Is Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s Independent Ethics Program Important Nowadays?

In the paper, the essential elements of Kotarbiński’s independent ethics are presented. These are ethics which are one example of ethics in the broader sense, with a range of problems related to the question: how should we live our lives? Kotarbiński proposed an idea of independent ethics, ethics that are independent of religion and philosophy, ethics based on “platitude (obviousness) of heart”. In the paper, some shortcomings of this proposal will be shown, but also, by analysis of the parable of the Good Samaritan, it will be shown how we can overcome the weaknesses of independent ethic theory

Competency Implications of Changing Human Resource Roles

[Excerpt] The present study examines which competencies will be necessary to perform key human resource roles over the next decade at Eastman Kodak Company. This project was a critical component of an ongoing quality process to improve organizational capability. The results establish a platform that will enable Kodak to better assess, plan, develop, and measure the capability of human resource staff

New Spectacles for Juliette: Values and Ethics for Creative Business

This is the third book in an on-going series published by Nottingham Creative Network which was established in 2006 as a re-incarnation of Creative Collaborations which was established in 2003. Both incarnations offer(ed) professional and business development advice, support, training and networking opportunities made relevant for the specific and sometimes non-standard ways that creative businesses operate and exchange. This series of books occupies a cross-over space between broad conceptual debates, creativity itself, ideas for creative business and concrete advice for professional development. The first in this series is entitled Fish, Horses and Other Animals; Professional and Business Development for the Creative Ecology and tries to offer some ideas about understanding and engaging with informal creative business networks. The second, Soul Food, and Music: Research and Innovation for Creative Business explores ways to consolidate research for creative business and use it for thinking about innovation. As you will see, this third book continues the theme of professional and business development for the specifics of creative business by introducing questions of values and ethics into our broader on-going discussion

Evaluating environmental issue- Valuation as co-ordination in a pluralistic world.

Les méthodes classiques d'évaluation des ressources environnementales et des impacts sur l'environnement font implicitement l'hypothèse que la détermination des bonnes valeurs est la question clé pour la décision publique. Le processus de décision est alors compris comme l'application d'un classement univoque et objectivement déterminé d'un ensemble d'actions possibles. Quelle que soit la complexité du processus de décision dans le monde réel, concepts et méthodes d'évaluation demeurent intangibles. Le paysage se transforme lorsqu'on considère les pratiques d'évaluation comme une composante d'un processus de coordination publique impliquant des acteurs en conflit et porteurs d'enjeux variés. L'hypothèse explorée dans cet article est que la reconnaissance du caractère complexe et conflictuel de la décision appelle une nouvelle compréhension de l'évaluation elle-même. L'article propose de considérer l'évaluation comme le support de la recherche d'un accord légitime entre plusieurs types d'acteurs. Ce faisant l'évaluation doit répondre aux exigences générales de justification sur la scène publique. De ce point de vue, l'évaluation économique offre un cadre important, qui n'est toutefois qu'un cadre parmi d'autres. L'article pointe une direction clé qui est la recherche de compromis de justification et l'adoption de conventions méthodologiques qui soient en ligne avec les repères de justification utilisés par les acteurs concernés.Ordres de justification;Environnement;Evaluation;Décision publique

Toward Taping

Numerous authors, from all points on the political spectrum, have advocated that police interrogations be taped. But police rarely record custodial questioning, at least in full, and only a handful of courts have found this failure objectionable. This commentary outlines three different constitutional grounds for mandating that such recording become a routine practice. To set up the constitutional argument, the article first outlines why taping is needed despite the elaborate rules that now govern interrogation. Put simply, the reasoning is as follows: the Miranda regime has failed, voluntariness should once again be the focal point of interrogation regulation, and taping is the most likely way to move in that direction. The article then explains why a taping requirement should be more than a policy preference. To date, the primary contention in this vein has been based on the due process duty to preserve exculpatory evidence. Although that argument has not fared well in the courts, it can be recast more persuasively and this article does so. It then puts forward two other constitutional grounds for a taping requirement: the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, with an emphasis on how it functioned in colonial times, and the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation, as distinct from the right to counsel. If one of these arguments can win the day, it will revolutionize the interrogation process much more radically than did Miranda