Destructive Practices Research Articles

IMPACT OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING WITH THE MEDIATING ROLE OF JOB SATISFACTION AND EMPLOYEE VOICE

There has been a lot of emphases laid upon Business ethics in the organizations and it has influenced the organization’s performance. Therefore, ethical leadership is important as it has influenced the employees profoundly. The literature indicates that a lack of ethical leadership has contributed to the penetration of different forms of corruption and other destructive practices in the organizations that have ultimately caused such corporate failures. However, the literature does not theorize and provide empirical evidence to determine whether ethical leadership affects employee’s wellbeing, Job satisfaction and employee voice. This study aims to address this issue and explore the influence ethical leadership has on employees by examining job satisfaction, employee voice and wellbeing at work. The data was collected from the education sector of Punjab. Our findings based on questionnaires (N=254) from faculty members of the universities. This study shows that ethical leadership has a significant and positive impact on employee well-being, job satisfaction and employee voice. The findings of this study also showed that job satisfaction and employee voice mediate the relationship between ethical leadership and employee well-being. This study also provides important practical implications.

Sometimes, when we talk about Damaged Buildings-it can be controversial

The entire civilized world follows the state of unique monuments of the east, including Syria, where military operations are not yet over. Separate monuments of antiquity have been destroyed, which require immediate examination and, at a minimum, preventing structural elements from collapse. Naturally, publications of the time of the Second World War (Russia, Japan, Poland…) most fully represented the world restoration practice of destruction from mass bombardments and shelling. For these works, it is possible to systematize the degree of danger of the state of the objects at the time of their possible restoration and to estimate the damage caused by the enlarged parameters. Unfortunately, today, the revision of this practice, taking into account modern technologies of engineering restoration of damaged and reconstructing lost monuments, becomes urgent. Without this, it is impossible to defeat the vandals of the 21st century.

Integrated farm management for sustainable agriculture: Lessons for knowledge exchange and policy

As a response to the environmentally and socially destructive practices of post-war mechanization and intensification, the concept of sustainable agriculture has become prominent in research, policy, and practice. Sustainable agriculture aims to balance the economic, environmental, and social aspects of farming, creating a resilient farming system in the long-term. Over the last few decades, various concepts have been used in research and policy to encourage the adoption of sustainable practices. Within such a congested space, this paper assesses the value of ‘integrated farm management’ as a concept for the promotion of sustainable agriculture. The concept is the subject of renewed policy interest in England and Wales and it is also being promoted in Europe. Previous research, however, has suggested that integrated farm management may not be well understood or widely practised. There are also criticisms that it can be impractical and poorly differentiated from similar ideas. As such, renewed insights are required into how useful the concept might be for encouraging sustainable agriculture. Using a mixed methods approach, we gathered the views of farmers, farm advisors, and industry representatives about integrated farm management in England and Wales, and interpreted these through a theoretical framework to judge the strength of the concept. Overall, the general principles of Integrated Farm Management were found to be coherent and familiar to most of our respondents. However, the concept performed poorly in terms of its resonance, simplicity of message, differentiation from other similar terms and theoretical utility. We reflect on our findings in the context of other ways to promote sustainable agriculture, drawing out messages for policy and knowledge exchange in England and Wales, as well as elsewhere.

Dilemmas of Representation in Contemporary Environmental Anthropology: Documenting Dynamite Fishing in Southeastern Tanzania

This paper draws from an ethnographic vignette of dynamite fishing in southeastern Tanzania. I consider the utility of participant observation as a method for examining ecologically destructive practices, especially in contexts where such activities are illegal or prohibited by conservation regulations. I raise self-reflexive critiques, internal to my home discipline of anthropology, and discuss the methodological, ethical, and analytical challenges of attempting to document cases of dynamite fishing and other related phenomena of pressing environmental concern. Ultimately, I maintain that participant observation remains a valuable tool for documenting and explaining environmentally destructive activities.

