Accounting Student Selection of Taxation as a Professional Practice Area

The notion of leadership competencies is a much-debated issue. In this article, we propose that how the leader makes sense of his or her competencies is key to leadership practice. Specifically, we look at how leaders reconcile discrepancies between the self-perceived proficiency of various competencies and their corresponding importance. Empirically, we study leaders within the music domain – how choral conductors make sense of their competencies in the shaping of their professional practice. We investigated how choral leaders in Scandinavia ( N = 638) made sense of their competencies in the face of demands in their working situations. A mixed methodology was used, comprising a quantitative survey with qualitative comments and in-depth interviews with a selection of the respondents. The results show that when choral leaders shape their practice, they frequently face competency gaps that compel them to act or adjust their identity. The key to this sensemaking process is how they move competency elements they master to the foreground and wanting elements to the background. The concept of ‘sensemaking affordance’ is introduced to account for how various leader competency categories are negotiated to safeguard overall efficacy.

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The Selection of Multiattribute Decision Making Methods for Scholarship Student Selection

International Journal of Selection and Assessment ◽

10.1111/j.0965-075x.2003.00252.x ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 289-296 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Chung-Hsing Yeh

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Student Selection ◽

Selection Of

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An Exploratory Study of the Discovery and Selection of Design Methods in Practice

Journal of Mechanical Design ◽

10.1115/1.4034088 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 138 (10) ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Kilian Gericke ◽

Julia Kramer ◽

Celeste Roschuni

Keyword(s):

Communities Of Practice ◽

Professional Practice ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Design Methods ◽

Web Based ◽

New Methods ◽

Potential Link ◽

The Rich ◽

Further Development ◽

Selection Of

This work seeks to understand how design practitioners discover, select, and adapt design methods and methodologies. Design methods and methodologies are mainly used for educational purposes and are not formally transferred into design practice and industry. This prevents design practitioners from accessing the rich body of research and knowledge posed by academia. Various web platforms and textbooks allow users to discover or search for design methods, but little support is provided to assess whether or not a method is appropriate for the context or the task at hand. In this exploratory study, interviews were conducted with practicing engineers and designers. Interview responses were coded and analyzed in an effort to understand the patterns in searching, selecting, assessing, and exchanging experiences with peers in professional practice. This analysis showed that interviewees would like to search for design methods based on their desired outcomes. Additionally, interviewees considered their personal contacts to be the most valuable source of new methods. These insights show that web-based communities of practice may be a potential link between academia and industry, but existing web repositories and communities require further development in order to better meet the needs of the design practitioner community.

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Lexico-Semantic Transformations in Translation of Stories by V.M. Shukshin into English

RUDN Journal of Language Studies Semiotics and Semantics ◽

10.22363/2313-2299-2019-10-3-622-633 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 622-633

Author(s):

Svetlana N Vekovishcheva ◽

Maria I Guseinova ◽

Elena M Priorova ◽

Elena P Savchenko

Keyword(s):

Professional Practice ◽

Target Language ◽

New Approach ◽

Specific Meaning ◽

Cultural Code ◽

Cultural Feature ◽

Cross Language ◽

Semantic Transformation ◽

Linguistic Material ◽

Selection Of

This article is dedicated to the analysis of a lexico-semantic transformation in translation of fiction. The aim of the paper is to identify frequently and less frequently used translation transformations that we treat as cross-language transformations. These transformations are based on selection of the lexical units in target language closed in sematic meaning to those used in source language. V.M. Shukshin’s texts are used as the linguistic material for the conducted research. The translations are prepared by R. Daglish, L. Michael and J. Givens. The study shows that the most difficult units for translation are those having specific meaning due to cultural factors. Cultural associations in V.M. Shukshin’s texts are based on territorial and ethnographic information. Items actively participate in formation of the cultural code. They can be considered as a marker of cultural feature of a text. Translators’ functions include the pragmatic adaptation of texts and different comments. The phenomenon can be explained by the fact that the translator does not always possess enough background knowledge (as far as dialectal words are concerned) or in other words associative links between the object and the name it identifies. The results of the research explain the necessity of a new approach in professional practice.

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