The Meaning of Concepts of Human Nature in Organizational Life in Business Ethics Context

The main goal of this paper is to exhibit the role of the concept of human nature for the ethical orientation of organizational life. Therefore, after presenting some definitions of the concepts of human nature, which depict the complexity of these phenomena, some models of the concepts of human nature are described. Furthermore, the setting of the concepts of human nature in the organizational life is discussed. Those concepts can be perceived as a deep-structure of the organizational life, having an impact not only on the individual behaviour of employees and managers (like sensibility for human emotions, pro-social engagement, communication style), but also affecting their moral competence and influencing whole organizational culture – image of the organization, preferred management strategies and the way of perceiving justice. Those elements play crucial role in ethical attitude of the organization because all those variables support the efficacy of ethical rules and most of them are part of ethical code and corporate ethical code. Therefore, it is necessary for an organization to consider implicit and explicit concepts of human nature on which the organizational culture is based and support those concepts, which enables the ethical conduct of the organization and being alert especially to the consequences of materialistic/egoistic and competitive concepts of human nature. The theses discussed in the paper are supported by some empirical research studies conducted in this field.The National Science Centre (UMO-2011/03/D/HS4/00849

Matrix Isolation Infrared Spectroscopic and Theoretical Study of the Interaction of Water with Dimethyl Methylphosphonate

Matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy has been combined with theoretical calculations for the characterization of the 1:1 hydrogen-bonded complex between H2O and dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP). The symmetric O-H stretching mode was observed to shift 203 cm-1 to lower energy upon hydrogen bond formation, while a 32 cm-1 blue shift was noted for the H-O-H bending mode of the H2O subunit in the complex. These values compare extremely well with the (unscaled) shifts of -203 and +32 cm-1, respectively, that were calculated theoretically at the MP2/6-31+G** level. Additional perturbed modes of the DMMP subunit were observed, shifted relative to the parent band position. The greatest perturbation was to the P=O stretching mode near 1270 cm-1, where a shift of -17 cm-1 was observed (-21 cm-1 calculated theoretically). This suggests that the site of hydrogen bonding in the complex is at the P=O group, in agreement with theoretical calculations. The binding energy ΔE° for the 1:1 complex was calculated to be -7.7 kcal/mol

Les relations équivoques et les oasis

Résumé de la thèse de doctorat.http://vbat.orgInternational audienceCet article est lui-même un résumé du travail de thèse : Les relations équivoques, Approches circonspectes pour une socio-écologie des oasis sahariennes, th. Anthropologie sociale, Uni. René Descartes-Sorbonne Paris V - MNHN, sept. 1998, bibl., 47 fig., 10 photog., 14 tab. + annexes, 357 p

Colloque « Comment peut-on être socio-anthropologue aujourd’hui ? – La socio-anthropologie : un regard critique sur le mythe occidental du progrès technique »

Les « 3èmes rencontres de socio-anthropologie de Grenoble », organisées par le laboratoire emc2-Laboratoire de sociologie de Grenoble sous la direction de Florent Gaudez, avaient cette année pour invité d’honneur Alain Gras, fondateur du Centre d’études, des techniques, des connaissances et des pratiques (cetcopra – Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne). Concept médiateur, la socio-anthropologie est une approche spécifique privilégiant la transversalité disciplinaire. Cette posture intellectuelle, pro..