The research literature reveals a number of studies conducted on unethical behavior, including nepotism, within the broader nonprofit sector. However, the effect of faith community leadership nepotism on parishioners has not been studied. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to fill a gap in the literature by exploring parishioner perceptions of leadership nepotism through the lens of servant leadership. Specific to this study, it was unknown whether parishioners of a Protestant church view nepotism as having a positive, negative, or neutral impact related to leadership performance. Specifically, the study explored parishioner impacts related to 5 elements of servant leadership: (a) listening, (b) empathy, (c) healing, (d) stewardship, and (e) building community. Individual interviews were conducted with 9 parishioners from 1 church where nepotism was known to exist. The interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed to identify and extract patterns and themes. Among the findings, the data revealed the presence of servant leadership characteristics found in leadership, which appeared to mitigate the negative influence of nepotism. The study may provide faith community leadership with information that can be used to create and implement important policies related to nepotism.

Natürliche Selektion bevorzugt effiziente Zusammenarbeit innerhalb von eusozialen Kolonien. Dennoch kann bei polyandrischen Arten die Aufzucht von Königinnen Konflikte auslösen. Es wird vermutet, dass Honigbienen nepotistisch bei der Königinnenaufzucht agieren. Bienen sind in der Lage zwischen verschiedenen verwandten Individuen zu unterscheiden. Die bisher publizierten Daten sind aber widersprüchlich. In meiner Untersuchung zeigte sich, dass standardisiert aufgezogene Larven durch verwandte Arbeitsbienen nicht signifikant bevorzugt werden, aber dass ein höheres Gewicht der Eier, aus denen die Larven geschlüpft sind, ihre Chancen als Königin aufgezogen zu werden signifikant erhöhen. Ein hohes Eigewicht führte außerdem zu einer zwar nicht signifikanten, aber tendenziellen Erhöhung von Fitness Eigenschaften der resultierenden Königinnen. Probleme, Nepotismus eindeutig zu belegen, sind möglicherweise dadurch verursacht, dass die Verwandtschafts-Präferenz bestimmter Individuen nicht in eine Kolonie-Entscheidung überführt werden kann. Ich habe deshalb – mit molekulargenetischen Methoden – die Verwandtschaft der Larven, die als Königinnen aufgezogen werden sollen, mit jener der Pflege-Bienen, die deren Aufzucht initiierten, vergliechen. In fünf Kolonien, deren Königinnen mit jeweils drei Drohnen von drei verschiedenen Herkünften besamt wurden, fand ich keine Präferenz von Arbeitsbienen für ihre nah-verwandten Geschwister. Dafür zeigten sich signifikante Unterschiede bezüglich Präferenz für Larven der drei Drohnen-Herkünfte. Dies kann so interpretiert werden, dass Honigbienen in der Lage sind, zwischen genetischen Varianten zu unterscheiden, aber dass diese Fähigkeit nicht für Nepotismus genutzt wird. In einem natürlichen, durch Mehrfachpaarung genetisch variablen, aber mindestens zu 25 % verwandten Volk, ist eine genetisch oder umwelt- (maternal) induzierte Attraktivität, und nicht der Grad der Verwandtschaft, das zentrale Selektionskriterium in. / Natural selection favours an efficient cooperation within eusocial colonies. However, in polyandrous species, queen rearing may provide some conflict. Worker bees are assumed to play a nepotistic role during the queen-rearing phase by preferring more closely related larvae. Honeybee workers were found to be able to discriminate between different related individuals, but published data are inconsistent. Here in my study I show that larvae reared on a standardized basis were not significantly preferred by related worker bees, but that a higher egg weight – from which the larvae originated – significantly increased the chance to receive a royalty treatment and showed a tendency to correlate positively with fitness traits of the resulting queen. Queen rearing results from a colony decision, and this involves many workers. Consequently any lack of a nepotism which is proved may be due to the fact that relatedness-driven kin preference of individuals cannot be applied to a colony decision. In view of this, using DNA fingerprinting, I also tested the relatedness of larvae to be reared as queens and those nursing worker bees which initiated the queen−rearing process. In five colonies, each inseminated with three drones from three different origins, I did not observe any preference of worker bees for their closely related sib for queen rearing, but I did find significant differences with respect to the preference of worker bees for larvae from the three drone origins. Our data provide evidence that honey bees have the ability to discriminate genetic differences, but they do not use it for nepotism. In a natural, diverse – but always at least 25%-related – framework within a colony, genetically or environmentally driven attractiveness but not relatedness represents the key criteria for selecting larvae for gyne production.