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Language and Power consists of sixteen essays, subdivided into three thematic wholes: 1. On Serbian Language, 2. On Functional diversification of the Serbian Language, 3. On Texts. The book deals with different varieties of Serbian language – aspects it takes on according to its various uses, various occupation, manners in which it manifests itself (whether it is spoken or written), occasions of its use (public or private), uses by particular authors, as well as in various types of texts. The title of her book was chosen in reference to the dominant theme of her book, which is exercising power through language. The entire first part of the book is devoted to bureaucratic language, which is articulated around its basic purpose – manipulation of people.
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Polskę ominęła. Dopiero po 1989 roku zaczęły postępować zmiany norm obyczajowych, seks zaczął oznaczać coś więcej niż tylko prokreację, pojawiły się takie tematy, jak homo-, bi- i płynna seksualność, a prawa mniejszości, seks nastolatków, gwałty bądź edukacja seksualna stały się przedmiotem debaty publicznej. Zarazem pojawiły się głosy, że są to problemy niepolskie, a nawet antypolskie, niemające nic wspólnego z zainteresowaniami prawdziwych Polaków. Analizy zawarte w tej książce dowodzą, że jest zgoła odwrotnie.
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With the formation of market relations there are major changes and diversification of objectives, principles and methods for managing pharmaceutical organizations. Enterprises that are reforming their management systems provide a strong competitive position and opportunities for further effective development. Managers have incentives to successful and efficient use of all resources - material, financial, human, information, etc., to reorganize the management of enterprises and associations. Application of modern instruments for coordination and regulation contributes to the organization work as a single system and focus on achieving strategic goals. In this regard, there are prerequisites for wide practical application of the management theory. Becomes important to use modern approaches to planning of the company or association, create effective modern organizational structures, improve technological processes, increase productivity. To increase the efficiency of production, trade and management one needs the active involvement of the staff in goal setting, discussion and decision making, in shaping a positive image of the organization. In other words, the importance of human resources, personnel management, the role of human factor in the development and efficiency of an enterprise or institution in-crease. Hence, the need for a flexible system of incentives for the staff. At the same time the modern efficient organization of control, identification and evaluation of a business entity remains significant.
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Development of market relations and competition in the pharmaceutical market predetermines the necessity of scientific and practical use of the main provisions of marketing and its characteristics in the area of drug supply of the population. Marketing as a philosophy of pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies contributes to a successful response to changes in the environment, the demands and needs of consumers, provides management decisions based on market research and analysis capabilities of the organization. Knowledge and use of marketing provides success to the company in the competition, penetration into new markets, conquest of customers, and ultimately – achievement of the objectives aimed at making profit. Marketing has a wide application of borders, from the moment of planning and the product development to after-sales service and the study of the consumer’s reaction to it. Marketing is important when entering international markets, increasing exports.
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Autorka odpowiada na pytania: Jakie czynniki ekonomiczne wpływają na decyzje podatników i czy faktycznie ich wpływ jest tak znaczący? Czy można wzmocnić dyscyplinę podatkową w oparciu o argumenty moralne? Czy podatki mogą być w ogóle sprawiedliwe i czy można wzmocnić przekonanie o sprawiedliwości podatków? Książka jest bardzo dobrze udokumentowana i zawiera nową wiedzę. Brakowało od wielu lat na rynku księgarskim monografii psychologicznej, prezentującej w sposób tak wielowątkowy analizę zachowań polskich płatników podatków. Praca Małgorzaty Niesiobędzkiej to solidne studium współczesnej wiedzy psychologicznej na temat złożonych i wieloaspektowych uwarunkowań uchylania się ludzi przed zobowiązaniami podatkowymi, jej silną stroną jest empiryczne podejście do zagadnienia. - dr hab. Maryla Goszczyńska
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Dopasowanie człowieka i środowiska, w którym on działa, a ściślej pracownika i zatrudniającej go organizacji ma podstawowe znaczenie dla powstania poczucia związku z firmą, czyli tożsamości organizacyjnej. Autorka książki omawia różne spojrzenia na proces budowania dopasowania człowiek–organizacja: dopasowanie do zawodu, dopasowanie do stanowiska pracy i, najbardziej szczegółowo, dopasowanie do konkretnej firmy i pracodawcy. Przedstawia wyniki badań wskazujące, jak wiele istotnych dla pracownika, jego współpracowników i całej organizacji postaw i zachowań wiąże się z dopasowaniem: zadowolenie z pracy, zaangażowanie organizacyjne, pomaganie współpracownikom i lojalność. Jednak najważniejszą konsekwencją dopasowania jest tożsamość organizacyjna, której powstanie zmienia sposób, w jaki pracownik spostrzega relację między sobą a organizacją.
