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Quality management in higher education: The individual work of students’ quality management

Quality management in higher education: The individual work of students’ quality management

Author(s): Olena Gubarenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: individual work of students; quality management; higher education management

The importance of this article is dictated by the necessity to adopt the Bologna standard of higher education including the module system into the frame of the Ukrainian university network. The author gives a brief review of the development of the quality concept and approaches, which have been made to integrate it into higher education management. The article sets out the new scheme of individual work of student management seen as part of the general management process.

Three Lessons About International Assistance

Three Lessons About International Assistance

Author(s): Thomas Carothers / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2002

Keywords: assistance programs and civil society in Eastern Europe;

Some lessons have been learned - or should have been - by the providers of assistance for democratization in the post-communist world. First, while the international community was instrumental in ensuring the elections are free and fair, party building was a disappointing affair. In spite of the large amounts of resources invested, for example, in the right-wing coalitions in Romania and Bulgaria, these organizations remained blatantly unprofessional and suffered major electoral setbacks. Second, an NGO sector has been built, but its sustainability and accomplishments are still in question. Third, media assistance helped many independent publications stay alive and improved the skills of journalists, but left unadressed the issues of motivation and political control, especially in that part where stakes are highest: television stations. Finally, and encompassing all of the above, the donors should understand that the process is as important as the end points in the transition process - or even more. How you do it - responding to real needs in societies, engaging local partners, following strict democratic procedures - should take precedence over achieving milestones and predefined endpoints.

Work in an individual system of values in organizational culture context

Praca zawodowa w systemie wartości jednostki w kontekście kultury organizacyjnej przedsiębiorstwa

Author(s): Grażyna Gruszczyńska-Malec,Kinga Hoffmann / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 223/2011

Keywords: work; value; organizational culture

The article presents work as a value in the context of organizational culture. The authors focus on the issue of work value and show the process of values’ infiltration as an interesting area of research. They suggest that organizing social research on work value could be related to research on organizational cultures e. g. in regional diversity context.

The Failure of British Multiculturalism:Lessons for Europe

The Failure of British Multiculturalism:Lessons for Europe

Author(s): Joanna Fomina / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2006

Keywords: multiculturalism; immigrant integration policies; future common European immigrant integrantion policy; diversity management; minority rights vs. individual rights;

This paper acknowledges the need for greater convergence of immigrant and ethnic minorities integration policies in Europe and critically examines the general conviction that Great Britain is the source of best practice in this policy area. The articles' main thesis is that contrary to the commonly held view, Multiculturalism as an integration policy is not effective and adequate. This claim is supported by the three groups of arguments. First of all, Multiculturalist policies have led to ghettoisation of the society and ethnically-driven conflicts instead of integration. Moreover, such policies often violate basic principles of democracy and equality as well as abuse individual human rights in the name of the rights of cultural groups. Finally, multiculturalist approach is inadequate especially at the times of "super-diversity," in other words, unprecedented inter- and intra-group diversification. In conclusion principles for the future common EU integration policy that can be derived from the British experience are suggested.

Individual rights

Individual rights

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2012

The right to life is enshrined in Article 2 of the ECHR, Article 6 of the ICCPR and their Protocols abolishing capital punishment. As a signatory of these human rights treaties, Serbia assumed a series of positive obligations, including the incorporation of this right in its positive regulations. The Constitution prescribes that human life is inviolable (Art. 24 (1)) and prohibits capital punishment (paragraph 2). The Constitution also prohibits measures derogating from the right to life during a state or war or emergency.

Haunting Lessons

Haunting Lessons

Author(s): Joscelyn Jurich / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: haunting; war violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina; genocide; absence

This paper examines horror through works by three artists taking the sites and remains of extreme violence as their subject matters: Australian actress Kym Vercoe’s performance piece, “Seven Kilometres Northeast,”(2010) Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić’s film based on the same piece, “For Those Who Can Tell No Tales” (2013) and Bosnian photographer Ziyah Gafić’s ongoing project, “Quest for Identity,” begun in 2011, a series of photographs of the material remains found in mass graves around Srebrenica, several of which are displayed in the Srebrenica Memorial Room in the former Dutchbat headquarters in Potočari. Vercoe’s and Žbanić’s works focus on Višegrad and specifically upon the Vilina Vlas spa, which was used as a rape camp during the Bosnian war. Spaces such as these where acts of violence occurred carry more than traces; they are replete with the environments of past events that linger and animate them. They are what Avery Gordon describes as haunted sites of social life that are not easily perceivable but make their presence felt. Through examining these artistic works, I argue that they reveal how the seemingly inanimate may become an animated site of horror yet are also engaged creative attempts to transform psychic and spatial abjection motivated by a productive haunting of “something-to-be-done”.

