Biografie zawodowe polskich pracowników korporacji w późnokapitalistycznym społeczeństwie

Author(s): Kamila Biały / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2015

Referring to a set of narrative interviews being professional biographical interviews with managers and professionals, I would like to present some definite typically patterned professional careers. The course and main phases of the settling into corporate order are identified and described with Fritz Schütze’s analytical tools and categories. The main focus of interest is not only biographical processes of growing-up in corporation, that is the sphere of cognitive, normative and emotional references, but also their relation to the institutional sphere. Simultaneously, I intend therefore to address two types of questions: what type of biographical experiences are we dealing with: biographical plan (an autonomous, self-reflexive and intentional process of planning one's own actions), institutional pattern (a normative-based process of meeting institutional expectations), trajectory (a suffering-involved process of uncontrollably being subject to external circumstances), metamorphosis (a surprise-driven creative process of change); and what are the ways a biography reflects corporate order, that is, some definite type of the social order in late capitalism, and the related processes of Europeanization, globalization, multiculturalism and transculturalism, as well as the neoliberal economic order?

Организационна култура и комуникации

Author(s): Evelina Christova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2014

Статията събира материали, посветени на организационната култура и комуникациите и представлява първи стъпки към изследване на комуникация на благотворителността.

Keeping Marketisation at Bay: The Quality of Academic Worklife in Czech Universities

Author(s): Kateřina Zábrodská,Jiří Mudrák,Petr Květon,Kateřina Machovcová,Iva Šolcová / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2016

This study examines quality of academic worklife in Czech public universities to assess the extent to which the global drive towards marketisation in higher education has affected Czech academic staff. A total of 2229 academics (men = 57.1%) completed a survey measuring their job satisfaction, job stress, and work environment perceptions. Findings revealed high levels of overall job satisfaction (83.6% satisfied with their jobs) and relatively low levels of stress (13.7% regularly stressed). Most academics reported positive features of their work environment including autonomy and quality, role clarity, influence over academic work, and a strong social community. Negative features included dissatisfaction with pay, poor leadership, and pressure to produce. Job satisfaction was significantly associated with traditional academic values (focus on quality, involvement in decision-making, commitment to the workplace, recognition), while stress was linked to market-related aspects (pressure to produce, quantitative work demands, job insecurity). The study highlighted relatively high levels of well-being among Czech faculty, which can be attributed to the continued prevalence of a traditional, professor-oriented academic system based on autonomy and collegiality. Despite recent market-oriented changes within Czech research policy, the negative effects of marketisation are not yet pronounced in the quality of academic worklife in public universities, except for the increasing pressure for productivity.

The Need to Train Students Intercultural Competence for International Mobility Stage

Author(s): Florentina Lavinia Matei / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The concern for the training of intercultural competence has become more and more accentuated because in the contemporary society we are witnessing a significant increase in student mobility. In countries such as France or Germany teachers have created special programs for training this competence for students that studying in a different culture. It was found that such intercultural competence training programs help students to better understand the characteristics of the cultures and the differences between them, to respect them and to integrate better. Possessing intercultural competence allows students to better manage relationships in a multicultural space. The goal of this paper is to explain the notion of intercultural competence and its importance for students who will participate in international mobility.

Art Education, Therapy Interventions and School Management in Autism

Author(s): Yücehan Yücesoy,Başak Bağlama,Mehmet Tuzel / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

A variety of research has shown that involvement in the arts increases student achievement across all subject areas, as well as social and adaptive skills. Accordingly, special education and art integration might be beneficial on many levels for individuals with ASD as well. This study aims to determine the trends in the studies on autism and arts through content analysis and discuss the role of school management in art education for individuals with autism. Several databases were examined in the study in order to carry out the content analysis in order to provide a review of on the studies related with art interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Articles published in academic databases were examined based on certain criteria including year of publication, research subject, sample, name of the journals, authors in the studies. Data were analyzed based on content analysis method. Results are discussed with reference to relevant literature and implications for further research and practices are also provided.

