National culture is deeply rooted in values, which are learned and acquired when we are young (2007, p. 6), and „embedded deeply in everyday life. (Newman & Nollen, 1996, p. 754). Values have helped to shape us into who we are today. In other words, as we grow older, the cultural values we have learned and adapted to will mould our daily practices. This is reflected in our actions, behaviours, and the ways in which we communicate. Based on the previous assertion, it can be suggested that national culture may also influence organisational culture, as our „behaviour at work is a continuation of behaviour learned earlier. (Hofstede, 1991, p. 4). Cultural influence in an organisation could be evidenced by looking at communication practices: how employees interact with one another as they communicate in their daily practices. Earlier studies in organisational communication see communication as the heart of an organisation in which it serves, and as „the essence of organised activity and the basic process out of which all other functions derive. (Bavelas and Barret, cited in Redding, 1985, p. 7). Hence, understanding how culture influences communication will help with understanding organisational behaviour. This study was conducted to look at how culture values, which are referred to as culture dimensions in this thesis, influenced communication practices in an organisation that was going through a change process. A single case study was held in a Malaysian organisation, to investigate how Malaysian culture dimensions of respect, collectivism, and harmony were evidenced in the communication practices. Data was collected from twelve semi-structured interviews and five observation sessions. Guided by six attributes identified in the literature, (1) acknowledging seniority, knowledge and experience, 2) saving face, 3) showing loyalty to organisation and leaders, 4) demonstrating cohesiveness among members, 5) prioritising group interests over personal interests, and 6) avoiding confrontations of Malaysian culture dimensions, this study found eighteen communication practices performed by employees of the organisation. This research contributes to the previous cultural work, especially in the Malaysian context, in which evidence of Malaysian culture dimensions of respect, collectivism, and harmony were displayed in communication practices: 1) acknowledging the status quo, 2) obeying orders and directions, 3) name dropping, 4) keeping silent, 5) avoiding questioning, 6) having separate conversations, 7) adding, not criticising, 8) sugar coating, 9) instilling a sense of belonging, 10) taking sides, 11) cooperating, 12) sacrificing personal interest, 13) protecting identity, 14) negotiating, 15) saying „yes. instead of „no., 16) giving politically correct answers, 17) apologising, and 18) tolerating errors. Insights from this finding will help us to understand the organisational challenges that rely on communication, such as during organisational change. Therefore, data findings will be relevant to practitioners to understand the impact of culture on communication practices across countries.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2009. / Title from screen (viewed on August 27, 2009). School of Nursing, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Melinda M. Swenson, Kathleen M. Russell, Deborah Stiffler, Larry J. Zimmerman. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-185).

<p>Syftet med studien var att beskriva patienters erfarenheter av hur den personligaintegriteten respekteras i olika vårdsituationer. Varje människa har rätt att blirespekterad som en individ och inte utsättas för intrång i den personliga sfären. Då dettainte alltid respekteras i vårdsituationerna blir det intressant att skaffa kunskaper om hurpatienter upplever detta. I studien användes en kvalitativ ansats. Med hjälp av criticalincident metoden undersöktes patienters positiva och negativa erfarenheter av hur denpersonliga integriteten respekterades i olika vårdsituationer. Nio informanter deltog istudien, dessa bidrog med arton berättelser. Materialet analyserades kvalitativt. Treöverordnade teman med fem underteman framstod. Övergripande handlar fenomenetom att bli respekterad som människa. De tre överordnade temana är att bli lyssnad till,att bli sedd och att bli förstådd. Resultatet visar att om den personliga integriteten interespekterades blev patienter kränkta och ett onödigt lidande orsakades därmed avvården. Studien har betydelse för vården då respekt för integriteten är ett grundläggandebehov för patienters upplevelse av hälsa och lidande.</p> / <p>The aim of this study was to describe patient’s experiences of how privacy is respectedin health care. Every human being has the right to be respected as an individual and notbe subjected to interference in the personal sphere. Since this is not always respected inhealth care, it is interesting to gain knowledge about patient’s experiences. Aqualitative method was used in the study. By using the critical incident techniquepatient’s positive and negative experiences of personal integrity in health care wasreviewed. Nine informants participated and contributed eighteen stories. The materialwas analyzed qualitatively. Three superior themes with five subthemes found. Overall,this phenomenon is about to be respected as a human being. The superior themes are tobe heard, to be seen and to be understood. The result shows that if the personal privacywas not respected, the patient’s felt violated and an unnecessary suffering was therebycreated of health care. The study has implications for health care because the integrityis a fundamental need for patient’s experiences of health and suffering.</p>

