Taking credit is the process through which organizational members claim responsibility for work activities. We begin by describing a publically disputed case of credit taking and then draw on psychological, situational, and personality constructs to provide a model that may explain when and why organizational members are likely to take credit. We identify testable propositions about the credit-taking process, discuss ethical aspects of credit taking and suggest areas for research on credit taking in organizations.

Common Good, Uncommon Questions explores a variety of moral issues.

Grace and human response -- The common good -- Conscience -- Faithfully practicing virtue -- Our bodies and our issues -- Responsible sexuality -- Social justice -- Conclusion : and, in the end ....

ENGLISH POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY HOBBES I. ON MAN § In the year there was published in England a very remarkable book, one of England's Bibles, an original and ...

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In this book, Alexander Bevilacqua presents us with a lucid, erudite, and in many respects engaging study of a dimension of the European Enlightenment and its precursor traditions that has not prev...

Jean Bethke Elshtain's 1995 Frank Covey, Jr. Lectures on Political Analysis at Loyola University in Chicago are printed here in book form. Admitting that her Latin is inadequate to access the original texts, Elshtain does not purport that her lectures are a work of Augustinian scholarship. Rather, as the title of the first chapter—"Why Augustine, Why Now?"—suggests, Elshtain wants to assess the significance of Augustine for contemporary society.

Jean Bethke Elshtain's 1995 Frank Covey, Jr. Lectures on Political Analysis at Loyola University in Chicago are printed here in book form. Admitting that her Latin is inadequate to access the original texts, Elshtain does not purport that her lectures are a work of Augustinian scholarship. Rather, as the title of the first chapter—"Why Augustine, Why Now?"—suggests, Elshtain wants to assess the significance of Augustine for contemporary society.