Zróżnicowanie społeczne żołnierzy zawodowych Wojska Polskiego
Social Diversity Among Professional Soldiers of the Polish Army

Summary/Abstract: Towards diversity, integration orassimilation? In the Western Europe contextre search into the impact of the group composition on its results, cohesion, team performance and members’ satisfaction is interesting but not conclusive. In fact, whereas some studies pointed to the existence of a significant effect of diversity on team results, others found no significant or even negative relationships. In the Polish context, studies concerning social diversity show that even among leaders in the CSR the awareness of the social differences and how they can be used is relatively low. Much common attitude is that firms develop the strategy of equal opportunities.What is the direction of the Polish Army? When Poland became a member of the NATO and later joined the European Union, homogeneous composition of the army (especially in terms of sex), began to diversify. In my research projects' manalyzing how the Polish Army reproduces its existing hierarchical structure and how it produces – within the meaning of Giddens – it again, using its own resources of the diversity. This subject has not yet been under taken in a holistic manner in the Polish contextal though some aspects of it have occurred in a few studies. The goals of my research project are to diagnose dimensions of social differentiation of professional soldiers and to determine how they are used by the Polish Army. I assume that in the professional dimensions soldiers will be formally differentiated according to the hierarchical subordination. However, not obvious will be the differentiation in terms of social characteristics.

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