesis has attracted much criticism over the years and contemporary writers have suggested that alternative conceptions of the work ethic do exist. Despite widespread agreement that this is the case, consensus has not yet been reached on how such conceptions should be defined or how they may manifest in an individual. The majority of research on the work ethic has been limited to the collection of quantitative data using one of several survey instruments that are available. Fewer studies have collected data on the work ethic using a qualitative approach and yet, this is exactly what is required to achieve progress in identifying the range of conceptions that may exist. This study occurs in the context of teacher education and the work ethic has relevance to teachers and teacher educators for several reasons. Teachers, through the explicit and hidden curriculum they provide, have some responsibility for inculcating a work ethic in their students. It follows that it is important to understand the work ethic of teachers on this basis alone. A most logical starting place for accomplishing this task is during their career preparation. This study advocates explicit examination of preservice teachers' conceptions of the work ethic and exploration of how this might affect their career and curriculum decision making processes. This research is primarily intended to inform teacher educators who wish to pay attention to these things in their programs, along with researchers from other disciplines who are interested in the work ethic. Inspired by a pragmatic philosophy, this study utilised a mixed method research design to investigate the conceptions of the work ethic held by a group of preservice teachers studying in Brisbane, the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. Priority was given to the first phase of the research, which was to identify the qualitative conceptions of the work ethic held by the preservice teachers. The second quantitative phase was intended to complement and expand those findings by demonstrating that an established instrument in the measurement of work ethic could be used to profile conceptions of the work ethic held by an individual. The first phase of the research adopted a phenomenographic approach to identify nine conceptions of the work ethic held by a group of 22 preservice teachers. A courtship metaphor was used to characterise each of the nine conceptions which were labelled as Honeymoon, Monogamist, Serial Monogamist, Arranged Marriage, Celibate, Obsession, One-night Stand, Hedonist and Polyamorist. The second phase of the research used quantitative techniques involving factor analysis and linear modelling to link anonymous responses from 411 preservice teachers to the Occupational Work Ethic Inventory (OWEI) with the nine conceptions identified in the first phase of the research. It was found that the OWEI could be used to profile an individual's orientation to the work ethic conceptions that were defined. This research responded to calls in the literature for a better understanding of the characteristics of the people who choose to become teachers. It also suggested ways in which teacher education could be improved to prepare preservice teachers better through socialisation practices and the university curriculum. This study confirms that there are qualitatively different conceptions of the work ethic that may provide an alternative to the traditional Weberian conception. A technique is proposed to associate OWEI responses with the model of nine work ethic conceptions. Suggestions are also made with respect to potential improvement of the OWEI.

The paper focuses on ethic issues and dilemmas which are connected with hospice care and makes emphasis on the actual problem of dying process and death alone. The thesis has a theoretical characteristic.

O presente trabalho procura analisar a erótica na constituição ética do sujeito feminino, na escrita de novas Cartas Portuguesas. Suas autoras, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Isabel Barreno e Maria Velho da Costa, construíram uma obra de ficção transgressiva, centrando a escrita em um diálogo ousado, que mostra a mulher em luta contra os valores patriarcais tradicionais na sociedade portuguesa. O percurso da leitura discutirá os seguintes aspectos: a intertextualidade com as cartas atribuídas à freira Mariana Alcoforado, a análise do simulacro do gênero epistolar e o engajamento político-social da mulher portuguesa. / The present work aims to evaluate the erotic behavior through the ethic of female gender in the collective volume Novas Cartas Portuguesas. The authors Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa, built a transgressive fiction, focusing the text on an audacious dialogue which shows the women ready to fight against all the archaic and traditional patriarchal values in the Portuguese society It will be discussed the following aspects: (i) the intertextuality with the letters supposedly written by the sister Mariana Alcoforado, (ii) analysis of epistolary gender discussion related to differences/equalities and, (iii) the complete emancipation and engagement political-social of Portuguese women.