The complexity of the national minority rights lies in combining the human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rights specific to this category. While the former are universal, the "extended" ones meet a set of principles and obligations "incumbent upon states and translate into rights,...

Transformational leadership has emerged as one of the most important approaches for understanding and influencing employee effectiveness. Inherent in this approach is the belief that transformational leaders inspire employees to greater levels of motivation and performance. Recent evidence has...

This paper critically reflects on the way in which recent adult social care reform has been evolving beneath the alleged policy goal of prioritising the cultivation of meaningful inclusion and ‘belonging’ in the community. With this goal, there has been a focus away from ‘services’ for...

Youth in foster care disproportionately receive special education services and those in foster care and special education are at compounded disadvantage as they attempt to transition from high school to adult life. Given enhanced self-determination has been associated with improved transition...

This paper studies the background and guidelines of discussions about the concept of sovereignty and its limits. The paper begins with a short historical analysis of the processes that took place in Soviet Russia that led to the “parade of sovereignties” in the early 1990s. Afterwards, the...

Family autonomy/family-determination (FA/FD) is deeply rooted in Confucianism, and is an important core value in East Asian biomedical ethics. Individual autonomy/self-determination (IA/SD) did not originate in East Asia, and is the most important core value of Western biomedical ethics. IA/SD...

The current review aims to make a short overview of Professor Rolf Arnold's book on assisted learning highlighting the notions that are at the core of author's enabling didactics: self-determination and self-control in learning, educational leadership and emotional competences, in the context of...

During recent decades, many researchers have advocated the benefits of equality over hierarchy. These scholars, for example, have argued that income should be uniform across the organization, layers of management should be dismantled, and that employees should be granted opportunities to...

Marketing has been criticized for its lack of accountability, which is qualified by a misalignment with strategic objectives. Most of the researches propose that marketing accountability must be reinforced with more performance measures. In this doctoral thesis, we employ a different approach in...