Good Intentions Research Articles

Good Intentions: Writing Center Work for Postmodern Times

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Adults and Children Engage in Subtle and Fine-Grained Action Interpretation and Evaluation in Moral Dilemmas.

Understanding the actions of others is fundamental for human social life. It builds on a grasp of the subjective intentionality behind behavior: one action comprises different things simultaneously (e.g., moving their arm, turning on the light) but which of these constitute intentional actions, in contrast to merely foreseen side-effects (e.g., increasing the electricity bill), depends on the description under which the agent represents the acts. She may be acting intentionally only under the description "turning on the light," but did not turn on the light in order to increase the electricity bill. In preregistered studies (N = 620), we asked how adults and children engage in such complex subjective action interpretation and evaluation in moral dilemmas. To capture the deep structure of subjects' representations of the intentional structures of actions, we derived "act trees" from their response patterns to questions about the acts. Results suggest that people systematically distinguish between intended main and merely foreseen side-effects in their moral and intentionality judgments, even when main and side-effects were closely related and the latter were harmful. Additional experimental conditions suggest that, when given ambiguous information, the majority of subjects assume that agents act with beneficial main intentions. This "good intention prior" was so strong that participants attributed good intentions even when the harmful action was no longer necessary to resolve the dilemma (Study 2). These methods provide promising new ways to investigate in more subtle and fine-grained ways how reasoners parse, interpret, and evaluate complex actions.

An Analysis of Prohibitions Related to Coil Sewing and Weaving Works in South Wollo, Ethiopia

The main purpose of this study is to examine the prohibitions related to coil sewing and weaving in South Wollo. The primary reasons for the study are its limitations in this regard, the existence of benefits, and practical problems. The type of study is qualitative, and the approach is ethnographic. The study found that while prohibition discourses are generally carried out with good intentions, they play both a negative and a positive role. Prohibitions play a major role in teaching and maintaining the existing customs of society. Psychologically, the study indicated that they have the role of protecting the speakers and society from threats, and fear. In terms of the economy, the fact that they hurt economic income by opposing the desire to change, the freedom of work, and choice are themes that are mentioned negatively. The study shows that the prohibitions are based on words, actions, contexts, and actual events, and their representation is mostly symbolic and logical. In a nutshell, it is suggested by the researcher that it is possible to create strategies that can be changed into positive ideas in a community-oriented manner and that continuous research should be conducted in this regard.

The association of oral health knowledge with factors influencing the dental visit behaviour of pregnant women based on the theory of planned behavior

ABSTRACTIntroduction: A lack of knowledge of oral health maintenance among pregnant women affects the behavior of maintaining poor oral health. It is important for pregnant women to visit the dentist due to their increased susceptibility to oral diseases, which can adversely impact pregnancy outcomes, including premature birth and low birth weight. According to the theory of planned behavior, a mother's knowledge can influence her health-related behavior. To determine the level of oral health knowledge among pregnant women and to examine the relationship between this knowledge and the factors that influence their behavior regarding dental visits. Methods: This study uses a correlational analytical design with a cross-sectional approach, focusing on pregnant women at the Cijerah Community Health Centerin Bandung City, Indonesia. A purposive sampling method resulted 67 participants. A new questionnaire assessed oral health knowledge (20 items) and factors influencinh visiting behavior based on the theory of planned behavior (26 items). Data analysis used the Spearman correlation test. Results:Most pregnant women (76.2%) had insufficient oral health knowledge, but showed a positive attitude towards dental visits in the first trimester and every six months (11.91 ± 2.66 and 11.65 ± 2.87). They also reported good subjective norm (28.73 ± 5.42 and 28.31 ± 5.19), good behavioral control (8.23 ± 1.67 and 8.32 ± 1.61) and good intention (3.94 ± 0.96 and 3.83 ± 1.06). Conclusion: The level of oral health knowledge is low, and althoughfactors influencing the dental visit behavior are positive, there is no correlation between this knowledge and factors that influence the behavior of visiting the dentist.

Enhancing understanding of broad-based pedagogical leadership in Finnish early childhood education through cultural artifacts

This ethnographic case study examines the artifacts of the leadership culture of one Finnish early childhood education (ECE) center and how they appear from the perspective of broad-based pedagogical leadership. Qualitative content analysis with a directed approach was guided by Pasquale Gagliardi’s and Mary Hatch’s definitions of artifacts. In addition, artifacts were analyzed through broad-based pedagogical leadership. Based on the analysis, thirteen activities, six verbal expressions, and thirteen objects of leadership culture were found in the data. Most of the artifacts were indirect pedagogical leadership, and some had several purposes due to staff interpretations. The interpretations varied both between the leaders and the staff but also within the staff. The findings indicate that symbolic leadership is present in many leadership situations and that a lack of knowledge about the symbolic and cultural dimensions of leadership can undermine leaders’ good intentions. The results of the study can be utilized in practical work in leading organizational cultures and in structuring pedagogical leadership in ECE. Additionally, the research has theoretical implications by enriching leadership research in ECE and enhancing the concept of broad-based pedagogical leadership, which can be used in leadership training programs in the field of education.

