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Reimagining Business Ethics as Ethos-Driven Practice: A Deweyan Perspective Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Christopher Gohl
As business ethics is grappling with criticisms of its relevance for ethical practice, it may find perspective and direction in various conceptions of ethos. While ‘ethics’ is rooted in ‘ethos’, a term with a long and rich history of interdisciplinary research, conceptions of ethos are so far scarcely discussed in business ethics. The purpose of this conceptual article is to explore the potential of
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Religiosity, Spirituality or Environmental Consciousness? Analysing Determinants of Pro-environmental Religious Practices Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Pravin Chavan, Anil Sharma
This study examines factors influencing pro-environmental practices for Ganesh idol immersion, a major Hindu religious celebration. The study explores whether environmental consciousness or spiritual beliefs and values are antecedents of pro-environment religious practices adopted for the Ganesh idol immersion. The survey used validated scales to assess spiritual beliefs, spiritual values, environmental
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Transforming Caste Domination and the Challenges of Structural Transformations and Transformation of Consciousness: Ambedkar, Shankara and Beyond Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ananta Kumar Giri
Caste is a multidimensional reality in history and society, and it has manifested itself through varieties of structures of domination which are simultaneously cultural, economic, political and ideological as caste has also been related in complex ways with structures of class and gender domination. These structures of domination have led to the annihilation of self and society. This led Ambedkar to
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Freedom, Markets and Moral Motivation: Towards a More Adequate Account of the Implicit Morality of the Market Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Caleb Bernacchio
The market failures approach is amongst the most influential theories of business ethics. Its interest within the field is, in large part, a result of its rejection of moralism and any sort of applied ethics approach, favouring, in contrast, a focus on the institutionally embodied goal of economic activity, which it takes to be that of Pareto efficiency. From this articulation of the goal, or purpose
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Ecocritical Wisdom for Ecojustice: The Quintessence of Human Existence Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Bavetra Swaminathan, Ravi Chakravarthy
Ecocriticism is a theory that studies the relationship between humans and non-humans critically. The perception becomes the need of the hour as it stresses the interconnectedness between humans and...
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Business in a Post-COVID World: The Move to Stakeholder Capitalism Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-05-01 R. Edward Freeman, Ben Freeman
The last 15 years have seen a remarkable set of changes in the global business environment. Established companies and start-ups alike have been subjected to some fundamental shifts in the very way ...
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Ideologies of Masculinity and Femininity in the Projection of the ‘National Language’: Gendered Discourse of Hindi–Urdu Dichotomization and Standardization Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Atul Kumar Singh, Prabha Shankar Dwivedi
This article takes the linguistic space of North India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and tries to see how a nationalistic linguistic ideology that was shaping up at that time, creat...
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Time to Teach Age Old Values Yamas and Niyamas as Part of Value Education to School children Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-04-28 J. K. Swapna, Karuna Nagarajan
Value-based education aims to train students with appropriate attitude and values when they are interacting with their friends, family and outside the school. It helps in developing the child’s Per...
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The Gunas Personality Framework: Validating a Contemporary Scale Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Surabhi Sachar, Zubin R. Mulla, Venkat R. Krishnan
Gunas personality framework is an inclusive and comprehensive personality framework. Every human being is composed of three gunas or fundamental elements—sattva (intelligence-stuff), rajas (energy-...
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Crime and Punishment: How Historical Narratives Affect the Evaluation of Restorative and Retributive Justice Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Juan David Hernandez-Posada, Javier Corredor, Alejandra María Martínez-Salgado
This article explores how historical narratives affect the evaluation of political decisions regarding justice during peace negotiations. Specifically, this study evaluates how different narratives...
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Moral Legislation and Crime Against Women: Explorations in Indian and Western Values Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Mayavee Singh
In recent years, the National Crime Records Bureau recommendation is that the growth rate of crime against women has skyrocketed in India, even higher than the population growth rate. According to ...
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Self and Reality: An Upanis.adic View Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Puja Raj
Among 108 Upanis.ads, the central theme of the true knowledge of Self is consistent. The wholesome philosophy of Upanis.ad is focused towards the enlightenment or proliferation of mind through the ...