The Demarkation of Creativity, Talent and Genius in Humans: a Systemic Aspect

Author(s): Alla Nerubasska,Borys Maksymchuk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

A person becomes a part of a system that can “crush” him or her emotionally, sensually, psychologically and physically. At the same time, a person is still a self-organizing system that has a high degree of adaptability. The study aims to consider creativity, talent and genius in human beings, identify their grounds for subordination and manifestation and justify the content of their demarcation in a systemic aspect. The system-parametric method developed by A. Uyemov allows revealing the nature of the creative principle of a person. The basis of this method is a dual definition of the system to which any object can be represented. When defining an object, the concept, structure and substrate are highlighted in it. This hierarchy constitutes integrity in the system under consideration. A systemic model of several objects is proposed to determine the demarcation lines in the properties of person, which are creative, talented and ingenious: a person is a biological creature; a person is a creative human being. Sub-systems are distinguished: “creative and talented people”, “creative, talented and genius people”. Isolating subsystems helps to analyze demarcation lines. Using the system parameters “minimum-non-minimum” systems and “strong-weak” systems shows that the “creative person” system is minimal and strong, as well as more complex than the “human-biological being” system. The “creative person” system includes the other powerful systems listed above. The study proves that the weakest demarcation line in the system is “creative, talented and genius people” since it is difficult to imagine genius without talent.

THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF MERITOCRACY: CHALLENGES FROM THE ROMANIAN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM UNDER NEOLIBERALISM

Author(s): Alexandru Gavriş / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The paper follows the institutionalization of meritocracy in the Romanian higher education. Using the Romanian experience, the study explores the setting of meritocracy, highlights the revised institutional genesis that led to the adoption of a so-called post-traditional approach, and it reviews the deployment of practices that steered higher education in Romania. In support to these, a reflective stance is employed alongside secondary sources to scrutinize the techniques of control and practices which inform institutional evolution. The research attempts to shed light on the increase of doctrinal entrenchment through which meritocracy justifies academic stratification in a pauper system aspiring to world-class recognition.

MODA CA FENOMEN ESTETIC ȘI FORMA DE COMUNICARE

Author(s): Ludmila Lazăr / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1(36)/2020

Fashion represents a complex aesthetic and socio-cultural phenomenon with a ramified polysemantic structure that is in a continuous process of communication within its own system, interacting with various external factors of economic, political, social, cultural nature. Fashion is influenced and influences the processes of creating both aesthetical and socio-cultural forms. Being a phenomenon representative of contemporary Western civilization, it requires an inter and transdisciplinary approach. The work demonstrates the difference, but also the awareness of the similarity between the aesthetic and communicative dimensions of fashion, as delimited in speciality literature. The aesthetic and artistic approach of fashion is complemented by the communicative aspect of the phenomenon, which is especially important now when its valences are recognized both theoretically and pragmatically, thus contributing to new understandings in the contemporary fashion theory.

Wkręceni w pracę

Author(s): Olga Gitkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 782-783/2020

МУЗИЧКИ УКУС И СИМБОЛИЧКО РАЗГРАНИЧАВАЊЕ У ДРУШТВУ СРБИЈЕ

Author(s): Milica Resanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 4/2020

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the relationship between social stratification and musical taste in present-day Serbia. Following a discussion about Bourdieu’s conceptualization of taste and contemporary theoretical approaches that rehabilitate Bourdieusian heritage, the presence of homology between social positions and musical tastes is tested in Serbian society. On the basis of collected qualitative material via interview, the author examines whether music serves as a symbolic mean that is used by the interviewees to place themselves in certain social groups by drawing symbolic boundaries between them and other social groups that are associated with other musical tastes. The analysis showed that there are differences in musical tastes among respondents based on their position on the stratification scale, manifested in choices and ways of listening to music, as well as that mechanisms of classification are hidden in speech about musical tastes.

RELATIONAL IMPACT OF CULTURAL CAPITAL AND THE PERCEPTION OF SELF-EFFICACY ON EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Author(s): Vesna Rodić Lukić,Mia R. Marić,Snežana Z. Štrangarić / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

This paper aimed to examine the relationship between cultural capital in its three forms (objectified, embodied and institutionalized), the perceptions of students’ self-efficacy and their achievements on the PISA test. The sample consisted of 4843 high school students enrolled in the PISA study in 2009. The results confirmed the existence of the proposed relationships. Self-efficacy and cultural capital significantly contribute to the prediction of student achievements, whereby the embodied cultural capital significantly contributes to the prediction of the perception of self-efficacy. Since the obtained relationships are not of high intensity, it can be concluded that other factors play a significant role in the development of students’ self-efficacy and achievement. Practical implications would relate to activities of encouraging reading habits among students in order to increase the cultural capital and self-efficacy, which will have an effect on their achievement.

