Core Values Research Articles

Transcultural and Transnational Communication Principles? Suggestions for Minimum and Maximum Values as a Common Ground

ABSTRACT Based on the communication ethics of Ptahhotep and other inclusivist communication value systems, including several additional non-Western (Confucian, Buddhist, Aborigine, Cree, San, Māori, Ubuntu, and Islamic) as well as Western ones (Stoic, Christian, Kantian, socialist, liberal, and journalistic), we propose seven principles as common ground for the future regulation of media communication on a global scale. All seven are formulated in a manner similar to Ptahhotep’s, providing a flexible range of norms allowing, for example, hate speech to be dealt with by criminalization, or in civil law, or by means of ethics rules and self-regulation, depending on the severity of the involved threats to humanity, to human beings, or to other core values. We reject an often-paralyzing comparative intercultural juxtaposition of individualism versus collectivism, instead suggesting an inclusivist and interculturally principled common ground for the regulation of communication.

Navigating academic excellence: Understanding how university vision impacts staff effectiveness

<p>Vision statements are seen as important factors that come before the development of strategies. They excel in encapsulating the strategic direction of a company, clearly defining its scope, boundaries, and the process of creating value. Vision statements function as comprehensive frameworks that guide the development of several strategic elements, including mission, strategic capabilities, strategic intent, objectives, goals, core values, standards of behavior, and business models. However, research on this subject remains scanty, particularly within academia. Therefore, this study examined the impact of university vision on staff effectiveness building on the transformational leadership theory and the strategic leadership theory. The study adopted positivist research philosophy. The research employed a cross-sectional study design. This study employed a descriptive research design. Questionnaires were devised by the researcher to collect data from a randomly selected group of 186 academic personnel from the four colleges in a private university using stratified sampling. Data obtained was subject to validity checks using composite reliability, average variance extracted (AVE) estimate, and Cronbach Alpha coefficient. The findings reveal that the vision of the university had a significant but weak impact on the effectiveness of staff. Based on the findings and conclusions, the study suggests that the University’s organizational vision should be consistently improved and effectively conveyed to staff members to direct their efforts toward achieving the university’s vision.<strong></strong></p>

Toward more ethically oriented humanitarian logistics operations: An exploratory research

Ethical standards in humanitarian logistics have been frequently overlooked in the literature. This research aims to explore the interaction between logistics decisions and ethical standards implementation in the context of humanitarian relief operations. The paper adopts a data triangulation approach to collect and validate the primary and secondary data through a literature review, focus group, and interview. The results revealed that logistics decisions and processes affect the implementation of ethical standards. These decisions are physical distribution, facility location, procurement, outsourcing, deprivation cost analysis, visibility and information flow, supply chain collaboration, staff selection and training, types of relief items, staff security, and localization of logistics activities. This research can provide practitioners with insight into a complete set of ethical standards and inform their understanding of which factors affect their implementation. The novelty of this research comes from combining two disciplines, humanitarian logistics and social work, to compile a complementary list of ethical standards in humanitarian operations. It shows how logistics decisions can affect implementing ethical standards and hence achieving core values of social work.

A Samsung production system-based approach to improve manufacturing process management in Vietnamese firms

Today, more and more Vietnamese firms consider continuous improvement as the best way to increase their manufacturing capability. This paper aims to illustrate the effectiveness of manufacturing processes management from the Samsung production system (SPS) approach when it was implemented to improve capability of existing production process in Vietnamese firms. The paper is a combination of descriptive and field research to demonstrate how SPS principles are appropriate for five real industry cases in particular and all Vietnamese manufacturing companies in general. In five cases, the usage of SPS-based tools has turned out to be fruitful. They solved problems of continuous improvement management in Vietnamese firms and created significant achievements in quality improvement and productivity increase. The paper investigates the core value of Samsung’s continuous process improvement. The way that Samsung has used to improve quality and profitability simultanously can be adapted by manufacturing companies.