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Spiritual Leadership and Organizational Commitment: A 21-year Systematic Literature Review Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Hakim Lahmar, Farid Chaouki, Florence Rodhain
In this article, we will attempt to answer the following question: What is the state of 21 years of scientific production regarding spiritual leadership (SL) in its relationship with organizational...
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The Importance of the Authentic Virtuous Employee in the Search for Meaningfulness in Work Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Raymond D. Smith, Subodh P. Kulkarni
The article focuses on the ‘meaningfulness in work’ concept and addresses three theoretical gaps by investigating ‘meaningfulness in work’ from the perspective of Heidegger’s ‘authenticity’ and ‘Da...
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Mindfulness and Diversity Acceptance as Indicators of Frugality-linked Sustainability Behaviour During COVID-19: Mediating Role of Happiness Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Parul Rishi, Pavan BK, Soumya Gupta, Shruti Sinha
Sustainable behaviour promotes pro-ecological behaviour and is a practice of consuming and utilizing resources responsibly. The ongoing COVID-19-induced pandemic has already put economic, social an...
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Impact of COVID-19 on the Income of Entrepreneurs Who Borrowed from SHG Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Nishi Malhotra, Pankaj Kumar Baag
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world. After liberalization in 1991, microfinance became a panacea for poor people without collateral and information asymmetry. The higher cost of microfinance...
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Book review: Vishal Gupta, FIRST AMONG EQUALS: ‘T-R-E-A-T’ Leadership for ‘L-E-A-P’ in a Knowledge-Based World Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Sabzar Ahmad Peerzadah
Vishal Gupta, FIRST AMONG EQUALS: ‘T-R-E-A-T’ Leadership for ‘L-E-A-P’ in a Knowledge-Based World. New Delhi: Bloomsbury India, 2020, 275 pp., ₹599 (paperback). ISBN: 978-93-87457-82-9; eBook: 978-...
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Book review: Jennifer S. Cheavens and David B. Feldman, The Science and Application of Positive Psychology Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Helen Meldrum
Jennifer S. Cheavens and David B. Feldman, The Science and Application of Positive Psychology. Cambridge University Press, 2021, 480 pp., $64.99 (Paperback). ISBN: 9781108460835
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Book review: Brian Black, In Dialogue with the Mahabharata Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Rohan Basu
Brian Black, In Dialogue with the Mahabharata. New York: Routledge, 2021. 228 pp. £36.99 (paperback). ISBN: 9780367436001.
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Towards the Theory of an Entrepreneurial Firm from the Lens of the Bhagavad Gita Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Rai Siddhant Sinha, Sweety Srivastava
Management research has attracted a plethora of research intending to optimize performance within and outside firms. We have seen plenty of progress in various dimensions; however, we also notice d...
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Love Is Not a Panacea: Moderating Role of Followers’ Attachment Dimensions on the Effectiveness of Agape-Based Leadership Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Fallan Kirby Carvalho, Zubin R. Mulla
Love (in the agape form) forms the foundation of most leadership concepts and has been ignored in research. We respond to the debate on universal applicability of leadership forms by bringing follo...
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From Anthropology to Artistic Practice: How Bricolage Has Been Used in the Twentieth Century as an Ideal Model of Engagement with the World Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Amita Kini-Singh
The aim of this article is to return to the concept of bricolage as theorized in 1962 by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and examine its presence and utility in the art and architectu...
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Artificial Intelligent Systems and Ethical Agency Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Reena Cheruvalath
The article examines the challenges involved in the process of developing artificial ethical agents. The process involves the creators or designing professionals, the procedures to develop an ethic...
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Book review: Prasad Kurian, Life in Organizations: Paradoxes, Dilemmas and Possibilities Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Sheldon Carvalho
Prasad Kurian, Life in Organizations: Paradoxes, Dilemmas and Possibilities. Chennai: Notion Press Media Private Limited, 2021. 140 pp. ₹190.
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Editorial Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Nisigandha Bhuyan
This issue has the maximum number of articles from a wide range of disciplines: spiritualism, philosophy, psychology and sociology.