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The term “design”, commonly used today, however ambiguous and multidimensional, cannot be denied cognitive usefulness. Generally understood, design refersto contemporaneity, revealing the dependencies between production, consumption and culture. As a distinguished type of activities and practices, realizing the values of social aesthetic awareness, it is vibrant in today’s world.This book aims at showing the category of design in a broad cultural context, with a focus on the evolution of this notion in the 20th century. An analysis of this phenomenon, rich in multifarious connotations, begins in Europe at the approach of the 20th century, when this discipline, in a way, emerged from the sphere of artistic activity (Bauhaus, De Stijl), and ends in contemporary times. The road leads through issues strictly connected with the development of technology and aesthetics, but exclusively within the aspect of human life and functioning. In fact, design has always been connected with man as a subject (author and recipient) and anobject that the latter has in use. As such, it carries in itself a great wealth of diverse ideologies and socio-cultural values, which it reflects in connection with human life. In this sense, design is also a reflection of a way of this life, particularly in the times of aesthetization of reality.Design, as a close connection between art, technology and life eludes all definitions; it cannot be be unambiguously boiled down to any specific esthetic theories either. Referring to Peter Bürger, it can be assumed that design is art which became so immersed in life practice, that, having lost distance to the latter, it ceased to function stricte as art and became a new area of quest and experiments. Therefore, aesthetics implicite, as seen by Władysław Tatarkiewicz, tranferred into the sphere of design: drawing from the designers’ practices, contained in items/objects/utilitarian products, in critical thought and tastes and fads of a given period, seems to be the most optimal form of an aesthetic analysis of this phenomenon. Such an analysis is a priority of this work, whereas the chronological aspect helps connect design to the (aesthetic) functioning of man starting from from modernist beginnings of the 20th century throughout postwar changes and postmodernist aesthetic relaxing.
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Zasadniczym celem pracy jest ustalenie wpływu zarządzania talentami na orientację na uczenie się przedsiębiorstw. Jego realizacja wymagała opracowania spójnych koncepcji obu zagadnień oraz ich empirycznej weryfikacji. Autorka ocenia programy i procesy zarządzania talentami w Polsce, zajmuje się problemem modelowania organizacji uczącej się oraz przedstawia wyniki swoich badań.
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The book entitled “The “self” in axiological spaces. Some problems of subjectivity in the literature of the 19th-20th century”, is an attempt at formulating anew in the modern and postmodern world the relations of the subject with the sphere of values, an attempt in which the “self” and the world may reveal their slightly less obvious features. The significance of literature consists in the fact that the concepts of the world, entities and phenomena which are created by literature are concretised by literature in the form of something which actually exists, manifesting the essence of those things and what happens to them. Similarly it makes evident our “self” entwined with values. Literature creates, organises the field in which the thing which happens may be viewed and examined. By taking advantage of this ontological capability of literature, as well as by taking advantage of a wide array of phenomena which are provided by it, we inquire in the book about the adventures of the “self” in the spaces of values, about what is told about them by literary forms, the new literary figures, and the old ones which are re-interpreted. The first part of the book comprises works which focus in a particular way on poetic figures – for the purpose of the examination and the description of the axiological spaces of poetry. Here romantic and modernist areas of literature interpenetrate; most commonly they are studied according to a cross-sectional, comparative approach. What seems particularly interesting is the discussion between texts which discuss the relations of good and evil, and – in a broader context – about the various forms of the world of values. The second part of the book is organised problem-wise and is somewhat formatted by texts which determine in a fundamental way man’s situation in modernity. Metaphors and symbols faded away, there are only things, their traces in the area of memory. The final part of the book explores the axiological space in frontier literary areas: reportage, criticism or the values in the sphere of electronic output. The book is intended for experts in the field of literature, culture, for philosophers, as well as for general readership who seek a guide in the modern world and who are guided themselves by values.
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"The monograph opens an interdisciplinary discourse about the notion [of the soul] and the changes it has undergone over the centuries. (…) The aim of starting this interdisciplinary and international discussion on the phenomenon of the soul was to create a common research platform where to present the positions of representatives of different milieus within the humanities. (…) The monograph features studies by dozens of authors from research centres both in Poland and abroad. (…) The subject matter of the soul, spirit and spirituality is at the heart of the humanities, constituting a point of departure for research on the immaterial dimension of reality that connects the traditional and the present-day. Reflection about the essence of humanity and man’s existence in this world and questions about a continuation of this existence after physical death have accompanied mankind forever, no matter the time or place. The belief about a post-mortem form of being is attested in funerary rites conducted by both the primordial peoples and the advanced civilizations that have expressed the questions of the condition humana as religious and philosophical systems reflected in literature, the arts, the humanities, and language” (from the introduction by E. Masłowska). The second volume of the series is comprised by works devoted to the images of the soul in literature and visual art as well as in the Christian, Indian, Chinese, African and Persian spiritualities.