MY JOB IS TO ENJOY! – THE SERBIAN EXPERIENCE OF LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Author(s): Marina Nedeljković,Jovana M. Čikić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

The paper examines the recently recognized form of entrepreneurship – lifestyle entrepreneurship – in the specific context of (post)transitional society. The key question is: are there any specific characteristics of lifestyle entrepreneurship and lifestyle entrepreneurs (e.g. personal characteristics, business traits, motivation, business plans and strategies, etc.) due to the specific economic and social settings. The exploratory study covers six lifestyle entrepreneurs. Data were collected in in-depth interviews. Results proven that (post)transitional lifestyle entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs are specific, especially regarding their motivation and work-private life balance. (Post)transitional lifestyle entrepreneurship includes basic features of profit-orientated entrepreneurship as an element of survival strategy.

Auto-censura (self-censorship) – an ordinary and integral part of research life(?) Work in Progress in a form of an essay

Author(s): Izabela Wagner / Language(s): English Issue: 13/2022

This work-in-progress paper paves future research regarding the practice of autocensura (self-censorship). Starting from auto-biographical experience, the text shifts into a more theoretical reflection about this part of the scholarly work, which is hidden and unstudied. The working definition of the analyzed phenomenon aims to open an academic discussion about this practice. The paper ends with the call for testimonies and participation in the study.

Skill and Deskilling in Two Automotive Assembly Plants in South Africa

Author(s): Siphelo Ngcwangu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This article presents research on skills development and workplace change complexities within two automotive assembly plants in Pretoria, South Africa. Auto assembly companies are also termed Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Since 1995, South African OEMs have become fully integrated into the global networks of their foreign parent companies. As South Africa’s leading manufacturing sector, the automotive industry’s increasing importance is reflected in its exports, in- vestments, and contribution to the country’s gross domestic product. The two companies are global multinationals situated in one of South Africa’s most globally integrated sectors that have undergone significant mechanization and automation since the 1990s. Therefore, these companies present a rele- vant site for studying changes in the labor process and the tendencies of deskilling in these workplace environments.The research is based on a qualitative research design that used semi-structured interviews with workers, supervisors, and managers across two plants that assemble motor vehicles in South Afri- ca. The objective of the research was to understand the nature of changes to workplace production methods that influence the character of skills amongst the workforce. This paper studies workers’ experiences on how changes in work processes have impacted their work skills and contributed to the processes of deskilling. Present studies of skills in South Africa have prioritized large-scale labor market aggregate data analysis or reforms in education and training policies of the state. This pa- per brings a perspective on the labor process changes that are informed by concrete analysis of the production process and how technological changes shape the character of skills formation within automotive assembly plants. The value of such an approach is that it brings to the discussion of tech- nology and workplace change a more specific set of experiences that transcends the often speculative and mythical discussion about the impact of technology on work. This article highlights the impor- tance of understanding workers’ voices, shift supervisors, and managers on the contested nature of skills development within capitalist enterprises. The findings illustrate the contradictory nature of technological change and skills development. This is shown by discussing the following themes that emerged from the findings: 1) worker responses to the introduction of robots in the workplace envi- ronment, 2) the deskilling challenge on the two plants, and 3) grappling with the turnover times of capitalist production. I conclude the paper by revisiting the key findings of the research and showing the implications for future studies of deskilling in contemporary capitalist enterprises. The signifi- cance of these findings ultimately points to the importance of locating labor processes and deskilling in the context of the political economy of the capitalist mode of production and how it is reshaping the content of work in modern automotive assembly plants.