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andre Luiz Boccato de Almeida.pdf: 1364728 bytes, checksum: 6372540ca1da73b1bd6d3bf784215bdd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-10 / The initial point of this dissertation is, in the first place, to analyze the postmodernity with its implications on moral conscience. The complex postmodernity reality takes us to rethink the problems concerning conscience to beyond the traditional paradigms making us to think of an (a type of) ethic of virtues which grants us a triple challenge: to discern, to decide and to act amongst ethical relativisms and fundamentalisms. For this purpose, we emphasize a panoramic view of postmodernity with its theoretical and anthropological challenges, generators of a new culture and value opposing to the whole Christian anthropology. The moral conscience, discernment stage, decision and action of the human being, feeling this opposition, is called to rethink its deeper structure. For this purpose, we have passed a look over the Christian tradition of conscience accentuating the major biblical, theological and historical themes under it. It emphasizes the positive comprehension of the council present in Gaudium et Spes , nº 16, we stress its concise and coherent importance to the moral-theological reflection. We propose an ethic of virtues looking at the old ethical paradigms, but aiming the contemporary human subject who lives a crisis of sense, history and acting. Finding himself fragmented and ethically confuse in front of the countless ethical proposals, seductive and ephemeral, we want to show that an ethic of virtues is profoundly pedagogical and evangelical when to this human subject offers means to form and educate his conscience. Rescuing the theological and cardinals virtues under the stimulating and creative inspiration of St. Thomas, we want to present ways capable of generating the humanization and integration of the postmodern human subject. It is up to the human subject to form his conscience with creativity in an open-minded spirit by the discernment to decide and act in times of ethical relativisms and fundamentalisms, proposing to himself and to his environment a beyond of moralisms and immoralisms / O ponto de partida desta dissertação é, primeiramente, analisar a pós-modernidade com suas implicações sobre a consciência moral. A complexa realidade pós-moderna nos leva a repensar a problemática da consciência para além dos paradigmas tradicionais, fazendo-nos a pensar uma ética das virtudes que propicie um triplo desafio: discernir, decidir e agir. Para este objetivo, destacamos uma visão panorâmica da pós-modernidade com seus desafios teóricos e antropológicos, geradores de uma nova cultura e valores impactantes à antropologia integral cristã. A consciência moral, instância de discernimento, decisão e ação do ser humano, sentindo estes impactos, é chamada a repensar sua estrutura mais profunda. Para isso repassamos um olhar sobre a tradição cristã da consciência, destacando os grandes temas bíblicos, teológicos e históricos subjacente a ela. Enfatizando a positiva compreensão conciliar presente na Gaudium et Spes, nº 16, ressaltamos sua concisa e coesa importância para a reflexão teológico-moral. Propomos uma ética das virtudes olhando os paradigmas éticos antigos, mas focando ao sujeito contemporâneo que vive uma crise de sentido, da história e do agir. Encontrando-se fragmentado e eticamente confuso diante de inúmeras propostas éticas sedutoras e efêmeras, queremos mostrar que uma ética das virtudes é profundamente pedagógica e evangélica quando a este sujeito oferece meios para formar e educar sua consciência. Resgatando as virtudes teologias e cardeais, queremos apresentar caminhos humanizantes e integradores ao sujeito pós-moderno. Cabe ao sujeito formar sua consciência com criatividade num espírito de abertura pelo discernimento, decidir e agir em tempos de relativismos e fundamentalismos éticos, propondo para si um além os moralismos e imoralismos

Les études sur le comportement de consommation ont reconnu l’influence de la culture. L’anthropologie a enrichi l’approche de la culture via les études in situ et a permis d’appréhender le caractère mouvant de celle-ci. De plus, elle a mesuré l’impact des variables situationnelles sur la force de l’ethnicité des consommateurs. Les études sur l’éthique sont plus récentes et modélisent la prise de décision éthique en montrant l’influence des variables personnelles et environnementales.Face à un environnement de plus en plus multiculturel et une intensification des préoccupations éthiques, la présente thèse a conceptualisé un modèle de comportement de consommation éthique-ethnique afin de répondre à la question de recherche suivante : l’environnement culturel et les caractéristiques individuelles influencent la philosophie morale individuelle, les critères de choix, le comportement et la consommation éthique et ethnique. L’étude, administrée par questionnaire sur 969 individus associe l’éthique au comportement ethnique pour la première fois. Les résultats montrent que les personnes fortement attachées à un groupe culturel et à des normes culturelles sont également plus sensibles aux critères éthiques et ethniques dans leurs intentions d’achat ce qui confirme le rôle du groupe dans la construction de la personnalité. La force de l’identité ethnique influence à la fois les comportements (ce qui est un des apports de cette étude) et les consommations éthique et ethnique. Néanmoins, la prise de décision éthique a une influence indirecte sur les comportements éthique et ethnique : cette relation est médiatisée par des critères de choix. Les implications managériales sont de plusieurs ordres : tout d’abord, les entreprises ont intérêt à communiquer sur les dimensions éthiques de leurs produits ethniques et par ailleurs, cette étude montre l’intérêt de développer des offres dites d’ « expériences de consommation / Research recognizes the influence of culture on consumer behaviour. Anthropology has developed the culture approach thanks to in situ studies and has allowed to grasp her moving nature. Moreover, it has measured the impact of situational variables on the strength of ethnic identity’s consumers. Studies on ethics are more recent and model the ethical decision making including the influence of individual and environmental characteristics. Facing an environment more and more multicultural and a growth of ethics concerns, the present thesis has conceptualized a model of ethic-ethnic consumer behaviour in order to answer the research question: cultural environment and individual characteristics influence the individual moral philosophy, the choice criterias, the behaviour and the ethic-ethnic consumption. The study, managed by a survey on 969 respondents, associates ethics and ethnic behaviour for the first time. Findings show that persons strongly attached to their cultural group and their cultural values are also more sensitive to ethics and ethnics criterias in their purchase intentions, which confirms the importance of the group in the personality construction. The strength of ethnic identity influence behaviours (which is a contribution of this study) and ethic and ethnic consumptions. Nevertheless, the ethical decision making has an indirect influence on the ethic and ethnic behaviours: this relation is mediatised by choice criterias. Management implications are numerous: first, firms have interest to communicate on the ethical dimensions of their ethnic products and secondly, this study shows the interest to develop offers based on “consumption experiences”.

O estudo analisa como se dá o processo de implantação e gestão da ética nas organizações e nos relacionamentos com os seus públicos, e estabelece a relação entre ética organizacional e reputação corporativa, com dados levantados por meio de entrevista em profundidade realizada com representantes de seis empresas com sede em São Paulo. Nas dimensões teóricas, são abordados os conceitos de ética, ética no âmbito das organizações, o papel do profissional de relações públicas e de comunicação organizacional na gestão da ética e os reflexos da ética na reputação corporativa. Na análise, são colocados em teste nove pressupostos e os dados da pesquisa são confrontados com os guias construídos a partir das noções de poder de Michel Foucault, e de ajustamentos do indivíduo no âmbito da organização de Erwing Goffman. Os resultados permitem afirmar, dentre outras conclusões, que, embora haja participação dos profissionais em significativos processos de gestão da ética, esta ainda é orientada em linha descendente; que são evidentes a relação ética e reputação corporativa; que a comunicação é considerada essencial no processo de gestão; que as organizações priorizam o relacionamento ético com os seus públicos, daí a possibilidade aos profissionais de relações públicas e de comunicação organizacional de atuação estratégica nesse processo. Tema que não se esgota, a ética constitui objeto permanente de pesquisa e investigação. / This study reports on how corporations implant and manage ethic practices in their organizations and in the relationship with their public, establishing the relation between organizational ethics and corporate reputation by means of data collected thorough interviews with representatives of six corporations established in São Paulo. It has approached the concept of ethics; ethic at the organization environment; the role of public-relation professionals and of organization communicators in managing ethic and its reflection on corporate reputation. Nine presuppositions were tested and the results compared to the guide of power-knowledge by Michel Foucault, and adjustment in organization environment by Erwing Goffman. It was concluded that although the participation of the professionals in this area was relevant to the process of ethics management it is still done in a controlled way; it was evident the relationethics and corporate reputation; that communication is essential in this process; that organizations prioritize ethical relation with their public, outstanding the necessity of public-relation professionals and organization communicators to strategically act in this process. Being a complex subject, ethic is in permanent studying and investigation.

Le débat entre éthique de la sacralité de la vie et éthique de la qualité de la vie se trouve au centre des discours bioéthiques (en particulier ceux en langue anglaise) depuis une quarantaine d'années. La sacralité de la vie est généralement considérée comme une éthique ancienne dont les origines remonteraient aux traditions judéo-chrétienne et hippocratique. L'éthique de la qualité de la vie, quant à elle, est souvent présentée comme une éthique moderne, née consécutivement au développement scientifique et technique qui a marqué le domaine médical depuis soixante ans. La différence entre les deux éthiques consisterait alors dans le fait que chacune d'entre elles attribuerait une valeur distincte à la vie humaine. De là découleraient des considérations morales divergentes sur certaines pratiques : euthanasie, avortement, interruption des traitements, etc. L'abondance de la littérature sur le sujet et la récurrence de l'usage des deux expressions n'empêchent pas que la portée et la signification de ces éthiques restent confuses. Cela est particulièrement évident dans les débats publics, et notamment à l’occasion de cas fortement médiatisés. Qu'entend-on par vie (humaine) ? Par sacralité ? Et par qualité ? Même au sein des « camps » apparemment bien définis, ces questions ne reçoivent pas toujours la même réponse.La présente thèse s'interroge sur la pertinence de l'opposition plus haut présentée au moyen d'une approche généalogique et d'une méthode archéologique. Elle se questionne d'abord sur l'idée commune de la sacralité de la vie et en repère les provenances multiples et hétérogènes. Celles-ci sont ensuite relues en contexte, en s'intéressant aux conditions dans lesquelles l'expression a été mobilisée, ainsi qu'aux discours qui s'y sont opposés. Ce cadre permet de porter un regard neuf sur l'apparition du débat entre éthique de la sacralité de la vie et éthique de la qualité de la vie, ainsi que sur son émergence et sa reconfiguration au sein de la bioéthique. L'enjeu est ici de fournir de nouvelles clés pour penser autrement le débat contemporain. / The debate between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic has been at the core of bioethical discussions (especially those in English) for forty years. It is generally considered that the sanctity of life is an ancient ethic which belongs to the Judeo-Christian and to the Hippocratic traditions. The quality of life, for its part, is commonly understood as a modern ethic which was born with the scientific and technological development of the medical field started sixty years ago. It is then stated that the difference between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic depends on the value that each ethic assigns to human life. A moral judgment about subjects as abortion, euthanasia, the withholding and withdrawal of life support, and so on, is supposed to result from this value. The literature on the subject is abundant, and the expressions “sanctity of life” and quality of life” are often used, but the meaning and the scope of these ethics remain sometimes unclear. This fact becomes more evident in the public debates, especially in the well-known cases. What (human) life, sanctity (of life), and quality (of life) mean? These questions rarely receive the same answer.The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the validity of the opposition between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic with a genealogical approach and an archaeological method. The common idea of the sanctity of life is, first, analyzed to find its multiple and heterogeneous “descents” [provenances]. These “descends”, then, are put into context, focusing on the conditions in which the expression “sanctity of life” was mobilized, and on the discourses that opposed to it. This framework, finally, allows to bring a fresh look at the advent of the debate between sanctity of life ethic and quality of life ethic, as well as at its emergence and reconfiguration in bioethics. The challenge is to provide new keys for thinking differently the contemporary debate.

The introduced diploma thesis deals with the application of ethics in social work in Open door youth club Cross in Strakonice, where the Roma are the target group of clients. The diploma thesis is divided into three parts. The first chapter deals with the everyday problems of Romany people, from the history to social situation of Romany ethnic group of nowadays. The question of education of the Roma in Czech school system is also included there. The aim of the second chapter is to introduce the Open door youth club Cross, to present the role of this organisation, its principles, aims and its target group of clients who are very often considered to be in unfavourable life and social situations. The third chapter is the fundamental part of the diploma thesis. The main focus is on moral acting of social workers and on the sense, necessity and application of ethic rules in social work, especially while working with Roma clients in Open door youth club Cross.