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:20:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Carlos Evangelista de Araujo.pdf: 2199221 bytes, checksum: 13e4f2c5e9aa02e941c6188014bc0b65 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-11 / The present work considers to study the phenomena of the nepotism and the patrimonialism in the scope of the Brazilian Public Administration and the way it runs its prohibition and repression in the context of our effective jurisprudence, especially, in face of the constitutional principle of the sensible new morality and the reach acquired for the constitutional jurisdiction in the plan of the legal-constitutional system introduced by the Federal Constitution of 1988. The concepts of nepotism and patrimonial State or simply patrimonialism will be analyzed in such a way under the description-sociological prism how much under a purely legalnormative approach. One in this manner searches to articulate in an only plan of analysis the perspective call of the participant (legal-normative approach) and the perspective of the observer (description-sociological approach). In what it refers to the legal-normative appreciation of the nepotism, our analysis aimed at since the meaning contemporary of the proper constitutional jurisdiction in our legal system, passing for the eventual collision of the rule that prohibition the available nepotism with other principles constitutional and procedural ways for its repression and has controlled, until the study and the minute reflection on its normative concept and its modalities, the available parameters legal-argumentative for the application of the prohibition rule and its limits and, finally, resistences, contradictions and ambiguities you observed in the last effort undertaken for the institutions for controlling the nepotism and other modalities of patrimonialism in the state scope - by means of the edition of the Resolution nº 07/05 of the CNJ and Binding the Abridgement nº 13 of the STF. The reflection on the constitutional normativeness of principles such as of the morality (main axle of our legal-normative analysis) and of the impersonality will be given in the scope of a theoretical field however in constitution, but usually identify in the academic debate for pos-positivism - and is recognized in the workmanship of authors as RONALD DWORKIN, ROBERT ALEXY, EDUARDO GARCI'A DE ENTERRÍA and J. J. GOMES CANOTILHO. To this referencial theoretician-metodological we add as structurant line of our reflection, with intention to provide to an analysis of first the legal system of and second order (observing/participant) the concept of legal system in the form that printed it NIKLAS LUHMANN - with some exceptions in what it says respect to its conception on the legitimation of the Right. It was still opted to a methodological framing that in allowed them to base on a historical perspective and politics the dynamics of the patrimonial State, and to collate it with a theory of the social evolution and the moral development in the individual and institutional scope. An interpretation based in a renewed conception of the historical materialism, in landmarks presented for JÜRGEN HABERMAS was adopted here then. How much to the waited results, we intend to excite, in first place, a reflection on the historical beddings and politicians of the patrimonialism and its manifestation in the nepotism form. In second, a change of attitude of the legal operators in relation to this subject. Finally, in we strengthen to supply them elements of legal-normative nature with potential to clarify and to contribute the dogmatic perfectioning of this substance, assisting in some way in the search for a society that is, in fact, free, joust and of solidarity / O presente trabalho se propõe a estudar os fenômenos do nepotismo e do patrimonialismo no âmbito da Administração Pública brasileira e o modo como se dá a sua vedação e repressão no contexto de nossa ordem jurídica vigente, especialmente, em face do princípio constitucional da moralidade e do novo sentido e alcance adquirido pela jurisdição constitucional no plano do sistema jurídico-constitucional introduzido pela Constituição Federal de 1988. Os conceitos de nepotismo e de Estado patrimonial ou simplesmente patrimonialismo serão analisados tanto sob o prisma histórico-sociológico quanto sob um enfoque puramente jurídico-normativo. Busca-se desse modo articular em um único plano de análise a chamada perspectiva do participante (enfoque jurídico-normativo) e a perspectiva do observador (enfoque histórico-sociológico). No que tange à apreciação jurídico-normativa do nepotismo, nossa análise visou desde o significado contemporâneo da própria jurisdição constitucional em nosso sistema jurídico, passando pela eventual colisão da regra que veda o nepotismo com outros princípios constitucionais e os meios processuais disponíveis para a sua repressão e controle, até o estudo e a reflexão minuciosa sobre seu conceito normativo e suas modalidades, os parâmetros jurídico-argumentativos disponíveis para a aplicação da regra de vedação e seus limites e, por fim, resistências, contradições e ambiguidades observáveis no último esforço empreendido pelas instituições para se controlar o nepotismo e outras modalidades de patrimonialismo no âmbito estatal - por