Lessons Not Learnt

Lessons Not Learnt

Author(s): Zośka Papużanka / Language(s): English / Issue: 02 (07)/2013

Keywords: Book review;Polish literature

Review of Ciemno, prawie noc (Dark, Almost Night). By: Joanna Bator.

INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS AND NEW CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PARADIGM (PROS & CONS OF INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS)

INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS AND NEW CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PARADIGM (PROS & CONS OF INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS)

Author(s): Dragan Radonjić / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2012

Keywords: Board structure; Corporate Governance; Independent Directors; Monitoring board; Shareholder Value;

In the last few decades there has been a powerful trend in favor of independent directors for public firms. For larger public companies around the world, it is the norm for the board of directors to include “outside” directors who are not involved in the day-to-day running of the company but are generally expected to take a central role in overseeing company managers. This paper presents the major drivers of the trend towards board independence and the main reasons for greater role of independent directors and stricter standards of independence, their number and diversity. The shift towards independent directors is reflected not just in the numbers or percentages but also in the strengthening of various mechanisms of director independence. The cummulative effect of the considered reasons led to a significant reconceptualization of the board’s role and structure. The effect of the reforms on the board’s role is to make the role of the independent directors more important than ever. Despite the fact that evidences that connect the increased presence of independent directors to shareholder benefit are weak, the expectations of independent directors has become too large.

Institutions and transition: lessons and surprises

Institutions and transition: lessons and surprises

Author(s): Paul G. Hare / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2013

Keywords: transition economies; property rights; Eastern Europe; political economy;

This paper starts with some definitions and concepts to clarify what we have in mind when we talk about economic institutions and the political economy of transition. Much discussion of the area is characterised by ambiguity and confusion, and while there are many partial theories of institutions covering specific cases, we still lack an all encompassing theory. The institutions important for transition are introduced next, this discussion helping to make clear the critical distinction between institutions per se, and the concrete organisational and legal forms through which they are implemented in particular country settings. For those transition economies that have already joined, or wish to join the EU, this includes some remarks on the acquis communautaire. Some empirical evidence on the role of institutions in facilitating transition and fostering post-socialist economic growth is then reviewed, finding support for the rule of law, secure property rights (ownership and business contracts) and liberal trade. As an aside to the main argument, a brief account of possible directions of institutional reform in North Korea is presented. Finally, the concluding section outlines what transition has taught us about the roles of institutions in economic life, and highlights some important unsettled issues, including the problem of embedding new institutions in different cultural settings.

Approbation of Pedagogical Conditions for the Formation of Didactic Competence of Teachers’ College Students in the Process of Independent Work

Approbation of Pedagogical Conditions for the Formation of Didactic Competence of Teachers’ College Students in the Process of Independent Work

Author(s): Tatiana I. Shukshina,Zhanna A. Movsesyan,Larisa A. SERIKOVA / Language(s): English / Issue: Special/2018

Keywords: didactic competence; independent work; a teachers’ college student; pedagogical conditions; formation;

The relevance of the study is attributed to a number of contradictions: on the one hand, the increasing demands of normative documents that determine the formation of didacticcompetence of teachers’ college students as the most important professional component among one ofthe priority tasks; on the other hand, the necessity to create theoretical and methodological groundsfor the formation of didactic competence of teachers’ college students in the process of independentwork. The purpose of the study is the justification and approbation of the developed pedagogicalconditions for the formation of didactic competence of teachers’ college students in the process ofindependent work. The results of the research can form the basis for subsequent work, such as thestudy of problems associated with the formation of didactic competence of teachers’ college students inthe process of pedagogical practice, in the system of further education, etc.

