Sentences with phrase «role of human beings»

Some philosophy holds that the fundamental role of human beings is to be «world disclosers.»

Perhaps in the future, the main role of human beings will be to minister therapeutically to depressed AIs, whose melancholic bouts threaten civilization with digital malaise and total breakdown.

Traditionally it has been the role of the human being to pair up and stay that way and raise little tax - payers.

Not exact matches

But as Johnston noted, the changing character of business structures and the marketplace are making it increasingly necessary for business owners and executives to pay greater attention to the human resource aspects of operation: «Tasks that were once neatly slotted into well - defined and narrow job descriptions have given way to broad job descriptions or role definitions.

In the past, human resource managers were cast in a support role in which their thoughts on cost / benefit justifications and other operational aspects of the business were rarely solicited.

«A cascade of changing business conditions, changing organizational structures, and changing leadership has been forcing human resource departments to alter their perspectives on their role and function almost overnight,» wrote John Johnston in Business Quarterly.

What it does: The role of this bacteria, which is most well - known for causing syphilis and Lyme disease, is still not well - understood in humans.

As the role of the HR department continues to evolve, the very concept of human resources may be phased out.

The new Defense Clandestine Service, which is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is expected to play a large role in human intelligence and espionage in Africa.

The competition is the flagship program of the SSP, which promotes understanding and appreciation of science and the vital role it plays in human advancement.

In a terrific 1985 book, To Engineer is Human — The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Henry Petroski argues that every structure that engineers build is a hypothesis — an educated guess to the effect that «yes, indeed, this bridge is strong enough to bear the weight of all that traffic on a daily basis.»

Many companies are so streamlined these days that if a manager leaves suddenly or is terminated, often there aren't other qualified permanent employees available to step into the role or get the job done, says Frances Randle, managing director of the interim management practice at Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions.

(But context is important; oxytocin plays a bewildering number of roles in animals, and possibly some nefarious ones in humans.)

On recruiting blog Fistful of Talent recently, Kris Dunn, the chief human resources officer at Kinetix and a blogger at The HR Capitalist, offered some ways to tell if someone just drifted into your sphere or has actively and enthusiastically chose the type of role you're looking to fill.

«We're in the most sensitive area of human endeavor,» he declared, «and we were not respectful of the importance of our role.

«For Treasuries, the share of transactions by primary dealers has dwindled by more than half to 4 percent since the end of 2008,» with electronic traders like Citadel expanding their role as dealers, and the complaints about the Treasury market sound a lot like the complaints in the equity markets about human market makers being replaced by algorithmic traders.

The compensation committee's processes and procedures for the consideration and determination of executive compensation, including the role of our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Resources in making recommendations to the compensation committee and the role of Mercer and ClearBridge in assisting the compensation committee in its functions, are more fully described in the «Compensation Discussion and Analysis» that begins on page 12 of this proxy statement.

Hopefully, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee will be more diligent in its review of the 2009 - 10 Public Accounts and press the Ministers of Finance and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada on this issue, as well as the directors of the CEIFB as to how they perceive their role in the setting of EI premium rates.

While roles like CEO, head of operations, human resources, etc. are certainly filled with more than their fair share of stress, there is probably no position that has more responsibility for success, often with less input and control, than the sales manager.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

Conducted by The RBL Group and the University of Michigan, the Human Resource Competency Study (HRCS) is the most comprehensive review of the HR profession around the globe, helping to define and shape the role of HR as a strategic contributor to the business.

Chatbots are not yet ready to take over the role of humans.

«The role of active investors is to find value, but when all asset classes are overvalued, the only way to survive is by using financial engineering to short volatility in some form... In world of ultra-low interest rates shorting volatility has become an alternative to fixed income... The global demand for yield is now unmatched in human history.

As a young company focused on growth, Uber had long thought the primary role of its human resources department was to recruit talent.

Like most others in the wealth management industry, United Capital found clients were increasingly interested in, if not expecting, technology that enabled a more hands - on role in their investing, while maintaining some level of connection to a human advisor.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

But this is from the article translated by our Ralph in the new issue of FIRST THINGS: I am one of those who believe that a human being is not an autonomous construction with no given structure, order, status, or role.

The distinctness of the sacerdotal role gets reinforced by the discipline of celibacy, which is intuitively (and rightly) interpreted as a rejection of the world's rules for human flourishing.

Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.

My daily role is to communicate the realities of human trafficking in such a way that people are hopefully inspired to action.

June 19, 2013 — A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off.

No matter who is chosen to play the role of a character, someone will always resemble that actor, as there are a small number of genotype human appearance factors

I believe that human actors who fail to give pride of place to moral boundaries that must never be crossed, such as the direct killing of the innocent, and who instead are ready to see their obligations in terms of moving beyond them in favor of «good results,» will be harder put «to take seriously the role that divine authority plays in morality»; for they will to that extent lose a sense of the moral limits that remind us of our finitude and anticipate consideration of a law of our being that is not one of our making.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

De Waal recently published a book called «The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates,» which synthesizes evidence that there are biological roots in human fairness, and explores what that means for the role of religion in human societies.

It is because there is a reason and purpose for the division of human nature into male and female in God's plan, which gives men and women different and complementary, but equally valuable, roles in the Mystery of Salvation.

It seems that only in a community that has some control over its own economic life can there be freedom to decide about the respective roles of human labor and fossil energy.

People do somehow expect the Church to take on this role - of protecting truth, encouraging learning, accepting with honesty a vision of human beings as they really are.

This vision of Holloway, and we would dare to suggest that it might be implicitly that of the Church, gives to every human person a real value, role and meaning at every level of their being.

Although it took the sensitivity of John Paul II to draw out the role of woman here more explicitly, this is nonetheless the key anthropological insight of the Second Vatican Council: the human person has been created so as to become a gift of self.

The role of the divine is much pondered» the furiously indignant Cain gets no more explanation for why his sacrifice was rejected here than he did in Genesis» but the actions are all committed by humans.

By locating the discussion of evil in the context of the entire cosmic complex, one may overlook the particular powerful role that human beings increasingly play in bringing evil to their own species and to other species as well.

This point of view fully respects the progressive experimental concentration of human thought in a more and more lively awareness of its unifying role; but in place of the undefined point of convergence required as term for this evolution it is the clearly defined personal reality of the incarnate Word that is made manifest to us and established for us as our objective, that Word «in whom all things subsist.»

Although the jargon is new, the role of «faith «based» institutions in meeting human needs has a long history, as is admirably demonstrated by these essays from City Journal.

The implementation and monitoring of human rights enforcement going beyond mere legislations but insisting on the creation of national structures, institutions and organs of society which play a given role is stressed.

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

If it is truly the task of Christians to play the role of spokesman for the oppressed, witness for the forgotten, then they must be so concerned about human misery that they take pains to discover the really lost before its too late.

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

The particular role of the Petrine principle (through its objectified holiness and rule), in relation to this mutual love, is to prevent us from proposing our own human spirit as the Holy Spirit.

They argue that the basic building blocks of the human brain, such as neurons, are too large for quantum indeterminacy to play a significant role.