Digital file includes the first chapter from The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Presentations and Perceptions of Information Work, edited by Nicole Pagowsky and Miriam Rigby; digital file also includes foreword by James V. Carmichael, Jr., Embracing the Melancholy: How the Author Renounced Moloch and the Conga Line for Sweet Conversations on Paper, to the Air of "Second Hand Rose

This study has presented insights into emotional perceptions surrounding ethical practices in the public relations field. The evidence resulting from the Q-sort process alluded to the grouping of practitioners as Truth Seers and students as Pragmatists. The Truth Seers revealed complete, balanced and consistent feelings identifying truth as the primary motivation for personal decision making. The Pragmatists were conversely found to believe that while truth was the basis of decision making, it was often necessary to make decisions or be confronted with moral choices that were not the most ethical out of necessity of circumstance. These groupings were general and did not apply toward all of the students or practitioners who participated. No definitive partition was established only a general theory. / Department of Journalism

M.Ed. / The research in this qualitative study focuses on the role of the educational psychologist as consultant in Inclusive Education. The rationale for the investigation is derived from the changing and expanding role of the educational psychologist. This role has been implicated by the move from excluding learners who experience barriers to learning from mainstream schools, towards a policy of Inclusive Education. Inclusive Education aims at restructuring and transforming schools and curricula, in order to promote needs-driven, holistic, effective, community-based and quality service delivery. However, the implementation of Inclusive Education poses complex problems to those involved. Knowledge, skills and attitudes are required in which most teachers, parents as well as personnel at the education support services are not yet trained. This necessitates a comprehensive solution, such as collaborative consultation. The educational psychologist thus needs to reflect on her current role, and should change and expand her role to that of a consultant. The report of the study commences with a theory framework in which collaborative consultation is explicated. The nature of collaboration as a constructivist learning and problem solving process, in whole school development for Inclusive Education, is discussed. Thereafter collaborative consultation as an ecosystemic approach to, and reflective practice in whole school development, is discussed and illustrated. The chapter ends by a summary of the role, knowledge, skills and attitudes of the consultant in whole school development for Inclusive Education. The theory framework is followed by a chapter on the design of the qualitative study, substantiating the choice of format and methods of data collection and analyses. A rich and tightly woven description of the chronological course of the research process is provided, when examples of raw data and data analysis from the sketches and transcriptions of the focus group and individual interviews are presented.

This study is concerned with the impact of job insecurity on the vital social exchange relationship between employee and employer. Specifically, it explored the relationship between job insecurity and two important social exchange outcomes—organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. Moreover, it assessed the moderating effects of individual factors (communal orientation and powerlessness) and situational factors (trust in management, procedural fairness, and organizational support) on these relationships.

This dissertation is a descriptive, exploratory examination of professional commitment, organizational commitment, and conflict between those commitments in the internal audit profession. That conflict has been suggested in prior studies as the source of dysfunctional outcomes such as increased role stress, high turnover, decreased job satisfaction, and the exercise of improper judgment leading to audit failures. The descriptive aspect of this study deals with the development of a more comprehensive structural model of the factors and relationships involved in commitment and conflict than has been developed by previous research dealing with accountants. The exploratory aspect deals with the testing and refinement of the developed model utilizing the internal audit profession as the field of examination. The model developed in this study is derived from the synthesis of factors suggested by role theory, the concept of side bets, the cosmopolitan-local construct, and the concept of commitment as a process. This research utilizes a questionnaire administered to 205 practicing internal auditors in order to test 30 hypothesized relationships. Path analysis is used to determine the significant direct relationships between variables with a process of theory trimming being conducted in order to produce more parsimonious structural models. Indirect relationships between significant variables are identified and their redundant or suppressive nature determined. Explanations of these suppressive or redundant relationships are provided based on the theoretical considerations identified above. Such a determination and explanation of the redundant and suppressive indirect relationships involved in the commitment-conflict relationship has not been accomplished in earlier studies of the subject. Although the procedures used here do not support causal conclusions, the findings of this study indirectly provide evidence that conflict between the two commitments in the internal audit area is not to be considered inherent. The findings also suggest a possible undesirable relationship between organizational formalization and professional commitment.

