A person or organization having power or control in a particular, typically political or administrative, sphere.
Example: 'Today all the rates collected go to the national pool and the Government re-distributes this money to local councils on a fixed amount per head which differs for each class of AUTHORITY such as district council, county council, police AUTHORITY or unitary AUTHORITY.'.
es: autoridad
behaviour
noun
He way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others.
Example: This study will discuss and critically analyse the goals, structure and culture of a particular organisation called ISNAR and how human BEHAVIOUR affected its design and its future.
es: comportamiento
ethics
noun
Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
Example: Human embryonic stem cells: research, ETHICS and policy.
es: ética
exercise
noun
A process or activity carried out for a specific purpose, especially one concerned with a specified area or skill.
Example: This limits the importance of EIA, and Stallworth (1998:380) believes that it gives EIA no real say in development control. 'this approach...relegates environmental assessment to a mere public relations EXERCISE.
es: actividad
judgment
noun
The ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.
Example: As such international criminal law intervenes by initiating the legal processes of investigation, prosecution, trial, JUDGMENT and punishment in relation to an individual's perpetration of international crimes: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and crimes of aggression.
es: juicio
law
noun
The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Example: The 1986 act also incorporated the changed LAW about security of farm tenure between family generations.
es: ley
legal
adjective
Established by law.
Example: The LEGAL act of 15 September 2000, concerning producer groups and their associations (Official Journal No. 88). Producer groups, Polish Television (TVP), Farm News, 3 October 2005, , 20051003251818.strona (viewed 3.12.2005) The LEGAL act of 19 December 2003 on the organisation of the fruit and vegetable, hops, tobacco and dried fodder (Official Journal No. 223, point 2221).
es: jurídico
moral
adjective
Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.
Example: Firstly, Polanyi (1957) claims, that exchange is "a MORAL act following social obligations".
es: moral
norm
noun
a principle of right action binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior
Example: This is an example of a business NORM - no where was the practice documented or specified - it is just a generally accepted and established practice. The ability to disable personal password changes at the workstation had to be represented in the design of the new system - an example of analysing, specifying and representing business NORMs in development of IS IT systems.
es: norma
obligation
noun
An act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment.
Example: His deontological or OBLIGATION based theory held that particular kinds of acts are morally wrong because they are inconsistent with the status of a person as a free and rational being, and should not be carried out under any circumstances whatsoever - forced and concealed medication would be one such act.
es: obligación
process
noun
A series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.
Example: Through those close interaction, it is expected that the trainee will be empowered to make her his own decisions when applying a new knowledge and the PROCESS can be institutionalized and sustainable.
es: proceso
resource
noun
An action or strategy which may be adopted in adverse circumstances.
Example: Price support distorts farmers' production decisions and therefore leads to RESOURCE misallocation.
es: recurso
rights
noun
A moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way.
Example: Gender disparities in nutrition, health, mortality, education, RIGHTS of ownership, access to resources, access to the labour market, freedom of movement and dressing, participation and in general in quality of life are among the profoundest kinds of inequality (UNDP, 2005; Chambers, 1997; Morrison & Jütting, 2005).
es: derechos
rule
noun
An accepted principle or instruction that states the way things are or should be done, and tells you what you are allowed or are not allowed to do.
Example: Rapoport's RULE (as explained by Cowlishaw and Dunbar, 2000) examines whether there is a relationship between species range size and proximity to the equator.
es: regla
state
noun
A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.
Example: The general idea that the poor community needs the assistance of the STATE and has the right to be served free of charge should be abolished in order for extension staff to stop having a paternalistic approach (Bostroem, 1998).