Analysis of the Social Construction of Breast Cancer Awareness in Media and Cause-Related Marketing

Today, women’s experience following breast cancer is being a survivor. This experience is a demedicalized one, there are no medical connotations attached, women are not patients, they are survivors. Breast cancer activism discourse presents this survivor experience and seeks to destigmatize the disease through public awareness. The demedicalized nature of the disease and its messaging of awareness has provided an opportunity for companies to capitalize on this discourse through cause-related marketing. This paper uses Arthur Frank’s concept of the communicative body to explain the origins of the social construction of breast cancer as a demedicalized experience and to analyze new media messaging of breast cancer activism within the past decade. The analysis conducted establishes two dominant themes in breast cancer activism in new media. Firstly, the use of survivors employing Frank’s communicative body to build awareness, which can be traced back to the origins of the movement in the 1970s. Secondly, the corporate capitalization of the movement, namely the pink ribbon through cause-related marketing. This paper argues the demedicalized experience of having breast cancer still maintains its core values as a survivor-focused movement about women communicating their illness as survivors through their communicative bodies. However, the demedicalized nature has in turn allowed companies to capitalize on its messaging for their own financial gain. This paper finds that the ‘pinkwashing’ produced by cause-related marketing for breast cancer damages activist messaging through its monetization, distorting the social construction of awareness, and dividing survivors in their views of how awareness should be communicated. This ultimately creates two sides of raising awareness: one created through survivors using Frank’s communicative body, the other established by companies using cause-related marketing.

Post-treatment technologies for high-speed additive manufacturing：Status, challenge and tendency

In the process of high-speed additive manufacturing, machining defects such as low surface accuracy, high surface roughness, residual stresses and micro-cracks have a serious impact on the performance and life of the product. These machining defects need to be removed by post-treatment in order to promote the use of additive manufactured parts in industrial production. This article provides a systematic review of existing post-treatment technologies for additive manufactured parts, divided into surface post-treatment technologies and overall post-treatment technologies. The processing cost expenditure of the most common post-processing methods is analyzed. The core values and key metrics of post-processing are explored. The prospects for post-processing technology for additive manufactured parts in six key development directions are discussed. The present review systematically discusses the process capabilities and research developments of post-processing technologies for high-speed additive manufacturing, taking into account knowledge from both basic and applied research areas.

Discussion on the Education Path of Socialist Core Values for College Students

College student party members are in the critical period of maturing their world view, outlook on life and values, and their value orientation and ideological concepts are easily strongly influenced by various external factors and social environment, which brings about many violent shocks at the value level, which has a negative impact on the formation and development of college students' values to a certain extent. After the Party Central Committee put forward the core socialist values, college student party members are required to accurately understand and grasp the connotation of the core socialist values, and understand their value goals, value orientations and value standards at the national, social and individual levels. Only by comprehensively investigating and researching the cognitive, emotional and practical identity of college student party members in the field of socialist core values, analyzing the problems existing in the field of socialist core values education, and proposing a systematic and effective educational path for socialist core values on this basis, can college student party members firmly establish the socialist core values, form a correct "three views", and have good cognitive, emotional and practical identity.

Scientific heritage of E. I. Kozlova and its importance for the development of the Russian doctrine of public authority

The article is dedicated to analyzing the research activities of Ekaterina Ivanovna Kozlova in the context of contemporary challenges in constitutional law and the formation process of the domestic doctrine of public power. The article conducts a profound examination of E. I. Kozlova’s scientific legacy, addressing issues relating to popular sovereignty, patterns of forming the people’s will, as well as the characteristics of the representative nature of state bodies, municipal, and public representation. As a result of the analysis, key features of the constitutional structure of public power were identified, including shifts in the balance between general and detailed regulations when establishing the fundamentals of societal organization and the core values of society. Conclusions were drawn regarding the potential for further detailed elaboration and clarification of constitutional norms pertaining to the category of “public power”. These findings underscore the importance of continuing research in the field of constitutional law and advancing the understanding of public power within the context of contemporary challenges and the needs of Russian society.