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"The monograph opens an interdisciplinary discourse about the notion [of the soul] and the changes it has undergone over the centuries. (…) The aim of starting this interdisciplinary and international discussion on the phenomenon of the soul was to create a common research platform where to present the positions of representatives of different milieus within the humanities. (…) The monograph features studies by dozens of authors from research centres both in Poland and abroad. (…) The subject matter of the soul, spirit and spirituality is at the heart of the humanities, constituting a point of departure for research on the immaterial dimension of reality that connects the traditional and the present-day. Reflection about the essence of humanity and man’s existence in this world and questions about a continuation of this existence after physical death have accompanied mankind forever, no matter the time or place. The belief about a post-mortem form of being is attested in funerary rites conducted by both the primordial peoples and the advanced civilizations that have expressed the questions of the condition humana as religious and philosophical systems reflected in literature, the arts, the humanities, and language” (from the introduction by E. Masłowska).
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Monografia swoim charakterem i zawartością merytoryczną wpisuje się w szeroki i zróżnicowany nurt rozważań w ramach nowej ekonomii, w której wielu badaczy, poszukując potwierdzenia swoich koncepcji, stara się skupić na badaniu zjawisk gospodarczych z perspektywy mikroekonomii. W teorii kosztów transakcyjnych przyjmuje się, że reputacja i zaufanie są elementami, które mogą poprawiać efektywność transakcji poprzez kompensatę asymetrii informacji istniejącej w momencie ich zawierania. Autor analizuje, na ile reputacja i informacja mogą pomóc w minimalizacji kosztów przedsiębiorstw ponoszonych w związku z sytuacjami kryzysowymi. Przedmiotem rozważań są także potencjalne zachowania interesariuszy powstałe pod wpływem zagrożeń. Podjęta zostaje poza tym próba określenia roli emocji odczuwanych przez otoczenie gospodarcze i społeczne w rozumieniu przekazów informacyjnych dystrybuowanych przez firmy. Przyjęta w książce perspektywa wywodu wpisuje się w nurt badań rozwijanych w ramach ekonomii behawioralnej, a inspirowanych przez nowe osiągnięcia psychologii.
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This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today’s globalized world. Hashamova productively combines fieldwork in NGOs in southeastern Europe, social science data, and the analysis of Western and East European anti-trafficking films and media and their reception in the United States and the Balkans. Her book identifies a disconnect between the global flow of trafficking images and their local comprehension. The critical analysis of documentaries, feature films, video clips, and NGOs’ media materials and the responses they elicit from spectators reveals the flaws of these products and the ideological structures present both in them and in their audiences.
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The attempt to make a comparative study of Lviv and Łódź in search of certain regularities seems at the first glimpse rather farfetched, because apparently there are rather few analogies between the city of Lviv with its long history and multifunctional tradition and the monofunctional, rather young, industrial city of Łódź. But deeper analysis shows that despite many differences in the course of the history of both cities, some common tendencies can be traced, such as dynamic demographic and spatial development in the second half of the 19th century based on introduction of railway transport, the building of socio-economic and spatial structures of these cities by multi-cultural local communities, and going through half-a-century period of centralized socialist economy after the Second World War. Lviv and Łódź regained political independence almost at the same time (1989 in Poland and 1991 in Ukraine) and entered the route of democratic development, undergoing political and socio-economic transformations during the last 20 years. As a result of these processes as well as the influence of globalization, today we can observe in Łódź and in Lviv similar problems and phenomena, influencing their spatial development and functional restructuring.
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The volume brings together papers devoted to the constructions and destructions of identity that resulted from the changing of borders – both the old ones, long established and sometimes forgotten, and the new, recently drawn-up ones. Taking up this topic was inspired by fieldwork conducted by linguists, anthropologists and historians, who clearly indicate that formally long inexistent borders continue to live in the consciousness of the communities that neighbour them, and continue to find reflection in linguistic and cultural phenomena. Such formulation of the topic requires an interdisciplinary approach, which is why the volume features papers by scholars representing multiple disciplines.
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The monograph discusses up-to-date issues concerning the acculturation of a Middle Eastern group in a European country. The book is based on research conducted by the Author in 2014 in the Assyrian/Syriac diaspora in Sweden, within the framework of the “Defining and Identifying Middle Eastern Christian Communities in Europe” project. Assyrians/Syriacs (Assyrier/Syrianer) began to arrive in Scandinavia in the late 1960s, fleeing the wars and meagre economic prospects in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. Today, they constitute an active diaspora which contributes in various ways to the development of its new homeland and numbers around 150 000 people. The Author describes Swedish migration and integration policies, the history of the Assyrian/Syriac community in the Middle East, the phases and forms of institutionalisation in Sweden, internal dynamics as well as the group’s relations with external actors and its transnational links. One of the main findings of the book is that the ethno-national identity of this community was largely constructed in the Swedish diaspora and is considerably more complex than it had previously been described in research. The identity in question is not a single construct, but rather a few – if not a few dozen – variants, although polarisation resulting from the divide between Assyrians and Arameans/Suryoye/Syriacs is visible.
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These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the Scientia Moralitas Conference held online on November 22-23, 2020. The objective of this conference is to promote multidisciplinary research on ethics, social sciences, and humanities, and stimulate dialogue on current issues affecting the real world.
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