Implementing a Successful Career Progression System

The purpose of the article is to study the biography of B.M. Gordon as a successful security officer in the 1920-s and 1930-s. He worked his way up the career ladder from a junior investigator to the head of regional divisions – territorial bodies of the VChK/GPU/OGPU/NKVD and the legal residency of the INO GUGB of NKVD in Germany. Having started his chekist service in the Orel province, he served in the South – Central Asia, in the North – in Arkhangelsk province,in the capital of the USSR, and in the capital of Nazi Germany – Berlin. Gordon fought with the white guards and evicted the dispossessed peasants, controlled the Soviet military and gathered information about the armies of foreign countries; he managed to work at both Soviet and party work. Finally, the energetic work and successful career led Boris Moiseyevich Gordon to his death, when in 1937, J.V. Stalin decided to destroy completely all the former operational leadership of the state security agencies, replacing it with new personnel.

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Change to the Demands Made of the Teaching Profession and the Ambiguity of New Concepts

Lifelong Learning ◽

10.11118/lifele201202017 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 7-18

Author(s):

Jana Kohnová

Keyword(s):

Teaching Profession ◽

Further Education ◽

Career Progression ◽

Quality Of Education ◽

Ministry Of Education ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

New Concepts ◽

Educational Programmes ◽

A Current

This paper is concerned with concepts such as quality of education, evaluation of the standard of the work of the teacher and comparison of educational results. It points to the importance of standards and the difficulties involved in their implementation. It also discusses the concept of competence and its relevance to framework educational programmes and the further education of teachers. The paper also focuses on a number of trends in education that are less widely discussed: instability — permanent change, reduction of education, emphasis on topicality and practical applicability, underestimation of the system, etc. The final part of the paper presents a current project from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic — a proposal for career progression.

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Back from the Future

10.1093/oso/9780190901226.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine Rottenberg

Keyword(s):

Positive Affect ◽

Professional Women ◽

The Self ◽

Ivy League ◽

Younger Women ◽

Technologies Of The Self ◽

Successful Career ◽

Family Balance ◽

The Future ◽

Work Family

Chapter 4 examines two well-trafficked mommy blogs written by Ivy League–educated professional women with children. Reading these blogs as part of the larger neoliberal feminist turn, the chapter demonstrates how neoliberal feminism is currently interpellating middle-aged women differently from their younger counterparts. If younger women are exhorted to sequence their lives in order to ensure a happy work-family balance in the future, for older feminist subjects—those who already have children and a successful career—notions of happiness have expanded to include the normative demand to live in the present as fully and as positively as possible. The turn from a future-oriented perspective to “the here and now” reveals how different temporalities operate as part of the technologies of the self within contemporary neoliberal feminism. This chapter thus demonstrates how positive affect is the mode through which technologies of the self-direct subjects toward certain temporal horizons.

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Internationalization and Diversification of Academic Careers

10.1093/oso/9780198815273.003.0012 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sorana Toma ◽

Maria Villares-Varela

Keyword(s):

Intrinsic Motivation ◽

Work Experience ◽

International Study ◽

Career Progression ◽

Academic Careers ◽

Research Environment ◽

Scientific Careers ◽

Global Survey ◽

Research Facilities ◽

Depth Interviews

This chapter examines the major patterns and drivers of interlinked geographical and career mobilities of Indian-born researchers and scientists. Based on a global survey and in-depth interviews, this study shows that the mobility of Indian researchers is mainly driven by an intrinsic motivation to internationalize their scientific careers, but has also to do with the characteristics of the research environment in India. Moving abroad enables researchers to acquire expertise in a field of research that is not sufficiently developed back home, and provides exposure to research facilities and personnel deemed better and more qualified than those back home. In this respect, international study and work experience are often perceived as providing professional merits that are instrumental in career progression on return to India.

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