Challenges related to the implementation of the CCMDD programme in Sekhukhune clinics.

Implementation of the central chronic medicines dispensing and distribution (CCMDD) programme in most of Sekhukhune primary health care (PHC) has been challenging. This raised questions as to reasons for the CCMDD programme and its good intentions and benefits eventually creating challenges in the Sekhukhune district PHC facilities. This study aims to describe the challenges related to the implementation of the CCMDD programme in Sekhukhune district clinics. The qualitative research approach and its explorative and descriptive research designs were used in this study. Data were acquired through one-on-one semi-structured interviews and then analysed thematically. Findings of the study revealed that shortage of staff, lack of communication, defaulters, negative impact of the CCMDD programme and lack of training as challenges to the implementation of the CCMDD programme in Sekhukhune district clinics. Sekhukhune public clinics have challenges concerning the implementation of the CCMDD programme; therefore, it is very crucial to provide proper training about the programme to all PHC facility staff members to improve the CCMDD implementation. The study would provide suggestions to implement the CCMDD programme by correcting the process of enrolling clients, the methods of packaging and dispensing the medications, sending SMSs, as well as delivery to the pick-up points.

Training and peer-group coaching for pairs of researchers and patient representatives to support continuous two-way learning

BackgroundPatient involvement is most common during the first phases of a research project. Despite good intentions, maintaining meaningful collaborations throughout the research process doesn't seem easy. Several training programmes for researchers and patients have been developed to stimulate continuous involvement. These are mostly one-time training sessions at the start of a project, for researchers and patients separately. We aimed to co-create a prolonged side-by-side programme for pairs of patient representatives and researchers, to stimulate mutual learning from the start and throughout the research projects.MethodsWe developed a group training and peer-to-peer support programme lasting 2–3 years for 4–5 pairs of researchers and patient representatives working together on a research project. The programme took 30 h, spread over 6–8 meetings. The main goal was mutual and bi-directional learning and maintaining the collaboration throughout the research projects. From the start, the pairs were instructed to discuss communication, roles, expectations and responsibilities to prevent misunderstandings. The character of the meetings was intended to evolve from training and peer support into peer-group coaching and support for the whole group. The programme was not a fixed method, it was adjusted to the context and the needs of the participants.ResultsThus far, the programme has been applied in 5 groups, with varying health topics and types of research. Patients’ prior knowledge of research methods and researchers' experience with patient involvement varied within the groups. As a result of the side-by-side training power imbalances within pairs were reduced. All participants gained knowledge and experience in patient involvement. In subsequent group coaching sessions, they discussed issues and dilemmas on an equal footing. Most pairs found their way of working together, adapted to the wishes and capabilities of both partners. Differences between pairs were found to improve the discussions.ConclusionsWe co-created a prolonged side-by-side programme for pairs of patient representatives and researchers, to stimulate mutual learning from the start and throughout the research projects. The programme proved feasible for groups with different research types and health conditions. It fulfils an unmet need for researchers, patients and funders.

When good intentions aren’t enough: Intersectional invisibilities in academia and the decolonial turn

The decolonial turn resonates not only in gender studies but across the humanities and arts. While research and teaching increasingly align with decolonization and intersectional perspectives, we understand this as more than intellectual tasks, rather as a call for transformative action with tangible symbolic and material consequences. Taking into account transnational feminist discourses, this article explores what we can do in practice in an institutional context that fosters structures of coloniality and invisibilization of knowledge otherwise in academic knowledge production. Addressing this issue requires an understanding of marginalizing structures on a meta-level and keeping an eye on a less observed micro-level: our own part in the process of academic knowledge production, understanding these dynamics as part of a broader interconnected framework of decolonial actions that emphasizes communal responsibility and comprehensive partnerships.

Conceptualizing Financial Crisis Communication: Central Bank’s Reputation Management Strategies During a Crisis

Research suggests that financial crises are inherently and mostly communication problems, making it crucial to study how central banks deploy crisis communication strategies for reputation management. This study proposed financial crisis communication conceptual framework to examine how the Central Bank of Ghana communicatively managed the financial industry reputation during the Ghanaian banking crisis. Findings revealed that whereas the Central Bank of Ghana deployed justification, differentiation, shifting blame, and attacking the accuser strategies to manage its own reputation, it used corrective action, good intentions, and minimization strategies to manage the reputation of the financial industry at large. Implications for practice are discussed.