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Book review: Jiddu Krishnamurti, J. Krishnamurti on Education Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Nailesh Limbasiya
Jiddu Krishnamurti, J. Krishnamurti on Education. Chennai: Krishnamurti Foundation India, 2003, 158 pp., ₹100. ISBN: 81-87236-87-8.
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Human Value-Oriented Management: A Meta-Synthesis of Contributions by Professor S. K. Chakraborty Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Subhasree Kar, Shiv Tripathi, Deepak Kumar Sahoo
The role of Indian ethos in management practices is explored by several management scholars and practitioners. Professor Sitangshu Kumar Chakraborty (popularly known as Professor S. K. Chakraborty,...
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B. R. Ambedkar on the Practice of Public Conscience: A Critical Reappraisal Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Vivek Kumar Yadav, Shomik Dasgupta, Bharath Kumar
This article discusses the importance of ‘public conscience’ in B. R. Ambedkar’s political thought. Ambedkar consistently defended public conscience as a democratic value in his writings and speech...
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The Moral Example of the German Resistance Against the Nazi Regime Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Volkher Von Lengeling
Perceptions about the German Resistance against the Nazis (Widerstand) changed over the years since WWII. Whereas the Nazis saw resisters as amoral traitors, German leaders recently presented the i...
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Organizational and Moral Portraits of Responsibility Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Robert Albin
This article aims to argue in favour of two different kinds of responsibility: moral and organizational. I present the notion of moral responsibility and, specifically, moral accountability, which ...
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Seeing Through Rose-tinted Glass: Exploring Forms of Self-deception Through Students Substance Usage Beliefs Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Meroona Gopang, Abdul Waheed Siyal, Sumera Umrani
Recently, there has been increasing growth in the use of substance amongst the youth especially in higher education institutions of Pakistan. Literature indicates the existence of self-deception in...
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The Value of Epistemic Justice Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Hari Narayanan V., Akhil Kumar Singh
The notion of epistemic injustice has become an important topic of inquiry in recent times. It refers to the injustice committed to a person when her claim to knowledge is not given due considerati...
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Moore’s Paradox and Normative Detachment Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Shivprasad Swaminathan
It is paradoxical to make a moral statement and, in the same breath, disavow commitment to it. Following G. E. Moore, who first identified an analogous paradox—albeit, in the case of factual statem...
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Conceptualizing the Roles of Vedantic Personality and Spiritual Well-being as Drivers of Consciousness for Sustainable Consumption: Authentic Synthesis of an Ancient Philosophy with Modern Concepts Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Pradeep Mazumdar, Susmita Mukhopadhyay
The study addresses the challenging crisis of sustainable consumption. It explores the philosophy of Samkhya, which is based on nature and spirit, also found in Vedantic knowledge, and synthesizes it with the knowledge of spiritual well-being found in modern literature to conceptualize the roles of the direct, mediating and moderated mediation relationships of different Vedantic personality types,
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Book review: C. Panduranga Bhatta and Pragyan Rath, The Art of Leading in a Borderless World Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Samir Ranjan Chatterjee
C. Panduranga Bhatta and Pragyan Rath, The Art of Leading in a Borderless World. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2020, 323 pp., ₹435 (hardback). ISBN: 9389867193.
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Book review: Slavoj Žižek, Pan(dem)ic! Covid 19 Shakes the World Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Sneha S. Raj
Slavoj Žižek, Pan(dem)ic! Covid 19 Shakes the World. New York and London: OR Books, 2020, 146 pp., $15 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-68219-301-3.