Postgrowth Imaginaries: New Ecologies and Counterhegemonic Culture in Post-2008 Spain - Part 3, Chapter 4

This chapter focuses on catastrophe fiction that explores the disturbing ecological consequences of sudden disruptions caused by extreme environmental events set in motion or exacerbated by growth-oriented activity. In this scenario, rapid anthropogenic changes in the earth’s ecological systems unleash a massive catastrophe at a regional or global level. This kind of fiction has commonly been assumed to have pedagogical implications because it highlights the destructive practices that humanity should abandon and promotes an activist lifestyle. By studying some of the most popular contemporary catastrophe audiovisual narratives in Spain (TV show El Barco and the movie The Impossible), I demonstrate that the pedagogical interpretation of catastrophe should be revisited for several reasons. Catastrophe-oriented fiction tends to ignore or, in the worse cases, conceal the pervasive structural violence against humans and nonhumans resulting from global neoliberal policies and growth economic dynamics. In order to encourage an effective political ecology, I argue that other kinds of narratives are much more effective and resistant to co-optation by the dominant imaginary: stories and projects that envision and perform desirable postgrowth imaginaries

Improving the efficiency of leaching of metals from ore raw materials

Purpose. Improving the efficiency of leaching of metals from ore raw materials by justifying the parameters of underground mining and the introduction of integrated technology in combination with geotechnology, ensuring the rational use, protection of the subsurface and the environment during the development of reserves by combined geotechnological methods. Metology. The methods of generalization, analysis and evaluation of practical experience and scientific achievements in the field of geotechnology, theory and practice of explosive destruction of solid media, continuum mechanics, mathematical statistics, as well as research techniques of wave processes according to standard and new techniques of the leading experts of the world's advanced mining countries are described. Findings. The factors determining the leaching efficiency of metal ores, environmental and seismic safety are established and the parameters of the explosion are justified taking into account the size of an average linear piece of exploded ore mass, the area of an emanating surface and the seismic safety of protected objects (industrial buildings, residential buildings, the Ingul river underflow, Kropivnitsky, etc.). Originality. Recommended empirical dependence for the prediction of the oscillation speed on the reduced mass of charge per deceleration step in the explosive preparation of ore for underground leaching of metals for the field conditions of the form y = a ∙ b also the value of the permissible displacement rate of the soil at the base of the protected objects = 0.4 cm / s. Practical value. When non-conforming ores of deposits are involved in the production, their raw material base at operating mines can be increased 1.4–1.6 times. Keywords: mining technology, underground mining, metal leaching, environmental safety, efficiency.

The Case for Ethical Fur: Is In Vitro Fur a Viable Alternative?

Abstract It is currently estimated that more than 1 billion animals are killed for the fur industry every year. This industry is estimated to be valued in the region of $40 billion. This indicates both that there is a moral imperative and an economic opportunity to explore alternatives to conventional fur. While faux fur is currently available on the market, its production is associated with environmentally destructive practices. The development of stem cell technologies provides an exciting new avenue to explore. Specifically, the use of induced pluripotent stem cells may provide a means of growing fur in a laboratory setting. Here we outline the proposed technology and methods. We consider and respond to a number of potential moral objections against pursuing this innovative possibility, arguing that the benefits such technology could bring to animals in the fur industry are too great to be ignored.

Ritualizing Helmets – Symbolic Protocol of the Iron Age in Dolenjska

The ritualization of helmets, along with fragmentation and hybridization, is a well-known fact in the wider area of South-Eastern Europe. It is apparent on the numerous examples of the helmets of the Illyrian type, interpreted in various contexts, for various purposes and in different ways. In the territory of Dolenjska (Slovenia), two Illyrian helmets of the type III A found in the grave VII/19 at Kapiteljska njiva in Novo Mesto present an exception. This is an exclusive double interment of the Eastern Alps region, both concerning its size and funerary construction, and the offerings consisting of warrior’s and equestrian equipment, ornaments and personal items, along with a set of bronze vessels and the first example of helmets of the Illyrian type among the communities of the Late Hallstatt circle in Dolenjska. The context of the grave may be dated into the second half of the 5th century and the beginning of the 4th century BC. The very choice of luxurious objects points to the state of the deceased and their immediate surrounding, ascribing to themselves the power (military, political, economic, ideological) through the practice of massive destruction during funerals. Such ritualization, deliberate destruction or damaging of objects became the ritual practice. As the “sacrifices” of an unique ritual protocol, the deliberate and violent ritualizations became a medium, and the symbolic manipulation of “cultural” proofs was a reflection of social dimensions of the living, i.e. precisely the communities of the Dolenjska Hallstatt society at its eastern frontiers.