Community resilience in Spanish depopulated rural areas: A systematic review

Research on community resilience has been ongoing for decades. Several studies have been carried out on resilience in different groups and contexts. However, few address the relationship between community resilience and depopulated rural areas. This study aims to dig deeper into this, considering the concrete impact of population decline in Spain. We carried out a systematic review of the most relevant contributions. A search protocol was developed and used to consult ten databases. Different combinations of terms such as ‘community resilience’, ‘rural’, and ‘depopulation’, or related terms, were used. 22 scientific texts were analysed. We obtained a set of publications that demonstrate the heterogeneity of research methods, approaches and analytical processes applied to the study of this relationship. A mostly qualitative approach was observed, either as the main technique or complementary to documentary reviews. The results underscore the complex nature of rural depopulation and related constructs. It emphasizes the specific importance of community resilience in these territories in terms of social capital, endogenous resources, sustainability, economic dynamism, local responsibility and effective governance. The findings identify a scarce mention to social intervention professions, which should have a more important role due to their core values. In the studies reviewed, it appears as an emerging and scientifically relevant area to explore, both for investigation and intervention purposes. The strength of a multidisciplinary approach to addressing the phenomena appears in the discussion as a main potential line of research.

The Practical Research on the Red Film and Television Culture Helping the Ideological Education of College Students

Film and television culture has been favored by college students for its artistic comprehensiveness, rapid transmission speed, large amount of information, simple way, wide radiation range and market-oriented content. The values it spreads have a subtle influence on the ideological and political orientation of young students and the quality of college cultural education. This paper tries to study the influence and practical path of red film and television culture on the value orientation of contemporary college students from the perspective of socialist core values.

Improving LGBTQ+ mental health in Southeast Asia through social work: Insights from the Philippines

This article explores the roles of social workers in advancing LGBTQ+ inclusive mental healthcare in Southeast Asia. This role aligns with the global nature of the social work profession and several regional and national ethical frameworks and principles for social workers in Southeast Asia, emphasizing core values such as dignity, human rights, and social justice. Highlighting mental health disparities and social adversities faced by LGBTQ+ in the region, social workers can adopt a framework encompassing cultural competency, community support, advocacy, and research to improve the mental health outcomes of this marginalized population.

Perspectives on community-based system change for people living with persistent pain: insights from developing the "Rethinking Pain service".

In this perspective article we advocate community-based system change for people living with persistent pain. Our view is that greater use of the voluntary and community sector, in partnership with the clinical sector, creates the conditions for a "whole person" approach to pain management, leading to greater personalised care for adults living with long-term pain whilst having the potential to ease some of the pressures on General Practitioners and other clinical services. We advocate pain care that is socially connected, meaningful within socio-cultural contexts and aligned with the principles of salutogenesis. We provide an example of a UK National Health Service (NHS) commissioned pain service called "Rethinking Pain" that operationalises this perspective. Led by the voluntary and community sector, Rethinking Pain works in partnership with the clinical sector to provide a central holistic pathway of care for people experiencing persistent pain. This is the first time that this model of care has been commissioned for persistent pain in this area of England. The Rethinking Pain service is underpinned by core values to work with people to manage their pain holistically. The Rethinking Pain team proactively engage with people in the community, actively approaching and engaging those who experience the biggest health inequalities. In this article we provide an overview of the context of pain services in the UK, the rationale and supporting evidence for community-based system change, and the context, pathway, values, goals, and aspirations of the Rethinking Pain service.

The Language Games of Canon Law: Strategic Ambiguity Between Law and Religion

Abstract The continental tradition of modern positive law, with its attempt to formulate clear legal rules, tends to be suspicious of ambiguity and struggles with the productive power of the untranslatable. Opaque kernels that inevitably remain in laws seem risky and call for disambiguation—through legislation, the courts, or administration. Yet despite this struggle against ambiguity, laws, as texts made of language, not only remain essentially ambiguous, but often require ambiguity when regulating for plural groups. In global legal orders, such as Roman Catholic canon law, we can observe that ambiguity is used strategically to allow for the inclusion of plural legal cultures. Adding to this, canon law fosters its opaqueness by meandering between secular and religious language games, thus playing with the semantic surplus of religion for the sake of cultivating ambiguity. This ambiguity management is itself ambiguous. It is inclusive, allowing plural communities to exist under the roof of Catholicism, but it is also open to the authorities’ arbitrary decisions undermining legal certainty as a core value of modern law.

