This study seeks to determine the impact of IT co-workers on individual deviance behavior in organizations. Using data collected from 322 IT employees and their supervisors in Chinese software companies, we also examine the impact of the Confucian work ethic on deviant behavior. The results suggest that both co-workers’ production deviance and the Confucian work ethic have impacts on individual...

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision making. Respecting the wishes of patients, amounting to more than mere concern for their welfare, has become the feature central to certain modern bioethics theories. A group of ethical principles...

The fiction “Quanxiang Pinghua”, published by Jianyang 建陽 Yushi 虞氏 in the Yuan Dynasty, depicts public religious concepts using a set of organized illustrations etiquette. As popular cultural reading material fiction’s are mixture mainstream ideas, such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, reflecting people’s compromised identification three religions their value faith. shape view “the imperm...

Abstract Yi I (Yulgok) was a leading Neo-Confucian thinker and one of the greatest statesmen in Joseon Korea. This chapter presents holistic role emotions ( jeong / qing 情) self-cultivation statecraft by covering his major philosophical texts, letters, political essays. We discuss Yulgok’s theory that virtuous emotional harmony transformation one’s gi qi (vital energy) are important for why thi...

David Wong’s essay is not only eye-opening, but (at least for me) contains an element of surprise. His topic is ancient Chinese ideas on how to promote moral development. His explicit aim is to describe and interpret various pictures in Confucian thought of “how the given and unlearned interacts with learning in moral cultivation.” Consequently, special attention was given to classical Chinese ...

In his Mandala model of the self, Taiwanese scholar Kwang-Kuo Hwang sees each human being as a combination or intersection of private individual and social person, and also of knowledge and action. To further elaborate the model-with a particular emphasis on teaching/learning, the development of the ideal self and spiritual transcendence-this article will explore the psychological process of se...

Abstract Since COVID-19 is a global-scale pandemic, it can only be solved on the global level. In this context, intercultural dialogues are of utmost importance. Indeed, different models traditional ethics might assistance in constructing new, that could help us confront present predicament and prepare for other possible crises await future. The explosive, pandemic spread 2020 clearly demonstra...