A proposta deste trabalho constitui-se através do acompanhamento de um projeto de habitação popular na Vila dos Tocos (Palmares do Sul / RS), realizado no ano de 2004. Ele é o ponto de partida para pensarmos as intervenções públicas nas formas de habitar. Analisaremos os elementos que antecedem os projetos, as propostas apresentadas no papel e os efeitos desta junção para pensarmos em alternativas que ampliem a autonomia dos sujeitos e mantenham a esfera do desejo presente. Como alternativa possível para alcançarmos um respeito mútuo inclusivo, capaz de não apagar o desejo, propomos um olhar maior sobre as utopias iconoclastas. Estas se apresentam como possibilidade por serem capazes de mostrar os limites de nosso pensamento, propondo um tempo de espera e uma possibilidade outra de vir-a-ser. / The purpose of this paper is established through the observation of a housing project in Vila dos Tocos (Palmares do Sul / RS), held in 2004. This project is the starting point for thinking about public interventions in diverse forms of living. We will analyze the elements prior to the project, written proposals and the effects of this junction to think of alternatives to enhance the autonomy of individuals and keep the desire present. As a possible alternative to achieve an inclusive mutual respect, one that will not erase the desire, we propose a greater look on iconoclastic utopias. These are presented as a possibility for being able to show the limits of our thinking, proposing a standby time and potential outcomes.

Nowadays, with the development of science and technology, the attention is focused mainly on the physical aspect of a person and human dignity is less emphasized. The medical professionals should treat the patients with respect, dignity and understanding. This work points at the issues of maintaining patient autonomy and intimacy as the basic components of the preservation of human dignity. For the purposes of the thesis, the aim was to find to what extent the nurses find it possible to preserve patient autonomy, intimacy and the promotion of human dignity in the hospital environment. The thesis was handled by the qualitative research method with the use of interviews with the nurses and the patients of Department of Surgery and Department of Aftercare. The research file consisted of 10 general nurses, included 5 nurses from the Department of Surgery and 5 nurses from the Department of Aftercare. The research also addressed 10 patients from the Department of Surgery and 10 patients from the Department of Aftercare. Data collection was based on interview with prepared questions. The interviews which allowed the research to collect valuable information were recorded in two ways; either with the help of a voice recorder, or by a written record. Then the data processing itself occurred which consisted of a literal transcript of the information. The important data were emphasized and highlighted using the method called "a pencil and paper." By means of marking of individual words we used the method of "encoding" where the information has been grouped and which subsequently resulted in concepts as autonomy, intimacy and human dignity. The accomplished research brought different views of the nurses on the possibility of preserving the autonomy of the patients. The Department of Surgery offers more autonomy of the patients than those from the Department of Aftercare where patient autonomy is not sustained. The majority of patients (the Department of Surgery, the Department of Aftercare) is at least aware of the possibility to decide on their own, even under the circumstances where all the initiative is, as a result, conveyed by the doctors. Another concept that expressed our interest was the dignified care. Nurses show respect to patients through a humane approach, including information, interest, a quiet environment and a smile. This behaviour was also confirmed by the patients who mentioned only positive experience with the conservation and the promoting of their dignity. Many patients reported that this care is provided at the place where they are hospitalized. Unfortunately, according to the nurses, in some cases the lack of possibility to support patient dignity is caused by insufficient number of the staff, insufficient time and inappropriate facilities. The nurses are trying to maintain a professional approach which is based on decent behaviour focused on respect for human dignity. As the last concept, we present intimacy and privacy. The nurses evaluate the preservation of intimacy as possible and at the same time as an important aspect of the dignified care. Most often intimacy is maintained by means of roller blinds, doors and shutters. However, it is the number of people in the room that both the nurses and the patients see as a chief problem. The patients continue to highlight the efforts and the emphasis that the nurses put to maintain intimacy and privacy. According to the accomplished researched, it was found that the current nursing care may fulfil the rights for human dignity at an average level. The results of the current and potential further research could be available to the management of the hospital care to provide the employers with the information as a means for the identification and elimination of the identified barriers. This would increase the level of quality provided by nursing care and awareness of the fact that a person with all his/her needs remains the focus of our attention.

