I believe that there is a personal right, ethically based, to individuality, autonomy, and identity. This right correlates with the right not to be seen primarily as a "means", but is more fundamental. Reproductive cloning crosses a significant boundary in removing the single most important feature of autonomy: the fact that each of us is genetically unique and individual. Our genetic identity ...

Based on recently proposed principles oi total quality management (TQM), a system-focused perspective is considered here with regard to the determinants oi work performance. The system is seen as an important source oi variance aiiecting periormance both indirectly and interactively. Moreover, the individual is seen as potentially affecting the system. Hierarchical level and autonomy are consid...

People Analytics is a powerful tool with immense promise for enhancing organizational insights. However, this Note argues that employers’ unfettered use of opaque predictive algorithms, which are trained on behavioral data to profile workers and guide employment outcomes, represents significant threat individual autonomy. Part II explores the emergence as continuation merger historical approach...

The aim of this study was to examine the developmental significance of the newly developed dimensional approach to attachment state of mind by investigating its capacity to predict individual differences in the quality of two caregiving behaviors-maternal sensitivity and maternal autonomy support-that are linked to numerous important child outcomes. Seventy-one upper-middle-class, predominantly...

Two studies examined the significance of children's perceptions of their classroom environment along autonomy versus external control dimensions. Study 1 related a self-report measure of the perceived classroom climate to other self-related constructs. In a sample of 140 elementary children, it was found that the more "origin" the children perceived in their classroom, the higher their perceive...

Abstract The text aims to reconcile the bioethical principles (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice) (Beauchamp TL, Childress JF in Principles of biomedical ethics, 6th edn. Oxford University Press, 2009) with used by legal institutions (primarily, European Court Human Rights) evaluate possible human rights infringements due mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 (legality, necess...