Bridging the Gap: Regulating and Innovating Talent Management for Indonesian Civil Servants Through Technology and Data Analytics

This research aims to explore how technology, data analysis, regulations, and laws can work together in the context of Indonesian Civil Servant talent management. Thus, this research will not only provide in-depth insight into the application of technology in talent management, but also identify challenges and opportunities that must be addressed in the regulatory context relating to the use of Civil Servant personal data. Talent Management within the Indonesian State Civil Servant is a key element in improving the efficiency and quality of public services. The importance of talent management in the context of Civil Servant bureaucracy is increasingly understood, especially in handling increasingly complex societal demands. The quality and competence of Civil Servant has a direct impact on the effectiveness of implementing government tasks. The research method used is qualitative with a literature study approach. The insight of this research shows the potential to provide valuable guidance for stakeholders in government bureaucracy to develop an integrated and effective approach to Civil Servant talent management approach by SMART Civil Servant and BerAKHLAK core value, which can improve public services and maintain integrity in the bureaucratic environment toward a world-class bureaucracy.
 Keywords: civil servant, data analytics, smart civil servant, BerAKHLAK, technology

Employee Readiness in Implementing the Core Values of the Indonesian Government Organization “BerAKHLAK”

This research aims to identify employee perceptions of employee readiness to implement the core values of BerAKHLAK, analyze the influence of leadership, organizational support, and commitment to the organization on employee readiness to change, and formulate policy recommendations to increase employee readiness to change. The survey samples chosen to be the subjects of this research were TNI, POLRI, and ASN, who had active work periods of more than one year. Data processing and analysis were performed using Structural Equation Modeling–Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS). The research results show that the respondents in this study were dominated by employees aged 46-55 years. Based on the results of Structural Equation Modeling data processing, leadership variables and organizational support directly influence employee readiness to change. However, a commitment to the organization has little effect on employee readiness to change. Managerial implications can be implemented by the Secretariat General of the National Resilience Council by implementing the POLC (Planning, Organizing, Leading, Controlling) model. In addition, further research is likely to include other factors related to employee readiness to change.

Where believer, seller, and beneficiary come together: A typology of eco‐innovators

AbstractIn response to escalating environmental concerns and the imperative for sustainable development, corporations have turned to eco‐innovation (EI) to enhance competitiveness and reduce ecological footprints. This study scrutinizes 17 European Commission EI‐awarded companies from 1990 to 2021, uncovering pivotal dimensions and archetypes that drive successful EI implementation. Internal drivers, including management commitment and agile work structures, are paramount for “Believers” who champion sustainability as a core value. “Sellers” strategically respond to market demands, while “Beneficiaries” follow regulatory mandates. The academic implications are profound, providing a robust foundation for future research. This typology contributes to the discourse surrounding EI development and diffusion while offering corporate managers tangible guidance for tailored EI strategies. It illuminates how distinct motives lead to nuanced combinations of internal and external drivers. This empirical study fills a critical research gap, providing best‐practice insights for companies seeking to integrate EI effectively.

From theory to empirics and back: A misunderstanding around the Veblenian dichotomy

Objective: to trace the emergence and consolidation of a wrong meaning when moving from an inaccurately interpreted theoretical concept to empirical evidence. The authors suggest the case of Thorstein Veblen’s evolutionary theory and identify how researchers interpret and apply its selected elements.Methods: discourse analysis. The authors rely on Veblen’s original writings, research papers by Russian authors who refer to the so-called Veblenian dichotomy, and own research findings. The latter show the application of Veblen’s concept to study (1) the features of Russian 19th century economic culture, and (2) contemporary techniques of manipulating personal financial decision-making.Results: the authors found that Veblen had distinguished between contrasting analytical categories when describing different human dispositions, or instinctive proclivities, underlying habitual ways of thinking and doing and economic conduct. Some dispositions lead to productive behavior, while others lead to unproductive one. This concept is essential for institutional analysis. Our research discovers its inaccurate interpretations in the research literature. Starting from a distorted understanding of the theoretical concept, empirical studies contribute to the entrenchment and spread of a misconception, thus feeding a particular ideological agenda. The authors separated Veblen’s original concepts, including ethical ones, from subsequent interpretations and elaborations, to monitor the changing treatment of traditional values in research literature as productive or ceremonial ones. Research findings indicate that the articles by Russian institutionalists contain a systematic bias with regard to the treatment of traditional norms and values as merely ceremonial ones, implying backwardness and archaic patterns, which impede technological progress and “modernization”.Scientific novelty: the application of Veblenian analytical tools in an applied institutional study is reconsidered. Authors’ own analytical technique is suggested to assess the norms underlying economic behavior in terms of their productivity. This technique is applied to the Russian empirical material, both historical and contemporary. To our knowledge, the proposed research technique has not been used in the previous literature.Practical significance: the research findings and their interpretation indicate that Veblen’s ethics and his analytical approach remain relevant. This article contributes to the “restoration” of core values and economic culture of the Russian people. Veblen’s evolutionary theory is suggested as an alternative to the widespread trite methods of cross-country and cross-cultural socio-economic comparisons which presume the supremacy of “Western” values.

