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Proposal of an Assessment Sheet for Safety Education Activities in CooperatProposal of an Assessment Sheet for Safety Education Activities in Cooperation with Schools to Meet the Needs of the Local Community ―Ensuring a Safe and Secure Local Community―
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Structural Content of Organization Ethics and the Scope of its Discussion
Get PDFThis paper discusses ethical issues related to ‘the event of a company
running a business’, with a particular focus on the ‘organizational nature’ of
‘the event’, organization ethics, its constitutive content, and the challenges
implied by this subject.
In my paper, “Organization Ethics and Strategic Factors for CSR
Management” (Economics and Business Review , St. Andrew’s University
in Osaka, Japan, Vol. 62, No. 4, March 2021), I have been examining the
importance of organization ethics for the thinking and practice of ‘CSR
management in the context of the SDGs and other issues’. The term ‘SDGs,
etc.’ refers to Sustainability, the Triple Bottom Line as its ideological goals
(the layered economic, environmental, and social values to be achieved), and
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are the concrete action
goals of Sustainability. There, CSR is understood directly and concretely as
‘management that develops the social responsibility of the company’, and
more generally and abstractly as ‘management that develops the social
responsibility of the organization or cooperative system’, in other words, I
placed the meaning of Organization Ethics (OE) as the ‘core’ of the means
to achieve this.
In the process, the concepts of Ethics for Organization (EFO), Ethics of
Organization (EOO), and the creation of Organization Moral (OM) have
been used and examined. The foundation of my research here is the
‘standpoint of action-subject existence’. The fundamental characteristic of
this approach is that we understand the acting subject as a ‘self-creating
creature’ that creates itself while being created by the environment, in a
continuous process of ‘becoming to be and being a new becoming’.
A simpler way to describe it is that it is basically an upward circulation
process between ‘outside-in’ and ‘inside-out’. It is the ‘Creation of
Organization Morality’ that acts as a mediator between the first two and
serves as an opportunity to form the latter process. ‘Ethics for
Organizations’ is the object (or it would be said, more accurately, the
opportunity) to ‘bringing the outside-in’, and ‘Ethics of Organizations’ is
that of ‘bringing the inside-out’. If there is an ‘Establishment of
Organization Ethics (EFO+EOO=OE)’, and if the cycle forms an upward
cyclical process triggered by the progressive creation of ‘Organization
Morality’, then the ‘Deepening of Organization Ethics’ would become an
actuality. Furthermore, I have confirmed in my previous paper that this
process plays an extremely important role in connecting existing or past
CSR management with the new CSR management.
It is clear that such a function depends on the content of the
composition. Also, the content of the composition will have an impact on
our lives, the way we live, and the way society is organized. This paper
will deal with these issues. First, the discussion of this paper will be
developed by presenting and explaining the constitutive content of
Organization Ethics, namely ‘Organization Belief (O)’, ‘Ethics of Concern as
an Object of Business (C)’, ‘Engineering Ethics(E)’, ‘Core Values as the Base
of a Partnership(P)’ and a multilayered structure consisting of them in
Figure 1. ‘Organization Ethics’ here means, in the sense described at the
beginning, that is, the fusion of the aspect of ‘Ethics for Organization’ with
the aspect of ‘Ethics of Organization’ triggered by the ‘Creation of
Organization Morality’, and each of the constituent contents in Figure 1 is
also a fusion of these two aspects. Aspects of ‘Organization Ethics’ include
organization-specific characteristics and will differ in individual companies,
organizational bodies, and cooperative systems. On the other hand, the
aspect of ‘Ethics for Organization’ is an objective code of conduct that is
expected by society and has basically ‘common understanding’. Therefore,
for clarity of explanation, in this paper, I would like to discuss how ‘Ethics
of Concern as an Object of Business’, ‘Engineering Ethics’, and ‘Core Values
as the Base of a Partnership’ should be considered when transferring them
from the aspect of ‘Ethics for Organization’ to the aspect of ‘Ethics of
Organization’. If I try to explain ‘Organization Belief’ from an objective
aspect, i.e., from the aspect of ‘Ethics for Organization’, it would be rather
complicated, so I would like to explain it specifically from the aspect of
‘Ethics of Organization’.