Paved with good intentions: From digitalization to carbon neutrality

Researchers and practitioners have promoted digitalization as a crucial tool for achieving carbon neutrality. In this paper, we argue that for digitalization to positively impact carbon neutrality, several essential supporting conditions are required. Using the Georgescu-Roegen/Daly ecological production function approach, we argue that digitalization alone a) will not necessarily lead to dematerialization, partly because it tends to economize on labor rather than other, less sustainable production factors, and partly because it requires a material- and energy-intensive infrastructure; b) will result in both quantitative and qualitative output expansion rather than substituting existing products and services with more sustainable alternatives; and c) will not promote carbon-conscious corporate governance practices. We suggest that a systemic perspective is necessary to analyze the complex relationships between digitalization and carbon neutrality.

How “helping” can sustain the stigmatization of homeless people

Summary The article presents findings of an ethnographic study carried out in Poland with homeless people living on the street and in a hostel. Interpretative orientation was used to ensure the opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge about their perspectives. The paper has two aims. First, it reconstructs the limits and risks of “(un)helpful help” and its impact on experiences of stigma. Second, it addresses how good intentions and policy efforts can have negative consequences, drawing on data from two separate research studies. The first research included seven male homeless people living on city streets. The second was carried out with 20 homeless people served by an agency working for homeless people. A qualitative methodology was employed for this critical ethnography, according to which the authors analyzed the data using a constructivist grounded theory approach. Findings The research revealed a number of support measures which, instead of positively changing their situation from the participants’ points of view, can exacerbate it by further stigmatizing homeless people with support based on helpers’ stigmatizing approaches which can compound homeless people's negative experiences of “help.” Applications An understanding of the mechanisms of structural and systemic stigmatization from the participants’ perspectives can help shift responsibility for their situation away from homeless people themselves toward society's responsibility as a whole. It highlights how there needs to be a change of consciousness and approaches within assistance systems, shifting the balance from an asymmetrical to a symmetrical relationship based on partnership and collaboration.

Echoes of Speculation Underway in Relations Between the Occident and China

In a previous article I talked about speculative waves in sequence that have hit the global economy since the 2000s in a world struggling with deflation. Well, this wave of speculation has not stopped but today it seems to concern the transfer of industrial plants from the West to China. A process that was born with the good intentions of transferring industrial activities to developing countries with the dual objective. Give a boost to the economy in developing areas and at the same time reduce the management costs of large multinationals' plants. A process therefore that was born with a positive sign in the intent to help a coordinated development of the territories and a reduction in the costs of industrial products. Meanwhile, the objective of coordinating the development of the territories and continents has not been achieved and on the contrary the process has led to an almost exclusive delocalization of industrial production from the West to China. The excess of industrial localization has exacerbated the concentration of unassimilable waste with a worsening of the disease of the planet struggling with atmospheric overheating. The process, therefore, has been slowed down but not stopped for natural reasons. On the other hand, the acceleration of the development of the Chinese economy has also marked a halt coinciding with the spread of the global epidemic. After about fifty years of accelerated economic growth, the Chinese community has sensed the change in the country's economic prospects and has pulled the brakes on both consumption and investments, marking the end of the accelerated race on the road to development. The picture of the speculative evolution of industrial delocalization processes sees together the interest of mega companies in reducing management costs which is congenial to the increase in the financial values of companies that increase on the Western stock exchanges. In other words, delocalization helps reduce management costs and at the same time seems to support ultra increasing financial values. In short, it plays into the hands of speculation which is certainly not the interest of global social and economic development which instead requires coordination of the territories on the road to development. With the further dilemma that the fate of the global economy may be in the hands of the Boards of Directors of mega companies and not of states and communities.​

How Effective Are Work-Life Balance Policies? The Importance of Inclusion

In this manuscript we review research on the effectiveness of work-life balance (WLB) policies in improving employee and organizational outcomes. We find that while WLB policies are often implemented with good intentions, their effects are generally small or inconsistent. We identify eight barriers to policy inclusivity that we theorize are linked to reduced effectiveness—a narrow definition of family, focusing on work-family rather than work-nonwork balance, low policy awareness, the practical constraints of access, overlooking vulnerable workers, the nature of the job, supervisor attitudes and behaviors, and unsupportive organizational cultures—and make recommendations for addressing these barriers. We also highlight the importance of considering individual differences and cultural contexts when implementing WLB policies. We conclude by proposing future research directions, such as examining coworker support and the impact of national culture on policy effectiveness.