Diagnosis: A Thousand People Speak Out

The public is rarely asked its opinions concerning mental health issues and, as revealed by a literature search, is almost never surveyed on this topic without the use of medicalized, diagnostic, forced choice illness language. This article reports on an ongoing community outreach project that gave people the opportunity to reflect on and share their thoughts about the medical-mental illness-diagnostic model and its impact on their lives. Two organizations with long-standing opposition to the individualized model of human development and the medicalized understanding of emotionality designed and conducted open-ended surveys on emotional distress and diagnosis online and at two New York City street fairs. Results from over 1,000 surveys indicate that mental illness diagnosis is viewed as a “necessary evil” at best, and an isolating and destructive practice at worst. The results strongly suggest that nonmental health professionals are important allies in the fight for alternatives to diagnosis.

KONSEP KHALIFATULLAHU FIL ARDL: DEKONSTRUKSI CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

<p><em>The purpose of this research is to deconstruct the concept of corporate social responsibility that has failed in practice. Because there are still many tendency of company practices that only have the character of ceremonial course and aim to abort the obligation and the emergence of environmental destruction practices by companies that have implemented corporate social responsibility. This research used the concept khalifatullahufilardl, in Islam it is meansthathe human function on earth as the ruler of the universe. By deconstructing the concept of corporate social responsibility that only refers to the singgle bottom line that focus on God SWT as stakeholders, the concept khalifatullahufilardl can be applied in changing the paradigm of corporate social responsibility so that ultimately the practice of corporate social responsibility will be more aware on sustainable development and ultimately can increase corporate profits that will have an impact on increasing mutual prosperity (between companies and surrounding communities<strong>.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em><strong><em></em></strong><em>corporate social responsibility, khalifatullahufilardl, ruler of the universe</em></p>

Development of PCR-Based Technique for Checking Authenticity of Fish Fillets Supplied in Tabriz (Iran)

Increasing consumer demand for seafood, combined with concern over the health of our oceans, has led to many initiatives aimed at tackling destructive fishing practices and promoting the sustainability of fisheries. So, our aim was to develop a PCR-based technique for checking authenticity of fish fillets supplied in Tabriz (Iran). In present study, about 80 samples of frozen fish fillet with general trademarks including south fillet, excellent fillet and 40 samples of Javelin grunter fillet and Scomberomorus commerson fillets were collected from different chain markets all over the Tabriz. Lot Tolerance Per-cent Defective (LTPD) method was used in collecting the samples which is the low errors. Our research showed a higher rate of misbrandingand misla-beling found in markets with general names (85%) and specified names of Javelin grunter and Scomberomorus commerson (40%). Based on present study, the capacity of shark is high in mislabeling and fraud because of their situation in making steaks and fillet, low price in compared with other spe-cies and religious limitations.

Lethal Fire

An important element in the ritual corpus of Shingon Buddhism, a tantric tradition in Japan, is the homa (goma, 護摩). This is a votive ritual in which offerings are made into a fire, and has roots that trace to the Vedic ritual tradition. One of the five ritual functions that the homa can fulfill is destruction, abhicāra. A destructive ritual with Yamāntaka as the chief deity is one such ritual in the contemporary Shingon ritual corpus. Consideration of this ritual provides entrée into the history of destructive practices, including violent subjugation, that date from very early in the Buddhist tradition. Exploration of this theme is offered as a balancing corrective to the modern representation of Buddhism as an exception to the violent character of other religions. However, despite the history of destructive ritual practices, the contemporary homa examined in the latter part of the essay shows very few of the characteristics found historically. This indicates an ambiguity in the tradition between a historical understanding of such rituals as literally destructive of one’s enemies, and the contemporary understanding that the enemies to be destroyed are simply personifications of one’s own obscurations.