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

Cada vez mais, tem sido verificada a importância de um prontuário odontológico completo e bem estruturado com finalidade de evitar possíveis processos judiciais movidos contra Cirurgiões-Dentistas. Isso porque nestes prontuários, o profissional tem condições de armazenar todas as informações necessárias de seus pacientes e seguir um tratamento mais organizado. Os pacientes também vêm tendo mais informações quanto aos seus direitos e as obrigações do profissional. Desta maneira, o profissional da área de saúde deve estar sempre pronto e ciente quanto aos possíveis problemas de ordem jurídica que poderá encontrar em sua carreira. Sendo assim, o presente estudo tem como objetivo realizar uma análise da visão do Magistrado brasileiro de Varas Cíveis a respeito da aceitação de filmagem (VHS) em substituição a documentação odontológica convencional como prova em litígios que possa sofrer. Observou-se haver aceitação da filmagem (VHS) em substituição à maioria dos documentos odontológicos que compõem o prontuário. Concluiu-se que a filmagem (VHS) é aceita como prova legal em substituição a documentação convencional, não havendo, no entanto, consenso entre os Magistrados de Varas Cíveis Brasileiras quanto ao tempo que o Cirurgião-Dentista deverá armazenar tal documentação. / Each time more, has been verified the importance of a complete dentistry handbook and structuralized well with purpose to prevent possible moved actions at law against surgeon-dentists. This because in these handbooks, the professional has conditions to store all the information necessary of its patients and to more follow an organized treatment. The patients also come having more information how much to its rights and the obligations of the professional. In this way, the professional of the health area must be always ready and client how much to the possible problems of jurisprudence that will be able to find in its career. Being thus, the present study he has as objective to carry through an analysis of the vision of the Brazilian Magistrate of Poles Civil court jurisdiction regarding the acceptance of filming (VHS) in substitution the conventional dentistry documentation as test in litigations that can suffer. He observed himself to have acceptance of the filming (VHS) in substitution to the majority of the dentistry documents that compose the handbook. He concluded himself that the filming (VHS) is accepted as legal evidence in substitution the conventional documentation, not having, however, consensus enters the Magistrates of Brazilian Poles Civil court jurisdiction how much to the time that surgeon-dentists will have to store such documentation.

O aumento no número de infrações éticas cometidas por cirurgiõesdentistas face ao descumprimento das normas do Código de Ética Odontológica (CEO), sugere que estes profissionais estão despreparados para enfrentar os dilemas éticos que surgem no dia a dia de sua profissão. Diante disso, propôs-se analisar o conhecimento de cirurgiões-dentistas e discentes em Odontologia, a respeito deste código deontológico, buscando ainda, verificar, se há diferença estatisticamente significante, quanto ao nível de conhecimento, entre os grupos: dos acadêmicos do último ano de graduação em Odontologia (GRUPO I), dos cirurgiões-dentistas que atuam exclusivamente em consultório ou clínica (GRUPO II), e dos cirurgiõesdentistas clínicos que cursam especialização (GRUPO III). Para isso, foram aplicados 150 questionários (50 para cada grupo), com questões objetivas que versavam sobre alguns dos principais artigos do CEO. Os resultados confirmaram que realmente existe deficiência no conhecimento de alguns aspectos éticos ligados a Odontologia, onde, dos 150 participantes, n=90 (60%) não sabem que, além do cirurgião-dentista, todos os profissionais de outras categorias auxiliares reconhecidas pelo Conselho Federal de Odontologia, devem seguir as normas éticas do CEO. Outro resultado interessante, mostra que 31% dos participantes, desconhecem que, em alguns casos, o cirurgião-dentista tem direito a renunciar ao atendimento do paciente durante o tratamento. O GRUPO II, quando comparado com os outros grupos, foi o que demonstrou uma maior deficiência no conhecimento das questões éticas que envolvem a Odontologia. Concluiu-se que é necessária uma maior divulgação possível do CEO, principalmente àqueles profissionais exclusivamente clínicos, com empenho máximo dos Conselhos de Odontologia, além dos docentes da área e as entidades de classe, buscando preventivamente educar e instruir, para evitar condenar e punir. / The increase in the number of ethical infractions committed by dentists for not fulfilling the norms of the Code of Dental Ethics (CDE), suggests that these professionals are unprepared to face the ethical problems that appear in the daily of its profession. Ahead of this, it was considered to analyze the knowledge of dentists and dental students, related to this deontological code, searching still, to verify, if it has statistically significant difference, how much to the knowledge level, between the groups: of the academics of the last year of graduation in Dentistry (GROUP I), of the dentists who exclusively act in doctor\'s office or clinic (GROUP II), and of the clinical dentists of who attend a course specialization (GROUP III). For this, 150 questionnaires had been applied (50 for each group), with objective questions that turned on some of main articles of the CDE. The results had confirmed that really deficiency in the knowledge of some on ethical aspects attended with the Dentistry, where, of the 150 participants, n=90 (60%) don\'t know that, beyond the dentist, all the professionals of other recognized auxiliary categories for the Federal Advice of Dentistry, must follow the ethical norms of the CDE. Another interesting result, sample that 31% of the participants, not to know that, in some cases, the dentist has right to resign to the attendance of the patient during the treatment. The GROUP II, when compared with the other groups, it was what it demonstrated a bigger deficiency in the knowledge of the ethical questions that involve the Dentistry. One concluded that a bigger possible spreading of the CDE is necessary, mainly to those professionals exclusively physicians, with maximum persistence of the Advice of Dentistry, beyond the professors of the area and the entities of classroom, searching preventively to educate and to instruct, to prevent to condemn and to punish.

