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Doctor Theologiae / South Africa

M.A. / Today's public managers in the South African public service face complex ethical dilemmas, often having to weigh personal and professional values against current opinion and the law. In the climate of increasing concern over ethical conduct in public service, they should adhere to ethics management. Research for this dissertation indicates that ethics in the public service is poorly managed. It is the responsibility of the public managers to ensure that ethical values, such as efficiency, honesty and integrity, to name just a few, are instilled in their subordinates from the first day of their appointment. Public managers are doers and deciders ...

A Research Report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Applied Ethics for Professionals Johannesburg, 2016 / This research sought to defend the proposition that not only do corporations have a moral right to lobby, corporations also have a moral duty to influence public policy through lobbying. The research has considered the ethics of corporate lobbying within the context of the extent literature in Business Ethics and from a South African perspective. An argument for corporate moral personhood has been advanced as the basis for a corporation’s moral right to lobby. The rights and duties of corporations as citizens have also been considered, and a case has been made for a normative theory of corporations as political actors with an associated moral obligation to seek to influence public policy to promote public interests. A set of ethical principles to guide responsible lobbying has been articulated as a morally justified basis for restricting a corporation’s moral right to lobby which arises from its status as a type of moral person to ensure that the power of corporations is harnessed in service of society. / MT2017

Thesis (M.Sc. (Curations)) --University of Limpopo, 2015 / The purpose of the study was to determine the experiences of professional nurses with ethical dilemmas at the Witbank hospital Nkangala district Mpumalanga province. The objectives of the study were to describe the experiences of professional nurses with ethical dilemmas in nursing practice and to determine supportive measures to help professional nurses to deal with ethical dilemmas encountered in nursing practice. The research question was: what are the ethical dilemmas that professional nurses experience in nursing practice? Kohlberg theory of moral development was used as a theoretical framework. A qualitative exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design was used to describe the experiences of professional nurses with ethical dilemmas in nursing practice. Purposive sampling was used to sample fourteen (14) professional nurses. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews. Open-coding method of data analysis was used and four themes and sub-themes emerged. The study found that professional nurses experience ethical dilemmas related to death and dying, distribution of both human and material resources, respect of patients’ autonomy and the nurses’ rights. The study recommends continuous ethics education and the inclusion of ethics in nursing curricula, creation of a supportive working environment, knowledge and understanding of the pledge of service, Inter- disciplinary teams to discuss ethical issues, availability of ethics experts and ethics mentors in the wards.

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-103).

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-103).

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-103).

Thesis (DTech (Marketing Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2008. / There is little doubt that public relations faces an identity crisis threatening to relegate this troubled organisational function permanently to the sidelines, unless it succeeds in reinventing itself. Such reinvention is mooted by a number of authors who propose the solution that public relations should rename itself. However, as others are quick to point out, renaming will not be the only solution, and a more extensive realignment of public relations is needed. The reinvention of public relations pertains specifically to its role in the organisation, its reputation (currently negative), and its contribution to the organisation's strategy and ethics. This thesis examines the problems beleaguering public relations and proposes that Porter's value chain analysis be used as the foundation for the reinvention of public relations. Arguments in support of the use of Porter's value chain analysis are presented, and empirical evidence supporting the likelihood of this approach succeeding is sought - and found. In conjunction with the problems surrounding public relations, the ethical landscape of the 21st Century is investigated with specific reference to unethical organisational practices so prevalent today. In proposing that Porter's value chain analysis be used to reinvent public relations, the thesis also argues that public relations can play a role in ensuring greater ethical responsibility of organisations. The relationship between public relations and marketing, so long a thorn in the side of public relations practitioners, academics, and authors, is clarified, and the organisational position of public relations is addressed. Finally, the thesis argues that public relations should see itself as a support activity in the organisation, where it is involved in organisation-wide communication support to all of the primary activities that are carried out to seek, find, create, and deliver value to customers.