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The Instrumental Value of Explanations
Philosophy Compass, 2011Abstract Scientific and ‘intuitive’ or ‘folk’ theories are typically characterized as serving three critical functions: prediction, explanation, and control. While prediction and control have clear instrumental value, the value of explanation is less transparent.
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An Instrument to Measure Professional Nursing Values
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2000Purpose: To describe the Nursing Professional Values Scale (NPVS), its development, reliability and validity, and its derivation from the Code of Ethics of the American Nurses Association.Design: The NPVS was tested on 599 subjects, including baccalaureate and masters' students and practicing nurses.
D, Weis, M J, Schank
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Value Corruption: The Effects of Instrumentality on the Desacralization of Values
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016Sacred values like environmental-protection, patriotism, and diversity have become labels frequently employed by organizations, marketers, and leaders to yield profits and favorable reputations.
Rachel Ruttan, Loran F. Nordgren
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Values, Power and Instrumentality
Educational Management & Administration, 1999The policy agenda of the Labour government embodies both continuities and discontinuities with its Conservative predecessor. Its new departures, especially those which involve increased central direction from Whitehall, imply a number of assumptions about the values which should underpin the management of the education service, the ways in which power
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The Instrumental Value of Expression
2018Respecting expressive activity enables the expressive ecosystem to generate a range of benefits related to knowledge, practical reasoning, aesthetic experience, and other aspects of flourishing, as well as to institutional accountability, the discovery of valuable forms of life, and the effective functioning of markets.
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Instrumentality — terminality values in relation to age
Experimental Aging Research, 1978Terminal and instrumental value preference was investigated by asking young adults and older adults to respond to a modified version of the Rokeach Value Survey. Terminal and instrumental values were almost identical among the age and sex groups. Thus, the present data provide no evidence to support the hypothesis that older adults have a higher ...
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2009
The key dilemma to be investigated in this chapter is the way in which public policy understands and operationalises the task of changing or controlling behaviour. Behavioural change is strongly implicated in policy implementation. This is because, when public policies are implemented, they involve relationships between agents of the state and those ...
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The key dilemma to be investigated in this chapter is the way in which public policy understands and operationalises the task of changing or controlling behaviour. Behavioural change is strongly implicated in policy implementation. This is because, when public policies are implemented, they involve relationships between agents of the state and those ...
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The relative value of screening instruments in adolescence
Journal of Adolescence, 1987The phase of development that equips a child to become an adult is a period of transition. To date no instrument has become established as the routine screening measure for this age group in the same way as the Rutter B2 Scale has in children. During a major population study of adolescent functioning, the pupils drawn from four comprehensive schools ...
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The Instrumental Values of Property
2002Abstract This chapter considers the ways putative instrumental values of property institutions may be factored in, to yield a clearer idea of the kind of institution people have a right to have in place. Topics discussed include direct justice costs, basic needs, incentives and markets, independence, and background moral property right.
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Instrumental Values – Strong and Weak
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2002What does it mean that an object has instrumental value? While some writers seem to think it means that the object bears a value, and that instrumental value accordingly is a kind of value, other writers seem to think that the object is not a value bearer but is only what is conducive to something of value.
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