A classe contábil necessita manter elevados padrões éticos junto à sociedade, como pré-requisito essencial para a sua própria sobrevivência. Nesse contexto, este estudo teve como objetivo conhecer as percepções do contabilista a respeito do seu Código de Ética Profissional (CEPC), por meio de uma pesquisa de natureza descritiva e com a adoção do método quantitativo no tratamento dos dados. A amostra foi constituída por 2262 contadores e técnicos em contabilidade com registro ativo em Conselho Regional de Contabilidade, nos Estados do Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais e Rio Grande do Sul. Os resultados obtidos evidenciaram que, embora cerca de 73% dos profissionais concordem totalmente com a afirmação de que esse Código é importante como guia de conduta profissional, apenas 44% se predispõem a cumprir totalmente as normas estabelecidas pelo Conselho Federal de Contabilidade. A partir da regressão logística multivariada, constata-se que aqueles profissionais que concordaram totalmente que já leram o Código apresentaram 2,82 mais chances de cumprirem as determinações do Código do que os que discordaram totalmente dessa afirmação. Os profissionais que concordaram totalmente com a afirmação de que o CEPC ajuda-os a reduzir suas dúvidas apresentam 3,65 mais chances de cumprir o referido Código do que os que discordaram totalmente dessa afirmação. Em decorrência, a percepção do contabilista a respeito da importância dada ao CEPC como guia de conduta influencia a sua predisposição de cumprir o Código. Os resultados também sugerem que: a) a gravidade da infração ética é positivamente associada à percepção que o profissional tem sobre a sanção a ser aplicada ao infrator desse Código, embora exista um baixo coeficiente de correlação entre ambas; b) a avaliação teleológica, que contém situações atenuantes e agravantes não contidas no Código de Ética, pode influenciar o profissional em seu processo de tomada de decisão ética. / Brazilian accountants need to uphold high ethical standards in their service to society as this counts as an essential prerequisite for their survival. In this context, the objective of this study is to learn what perceptions of the Code of Ethics (CEPC) are held by these professionals. This is done by conducting descriptive research and adopting a quantitative method for analysis of data. The sample considered consists of 2,262 accountants and accountant technicians certified and chartered by the Regional Council of Accounting in the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul. The results obtained show that approximately 73% of professionals polled totally agree with the statement claiming that the Code is important as a guide of conduct; however, only 44% are willing to comply with the guidelines established by the Federal Council of Accounting. Multivariate logistic regression analysis shows that professionals who totally agreed to having read the Code are 2,82 times more likely to abide by its norms than those who totally disagreed with said statement. Professionals who totally agreed with the statement claiming that the CEPC helps them reduce their doubts are 3,65 times more likely to abide by the Code than those who totally disagreed with said statement. Consequently, an accountant’s perception of the importance of CEPC as a guide of conduct influences his/her predisposition to abide by it. The results suggest that: a) the gravity of an ethical infraction is positively associated with a professional’s perception of the Code sanction to be inflicted upon him/her, although there exists a small correlation coefficient between both; b) teleological evaluation, which contains mitigating or aggravating situations not included in the Code of Ethics, may influence a professional in his/her ethical decision-making process. The results do not provide enough evidence of the influence of individual factors on an accountant’s ethical decision-making process.

In response to the release of one of its Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB or Board) inspection reports, Deloitte notes that “[p]rofessional judgments of reasonable and highly competent people may differ as to the nature and extent of necessary auditing procedures, conclusions reached and required documentation” (PCAOB, 2008, 30). Other responses to PCAOB findings echo this sentiment. Stakeholders need to understand causes of differences between experts’ professional judgments to effectively utilize PCAOB inspection findings and firms’ responses to those findings. This study uses Social Identity Theory to explore whether role identity as an audit partner, internal reviewer, or PCAOB inspector, influences an expert’s judgments in an ambiguous decision environment. I find that professional judgments do not differ based on professional identity. This study also examines whether the presence or absence of outcome knowledge explains judgment differences among auditing experts. Consistent with prior research, e.g. Peecher & Piercey, 2008, outcome knowledge does affect experts’ professional judgment. I also find that experts’ level of organizational identification and membership esteem impacts professional judgment. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection