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Communication and Ethical Behavior in the Public Service

Author(s): Arta Musaraj,Julejda Gerxhi / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2010

Setting up public administration which operates effectively and taking over responsibilities, both crucial on the point of view of the democracy indicators, requires great effort from all social stake holders in setting up and maintaining a public service organization. This notion implies the setting in function of the instruments and procedures that prevent undesirable behavior and provide encouragement of good behavior among operators of those services. While doing this, communication as a main component of the public service, calls for structure and control. Ethics or standards of behavior in the public sector are important political and public issues for every country, which is always held as a fundamental prerequisite for “good behavior” (good governance). The Code of ethics by which are expressed the values and standards in the civil service is one of the ethical elements of infrastructure. It enhances the function of orientation (giving instructions for action and behavior), and aims: respect for the law, respect for individuals, personal and professional integrity and efficiency in managing public resources, reinforcing the role and importance that the communication strategies and tools have. Professional association helps to develop judgment and of the necessary skills to enable white collar workers to apply communication strategy and tools and ethical principles in real circumstances. Objective progress can help create an environment where the white collar workers are willing to face and resolve communication problems and ethical disputes, they can even develop essential skills for effective communication and ethical analysis. The mechanisms of awareness about mission and processes of the public service, orientation and internal consulting in the civil service should be available to help white collar workers to apply basic communication and ethical standards in the workplace. Improvements in the legal framework is necessary for the proper functioning of public service, namely: to gain and maintain public confidence.

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Influence of Personality Traits on Leadership Styles: A Secondary Level Study

Author(s): Ijaz Ahmad Tatlah,Kamran Ahmad Siddiqui,Rahila Nizami / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Purpose – Teacher must act as a leader because his/her role is very effective in educational change. Influence of personality traits on leadership styles has been a significant topic in management but no research emphasis has been given to teacher’s personality influence on their leadership behaviors. This research investigates the correlation between these two aspects. Design/methodology/approach – Quantitative research is done by means of survey to a convenient sample of 228 teachers of public elementary and high schools of Lahore. Findings – The dominant traits are associated with both leadership styles thus showing that both people and task oriented leadership styles are effective. Research limitations/implications – This research can be generalized to other areas. Practical implications – The research emphasizes the importance of traits and their influence on behavior. Further researches should examine the traits which are needed for an effective leadership styles. Originality/value – The major contribution of this paper is that it correlate personality traits with leadership styles and high light those traits which are associated with effective leadership styles i.e. people oriented so teachers become more aware to adopt those traits which produce effective behavior and change.

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Graduate Competency,Teaching Effectiveness and Faculty Performance Evaluation: An International Perspective

Author(s): Minga NEGASH / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

This paper examines the relationship between graduate workplace competency standards and teaching effectiveness (competency) evidences used in colleges and universities. The cognitive, emotional and soft skills of students and academics, and teaching performance evaluation systems at two unrelated tertiary institutions were studied. The paper documents that teaching effectiveness instruments in use at two institutions, and by extension in several institutions do not measure the cognitive skills (core competency) of the professor , and the summative questions appear to relate to the individual’s soft skills. The diagnostic feedback given to the professor neither logically connect to improved teaching and learning outcomes, nor does it enable the individual to obtain improved scores in key summative performance evaluation questions. The implications of the finding for quality assurance in teaching and learning, graduate competency, faculty tenure and promotion, and international comparisons of academic qualifications are discussed.

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EVOLUTIE SI IMPLICATII ALE FENOMENULUI CERSETORIEI ÎN SOCIETATEA ROMÂNEASCĂ CONTEMPORANĂ

Author(s): Carina Herbei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 13/2015

This paper aims to analyze the begging phenomenon from the perspective of the sociology of delinquency. We expound evolution and development of the concept of begging, through the time and social circumstances in Romania, from the perspective of the criminal law incrimination, and also through its perception at the population level in our country. A quantitative and qualitative valuation of the begging phenomenon proves that it has become a great challenge to the Romanian society: the beggars are of all types and the forms of manifestation are complex and extensive.