Finally, I will summarize ‘the way of thinking’ that runs through the
above discussion as the Perspective of Organization Ethics, and through
clarifying the meaning and significance of this perspective, I will try to see
the scope of the discussion in this paper. At that point, I will also refer to
the Perspective of Applied Ethics, which shares the context of the
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Book Review of L. Randall Wray’s “Modern Money Theory : A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems”
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The Border Crossing Stories : The Reality and Ambiguity of National Border in Timor Island
Get PDFThis paper is structured around a series of events the author
experienced during his fieldwork on the island of Timor while trying
to cross a national border that was newly established after the
independence of Timor-Leste from Indonesia. The people who inhabit
the area adjacent to the border on both the Indonesian and the Timor-
Leste sides have devised over the years numerous methods to cross it
and easily go back and forth, skillfully using both legal and illegal means.
The author, on the other hand, being a foreigner, simply could not do the
same.
The purpose of this paper is to reconfirm - not from the point of
view of the people living there, but from the experiences of the author
himself - the fact that an international border of a modern state is a social
construct. And, at the same time, we shall see that in the framework of
a fieldwork conducted by a cultural anthropologist, the position of the
fieldworker and the position of those around him can never be the same,
that he can never behave like them, no matter how hard he tries. Having
established the above, we shall draw attention to the vast amount of help
from all kinds of people an anthropologist - a stranger from a strange
land - requires to do his work during the limited time he has in the field.departmental bulletin pape
An Analysis of Changes in Learners’ Negative Attitudes to Reading Through Participation in an Extensive Reading Program
Get PDFThis research paper investigates whether participation in an extensive
reading program could cause reduction in negative attitudes towards
reading in English among first year university students at a university
in Japan. From 2017, extensive reading became a unified component
of compulsory English classes for all students in all faculties and
departments. Students were expected to complete 30,000 words worth
of reading（ approximately 200 minutes） using graded readers over each
semester. There was a wide range of initial ability/motivation levels of
students, variation in class content across faculties etc., and 60,000 words
was not thought a sufficient amount to cause measurable change in the
actual English abilities of students such as accuracy, vocabulary and
language processing with a sufficient degree of reliability and validity.
Therefore, the researchers decided to focus on the emotional aspects
（affective factors） of the extensive reading program. Students were
asked to answer an identical questionnaire at three different times
regarding their attitudes to reading in English, at the beginning and end
of the first semester, and at the end of the second semester. The change
in responses over the three questionnaires indicated that over the
course of two semesters, negative attitudes towards reading in English
slightly decreased overall. Statistical analysis of the results indicates that
participating in an extensive reading program has the potential to lower
the affective filter of students who are reluctant to read in English, and
hopefully lead to positive attitudinal change towards English study in the
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Functions and Challenges of Agricultural Direct Sales Stores in Agriculture and Rural Areas : A Case Study of JA Matsumoto Highland
Get PDFThis paper studies the role of JA Matsumoto Highlandʼs agricultural
direct sales centers, which have been opening on a large scale throughout
Japan since 2000 and gradually having an impact on local economies. The
number of producers shipping to direct sales stands and the number of
consumers visiting them are on the increase, and it is clear that direct
sales stands play a certain role for both producers and consumers.
First, for producers, the role of direct sales centers can be summarized
as follows.
（1）Producers have the right to determine prices and have a high degree
of freedom.
（2）Real-time sharing of agricultural product sales data and market
information.
（3）Products that do not conform to the shipping standards of the
cooperative sales system can be sold.
（4）The ability to respond to competition with competing retailers.
（5）The ability to sell products grown with reduced agricultural chemicals
and organically grown products.
（6）The ability to respond to reduced pesticide cultivation, organic cultivation,
etc.
Next, from the consumerʼs perspective, the roles of direct sales of
agricultural products can be summarized as follows.
（1）Responding to the demand for fresh produce.
（2） Clarification of responsibility by listing the producerʼs name.
Furthermore, as a component of the sales business of agricultural
cooperatives, the fact that the sales of direct sales of agricultural products
account for about 10% of the total sales of agricultural cooperatives, and
that this percentage is on the rise, suggests that this is a promising sector
amidst the difficulties in the development of the sales business of
agricultural cooperatives.
As for the remaining issues, as local production for local consumption is
promoted, locally produced agricultural products are expected to attract
more attention in the future, and an increasing number of supermarkets
are introducing local produce sections. In this context, it can be expected
that competition with general retailers and supermarkets will become
increasingly fierce. We would like to further examine what new
approaches will be necessary for direct sales of agricultural products to
maintain and develop their uniqueness at this time.departmental bulletin pape
The Contents of the Balai Pustaka Edition of the Babad Tanah Jawi or the Chronicle of Jawa
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