Soul work and giving back. Ethnic Support Groups and the Hidden Costs of Social Mobility. Lessons from Hungarian Roma Graduates

Soul work and giving back. Ethnic Support Groups and the Hidden Costs of Social Mobility. Lessons from Hungarian Roma Graduates

Author(s): Zsanna Nyírő,Judit Durst / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Keywords: Minority culture of mobility; Hungarian Roma middle class; Educational mobility; Cost of upward mobility; Ethnic support group

For a long time, social and public policies have presented upward social mobility as an unambiguously progressive process. However, there is a relatively new line of academic research that concerns the dilemmas, or ‘hidden costs’, of upward mobility. Still, apart from a few inspiring exceptions, there is a lack of empirical studies, especially in Hungary, that explore the personal experiences of the impact of moving class through educational mobility. Academic literature about stigmatised, disadvantaged minorities such as Afro-Americans and Mexicans in the U.S or the Roma in Europe suggests that the professional middle class of these groups – those who have demonstrated an exceptional range of intergenerational mobility – have adopted a distinctive upward mobility strategy to overcome the challenges that are unique to them. These challenges emerge from the difficulties of maintaining intra-class relations with poorer ‘co-ethnics’ (people from the communities they were brought up in), but also managing interethnic relations with the ‘white’ (non-Black in the U.S, non-Roma in East-Central Europe) majority. As part of this minority culture of mobility, the Roma, as with other stigmatised minority groups, create and join ethnic professional organisations to enable them to culturally navigate both worlds. Throughout this paper, we focus our attention on influential ethnic support groups or organisations and address the question what effect they have on the costs of upward mobility in the case of our Roma professional middle-class sample.

Value of Work in the Modern World

Value of Work in the Modern World

Author(s): Norbert G. Pikuła / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: work; an individual in the job market; value of work

The paper focuses on the modern perspective on work and the functioning of individuals on the labour market. Advantages and disadvantages of the current changes in the labour market are discussed in the context of an individual’s life.

The Commonwealth of Independent States

The Commonwealth of Independent States

Author(s): Paul Popa / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Keywords: organizations; neo-realism; constructivism; security complex

International relations have experienced different manifestations over time, that states had in certain periods or in relation to other similar entities. Scholars tried to establish a vocation for each type of attitude that states have setting theories that can explain more or less behaviour in international relations. International organizations also play a significant role, either having inherited attitudes that perpetuate or because they manage to draw new trails to follow, thus, variations in behaviour in the international system.

Visual Lessons

Visual Lessons

Author(s): Bogna Burska,Joanne Morra,Krzysztof Pijarski,Marquard Smith,Joanna Sokołowska,Magda Szcześniak / Language(s): English / Issue: 24/2019

Keywords: visual culture; visual pedagogy; critical pedagogy; art education; visual activism; social activism

A transcript of the discussion Image Lessons. Visual Pedagogies in Troubled Times, which took place at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw on December 18, 2018.

The process of deciding in an independent team

The process of deciding in an independent team

Author(s): Hana Mohelska / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: team; autonomous team; self-decision; team decision; motivation;

The team work is a modern form of work organization when the independent teams take over a big part of responsibility for the causes of their actions by co-decision. The team members are equal partners and they solve the team goals together. Thanks to that they are able to improve the communication and create an appropriate atmosphere which is the key of successful outcomes - not only the team ones but as well the whole organization which they are working for. The principle of teams prefers the form of making team decisions and problem solving rather than individual activity because in this case there is a constant risk of misunderstandings and communication problems. The independent teams are the main organizational part of the lean production built on lean production cells. The part of the article concentrates on the process of making decisions in the independent teams and explores the possibilities of using the independent teams' potential while making self-decisions, delivers own results of the research. Own research in this area has continued the project, the contribution of research shows partial results obtained by experiments in autonomous teams. The conclusion summarizes the results and points out that even an autonomous team should address to the basic framework of powers. This article is supported by the grant no. GAČR 402/09/0662 Decision-making processes in autonomous systems of the Czech Science Foundation.

Work satisfaction and happiness at work

Work satisfaction and happiness at work

Author(s): Karolina Drela / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/1/2018

Keywords: work; labour market; happiness at work;motivation;

The aim of the deliberations in this article is presentation of chosen issues associated with happiness at work, professional motivation and satisfaction from work. A hypothesis was put forward: professional work affects satisfaction from work, and a change of an employer causes that an employee becomes happy. In the beginning deliberations concerning happiness at work were placed. Then professional motivation and work satisfaction were presented. For a better illustration the most important factors affecting work satisfaction were shown. The subject matter of a successive part was satisfaction from work and employees leaving the job. The final part deals with more important conclusions of the deliberations.

