Taking the Measure of Autonomy
Title | Taking the Measure of Autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | Suzy Killmister |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2017-09-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1351792504 |
This book takes a radically different approach to the concept of autonomy. Killmister defends a theory of autonomy that is four-dimensional and constituted by what she calls ‘self-definition,’ ‘self-realisation,’ ‘self-unification,’ and 'self-constitution.' While sufficiently complex to inform a full range of social applications, this four-dimensional theory is nonetheless unified through the simple idea that autonomy can be understood in terms of self-governance. The ‘self’ of self-governance occupies two distinct roles: the role of ‘personal identity’ and the role of ‘practical agency.’ In each of these roles, the self is responsible for both taking on, and then honouring, a wide range of commitments. One of the key benefits of this theory is that it provides a much richer measure not just of how autonomous an agent is, but also the shape—or degree—of her autonomy. Taking the Measure of Autonomy will be of keen interest to professional philosophers and students across social philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, and action theory who are working on autonomy.
A measure of autonomy
Title | A measure of autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | William Marshal Kurtines |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1980 |
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A Measure of Autonomy
Title | A Measure of Autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | William Marshall Kurtines |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1973 |
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Taking the Measure of Work
Title | Taking the Measure of Work PDF eBook |
Author | Dail L. Fields |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2013-06-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 162396220X |
This book is a handbook for people who want to assure the use of reliable and valid questionnaires for collecting information about organizations. It significantly reduces the time and effort required for obtaining validated multi-question measures of aspects of organizational ‘health’ such as employee job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational justice, and workplace behaviors. It helps users in measuring some factors underlying employee perceptions of work such as job characteristics, role ambiguity or conflict, job stress, and the extent to which employees believe their values and those of the organization are congruent. All the measures in the book have been used and tested in research studies published in the 1990’s. In addition, all the measures describe the extent and types of reliability and validity tests that have been completed, a feature that organizational researchers should find particularly useful. All in all, this book is a handy tool to increase the efficiency of researchers, consultants, managers, or organizational development specialists in obtaining reliable and valid information about how employees view their jobs and organizations.
Kant on Moral Autonomy
Title | Kant on Moral Autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Sensen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107004861 |
This book explores the central importance Kant's concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.
MEASURING AUTONOMY IN ORGANIZATIONS: USING A DECISION-MAKING PROFILE TO DESCRIBE CONTROL PROCESSES.
Title | MEASURING AUTONOMY IN ORGANIZATIONS: USING A DECISION-MAKING PROFILE TO DESCRIBE CONTROL PROCESSES. PDF eBook |
Author | RAE ANDRE |
Publisher | |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 1980 |
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Language Learner Autonomy
Title | Language Learner Autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | David Little |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters Limited |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Language and languages |
ISBN | 9781783098583 |
This book combines detailed accounts of classroom practice with empirical and case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied linguistic and pedagogical theory. Points for discussion encourage readers to relate the argument of each chapter to their own context, and the book concludes with some reflections on teacher education.