Performance-enhancing substances in sport: A scientometric review of 75 years of research.

The use of performance-enhancing substances not only undermines the core values of sports but also poses significant health risks to athletes. In a fast-evolving doping environment, where sport professionals are constantly seeking novel and illegal means to bypass doping tests, and new substances are regularly detected on the drug market, it is crucial to inform authorities with updated evidence emerging from scientific research. The current study aims to (i) outline the structure of knowledge in the literature on performance enhancers in sports (i.e., most active countries, main sources, most productive authors, and most frequently used keywords); (ii) identify the most impactful documents in the field; and (iii) uncover the main domains of research in the literature. To do so, we conducted a comprehensive scientometric analysis of the literature on doping, sourcing our data from Scopus. Our research involved a document co-citation analysis of 193,076 references, leading to the identification of the 51 most influential documents and seven key thematic areas within the doping literature. Our results indicate that the scientific community has extensively studied the most prevalent doping classes, such as anabolic agents and peptide hormones, and little is still known about the use of contaminated supplements or other types of enhancers identified as emergent trends. Concurrently, technological advancements contributed to the development of more sophisticated doping detection techniques, using blood or urine samples. More recently, the focus has shifted towards the athlete biological passport, with research efforts aimed at identifying biomarkers indicative of doping. The dynamic nature of doping methods underlines the necessity for more robust educational campaigns, aiming at raising awareness among sports professionals and their entourage about the dangers of doping and the intricacies of its control mechanisms.

Konsep Dasar dan Perencanaan Evaluasi Program Pendidikan

The evaluation of educational programs is an essential process that not only assesses the success of learning but also evaluates the implementation of core values that form the foundation of education. In the realm of education, program evaluation aids in measuring the effectiveness of a program, identifying areas that require improvement, and ensuring the successful attainment of educational objectives. This article explicates the fundamental concept of program evaluation, encompassing its definition, objectives, scope, and planning. Program evaluation is not a one-time process but rather a series of measurements with specific goals. The research method employed is the library research method, which involves a literature review approach, examining relevant sources or references pertaining to the research issue to seek answers. The findings of this research present various definitions and objectives of program evaluation along with the designs, information, samples, and costs involved in its planning. The article highlights the significance of comprehending key elements that construct an effective and sustainable educational program, emphasizing the pivotal role of evaluation planning in ensuring the success of educational programs aligned with their objectives.

My news, your news, and our news: Self-presentational motivations and three levels of issue relevance in news sharing on social media

Research on news sharing has focused on the societal relevance of news as the core value of traditional journalism or the informational characteristics of viral news on social media. In contrast, this study reinterprets news-sharing behaviors as interpersonal communication of news sharers presenting themselves to their personal networks beyond the distribution of societally important information. Through analyzing survey responses from 463 news sharers and the actual news they shared on social media, results suggest that news sharers consider their relationship with their audience and the personal and audience relevance of news to present their ideal selves and please their audience. By expanding the traditional emphasis on the societal relevance and informational characteristics of news, this study develops a theoretical framework to understand news sharing as interpersonal communication. It also provides future directions to conceptualize issue relevance at different levels and capture changed news-sharing behaviors in the era of networked individualism.