A proposta deste trabalho constitui-se através do acompanhamento de um projeto de habitação popular na Vila dos Tocos (Palmares do Sul / RS), realizado no ano de 2004. Ele é o ponto de partida para pensarmos as intervenções públicas nas formas de habitar. Analisaremos os elementos que antecedem os projetos, as propostas apresentadas no papel e os efeitos desta junção para pensarmos em alternativas que ampliem a autonomia dos sujeitos e mantenham a esfera do desejo presente. Como alternativa possível para alcançarmos um respeito mútuo inclusivo, capaz de não apagar o desejo, propomos um olhar maior sobre as utopias iconoclastas. Estas se apresentam como possibilidade por serem capazes de mostrar os limites de nosso pensamento, propondo um tempo de espera e uma possibilidade outra de vir-a-ser. / The purpose of this paper is established through the observation of a housing project in Vila dos Tocos (Palmares do Sul / RS), held in 2004. This project is the starting point for thinking about public interventions in diverse forms of living. We will analyze the elements prior to the project, written proposals and the effects of this junction to think of alternatives to enhance the autonomy of individuals and keep the desire present. As a possible alternative to achieve an inclusive mutual respect, one that will not erase the desire, we propose a greater look on iconoclastic utopias. These are presented as a possibility for being able to show the limits of our thinking, proposing a standby time and potential outcomes.

In this thesis, I examine Gwendolyn Brooks’s diptych poems “Two Dedications” from her 1968 collection In the Mecca. Critical accounts of “Two Dedications” cast the poems as fixed oppositions between “frivolous” Western art and inspiring, communal black art. I propose that such binaries are reductive and overlook the intellectual benefits Brooks locates in abstract modernist art. Using Ezra Pound’s theories of modernist difficulty, Walter Benjamin’s concept of artistic “aura,” and the Black Arts Movement (BAM) manifestoes of Ron Karenga and Larry Neal, I argue that Brooks’s poems demonstrate the benefits of both abstract Western art and representational BAM art. Specifically, Brooks suggests that both types of art provide avenues for self-determination and liberation from institutional conventions.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T14:09:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_6490_Projeto Final de Marcia Corvino.pdf: 1027164 bytes, checksum: 4a8e8400f49155d48e6272a0686a3c8d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-25 / Esta pesquisa analisou historicamente o discurso de gerentes gerais (GG) de atendimento (GA) e de câmbio (GC) de três Bancos públicos e dois Bancos privados, tendo como objetivo verificar a trajetória profissional, com enfoque nas relações entre subjetividade, trabalho e gênero. As novas formas de trabalho na contemporaneidade têm exigido excelência, qualificação constante e uma profissional multiqualificada, patroa de si, quadro que adquire intensidade quando se realiza um recorte analítico de gênero. Nos bancos a participação das mulheres nos cargos superiores vem crescendo, principalmente na função gerente. A partir de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com vinte e duas gerentes, delimitadas dentro do contexto histórico e espacial específico foi possível analisar como elas lidam com o trabalho em suas respectivas áreas e como enfrentam as dificuldades. Os dados foram analisados através da técnica da análise do discurso de Michel Foucault. O estudo apresenta os conceitos de trabalho como práticas sociais a partir das experiências vividas e de relações de gênero como ferramentas políticas e de poder revelando as complexidades presentes nas relações sociais de produção no mundo capitalista contemporâneo. O trabalho adquire novos contornos a partir da análise de três momentos da vida profissional das gerentes: entrada no banco, o trabalho atua como função produtiva e simbólica, como meio de sobrevivência e projeção social e econômica, afirmação na carreira bancária, o trabalho coaduna com as funções anteriores e se apresenta com um poder disciplinar transformando as gerentes em trabalhadoras regradas e produtivas e o momento de consolidação como gerente, onde já incorporaram os modos de objetivação e a política do banco e através das experiências que afloram na vida, as gerentes ultrapassam as regras estabelecidas e o trabalho atua constituindo novos modos de ser e agir. Palavras Chaves: mulheres, banco, trabalho, relação de gênero, subjetividade. / This research examined the historical discourse of general managers (GG) service (GA) and exchange (GC) of three public banks and two private banks, aiming to verify the career, focusing on relations between subjectivity, work and gender . New forms of work in contemporary excellence and have required constant qualification and a professional multi skilled "boss" himself, "mistress" of yourself, picture that acquires intensity when it performs an analytical approach gender. Banks in the participation of women in senior positions is growing, especially in the function manager. From semi-structured interviews with twenty-two managers, bounded within the historical context and specific spatial parse how they handle the work in their respective areas and how they face difficulties. Data were analyzed using the technique of discourse analysis of Michel Foucault. The study introduces the concepts of work as social practices from the experiences and gender relations as political tools and power revealing the complexities present in the social relations of production in the contemporary capitalist world. The work acquires new characteristics from the analysis of three moments in the life of professional managers: check at the bank, the work serves as a productive function and symbolic as a means of survival and social and economic projection, on a bank statement, work well with the previous functions and is presented with a disciplinary power in transforming managers and workers productive and ruled moment consolidation as a manager, where he has incorporated the modes of objectification and the policy of the bank and through the experiences that arise in life, the managers go beyond the rules established and work acts constituting new ways of being and acting. Uniterms: women, work, bank, respect gender, subjectivity.