Sentences with phrase «general culture of»

It's a good idea to look carefully at the job posting, and the hospital website to get a feel for what they are specifically looking for in the person who fills the open position, as well as the general culture of the hospital.

«There is a general culture of suppressing dissent in these institutions.

The firm's «approach to diversity» and «general culture of inclusion» is commended, and Reed Smith is named a Lex 100 Winner in the inclusiveness category, earning further awards for work quality and living up to expectations.

And in my experience, those that «sweep problems under the carpet» and have a general culture of excusing poor quality because they are «trying their best that are usually the ones with the greatest gap between the quality they think they are producing and the actual quality of what comes out.

But this was part of the general culture of a civilised man.

The broad policy addresses the need to shift the general culture of the way that schools operate and think about learning.

He is dreaming his way up to the top, but failing to reach the target; he retreats into drugs, indolence and the general culture of irresponsibility.

Readers are gently led into considering their own spiritual life, challenged into being honest with their current efforts to evangelise, and invited to analyse the general culture of society.

It is a curious fact that while the general culture of contemporary theologians is still markedly literary, rather than scientific, they seem to forget the many lessons concerning the human situation to be learnt from tragedy, whether ancient or modern.

«The general culture of disbelief also pervades the decision system.

The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

But these luxuries are often just the obvious benefits of a general culture of care that appeals to millennials.

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Gurley is a general partner at Benchmark, a major investor in Uber, and a leader of Uber's thunderous workplace culture investigation — which led to the exit of co-founder-CEO Travis Kalanick.

How does this affect the general mood and culture of the company?

By the time Powell was elected CEO of General Mills in 2007, he really knew the company — the organization, its people, products, customers and culture.

While the policy update may have been necessary to turn around Yahoo's lackadaisical corporate culture, it was widely seen as a condemnation of telecommuting in general, Kessler says.

Food in general is a great unifier of cultures, functions and personalities.»

Recent headlines about Uber, United Airlines, GE and General Motors put culture at the root of multiple issues.

Uber also released the recommendations of a months - long investigation led by the law firm of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder who was retained by Uber to look into company culture and practices.

Valukas also portrayed a corporate culture in which there was heavy pressure to keep costs down, a reluctance to report problems up the chain of command, a skittishness about putting safety concerns on paper, and general bureaucratic resistance to change.

Asked about driving a culture innovation in general, 76 percent of leaders rated themselves as above average or excellent.

Once a month, a new thread would be posted where listings were welcome — a departure from the general «no self - promotion» culture of many eBay message boards and groups.

There is also a report coming soon with the results of an investigation led by former Attorney General Eric Holder into the company's management culture — which was spurred by allegations of sexism and other criticisms of company culture.

Even after the former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, who'd been hired by the board to investigate, issued a scathing report on Uber's culture, Kalanick and his directors initially decided that vague promises of coaching, the hiring of a chief operating officer, and a slap - on - the - wrist «leave of absence» for the CEO were sufficient remedies.

This is consistent with national survey reports from the General Social Survey where employee owners report that they have greater job security and lower likelihoods of being laid off in the previous year compared to other employees.29 When faced with recessionary pressures, employee ownership firms may retain workers to sustain a workplace culture based on cooperation, information - sharing, and commitment to long - term performance.

I'm not sure whether the hopping around is a function of more opportunities, a younger demographic, or startup culture in general.

Traditionalists need to remind themselves that conditions in the intellectual world, as in the culture in general, are almost always in a state of disarray.

Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

MoJ's Rob Vischer uses this story about the culture of marital infidelity in Russia to raise questions about the relationship between law and cultural norms in maintaining general public adherence to the practices constitutive of healthy family life.

And in the general culture, as the ramifications of the gay assault sink in, there may be a salutary reaction that reinforces the heterosexual norm essential to society's survival and flourishing.

Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of Christian community is the Church, these trends in general intellectual culture have in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of influence from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric in their thinking.

The general theme is Descartes, Locke, and Darwin and the origins of modern science, politics, and culture.

The General Secretary of the World Hindu Council has said it is part of Christian culture to «exploit... More

Elements of the church today have fetishized culture in general (and entertainment specifically) to a degree that is unhealthy, not only for the church, but for the culture, too.

The same goes for legalization of marijuana, another development in our political culture that reflects the ascendancy of libertarian sentiments among the general public.

Robert Wuthnow of Princeton is among the students of American religion who have incisively analyzed the ways in which all the churches are split along a left - right, liberal - conservative divide, mirroring the divides within our general culture.

$ 16 No book of recent vintage has provided such a comprehensive and intelligent overview of current options in relating Christian faith to the general culture as Robert Benne's The....

General education, the basis of culture, should be compact of material which will enter into the habitual lives of its recipients, a doctrine which applies alike to language, literature, history, natural science, and to mathematics.

In culture and belief she was a Jew, but in hereditary endowment she was more a composite of Syrian, Hittite, Phoenician, Greek, and Egyptian stocks, her racial inheritance being more general than that of Joseph.

A number of white Christians responded to the alarm, but prominent Christian justice leaders of diverse cultures and denominations perceived a general lack of engagement from white Christians.

But the excesses of the Romantics have led to the moral and intellectual vacuity of the hippy / new age culture with its acceptance of drug taking and general flight from reality.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Purity culture teaches that men (in general) will always be horny, objectifying a-holes and absolves them of responsibility.

A change in the dominant media of mass communication in the culture creates a radically new situation for communication in general and, in particular, for the transmission and interpretation of the Bible and of God's revelation.

Many theologians of the sects continued to talk as if they were the exponents of the normative culture system of the commonwealth, while actually they represented only that of, at best Christianity in general, at worst their exclusive sect.

But old habits die hard, and Christian theologians had fallen into the habit of trying to delineate the religious dimension of our general culture.

P.S. I do think my Songbook deserves to eventually win for itself a significant place among the works seeking to interpret the overall rock phenomena, but for now it remains a peculiar feature of Postmodern Conservative, and unknown to those who would most benefit from it, the handful of sane pop - culture theorists, and the more general class of intellectually open rock hipsters.

The Counter-Culture became less defined by a positive understanding of the alternative culture it offered, and more by a general antagonism towards the «Establishment.»

Robert Bellah and his associates throw some general light on this absence in their recent sociological study of American culture, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Harper & Row, 1985).