Skinny blues: Karen Carpenter, anorexia nervosa and popular music

AbstractThis article discusses an extraordinary body in popular music, that belonging to the person with anorexia which is also usually a gendered body – female – and that of the singer or frontperson. I explore the relation between the anorexic body and popular music, which is more than simply looking at constructions of anorexia in pop. It involves contextually thinking about the (medical) history and the critical reception and representation, the place of anorexia across the creative industries more widely, and a particular moment when pop played a role in the public awareness of anorexia. Following such context the article looks in more detail at a small number of popular music artists who had experience of anorexia, their stage and media presentations (of it), and how they did or apparently did not explore their experience of it in their own work and public appearances. This close discussion is framed within thinking about the popular music industry's capacity for carelessness, its schedule of pressure and practice of destruction on its own stars, particularly in this instance its female artists. This is an article about a condition and an industry. At its heart is the American singer and drummer Karen Carpenter (1950–1983), a major international pop star in the 1970s, in the Carpenters duo with her brother Richard; the other figures discussed are Scottish child pop star Lena Zavaroni (1963–1999), and the Welsh rock lyricist, stylist and erstwhile guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers, Richey Edwards (1967–1995 missing/2008 officially presumed dead).

Using GIS and multicriteria decision aid to optimize the direction of trees cutting in the forest ecosystem: A case study

Forest trees’ harvesting is a critical activity in the forest ecosystem management process. This activity is among the most destructive practices and causes ecological damage on the forest ecosystem. The traditional way of trees’ harvesting is not rational and should be optimized to reduce damage and to improve the profitability of forest resources. Besides, a cost-effective and ecologically-aware harvesting activity is likely to guarantee a sustainable management while ensuring a satisfactory financial benefit. We are interested in this paper in optimizing the direction of trees cutting to reduce ecological damage while taking into account spatial and financial constraints of loggers. We propose a multicriteria geo-optimization approach based on a combination of optimization techniques and GIS functionalities. The optimization method is based on the search for the minimum of a weighted sum of spatial, financial and ecological costs. In this work, we consider various criteria: (1) spatial criteria to consider adjacency restrictions; (2) financial criteria to preserve crop trees for future operations and to facilitate the transport of stems to the log yard; (3) ecological criteria to reduce the destruction of trees and soil degradation. Moreover, spatial data are extracted from Raster-based GIS and used to select trees to be accessed as well as to estimate the cost of cutting and transporting them. We present the results of experiments on real data from the Neotropical forest of French Guiana.

Book-Burning and the Uses of Writing in Ancient Rome: Destructive Practice between Literature and Document

ABSTRACTThis article examines the burning of written material at Rome from the Republican period until the rise of Christianity, using the lens of book history. It considers why and how Romans burned written material, gathering for the first time all testimony of burning any kind of writing, and examines responses to these burnings in ancient discourse. A capacious, book-historical approach to Roman book-burning shows that differences in practice and uses — of books as opposed to documents, for example — account for the different consequences Romans saw for burning different written media.

Rock art and mining violence on the Australian Burrup Peninsula: language wars, economy and culture

Humans have lived on the Australian continent for around 50,000 years. During that time, the indigenous people developed complex cultural, economic and social systems. These systems were sustained and expressed through the myths and songlines which comprise the indigenous people's Dreaming. It was through the Dreaming that the natural, symbolic and material worlds converge, enabling humans to orient themselves spiritually, cosmologically and geographically. This cultural and natural contingency was shattered by the British invasion and settlement of Australia from 1788. In one particular region of the country, the Burrup Peninsula, this violation has been perpetuated through the destructive practices of mining. The Burrup Peninsula is located in the remote Western Australia Pilbara region on the Dampier Archipelago. This area hosts one of the world's most extensive and significant indigenous Palaeolithic art galleries—petroglyphs that may be as old as 30,000 years Before Present. The Pilbara also contains one of the world's most extensive and richest iron ore deposits, as well as a vast array of other minerals and fuels. This paper examines the ways in which the cultural and natural heritage of the Burrup has been excoriated by the mining industries. The paper examines recent attempts to protect the heritage of the area from further destruction. It focuses on the World Heritage nomination of the Burrup, indigenous activism and the complex politics of conservation in the area.

Big Football: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Culture and Color of Injury in America’s Most Popular Sport

