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EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COACHING LEADERSHIP STYLE, ATTRIBUTION OF INSTRUCTOR BEHAVIOR, AND INTENTION TO PERSIST: A MEDIATION ANALYSIS OF CAREER DECIDEDNESS IN AVIATION
No full textA major challenge confronting the pilot shortage crisis is the high dropout rate among pilots during their flight training. Although the issue of retaining flight students is well-known, little attention has been given to the impact of the instructor-student relationship on attrition. This study examines that relationship, the application of the coaching leadership style (CLS), and how attribution of instructor behavior (AoIB) influences students' intention to persist (ITP) through the mediation of career decidedness (CD). Tinto's Model of Institutional Departure serves as the theoretical framework to understand better the factors leading to flight student dropout. The study also examines Attribution Theory to explore how people interpret the causes behind behaviors and how these interpretations influence their reactions. The hypotheses explore how altruistic perceptions and leadership activities can boost students' confidence and competence. The research investigates CLS and AoIB within a proposed model and its beneficial effects on persistence, drawing parallels between the manager-employee and instructor-student relationships. It is recommended that flight schools invest in coaching programs for instructors to enhance student reevaluation of career choice and reduce attrition. Persistence is analyzed across various contexts, including workplaces and higher education. Finally, the study highlights the positive influence of instructor support and instrumental value on students' intentions to continue their flight training. This research holds important implications for education and training, particularly in understanding the nuances of instructor-student relationships. By leveraging insights from CLS and Attribution Theory, retention rates in flight training programs could be significantly improved
"You Cannot Keep Me": The Shakespearean Artist in Three of Isak Dinesen's Tales
No full textIsak Dinesen’s tale “Tempests” and her collection Winter’s Tales pluralize the titles of The
Tempest and The Winter’s Tale, respectively, but few critics have discussed the author’s
engagement with Shakespeare at length. Both of Dinesen’s source texts thematize the
relationship between art and life, and, in this paper, I consider how “Tempests,” “The Young Man
with the Carnation,” and “A Consolatory Tale” adapt Shakespeare’s dramatic presentation of this
topic into narrative form. “Tempests,” I argue, reintroduces the tension between artistic
production and personal relationships which artists perceive in The Tempest, yet Dinesen adds
her own insight that reflection on this tension can generate new art. I then track hints of both this
tension and Dinesen’s insight in her earlier tales “The Young Man with the Carnation” and “A
Consolatory Tale.” These tales add nuance to her presentation of art and life in “Tempests,” I
note, by depicting the unification of artistic production and personal relationships in a more
compelling way. Along the same lines, and drawing upon Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale, these
works indicate that art has value because it can reflect its audience’s sense of their current
situation, transform familiar stories, and surprise us in a quasi-supernatural way. I conclude by
suggesting that “A Consolatory Tale” takes these points even further by presenting a related
source of art’s value that Shakespeare’s play does not make explicit: art’s ability to create
sympathy between author and reader
King Fellow Address 2024
No full textKing Fellow Address given by 2023 King Fellow Dr. Peter Hatlie, titled "Herodotus, Father of Study Abroad," delivered January 16, 2024
To Discover, Communicate, and Defend the Truth: A Thomistic Response to the New Natural Law Theorists
No full textMy thesis is twofold. (a) The foundation of every properly human act is the inclination to the fullness of truth, and (b) all morality is rooted in the common goodness of the fullness of truth. This dissertation proceeds along two interwoven threads. The first is the critique of the NNL theorists’ central positions. The second is the development of a more Thomistic account of the foundations of human action with reference to the critique of the NNL theorists’ four central positions. Chapters 1-2 critique the NNL theorists’ position on the incommensurability of the basic goods. Chapters 3-4 critique their account of the ultimate end. Chapter 5 reformulates the NNL theorists’ doctrine on the ultimate end in light of a