meio da edição da Resolução nº 07/05 do CNJ e da Súmula Vinculante nº 13 do STF. A reflexão sobre a normatividade de princípios constitucionais tais como os da moralidade (eixo principal de nossa análise jurídico-normativa) e da impessoalidade se darão no âmbito de um campo teórico ora em constituição, mas que costuma se identificar no debate acadêmico por pós-positivismo e é reconhecido na obra de autores como RONALD DWORKIN, ROBERT ALEXY, EDUARDO GARCIA DE ENTERRÍA e J. J. GOMES CANOTILHO. A esse referencial teórico-metodológico acrescentamos como linha estruturante de nossa reflexão, com o intuito de proporcionar uma análise do sistema jurídico de primeira e segunda ordem (observador/participante) o conceito de sistema jurídico na forma que lhe imprimiu NIKLAS LUHMANN com algumas ressalvas no que diz respeito à sua concepção sobre a legitimação do Direito. Optou-se ainda por um enquadramento metodológico que nos permitisse fundamentar em uma perspectiva histórica e política a dinâmica do Estado patrimonial, e confrontá-la com uma teoria da evolução social e do desenvolvimento moral no âmbito individual e institucional. Adotou-se então aqui uma interpretação pautada em uma concepção renovada do materialismo histórico, nos marcos apresentados por JÜRGEN HABERMAS. Quanto aos resultados esperados, intentamos suscitar, em primeiro lugar, uma reflexão sobre os fundamentos históricos e políticos do patrimonialismo e sua manifestação na forma de nepotismo. Em segundo, uma mudança de atitude dos operadores jurídicos em relação a esse tema. E por fim, nos esforçamos para fornecer elementos de natureza jurídico-normativa com potencial para esclarecer e contribuir para o aperfeiçoamento dogmático dessa matéria, auxiliando de algum modo na busca por uma sociedade que seja, de fato, livre, justa e solidária

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:34:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniela Elias Pavani.pdf: 1086012 bytes, checksum: d5c1abf926843beb6b839505a6efd0f2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-17 / The paperwork deals with offices, in particular, the limits imposed by legal system about at-will appointment to their candidate. The study starts from the analysis of public administration in Brazil, its characteristics and the implemented reforms over the years in order to improve it and to overcome rooted patrimonial practices in the Brazilian state. After examining the offices in general, the approach rests on the at-will appointments, the reason for its existence, the discipline afforded to them under national legal system, as well as the limits prescribed by law or arising from the constitutional principles on the appointment to their future occupants. This term paper deals with the control being exercised by the Public Administration itself, the Legislative (either directly or with the aid of the Court of Auditors) or by the Judiciary in relation to the appointment act and it seeks to identify possibilities of illegality (in the broadest sense) of that act, either for an offense against law or principles. The study points out that, unlike the understanding enshrined in binding precedent n. 13 of the Supreme Court, the appointment of relatives to offices, a practice known as nepotism, does not necessarily imply in offense to constitutional principles. The conclusion reached is in the sense that, in the absence of a formal law about the requirements to be met by the future occupant of an office, only the examination of the case peculiarities allows identifying potential harm to the Federal Constitution. / O trabalho aborda os cargos públicos de provimento em comissão, em especial, os limites impostos pelo ordenamento jurídico quanto à nomeação dos seus titulares. O estudo tem início a partir da análise da Administração Pública no Brasil, suas características e as reformas implementadas ao longo dos anos com o propósito de aprimorá-la e de superar práticas de natureza patrimonialista enraizadas no Estado brasileiro. Após o exame dos cargos públicos de uma forma geral, a abordagem recai sobre os cargos comissionados, a razão de sua existência, a disciplina a eles conferida pelo ordenamento jurídico nacional, bem como os limites previstos em lei ou decorrentes dos princípios constitucionais à nomeação dos seus futuros ocupantes. O trabalho trata do controle a ser exercido pela própria Administração Pública, pelo Poder Legislativo (diretamente ou com o auxílio do Tribunal de Contas) ou pelo Poder Judiciário em relação ao ato de nomeação, e busca identificar as hipóteses de ilegalidade em sentido amplo de tal ato, seja por ofensa à lei ou a princípios jurídicos. O estudo aponta que, diferentemente do entendimento consagrado na Súmula Vinculante n. 13 do Supremo Tribunal Federal, a nomeação de parentes para cargos de provimento em comissão, prática conhecida como nepotismo, não implica, necessariamente, ofensa a princípios constitucionais. A conclusão a que se chega é no sentido de que, inexistindo lei em sentido formal a respeito dos requisitos a serem atendidos pelo futuro ocupante de um cargo comissionado, apenas o exame das peculiaridades do caso concreto permite identificar eventual ofensa à Constituição Federal.