Assessing the Online Scientific Community’s Support for Various Reasons for Article Retraction: A Preliminary Survey

Author(s): August Namuth,Mitch Brown,Alicia Macchione,Donald Sacco / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

A prevailing lay understanding of retraction in the scientific literature is to correct for misconduct and honest errors. Nonetheless, though historically rare, retractions to limit the spread of results deemed socially harmful (i.e., information hazards), have gained increasing traction and become increasingly common. This study sought primarily to determine the extent to which information hazard-based retraction is supported in the scientific community and as a secondary goal whether individual difference variables moderate receptivity. We tasked a diverse sample of researchers across various disciplines who use social media to evaluate scenarios in which a paper was retracted for misconduct, honest errors, and information hazards. Overall, support for retraction on the basis of information hazards was low, suggesting that researchers overwhelmingly support academic freedom as a concept. Nonetheless, left-leaning ideologies predicted slightly greater defensibility of the practice among individuals early in their careers. We provide training suggestions to mitigate reactance toward controversial scientific findings.

Inappropriate Use of Submission and Rejection Emails for Advertising Revision Services and Congresses

Author(s): Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Finding a niche journal for the submission of an academic paper can sometimes be a challenge for authors, and finding the right choice may involve a series of submissions and rejections. Emails from editors and journals related to the submission or rejection of a paper should be strictly related to these purposes, i.e., to inform authors that their paper has been received, outline the subsequent editorial handling or peer reviewer steps in the former, or the reasons for rejection in the latter. This paper highlights four cases of - in the author’s opinion - the abuse of such emails by COPE member journals and publishers (Emerald Publishing Ltd., Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley) to advertise for-profit English revision and editing services and/or conferences, as a way to maximize these emails for a dual purpose, namely to inform authors of submission-related aspects (valid communication) while also trying to obtain clients and thus business for non-submission-related aspects (invalid communication). Since an abuse of email-based communication for non-academic purposes is an ethics-related matter, there is a need for systematic research of this potential abuse of emails from both COPE member and non-member journals.

Obcy, inny... wróg? Wprowadzenie

Author(s): Mariola Kuszyk-Bytniewska ,Tomasz Stefaniuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 36/2023

Stranger, Other… Enemy? Intruduction

Career Adaptability and Career Success of Lecturers: The Mediating Role of Adaptive Professional Development

Author(s): Wita Farla,Badia Perizade,Zunaidah Zunaidah,Isni Andriana / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

This research aims to test the empirical model and analyze the mediating role of adaptive professional development on the influence of career adaptability on career success. The sample in this research was 282 permanent lecturers at five state universities in Indonesia. Research data was sourced from primary data with data collection tools in the form of questionnaires. This research uses structural equation models (SEM) analysis techniques. Based on the research results, adaptive professional development can act as a mediator in the influence between career adaptability and career success. The practical implications of this research are lecturers must take the time to analyze and understand their own behavior related to self-assessment, lecturer career adaptability activities must be increased, and lecturers must be able to explore themselves and their work environment. Lecturers must carry out adaptive professional development and be current by developing expertise, following the latest developments in their work, and utilizing information technology.

W poszukiwaniu azylu, czyli nuda w postmodernistycznym muzeum

Author(s): Joanna Lenik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2023

This article presents the museum in the contemporary world in a metamuseological way, id est in a way that includes the historical and philosophical discourse of the existence of a cultural institution. Museum templum, museum forum, slow museum, attentive museum and other concepts are intended to show how cultural institutions are shaped to fit into the concept of the asylum museum. The museum's various metamorphoses have brought it from a “boring” to an attractive model to resemble a postmodern asylum, where the sphere of communication should be developed in order for the audience to experience culture in an inclusive way.

Performatywny proces kształtowania tożsamości zawodników profesjonalnego wrestlingu

Author(s): Klaudia Ślusarczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2024

The article presents the theoretical assumptions of professional wrestling, its elements and history. It also cites considerations of identity and its performativity in sociology. The research conducted in the form of qualitative interviews deals with the process of forming performative identity among wrestlers. As a result of the analysis of the research, it was possible to create a typology of ways of creating a character used for performance in professional wrestling, describe the process of identity formation and determine the roles of third parties in it. The exploration and description of the phenomenon placed in the text made it possible to haracterize the profession of professional wrestler as a multiprofession.