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-04-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:34:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 souza_hjs_me_mar.pdf: 427980 bytes, checksum: a42bbaabdb2f039edea37cf64bff8501 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A Fundamentação da metafísica dos costumes tem por finalidade encontrar o princípio supremo da moralidade. Segundo Kant, somente a razão é suficientemente capaz de fornecer, totalmente a priori, o princípio incondicionado da moralidade. Surge, porém, um problema: por que é que devemos nos submeter à lei moral? O que é capaz de motivar o homem a agir conforme o imperativo categórico e, portanto, moralmente? O presente trabalho pretende examinar, a partir dos apontamentos realizados por Kant, como pode o homem agir motivado pela lei, motivação esta necessária para que a moral se estabeleça. / The Groundwork Metaphysic of Morals is to find the supreme principle of morality. According to Kant, the only reason is sufficiently capable of providing, quite a priori, the principle unconditional of morality. Appears, however, a problem: why should we submit to the moral law? What is able to motivate a man to act as the categorical imperative and therefore morally? This study seeks to examine, from notes made by Kant, as can the man acts motivated by the law, the motivation necessary for the moral is established.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-03-04Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:02:54Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 scarin_accf_dr_mar.pdf: 2178185 bytes, checksum: 2b5033f8639e1a8b0e5cbd5363597249 (MD5) / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo compreender qual o papel da raiva na constituição da noção de respeito pela criança. Tomando por base resultados obtidos em um primeiro trabalho, O desenvolvimento da noção de respeito pela criança da Educação Infantil, o qual também teve como foco a questão da constituição do respeito e sua relação com experiências de amor e medo vividas por quem está aprendendo a respeitar. Compreendendo, a partir deste primeiro trabalho, a vigência desta questão, buscamos aprofundar o compreendido acerca desta constituição enquanto processo, a qual envolve, além das experiências citadas, notadamente a raiva. A partir de descobertas realizadas por Jean Piaget no campo da moral, pesquisamos junto às crianças acerca do que assinalaria o aparecimento deste fenômeno, ou seja, a raiva na constituição do respeito. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida em uma E.M. de São José do Rio Preto/SP, utilizando como instrumento de coleta de dados a Entrevista Clínica Piagetiana, realizada com 19 crianças entre quatro e seis anos de idade, com o auxílio de uma estória narrada e ilustrada, um questionário previamente elaborado, expressões faciais traduzindo seis tipos de emoções, e expressões faciais variando da contrariedade inegável ao mais amplo sorriso de satisfação. O acompanhamento às crianças foi feito durante três anos, e as entrevistas, realizadas três vezes. Como resultados dos dados compilados, ficou claro que as crianças têm noção de que devem respeitar, reconhecem uma ordem, gostam da professora mas têm dificuldade de absorverem o impacto que a raiva da ordem traz consigo. / The present research aims at understanding the role of anger related to the formation of the idea of respect by the child. We made use of the results obtained in our first work: O desenvolvimento da noção de respeito pela criança da Educação Infantil [The development of the idea of respect by nursery school students]. We found out that the development of the idea of respect in the child was associated with experiences of love and fear while they are learning to respect. Taking into consideration this aspect, we decided to refine our study about this process, more precisely, to understand anger whilst a process. Making use of Jean Piaget’s theory of moral judgment, we observed children’s attitudes in order to establish the moment when the anger and the development of respect appeared. The research was carried out in a nursery school in São José do Rio Preto – São Paulo – Brazil, we observed 19 children age 4-6; to collect data, we made use of Clinical Interview derived from Piagetian investigations. We also made use of an illustrated story, a previously prepared questionnaire, facial expressions displaying six kinds of emotions, ranging from strong opposition to wide open smile. We accompanied the children during 3 years, and we interviewed them 3 times. The results show that the children accept the fact that they have to respect the others; they recognize an order, they like the teacher but they have problems to deal with the impact of anger and order. We found out that the experience of anger may or not precede the proper conditions to the development of the notion of respect. The children accept the impact of anger and sediment the acceptance of themselves, opening space to absorb the other as someone to be respected.