DEVELOPMENT OF A DECENT WORK INSTITUTE AS A SOCIAL QUALITY IMPERATIVE: LESSONS FOR UKRAINE

DEVELOPMENT OF A DECENT WORK INSTITUTE AS A SOCIAL QUALITY IMPERATIVE: LESSONS FOR UKRAINE

Author(s): Anatoliy Kolot,Serhiy Kozmenko,Oksana Herasymenko,Dalia Štreimikienė / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

Keywords: social and labor sphere; decent work; deficit; crisis of values;

The contemporary paradigm for sustainable development assumes single-vector economic and social progress and focuses on human-centrism and social quality. In a human-centered model, people become not only a resource component of sustainable economic growth, but also the main value of society. Human ability to participate in different areas of society, which will enhance well-being and clarify his/her personal potential, is the quintessence of the social quality concept. Under this concept, priority is given to decent work, which outlines an action strategy in implementing social and labor reform to ensure sustainable social and labor development. This study seeks to justify the need to develop a decent work institute in Ukraine as an imperative of social quality. This is based on the concept within which the decent work institute is considered in the context of the Work 4.0 social and labor model, which is inherent in the new Industry 4.0 business structure. Work 4.0 is presented as a theoretical and applied platform of labor and employment. It results from large-scale and multi-vector technical and technological innovations, organizational and business changes that create new opportunities, risks and threats to economically active people in the digital ecosystem. The analysis has revealed the lack of decent work due to threateningly high unemployment, the spread of atypical employment, keeping wage payments to a minimum, destruction of the collective agreement in regulation of social and labor relations, the risks of occupational diseases and work-related incidents. The article substantiates the need to formulate an economic policy which should be based on an effective social and labor policy aimed at overcoming the deficit of decent work, preventing threats to social quality and creating, on this basis, the prerequisites for sustainable socioeconomic development.

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING SYSTEMS IN THE HYBRID WORK MODEL. LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ACTION RESEARCH BASED ON FITOEXPORT PROJECT

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING SYSTEMS IN THE HYBRID WORK MODEL. LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ACTION RESEARCH BASED ON FITOEXPORT PROJECT

Author(s): Tomasz Rosiak,Agnieszka Postuła / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: public administration; systems approach; innovation; learning; hybrid organization;

The article exemplifies the implementation of strategic management and a learningbased approach in a public-sector institution. By using a systems approach, we show a case of an organization that is developing learning processes relying on hybrid work. The aim of the article is to present a part of the diagnose of the Inspection in terms of organizational learning and the analysis of solutions increasing the effectiveness of the Inspection and support in creating the strategy. For this purpose we use the action research method, which allows for the interaction with an organization during research. As a result, the foundations for organizational change were built at the stage of planning and implementing solutions. In the empirical part of the article, we describe a case study illustrating the first effects of new solutions. The conclusions of our work are not limited to public-sector institutions but can also be applied in private-sector organizations operating on the basis of decentralized structures.

An independent Georgia or a Tiflis governorate?

An independent Georgia or a Tiflis governorate?

Author(s): Wojciech Wojtasiewicz / Language(s): English / Issue: 01+02 (55)/2023

Keywords: Georgia; war in Ukraine; Russian aggression against Ukraine;

Today’s Georgia is a country of contradictions. While most of the population has come out in support of Ukraine, the country has experienced a great amount of migration from Russia since the war. This, combined with a government uncertain of its foreign policy, has made Georgia’s future all the more unclear.

The role of higher education leaders actualize independent learning program independent campus

The role of higher education leaders actualize independent learning program independent campus

Author(s): Zahara Tussoleha Rony,Fatimah Malini Lubis,Mahmuddin Yasin,Ita Soegiarto / Language(s): English / Issue: 12/2022

Keywords: Independent Learning Program Independent Campus (MBKM); Managerial Competence; Agility;

The government designed the program "Freedom of Learning in Independent Campuses" and required universities to overhaul the pattern of higher education because it is the spearhead of the world of work and the nation's future. The research aims to explain the dynamics of higher education leaders, including faculty deans, study program heads, and study program secretaries, in realizing independent learning program activities at the independent campus of Bhayangkara University, Jabodetabek. The research paradigm used is post-positivism, with a case study approach involving 12 informants and 4 key informants. Collecting research data through interviews, observations, and documentation studies about the involvement of university leaders, faculties, and study programs in the implementation of MBKM. Data were analyzed descriptively with manual data analysis procedures. The results of the study indicate that the standard of leadership understanding of the implementation of the Independent Learning Campus has not been standardized properly. In addition, managerial competence and leadership agility have not been optimally categorized as satisfactory.