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THE SOCIAL ECONOMY. A STEP TOWARD CREATIVITY

Author(s): Daniela Vîrjan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The social economy gives people the opportunity to put their heads together and unleash your imagination and creativity to create goods and services that meet the real needs of the community. The social economy which supports the classical economics no longer could I give any chance to earn a living and to this end they shall endeavor to produce a good or provide a service to contribute to the smooth conduct of economic and social activity and not Finally the individual welfare. A Romanian proverb says "small stump fell great oaks" in this social economy will eventually provide opportunities for all people who want to get involved in promoting and developing it and thus meet the needs of individuals at a highest level.

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AM I A GOOD CAREGIVER FOR YOUTH AT RISK? SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL WORKERS’ PERCEPTION OF SELF-EFFICACY THROUGH THE LENS OF ATTACHMENT THEORY

Author(s): Levi Sudai Pazit / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

“Have I succeeded in helping the youths I care for? Does our relationship enable the youths to make a progress? To feel better?” These questions are frequently raised during the supervision sessions with the socio-educational workers (SEWs) of the Youth Advancement Units . SEWs provide care for youths, many of whom have dropped out from formal educational frameworks in Israel. The main role of these workers is to enhance the youths, integrating them in society by establishing a personal relationship and promoting interventions. More than once, the SEW have to cope with complex tasks in their work. Moreover, they encounter professional and personal difficulties leading to a sense of frustration, failure, and rejection. A high perception of self-efficacy enables the SEWs to experience the difficulties as challenges, believing that they can promote these youths and attain success in their work, despite the difficulties. Conversely, SEWs with low perception of self-efficacy experience the difficulties as threats and believe less in the ability of the youths to change. This article examines the benefit and importance of another variable that facilitates the work with youths in situations of risk, as such, it may contribute to the perception of self-efficacy, the attachment style of socio-educational workers, when at the core of their work these workers must build a safe and beneficial relationship and be a significant adult for youths at-risk.

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Kvantofrenija i kvantofobija u društvenim istraživanjima

Author(s): Miroslav Vujević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 01/1986

In view of the fact that science strives to explain the object of its research by means of opinions based on experience, the author warns of the tendency of separation between opinion and experience. This tendency is manifested in methodology in the form of qualitative and quantitative methodology. Quantophrenia and quantophobia are nothing else but the ultimate consequences of this opposition. In opting fix' qualitative methodology, the »theorists« succumb to quantophobia, while the empiricists, in embracing qualitative methodology, fall victim to quantophrenia. Both approaches arc equally one-sided and equally obstructive to the advancement of social sciences.

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Review of the Volume ”Ethical Issues in Social Work Practice”, Edited by Antonio Sandu and Ana Frunză, Published by IGI Global Publishing House, USA, 2018

Author(s): Alexandra Huidu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The collective volume "Ethical Issues in Social Work Practice", coordinated by Prof. PhD Antonio Sandu and SR III PhD Ana Frunză, published in 2018 at the IGI Global Publishing House, United States of America, is an ample work dealing extensively with the relevant aspects of the ethical dimension of social work in a correlated approach, in which documenting, argumentative coherence, emphasis on topics of interest and practical applicability come together to generate a volume with relevance in the international literature.

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Cannabis consumers in Poland

Author(s): Andrzej Matczak,Przemysław Adam Pawlicki / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The purpose of this study is an attempt to answer the following questions: (1) Is there a regional differentiation of cannabis consumers in Poland? (2) What is the scale of this differentiation? (3) What factors affect this differentiation? Our empirical study is based on the analysis of an anonymous online survey. The coefficient of variation, taxonomic measures of similarity, synthetic index and Spearman correlation coefficient are used in the analysis. It is observed that cannabis consumption in Poland is most popular among men, youth and young adults (Generation Y), as well as among those who are well-educated, relatively well-off and live in cities. The structure of selected demographic and socio-economic features of the respondents is poorly differentiated regionally. Regional differentiation in the structure of cannabis consumption frequency is at an average level. The spatial distribution of features characterizing the respondents is highly consistent with the spatial distribution of city dwellers aged 15–44, their sex and 5-year age ranges, the level of education, the size of cities and the level of gross domestic product.

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Forming Professional Mobility in Future Agricultural Specialists: the Sociohistorical Context

Author(s): Irina Gerasymova,Borys Maksymchuk,Marianna Bilozerova,Yuliya Chernetska,Tetiana Matviichuk,Valeriy Solovyov,Iryna Maksymchuk / Language(s): English Issue: 4 Sup1/2019

The current research implies that the process of forming professional mobility in future agricultural specialists can be effective due to students’ awareness of the sociohistorical characteristics of developing agriculture in Ukraine, starting from the primitive times up till now; understanding of the connection between the manifestation of professional mobility and self-realization of specialists; provision of pedagogical support to sustain continuing education and professional self-improvement of future specialists. The research aims to theoretically justify the sociohistorical background of forming professional mobility in future agricultural specialists. Research methods include interrelated theoretical methods such as retrospective analysis, comparison and synthesis of scientific sources on the problem under study. The study concludes that it is necessary to provide theoretical, methodical and methodological support for the process of forming professional mobility in future agricultural specialists, developing the technologies for forming professional mobility with an emphasis on those qualities that were highlighted when analyzing the sociohistorical characteristics of agriculture development.

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Možnosti riešenia malnutrície v sociálnych službách

Author(s): Irena Kamanová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2017

The author in this paper provides insight into possible solutions to malnutrition of clients in social services. Malnutrition causes fragility of the client, especially in the elderly. The author defines the fragility by several authors with links to social services and methodology for determining the scope and degree of dependency. She handles a case report of 48 women diagnosed with acute malnutrition.

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Postoje mladých ľudí k problematike dobrovoľníckej práce na Slovensku

Author(s): Silvia Kováčiková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2020

The article deals with the definition and specification of the concept of volunteer work and the personality of a volunteer. We point out the attitudes of young people to volunteering in Slovakia and the motivation that leads them to the self-sacrificing work. Volunteering as an unpaid activity that is not directly related to the professional work of the person who does it does not benefit from it. There are various motivating factors that lead to volunteering. Volunteering is one of the ways that leads humanity to humanization, especially in the environment of material values. It is necessary to motivate young people to help without reward or recognition, to promote solidarity that is beneficial for the development and operation of today's society. We point out the motivation for volunteering among young people in Slovakia.

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Distanța/Distanțarea socială. Reflecții și semne de întrebare în contextul pandemiei Covid-19

Author(s): Iordache Ruxandra / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2020

Covid-19 had become the main concern of the world in the few months that separate the first cases and clusters in China and its global spread. The medical emergency occupies the public discourse and fractures the individual lives in sequences measuring the statistical evolution of the pandemic. Social distance and social distancing are among the main “weapons” against the invisible enemy, modelling the individual and collective life in new shapes. The present paper in mainly a work in progress analysis regarding both the inaccurate use of the concept social distance/distancing, and the societal impact of its possible “permanence”.

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Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Factor Structure and Gender Invariance in a Romanian Undergraduates Sample

Author(s): Beatrice Adriana Balgiu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Factor Structure and Gender Invariance in a Romanian Undergraduates Sample

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Szelekció, defenzivitás, pozicionalitás

Author(s): Luca Kristóf / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2019

This paper presents the methodological challenges of studying the elite as a hard to reach population through a case study on the Hungarian cultural elite. Based on a literature review and the case study I identify three main methodological challenges: sampling, (item) non-response and problems of the interview situation. I present problems resulting from the operationalisation of the target group, the defensiveness of the elite and the researcher’s positionality in a divided elite. Solutions offered in the paper - such as nonprobability sampling methods, different techniques for raising response rates and reﬂections on positionality – could be useful in studying other hard-to-reach groups as well. Nevertheless, studying a population that has relatively low numbers and which is hard to convince to participate requires an extended time frame and higher resource costs.

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100 Jahre der ungarischen Geisteswissenschaftlichen Schule

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100 Jahre der ungarischen Geisteswissenschaftlichen Schule

Author(s): Éva Karádi / Language(s): German Issue: 14/2018

My main thesis, my working hypothesis, is the assertion that Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge came about in a confrontation with its original view, the views shared with his Budapest circle of friends and presented in 1917-18 by thes members of the so-called Sunday circle, in the Free Academy for Humanities. // I will try to prove this claim and to shed light on the emergence of the mature conception of the sociology of knowledge, the Mannheim thesis in this context and from this perspective.

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Прилог проучавању званичне културе сећања Новог Сада у контексту истраживања антропологије града

Author(s): Kristijan Obšust / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2020

This paper analyzes certain characteristics of the identity of Novi Sad as a specific multiconfessional and multinational environment in the context of commemoration and de-commemoration, as a reflection of official culture of remembrance as articulated in public space. The creation of the identity of the city, different practices and tendencies in creating the official memory of Novi Sad, are viewed diachronically, from the mid-19th century to the dissolution of SFRY, as a form of (meta)text. Changes in odonyms and other elements of remembrance culture in public spaces, especially in the historic part of the city, simultaneously point to the specificity of Novi Sad as a dynamic urban environment and to the possibilities of applying urban anthropology to research on a slew of different topics.

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Bezrobocie – zjawisko spoleczne

Author(s): Robert Szota / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2020

The aim of the article is to present the phenomenon of unemployment, which is one of the most important social problems of the state. This unemployment adversely affects not only the individual but also the entire family. It is a complex phenomenon, considered in terms of the object and subject. There are many definitions and classifications of unemployment and an explanation of who an unemployed person may be. Work is an indispensable element of human life, the aim of which is to consciously and purposefully meet human needs. On the other hand, losing a job is a life tragedy for an individual and many families. It turns out that men experience job loss more than women. In families, relations between spouses, or the relationship between parents and children, deteriorate, and conflicts arise. The introduction of the "Family 500+" program significantly improved the financial situation of Polish families.

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Assessing the Maturity of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: An Applied Study on Telecom Companies in KSA

Author(s): Abderrazak Ahmed Laghouag,Faycal Farhi,Faiz Bin Zafrah / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Corporation social responsibility (CSR) practices are, nowadays, inescapable and more needed than ever considering the growing environmental institutional requirements as well as performance indicators that are increasingly including CSR issues to evaluate companies. CSR should not be considered as cost center, it is a vital source of company value and reputation. Actually, companies operating in KSA are not an exception of this CSR matter. This paper aims mainly to evaluate and analyze the maturity of CSR practices through an empirical study for Telecom companies in KSA, namely STC, Zain and Mobily. From a deepen literature review, four main CSR practices have been identified, namely: economic, ethical, legal and philanthropic practices. A questionnaire has been developed to test and validate research hypothesis. The results show a high level of CSR practices, except for the philanthropic practices.

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Social Experiments on Problems from Tomato Farmers during Covid-19 -Indonesia Case

Author(s): Syaharuddin Yijo,Asnawati Asnawati,Surya Darma,Gusti Noorlitaria Achmad,M. Alvianto Putra Arizandi,Tetra Hidayati,Dio Caisar Darma / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The challenge of Gapoktan tomato still depends on the infrastructure and it is approved by the network built by the government. The focus of the study is to find answers from tomato farmers about water and electricity infrastructure problems during the Covid-19 pandemic. We use social-based qualitative consultations with farmers who are members of Gapoktan tomatoes in Indonesia. Samples from this studio totaled 72 units of informants consisting of 12 questions. The question items are grouped into 2 indicators (social and economic). The conclusion of the study was revealed if answering informants was indeed very varied. At present, there has not been a significant problem with the two indicators discussed in the estimation of water and electricity infrastructure. Therefore, the electricity and water supply in the agricultural area is minimal; bias can lead to new problems such as social conflicts and income from farmers decreased due to Covid-19. This survey can be a reference and consideration for various parties related to the management of tomato cultivation in Indonesia.

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