INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 641 I. THE FLAWED ACCOUNTABILITY AXIOM ............................................. 643 A. Accountability Deficit .................................................................. 643 B. Asymmetries in Accountability .................................................... 647 II. THE INTE...

This article develops the concept of grounded accountability, which locates practices operational non-governmental organizations (NGOs) within culture communities they serve. Grounded accountability is presented to extend felt that understood as an ethical affinity between employee and goals NGOs employ them benefit third parties. involves devolving responsibility for defining parties who can t...

Academics working on military ethics and serving personnel rarely have opportunities to talk each other in ways that can illuminate their respective experiences approaches the of war. This article draws First Lieutenant (1LT) Portis’s combat provide a unique examination questions about relationship between oversight, accountability, idea moral risk operations. In this article, we outline partic...

background: dealing with ethical considerations is a major component of health technology assessment (hta) definitions. objectives: present study aimed to explore and describe the manner of ethical analyses in hta reports and the effects it had on hta-related decision making around the world.   methods: by considering the contextual milieu of reports and searching for ethical themes and subject...

This exploratory qualitative case study analyzes the risks of misappropriation COVID-19 relief funds managed by public agencies in County Los Angeles. documents deviance, sources misbehavior, vulnerability factors and mitigation strategies place to prevent fraud corruption. Results indicate that loopholes benefits eligibility certification led massive levels fraud, internal infrastructure work ...

This paper deals with the challenges faced by forensic dentists in a world in which globalisation has become a reality. People travelling across the globe on a daily basis become victims of violent crime, terrorist attacks, human displacement, natural and man made disasters. This has forced colleagues in the profession to participate in joint operations exposing inadequacies which need urgent a...

Cardiac surgical report cards have historically been mandatory. This paradigm changed when The Society of Thoracic Surgeons recently implemented a voluntary public reporting program based on benchmark analyses from its National Cardiac Database. The primary rationale is to provide transparency and accountability, thus affirming the fundamental ethical right of patient autonomy. Previous studies...

Transparency is a requirement of businesses and their information systems. It is typically linked to positive ethical and economic attributes, such as trust and accountability. Despite its importance, transparency is often studied as a secondary concept and viewed through the lenses of adjacent concepts such as security, privacy and regulatory requirements. This has led to a reduced ability to ...

Employers are demanding graduates who are competent in specific discipline knowledge and have the generic skills to cope with the ever-changing work environment. In response to this challenge, there is a growing trend in higher education with regard to the integration of graduate attributes in undergraduate programmes. Graduates must be able to solve problems, communicate effectively, work in t...