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Editorial Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Nisiganda Bhuyan
The January 2022 issue being a special issue, the current issue is effectively the first issue of my editorship. Incidentally, the very first article titled The Role of Potentiality in Aristotle’s Ethics in this issue is about the ethical potentiality of human beings in Aristotle’s ethics, which is close to my own research in Aristotelian virtue ethics. It is for this potentiality that the acquired
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Plight of Peasantry: Re-reading Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third in the Context of New Farm Laws in India Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Nuzhat Akhter
Novel and history, despite technical differences, have something in common, which one can observe by examining fictional narrative as historical discourse without downplaying its symbolic ramifications. It is a fact that the novel is primarily concerned with individual existence, yet at the same time, it has not overlooked the condition of the people in general, as is reflected in the writings of some
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The Conjoint Effect of Workplace Spirituality and Emotional Labour on Service Providers’ Wellbeing: A Moderated Mediation Model Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Nadav Gabay, Smadar Weinstein
Is emotional labour a burden or a boon to service providers who have greater workplace spirituality (WS)? We test a moderated mediation model in which emotional exhaustion mediates the conjoint effect of WS and emotional labour on job satisfaction. Linking conservation of resources (COR) theory with the mechanism of ‘value congruence’ in person–environment fit theory, we theorize that spiritual values
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Floating Words and the Aesthetics of the Visual Vernacular: Political Culture in Contemporary India Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Sadan Jha
Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of conflict around visual representations in India. The field of the visual is the new terrain for rumour mongering and for maiming uncomfortable oppositional voices. With the fast-spreading mobile culture, penetrating social media and continued legacy of the pictorial as an embodiment of the real, the visual has taken over both the oral as well
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In Pursuit of Education: Why Some Tribal Girls Continue and Others Dropout of Schools in Rural India? Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Kumari Vibhuti Nayak, Randhir Kumar
This research focus on the barriers and facilitators of accessing primary and secondary education among the tribal girls in the hinterlands of India. Using ethnographic approach, this study provides a narrative of the girls belonging to the Oraon tribe on what enables or prohibits them to successfully complete their education. The findings reveal that the economic hardships of parents, early arranged
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Between Criticality and Conformism: Citizenship and Education in Post-independent India Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Avinash Kumar
This article attempts to investigate the three strands of citizenship, nationalism and education and their interconnectedness in India after independence. It seeks to address questions like how has the post-colonial state in India visualized its models of citizenship through its education policies and programmes and what has become of their fate? In what ways the changing nature of public versus private
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A Critical Appraisal of Aims-Based Curriculum from a Global South Perspective Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Asim Siddiqui
Michael Reiss and John White, An Aims-Based Curriculum: The Significance of Human Flourishing for Schools. London: Institute of Education Press, 2013. 80 pp., $24.95 (paperback). ISBN: 139780854739981; 10085473998X
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Pedagogy and Diversity: Difference or Deficit Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Padma M. Sarangapani
Schools—their curriculum and pedagogy—assume the middle-class child as the norm, effectively rendering other childhoods and life-worlds as being deficient. Shifting away from this assumption, and acknowledging diversity, is usually understood as requiring an ‘attitudinal’ shift on the part of teachers. Teachers are usually held ‘guilty’ of having negative attitudes towards children of the poor. Explanations
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Education and Good Life in Twenty-first Century Global South Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Vikas Maniar, Manoj Kumar
Since the last few decades of the twentieth century, we have been witnessing a major push towards universalization of school education in the countries of the Global South, both from policy advocates and from the grassroots. This verve in societal aspirations and policy action is definitely encouraging. However, this dynamism should also inspire us to rethink and reimagine the aims and practices of
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The Role of Potentiality in Aristotle’s Ethics Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-01-23 Jacob Blumenfeld
What I will argue here is that the ethical potentiality of the human being that Aristotle cites in the Nicomachean Ethics refers to the general, rational capacity for someone to appropriate and develop their own specific, natural capacities which make them human; the name of this ability is called virtue, which, when expressed in actions, we call good. To separate out the concepts at work here demands
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What is Good? A Study of Educational Insights in Nicomachean Ethics (Book I, II and III) Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Abhijeet Bardapurkar
This work is a study of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Book I, II and III) to characterize the good: the good that features in education and good life. Nicomachean Ethics teaches us that human good is neither in thought/theory, nor in action/practice alone, it is neither an exclusively individual prerogative, nor an outright social preserve. And, human good is impossible without education. The practice
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Rethinking Education and Livelihoods in India Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Tanuka Endow, Balwant Singh Mehta
