Human Dignity as the Essence of Nussbaum’s Ethics of Human Development

Gluchman, Vasil

doi:10.1007/s11406-018-0034-2

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“…However, a group of researchers have shown that a participative management style has been defined as joint decision-making between supervisors and employees offers a potential benefit to the organisation and its employees. It was therefore agreed that involving employees in participative management also enhances the capabilities and skills of the employees, increase in social and mental demands and above all pose a responsibility for others to collaborate (Nadeem, 2012;Day et al, 2005;Geberth et al, 2003;Gluchman, 2019). Zhang et al (2017) argue that it is essential for SMEs to focus on the learning organisation to develop employee innovation, emphasise teamwork, and improve management through exploitative learning.…”

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Selected Factors of SMEs Management in the Service Sector

Belás

Amoah

Petráková

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The article aims to compare important management factors between SMEs in the service sector and SMEs in other entrepreneurship sectors. The study was realized in the Czech Republic and the Slovak republic over SMEs in the service sector and other sectors in 2019-2020. The data were collected from the owners or top-level managers; the total sample used in the study was 822 SMEs. The questionnaire was constructed in an online version and was fulfilled by 240 SMEs in the service sector and 582 other companies in the Czech or Slovak republic. The research hypotheses were evaluated by basic statistics tools: contingency tables, Z-score, and Chi-square test. The results showed that there are significant differences in the agreed attitudes to the statement: "I manage the company for more than 8 hours a day" between the Czech (62%) and Slovak (71%) respondents in the service business sector. Neither nationality nor the business sector is essential determinants in the perception of human capital as the most critical element in the company (8 out of 10 respondents) and the fact that the owner (manager) of the company should regularly evaluate the performance of its subordinates and motivate them to innovate in work processes. The results are interesting for the entrepreneurs themselves and for entities and organizations that help SMEs' business activities in selected countries, respectively, for economic policymakers.

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Selected Factors of SMEs Management in the Service Sector

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Amoah

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et al. 2020

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“…The capabilities approach in its broader version emphasises human dignity rather than enhancing individual freedom at an individual level (Nussbaum, 2009;Gluchman, 2019). The focus on human dignity that is formulated as an objective to live in dignity and to have a feeling of wellbeing, as implemented in the Swedish Social Services Act of 2010, also corresponds to the wellbeing objective of value for older people that has been agreed upon internationally.…”

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The Capabilities Approach and the Concepts of Self-Determination, Legal Competence and Human Dignity in Social Services for Older People

Svensson

Bäckman

Odlöw

2022

International Perspectives on Aging

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In this chapter, the tension between self-determination and human dignity in the Swedish legal system of social care for older people is analysed with help of the capabilities approach. The core focus of this approach is the individual person’s capability to make decisions. Also important is a supportive societal system that enables the realisation of self-determination, specifically for individuals who are not fully capable of making arrangements for themselves. The capabilities approach emphasises the responsibility of the State and can be used to analyse the impact of legal and political obligations for nation-states, and to balance the increased focus on self-determination and the quest for increased capabilities among older people. In the context of a dismantled welfare state, a one-sided focus on individual autonomy might turn out to be a double-edged sword, leaving the individual with self-determination but no (or insufficient) available care to decide about. In this chapter, the underlying principles of practical decisions are theoretically explored and reflected upon. Of specific relevance is human dignity (in addition to enhancing individual freedom), normativity (a set of fundamental capabilities is identified) and the central role of the nation-state (as the responsible political subject for the achievement of minimum thresholds for all capabilities).

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“…Cf., for example,Gluchman (2019Gluchman ( , p. 1138: 'In Nussbaum's ethics of human development, the deontological aspect prevails over the consequentialist, primarily based on her understanding of the unconditional equal dignity of all human beings'. For other comparisons between Nussbaum and Kant, seeFormosa and Mackenzie (2014) andVorhaus (2015).…”

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The Role of Emotions in the Capabilities Approach: A Critical Analysis

Sacco

2024

Philosophy

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The capabilities approach is the theory according to which, in order to assess people's quality of life and reflect on the basic political entitlements, we should consider what people are capable of doing and being. Focusing mostly on Nussbaum's account, a number of scholars analysed the metaethical structure underlying the approach, showing her Aristotelian and Kantian sources. This article explores another aspect of Nussbaum's theory which has so far been somewhat overlooked: the role of emotions in the justification and motivational support of the approach. After showing the importance Nussbaum places on compassion (and other benevolent emotions) to warrant her moral theory, I argue that – assuming her own cognitive account of compassion – her argument begs the question. I will then contend that Nussbaum's case does not have the inner tools to overcome such a circularity, trying to suggest, in conclusion, a possible way out which is consistent with it.

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Human Dignity as the Essence of Nussbaum’s Ethics of Human Development

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Selected Factors of SMEs Management in the Service Sector

Selected Factors of SMEs Management in the Service Sector

The Capabilities Approach and the Concepts of Self-Determination, Legal Competence and Human Dignity in Social Services for Older People

The Role of Emotions in the Capabilities Approach: A Critical Analysis

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