<p>Evolution is fuelled by independent reproduction events. Yet, the offspring of at least three percent of all bird species postpone dispersal and forego independent reproduction. The Siberian jay, <i>Perisoreus infaustus, </i>is such a species where some<i> </i>offspring are philopatric and remain in their natal territory for up to three years, forming family groups. The main finding of this thesis is that nepotistic anti-predator behaviour displayed by parents provided philopatric offspring benefits, which could be an incentive to stay and forego independent reproduction. Predation, (hawks - 80 % and owls - 15% of deaths observed) is the main cause of mortality. Parents increased their vigilance nepotistically; they were more vigilant against surprise predator attacks, and gave alarm calls when attacked when feeding together with offspring. However, the two parents differed in their behaviour. Mothers gave calls only when together with their offspring, while males also warned unrelated immigrants. Sitting predators were approached and mobbed more intensely by parents in the presence of philopatric offspring. The vocalisation of Siberian jays provides information about predation risk. Specific calls are given for hawks and owls, and calls also varied with hawk behaviour. The nepotistic anti-predator behaviour of parents is a benefit, which the offspring can gain only “at home”, and such behaviour appears to promote offspring to forego dispersal and independent reproduction. This was confirmed in an experimental manipulation; philopatric offspring dispersed when fathers were removed and replaced by a despotic, immigrant stepfather. From a life-history perspective, parents have an incentive to protect their reproductive investment. Nepotistic anti-predator behaviour create a safe haven in the natal territory for philopatric offspring and provides direct fitness benefits. Without such direct fitness benefits offspring may disperse and wait for a breeding opening elsewhere. </p>

Evolution is fuelled by independent reproduction events. Yet, the offspring of at least three percent of all bird species postpone dispersal and forego independent reproduction. The Siberian jay, Perisoreus infaustus, is such a species where some offspring are philopatric and remain in their natal territory for up to three years, forming family groups. The main finding of this thesis is that nepotistic anti-predator behaviour displayed by parents provided philopatric offspring benefits, which could be an incentive to stay and forego independent reproduction. Predation, (hawks - 80 % and owls - 15% of deaths observed) is the main cause of mortality. Parents increased their vigilance nepotistically; they were more vigilant against surprise predator attacks, and gave alarm calls when attacked when feeding together with offspring. However, the two parents differed in their behaviour. Mothers gave calls only when together with their offspring, while males also warned unrelated immigrants. Sitting predators were approached and mobbed more intensely by parents in the presence of philopatric offspring. The vocalisation of Siberian jays provides information about predation risk. Specific calls are given for hawks and owls, and calls also varied with hawk behaviour. The nepotistic anti-predator behaviour of parents is a benefit, which the offspring can gain only “at home”, and such behaviour appears to promote offspring to forego dispersal and independent reproduction. This was confirmed in an experimental manipulation; philopatric offspring dispersed when fathers were removed and replaced by a despotic, immigrant stepfather. From a life-history perspective, parents have an incentive to protect their reproductive investment. Nepotistic anti-predator behaviour create a safe haven in the natal territory for philopatric offspring and provides direct fitness benefits. Without such direct fitness benefits offspring may disperse and wait for a breeding opening elsewhere.

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The research study was conducted in Mazakhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The aim of the study was to understand the impact of unemployment on the inhabitants of Mazakhele. The primary question of this study was: How does unemployment affect the jobless in Mazakhele? The sample consisted of five females and five males aged between 25 to 55 years who were unemployed. Purposive sampling was used. In-depth interviews were used to collect the data that were analysed using the five steps of qualitative analysis. The findings of the study revealed that unemployed people (a) felt a lack of purpose in life that resulted in them experiencing difficulties in structuring their time, (b) generally spent their time with passive and purposeless activities and (c) experience frustration and anger that may lead to violence, substance abuse, prostitution, drug trafficking and sometimes even suicide. In addition, the participants indicated that unemployed people lose not only their jobs, but also their sense of social identity and self-worth. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

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There is circumstantial and scientific evidence of nepotism in Europe and USA, and among politicians, judges and other elites. Despite this, an access to positions of power in a liberal democracy is restricted in the sense that occupational following in the offices is subject to public scrutiny. There is a conflict between a personal obligation to promote one's kin and a public obligation to promote liberty. This public duty emerges from a duty to allow access to offices of power to those who have the misfortune of not being born as dynastic followers. It is based on John Rawls's original position which is a thought experiment establishing an impartial environment to detect chief principles adjudicating conflicts of moral doctrines, fairly. In it, the condition of impartiality is achieved by means which are found in this dissertation to be excessive. Its blanked ban on biases immolates even those biases which contribute to fairness, despite their partiality. When nepotism is partly considered an expression of altruism, it shows a capacity to increase cohesion, impede free-driving and improve economy. In order to preserve these virtues, an improved condition of impartiality is offered to enhance Rawls's theory and to classify instances of nepotism according to their effects on improving or hampering...