The COVID-19 crisis has revealed a need for rethinking approaches to education and livelihoods. Education in its present dispensation does not provide equitable access to children from marginalized segments of the population. It also suffers from deficits in the areas of social and emotional skills, over-emphasis on the three Rs, language used as a medium of instruction, and excessive competition for
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Nai Talim Today: Gandhi’s Critique of Industrialism and An Education for Swaraj Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Pallavi Varma Patil, Sujit Sinha
The children of today inhabit the planet when CO2 levels have exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm). Crucial planetary boundaries are breached, and the climate crisis has manifested itself menacingly along with several accompanying civilizational crises be it health, socio-economic, political or humanitarian. It is, according to us, the crisis of Industrialism. At this crucial juncture of converging
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Women are the Better Halves: Gender-based Variations in Virtues and Character Strengths Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Waqar Husain
Several feminists have been arguing on the superiority of women over men. This debate, instead of being biological, revolves around the gender roles and moral characteristics of humans, based on which women have been regarded better than men. The current study supported this claim by involving 620 participants, including men and women. Character Strengths Rating Form (Ruch et al., 2014) was used to
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Legislating Right, Contemplating Duty: Parliamentary Debate on RTE Second Amendment Bill Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Manoj Kumar, Ronita Sharma
The study is an attempt to understand the prevailing discourse in India on education as a right by closely reading the parliamentary debates on The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017. Prior to the passing of the above-mentioned amendment bill The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 had debarred schools from detaining or expelling
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Book review: Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai, Experience, Caste and Everyday Social Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Dev Nath Pathak
Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai, Experience, Caste and Everyday Social. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019, 257 pp., ₹1,100. ISBN: 9780199496051.
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Editorial Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Manish Thakur
This is the last issue assembled under the tutelage of the current editorial committee. Professor Nisigandha Bhuyan is succeeding me from as the editor-in-chief from volume 28 of the JHV. Incidentally, she had submitted an article sometime back to the Journal which is under process. It may happen that the said article gets published while she is the JHV editor. As a matter of our editorial policy,
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Book review: Piliavsky, A (Ed.), Nobody’s People: Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Diksha Narang
Piliavsky, A (Ed.), Nobody’s People: Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves. Stanford University Press, 2020, ₹1870, 253 pp. (Paperback). ISBN: 978 1 503 60464 3.
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Whistleblowing and the ‘Person-Situation’ Conundrum: What Matters More? Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-07-16 Meenal Gakhar, Zubin R. Mulla
This article extends the knowledge on whistleblowing by studying the impact of two individual antecedents (moral foundations and personality traits) and two situational factors (ethical leadership and leader–member exchange) on whistleblowing intentions. We presented 203 management students with a situation and assessed their likelihood of whistleblowing. Model estimations found strong support for
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Living with Barren Truths: A Tale of Triumphalism and Tribulations of a Technology Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Sital Mohanty, Subhasis Sahoo, Pranay Kumar Swain
Science, technology and human values have been the subject of enquiry in the last few years for social scientists and eventually the relationship between science and gender is the subject of an ongoing debate. This is due to the event of globalization which led to the exponential growth of new technologies like assisted reproductive technology (ART). ART, one of the most iconic technological innovations
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Reinventing the Universal Structure of Human Values: Development of a New Holistic Values Scale to Measure Indian Values Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Rajat Sharma
This article investigates the universal values scale, Schwartz Value Survey (SVS) for its applicability to measure cultural context-specific values. The study establishes a need to construct a new scale by identifying and incorporating Indian culture-specific values in SVS. Deriving data using self-assessment questionnaires from 709 respondents in 2 studies and analysing them using principal component
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The Sacred and the Profane: Menstrual Flow and Religious Values Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Shefali Kamat, Koshy Tharakan
Most religious texts and practices warrant the exclusion of women from religious rituals and public spheres during the menstrual flow. This is seemingly at odds with the very idea of ‘Religion’ which binds the human beings with God without any gender and sexual discrimination. The present article attempts to problematize the ascription of negative values on menstruating women prevalent in both Hinduism
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Book review: Nayan Mitra and René Schmidpeter (Eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Cases and Developments after the Legal Mandate Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2020-12-27 Aruna Das Gupta
Nayan Mitra and René Schmidpeter (Eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Cases and Developments after the Legal Mandate. Cham: Springer, 2016, 238 pp., ₹135.19 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-3-319-41781-3.
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Book review: Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2020-12-27 Tanuja Sharma
Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results. Harvard Business Review Press, 2018, p. 238, USD 30 (Hardback). ISBN: 9781633693425.