deeper consideration of happiness. Chapter 6 critiques the NNL theorists’ view on how the first precept directs human action. Chapter 7 addresses the NNL position on the first principles of morality. Simultaneously, Chapters 1-2 show that there is indeed a hierarchy of goods and proposes Thomas’s position that happiness with God is the good of the first precept, though this is only vaguely understood. Chapters 3-4 show that God Himself must be the final object of the human will, and all desire must be rooted in the desire for God. Chapter 5 follows Thomas’s proposal that the contemplation of God is the ultimate end, and that this is the good of the whole man. Chapter 6 argues that the inclination to the fullness of truth is the ground of human agency. Thus, God is the good of the first precept of practical reason, but He is inclined to as the fullness of truth, and this good is the ground of all human agency. Chapter 7 completes this thread, showing how the inclination to the fullness of truth instantiates a moral precept
Energeia in Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics
No full textNeo-Aristotelian philosophers have recently begun to recover ideas that find intellectual bedrock in Aristotle’s writings, defending concepts like potentiality, causal powers, dispositions, hylomorphism, and teleology against the dominant Humean metaphysical tradition. Surprisingly, one element central to Aristotle’s own metaphysics has received relatively little attention in their work: energeia (often translated as “activity”). In the Metaphysics, understanding energeia provides a central conclusion to Aristotle’s questions about primary being, and across his philosophical corpus, energeia serves as a principle that explains and unifies the notion of being.
Explaining why energeia has been overlooked requires examining the dialectical context from which neo-Aristotelianism emerged. Doing so reveals parallel trends in the development of both Aristotelian and neo-Aristotelian metaphysics. The first step in this repeated pattern involves defending a dynamic ontology, one that incorporates dunamis—power or potential—as a real mode of being. The second step builds upon the first by recognizing that, although dunamis is an important principle of the natural world, there is a more foundational mode of being: energeia.
This study shows that neo-Aristotelian philosophers have articulated their ontological commitments primarily by following Aristotle through his first step: defending modern analogues of dunamis by arguing for the reality of causal powers, capacities, or dispositions. However, ongoing entanglement with the Humean tradition prevented these philosophers from following Aristotle through his second step. In the development of contemporary powers ontologies and in Nancy Cartwright’s scientific writings, dialectical engagement with Humeanism occluded other critical features of Aristotle’s ontology—including substance theory, final causality, and a scope for metaphysical inquiry extending beyond the changeable, natural cosmos. These notions played a prominent role in Aristotle’s arguments for the priority of energeia, and only recently have they begun to find new life within modern forms of hylomorphism. As they return, so, too, can energeia once again find a central place in neo-Aristotelian metaphysics
A Governmental Breach of Covenantal Parenthood
No full textThe health of America's Constitutional Republic is supported by three essential pillars: 1) the faculties of the people to base their appeals upon sound arguments, 2) the willingness and ability of the governed to speak their concerns to their government, and 3) the ability and willingness of the government to listen to the governed; that is, the people who elect legislators to enact laws in the people's best interest.
The context for the call to return to the honorable arts of political discourse is the current controversy over new K-12 curriculum and library book additions dealing with the philosophy of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and the introduction of explicit adult sexual conduct both in the K-12 classroom and in school libraries. These programs have drawn strong complaints from parents at school board meetings. The nature of their appeals to their board members centers on ever-increasing intrusions into the family, particularly the rights of parents to raise their children according to their beliefs. They are testifying that the public schoolhouse, which has been a beacon of safety for their children, is in the process of usurping parental authority that biblically and historically have belonged to fathers and mothers. It will be shown here why the parents indeed own a strong argument.