Safely Navigating the "Dangerous Space Between Good Intentions and Meaningful Interventions": A Study on the Use of School Suspensions in Manitoba, Canada

Safely Navigating the "Dangerous Space Between Good Intentions and Meaningful Interventions": A Study on the Use of School Suspensions in Manitoba, Canada

Implementation of the Business Judgement Rule Doctrine as Legal Protection for Directors in Realizing Good Governance of Regionally-Owned Enterprises

<em>The form of BUMD governance as a regional company as regulated in UUPD and PPBUMD consists of Regional Public Companies (Perumda) and Regional Limited Companies (Perseroda). The establishment of Perumda is in the form of regional regulations based on regional needs and the feasibility of the business field of the Perumda to be formed. Perumda is a BUMD whose entire capital is owned by one region only and is not in the form of shares. One of the important organs in a company is the board of directors. The board of directors who control the company in daily activities has the authority to determine policies in carrying out its powers and obligations in managing the company must have good intentions, be responsible, have integrity, be honest, and be highly dedicated to advancing and developing the company. The board of directors is fully responsible personally for the company's losses if the person concerned is guilty or negligent in carrying out his duties. The board of directors can take or carry out actions to facilitate his duties as long as it is within the scope of his duties and obligations and does not conflict with customs, fairness, and propriety. Implementation of the business judgment rule (BJR) doctrine as a form of protection given to directors in carrying out their duties and responsibilities in running the company. Business decisions or actions taken by directors are intended to manage the company professionally according to their expertise to generate profits for the company, even though there are risks from these decisions and actions that can cause losses for the company</em>

Paving with Good Intentions

Paving with Good Intentions

“Everybody hates a tourist”: la España rural as theme park

ABSTRACT This article will examine ways in which three contemporary artists – the filmmaker José Díaz and the writers Gabi Martínez and Isaac Rosa – engage with la España rural as a would-be theme park. It will argue that pressure from the conventions of the self-discovery documentary (Díaz) or the nonfiction narrative of return to rural roots (Martínez), causes both artists to slip into depoliticized solipsism. Meanwhile, the satirical writer, Isaac Rosa, uses his short story “#SoyMinero” to decry a tendency to frame Spain’s depopulated, postindustrial landscape as a nostalgic iteration of heritage tourism. This paper will examine to what extent such approaches to la España rural, for all their good intentions, can offer anything but a fleeting glimpse of solutions to intractable national problems.

Examining of Social-Emotional and Moral Characteristics of a Child with Williams Syndrome and a Typically Developing Peer

Introduction: This paper compared the social-emotional and moral developmental characteristics of a boy with Williams syndrome and a typically developing girl. Method: The sample consisted of two eighth graders and their mothers. Participants were recruited using purposive criterion sampling. This qualitative study adopted a holistic multiple-case design because it compared the interrelated social-emotional and moral developmental characteristics of two different profiles of children. Findings: Data were collected using the Social-Emotional and Character Development Scale (SECDS), semi-structured interview questions, spontaneous conversations, and observations. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, while the qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis. The results show that the boy with Williams syndrome is more successful than his typically developing peer in making plans and helping others, but less successful in making eye contact, making friends, and following rules in the absence of authority. The typically developing girl has better internal control in following rules, behaving politely and respectfully, and exhibiting moral behaviors because she wants to. The findings show that both children have relatively developed social-emotional and moral characteristics. Discussion: The fact that the boy with Williams syndrome was more successful in expressing his wants and needs, planning and organizing, helping, maintaining communication with strangers, and choosing positive behaviors compared to his typically developing peer; behaving according to people's opinions, having approval anxiety, making decisions, self-regulation, following rules in the absence of authority, peer relations, adaptation, understanding people's feelings, and having difficulty in distinguishing good and bad intentions were in line with the literature. The fact that the typically developing girl exhibited more extreme social actions such as initiating communication; making eye contact for a long time; apologizing for misbehaviors; following rules with internal control and exhibiting positive behaviors provided different information from the literature. These results provide a new and different perspective to the results that children with Williams syndrome exhibit more social behaviors than their typically developing peers.

Leading with Trust: Strategies for Cultivating Authentic Connections that Last

Abstract: This article discusses research-backed strategies for leaders to authentically generate and maintain organizational trust. It explores how trust is defined as the willingness to ascribe good intentions to others and have confidence in their words and actions. Studies show trust in leadership positively correlates with important work outcomes like job satisfaction, commitment, and performance. The article outlines approaches leaders can take to build trust, including demonstrating competence through expertise and reliability, communicating openly and honestly while sharing both positive and negative information, displaying care and concern for employees, distributing appropriate authority and decision-making, and rewarding risk-taking and accepting failures. When leaders employ these trust-building behaviors consistently, it empowers employees to contribute at higher levels. In turn, organizations benefit from increased motivation, innovation and resilience among intrinsically aligned teams.

Federalism Is Full of Good Intentions

Federalism Is Full of Good Intentions