Although much has been said about football concussions in the media, academic inquiry into the National Football League’s (NFL) strategies for containing critique and shaping public discourse remains limited. I investigate the league’s multisided “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) campaign, which involves harm reduction reforms (e.g., improved helmets, tackling techniques) as well as public relations and philanthropy. This campaign is an “anti-politics machine,” a movement that generates its own discourse about concussions, the integrity of football, and normativity; depoliticizes the institutional and foundational sources of harmfulness; and advances narrow technical and managerial solutions. The league’s CSR initiatives are also intended to engender mass feeling, melding multiple images and rhetorics, invoking technoscientific progress as much as corporate care, family values, suburban comfort, national sentimentality, soft masculinity, and women’s health. Through strategic public relations, the campaign organizes a certain affective and cognitive antipolitics, a depoliticized way of conceptualizing and experiencing football that reflects a wider matrix of intelligibility framing what is normal and legible with regard to race, gender, and precarity in the United States. Rather than addressing societal factors or ending an innately destructive practice, the NFL proclaims social responsibility while perpetuating conscription, extracting labor and value from conditions of socioeconomic and racial marginalization. And strategic public relations inure a devoted fan base to football’s complicity in helping to reproduce the problems and privileges of America’s racial order. My analysis of harm reduction is also a critique of the dangerous moral contours of racial capitalism and how corporations influence and capitalize upon what is deemed tolerable in American life.

The Effect of Ethical Leadership on Organizational Learning: Evidence from a Petroleum Company

The purpose of the study was to explore the effect of two aspects - accountability and fairness - of ethical leadership on organizational learning, understood in broader sense as constructive and destructive learning. Case study was used as research methodology and data was collected using 35 semi-structured interviews from the employees and managers of the case study company. Data was analyzed using open, axial and selective coding. The findings suggest that accountability discourages employees from learning destructive practices. Moreover, accountability enhances constructive learning. The findings also show that the lack of fairness and accountability amongst organizational leadership creates a culture that facilitates the penetration and propagation of destructive practices in organizations. The literature has highlighted but not explored the influence of ethical leadership on organizational learning. The study is the first to empirically explore the links between these two important constructs. This study suggests that organizational leaders can enhance constructive learning and deter destructive learning by demonstrating fairness and accountability through their behaviors and actions.

On some destructive fishing methods of Central Travancore of Kerala, India

Many destructive fishing practices are widely used at many sites of Central Travancore of Kerala, India. Most of these are indigenous methods practiced at high level to low level regions. It includes chemical poisons, plant poisons, fish traps, electric fishing etc. All these gears kill the fishes and their fries and fingerlings indiscriminately. It is an endeavor to trace out the details of these harmful fishing methods.

Genesis of Antibiotic Resistance (AR) XXX‐Mitigation of AR Pandemic (ARP) through Rational Measures.

Comprehensive and bolstered analysis of data available in domestic and global quantitative data bases provides the following reasonable and implementable measures that have the potential to mitigate Antibiotic Resistance Pandemic (ARP). The establishment of a centralized national and global data base and infrastructure that will: i. Monitor the amount of antibiotics manufactured per year, ii. Require periodic reporting (Quarterly/semi‐annual/annual) of the volume of antibiotics utilized on a regional, national and global scale, iii. Evaluate the volume of prescription antibiotics recovered by the “National Drug Take Back Program” sponsored cooperatively by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency, Department of Justice, and the Food and Drug Administration (DEA, DOJ, and FDA), iv. Survey and audit the process of disposal of unused prescription antibiotics by the DEA, DOJ, and FDA to ensure that employed destructive practices are conventional and appropriate. Particular oversight and monitoring must be given to incineration and solid waste facilities, v. Detection and evaluative analysis of metabolic breakdown, intermediate, and mother formulation of antibiotics in ground water, portable water systems, raw sewage and waste water, water captured from bio‐remediation processes, rivers, standing storage water reservoirs, storm runoff, and bio‐solids, vi. Collect and maintain epidemiological data on morbidity and mortality rates attributed to AR pathogenic induced infectious diseases on regional, national, and global scales, vii. Collection of data concerned with the effectiveness of antibiotics timeout (ATO) from private practice physicians, institutional reports from mental health facilities and hospitals, both private and public, nursing homes, hospice care, and infant and adult day care facilities, viii. Arrange and contribute to periodic updates concerned with ARP threats discovered or supposed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), ix. Research, collection, and reporting of data attentive to the hoarding of antibiotics and partitioning data to regional, national, and global levels, x. Data surveillance of the efficacy of antibiotics, and xi. Elimination of ineffective antibiotics(antibiotics with an increased morbidity and mortality rate) from the pharmacopeia and clinical practice. Taken together, effective universal adoption and implementation of aforesaid measures in health care facilities, and regulatory agencies across the globe, would potentially mitigate the ARP.Support or Funding InformationProfessional development funds to Subburaj Kannan