Early efforts by citizens to passionately protest mandates that violate their conscience seemed to fail in the court of public opinion and were rebuffed in various school districts. More recently, however, those skilled in the arts of political discourse are proving how hopeful it can be for citizens who present fully-supported and clearly-stated appeals. The damage caused by government officials who refuse to listen to their constituents has only served to erode trust in otherwise-trusted institutions, like the local public school and previously-protected parental rights. Recent successes by parents should provide hope for others who also desire to win peer support, the help of their state governors, or the courts. How various parents and bureaucrats have utilized or ignored the arts of political discourse demonstrates a need to return to teaching classical persuasion in our schools. Instruction in the arts of persuasion has been resurrected successfully in classical Christian schools over the past thirty years, ─ not as an elective, ─ but as a necessary core subject for such a time as this
Fr. Heinrich Pesch, S. J. and the importance of the family in fostering and preserving the mutual interdependence of the individual and the national economy
No full textIn contrast to the isolation caused by economic individualism and the absorption of the individual within the community in socialistic collectivism, Fr. Heinrich Pesch outlines an alternative system of economics which he calls “Solidarism.” Within this system, neither the individual nor the community are seen as the ultimate purpose and end of the economy, rather, there is an understanding that the individual and the community mutually benefit, and are interdependent upon, each other. At the heart of this mutual interdependence is the family, the seed of society and original economic unit. Although the family has been replaced by enterprise as the economic unit, Pesch argues that the family maintains its importance within the national economy since it is within the family that men first learn and practice the solidarity and mutual interdependence that can and ought to imbue the rest of society. Whenever the family is fragmented by individualism or is further dissolved by socialism, the national economy suffers, the individual becomes disenfranchised, and society itself loses its cohesion. The national economy ought always to look to the benefit of the family and where it fails to do this it has undermined its own purpose
The Loyalty Metric: How Employee Satisfaction & Engagement Impacts Organization Loyalty
No full textPrevious research has shown that there are complex dynamics that influence employee loyalty and its outcomes. This study evaluated whether job satisfaction directly influenced employee engagement and whether employee engagement directly influenced the outcomes of employee loyalty, employee net promoter score, and positive word of mouth. The study also examined whether managerial trustworthiness moderates the relationship between job satisfaction and employee engagement. A quantitative approach was used to analyze the data collected from 400 full-time employees working in various industries in the United States. The hypotheses were tested using partial least squares path modeling. The results found a direct relationship between job satisfaction and employee engagement, which was significantly related to the outcomes of employee loyalty, employee net promoter score, and positive word-of-mouth. The results also revealed that the main effect between job satisfaction and employee engagement was significant. The study also found that the managerial trustworthiness moderator did not support the hypothesis; however, the results found that managerial trustworthiness negatively moderated the relationship between job satisfaction and employee engagement. This study enhances the literature on employee loyalty by comprehensively examining knowledge workers' perceptions of the concept. This broader perspective could also enable organizations to implement targeted strategies that foster loyalty. Such insights could assist practitioners in advancing the use of employee net promoter scores by extending their assessment beyond employees who demonstrate loyal behavior
Call Us Ishmael: Divinity, Identity, and Mystery in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
No full textOften, critics addressing the multiplicity of religious allusions in Moby-Dick; or, the Whale (1851) try to determine what Herman Melville believed rather than assess how religion functions within the logic of the novel: namely, that the manners in which Ishmael, Ahab, and Queequeg conceptualize the supernatural relates to how they understand themselves. Therefore, after cataloging the religions alluded to throughout the novel, this dissertation analyzes these three characters’ interweaving concepts of God and self. Ishmael approaches the divine with sublime wonder, investigating the mysteries he encounters without requiring an answer. Ahab, however, seeks knowledge to determine or somehow define the supernatural: mystery is a problem to solve not an event to experience. Queequeg is content with mystery, but, unlike Ishmael, he prefers to remain incurious toward it rather than investigate it, dutifully practicing his religion with a sense of utility or practicality. Moby-Dick presents these three attitudes toward the divine as distinct methods whereby one can reflect upon one’s experience, ultimately concluding that Ishmael’s complex narrative poses a similar problem to the careful reader, challenging us to contemplate how we, too, make sense of our lives