Moral Loopholes in the Global Economic Environment: Why Well-Intentioned Organizations Act in Harmful Ways

Thomas Pogge’s notion of moral loopholes serves to provide support for two claims: first, that the ethical code of the global economic order contains moral loopholes that allow participants in special social arrangements to reduce their obligations to those outside the social arrangement, which leads to morally objectionable actions for which no party feels responsible and that are also counterproductive to the overall objective of the economic system; and, second, that these moral loopholes are more likely to exist as our economic order becomes more global. Finally, it will be shown that attempts to rectify the situation with voluntary corporate codes of conduct are inadequate. The argument proceeds through analysis of one case study, concerning action by the executive of the Cerrejón mining operation at La Guajira Penisular, Colombia

Human Development and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: The Influence of FDI Policy and Corruption

Summary While policymakers place great importance on foreign direct investment (FDI) in advancing development in developing countries, the links between FDI, economic development, and human development remain tenuous. We attempt to better understand these relationships by looking at the influence of FDI policy and corruption on these relationships. We find that FDI inflows are more strongly positively related to improvement in human development when FDI policy restricts foreign investors from entering some economic sectors and when it discriminates against foreign investors relative to domestic investors. The relationship between FDI and improvement in human development is also more strongly positive when corruption is low.foreign direct investment economic development human development developing countries

ENGAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR PLANE

Örgütlere rekabet üstünlüğü sağlayan birincil ve hayati unsur insandır. Psikolojik ve sosyal bir varlık olan insanın örgüt için üretken hale getirilmesinde örgütsel davranış disiplinine önemli görevler düşmektedir. Örgütsel davranışın ilgilendiği konulardan biri olan adanmışlık, örgüt başarısında etkili bir durumdur. Adanmışlık durumu, birey ve örgüt yapısı çerçevesinde birçok unsurla etkileşim göstermektedir. Tutumlar, davranışlar ve oluşan örgüt kültürü çalışanların adanmışlık seviyesini etkileyen unsurlardandır. Adanmışlık konusununun teorik bir yaklaşımla ortaya konulmaya çalışıldığı bu araştırmada farklı adanmışlık unsurları ve boyutları, adanmışlık durumları, adanmışlığın önemi, adanmışlığı ortaya çıkaran ve arttıran unsurlar irdelenip adanmışlığın tükenmişlikle ilişkisi ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır.The major and vital factor providing competitive advantage to the organizations is person. Organizational behavior discipline plays a crucial role in rendering a person that is both psychological and social entity to an efficient being in the organization. Commitment which is one of the issues examined by organizational behavior is an effective condition in the way of reaching to organizational success. The condition of commitment is related to several factors within the frame of individual and organizational structure. Attitudes, behaviors and developing organizational culture affect the commitment degree of workers. In this research, it is aimed to establish a frame on the relation between commitment and burn-out by examining particular commitment factors and dimensions, commitment conditions, the importance of commitment and the factors revealing and increasing the commitmen