scholarly journals Keresleti-kínálati diszharmónia a szervezeti kultúra tükrében (Demand–supply disharmony in the organizational culture)

2012 ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Ágnes Balogh ◽  
Eszter Bogdány ◽  
Gabriella Cserháti ◽  
Tibor Csizmadia ◽  
Réka Polák-Weldon
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
University Students ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Utility Company ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Way

A szerzők kutatásának célja ráirányítani a figyelmet arra a tényre, hogy a tényleges és potenciális munkavállalók szervezeti kultúrára vonatkozó vágyai és a valóság között jelentős eltérés tapasztalható. Napjaink pénzpiaci és reálgazdasági válságának hatásaként még fokozottabban jelentkezik az igény a változásra, változtatásra nemcsak a szervezetek, de az egyén szintjén is. Ahhoz azonban, hogy a változtatás lehetséges útjai, módjai közül megalapozottan lehessen választani, nemcsak a kívánatos cél kitűzésére, de a kiinduló állapot minél precízebb meghatározására is szükség van. Jelen cikkükben a szerzők egyrészt azokról az eredményekről számolnak be, amelyek az egyetemi hallgatók „vágyott” munkahelyének szervezeti kultúráját, és ennek kapcsolatát a tényleges piaci kínálattal mutatják be. Másrészt egy közszolgáltató cég példáján a munkavállalók szervezeti kultúrára vonatkozó vágyai és a valóság kapcsolatával foglalkoznak. _____ The aim of the authors is to review and examine the gap between the aspirations and reality regarding organizational culture of those already employed and those seeking employment. These days the financial and real economic crisis generated an increased demand for change on the part of organizations as well as individuals. However, in order to map the possibilities for change and formulate a well-founded decision on which alternative to adopt it is essential to define the starting point and to set clear aims. Present article outlines the research results of the aspirations of university students regarding the organizational culture of their possible future workplaces and how they can be related to the reality of labor market supply. Furthermore, by providing the case of a public utility company, the aspirations of employees regarding organizational culture and the way it relates to reality is also presented.

scholarly journals Crisis de la representación, legitimidad de ejercicio y formas de responsabilidad // Crisis of reperesentation, legitimacy of exercise and types of resposability

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (100) ◽  
pp. 481
Author(s):  
Paloma Biglino Campos
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

Resumen: La crisis económica que comenzó en 2008 ha puesto en peligro la definición de España contenida en el artículo 1.1 de la Constitución. Los recortes en gastos sociales y los casos de corrupción han acabado por afectar al sistema democrático, ya que se reprocha que nuestros dirigentes no hayan demostrado suficiente sensibilidad a las demandas sociales. La crisis afecta más a la manera en que los representantes ejercen sus funciones que a la forma en que son elegidos o a la manera en que toman decisiones. Por ello, la mejor manera de hacerle frente es potenciando el principio de responsabilidad de los poderes públicos, proclamado en el artículo 9.3 de la Constitución. Este punto de vista resulta útil para examinar la funcionalidad de las instituciones de democracia directa y proponer algunas reformas. Ahora bien, enfocar la crisis como una quiebra de la legitimidad de ejercicio sirve, sobre todo, para enfocar los límites que afectan a la representación. Aunque siempre es posible modificar el sistema electoral, hay que recordar que ningún sistema asegura que los representantes ejerzan su función de manera adecuada. Para garantizar que las asambleas representativas, los miembros que las componen y los partidos políticos que los proponen como candidatos sean más sensibles ante las demandas ciudadanas, es conveniente repensar las formas de control social, político y jurídico que existen en nuestro ordenamiento y que están destinadas, precisamente, a activar las distintas formas de responsabilidad inherentes a la democracia.Summary:I. Looking back. I.1 The constitutional model: an advanced social democracy. I.2 The era of lead: from the economic crisis to the institutional crisis. I.3 Crisis of democracy and legitimacy of results. II. Greatness and miseries of direct participation. II.1 Arguments against direct democracy. II.2 A not so direct democracy: political parties as intermediaries. II.3 Institutions of direct democracy and responsibility of public powers. III. Elections, parties and representatives. III.1 The starting point: a pragmatic view of representation. III.2 Reforms of electoral system and reforms of electoral procedure. IV. The responsibility of representatives. IV.1 Responsibility and types of control. IV.2 Diffuse responsibility of representatives and social control. IV.3 Political responsibility and recall. IV.4 The juridical responsibility of representatives.Abstract:The economic crisis that began in 2008 has put in question the definition of Spain stated in Art 1.1 of the Constitution. Cutbacks in social spending and cases of corruption have finally harmed the democratic system because representatives are blamed for not being sensitive enough to citizens’ demands. The crisis affects more the way in which representatives exercise their functions than the way in which they are elected or take decisions. For this reason, the best method to address the crisis is to enhance the principle of responsibility of public powers. This criterion serves to review the institutions of direct and participatory democracy which exist in our system, and for proposing some improvements. However, the principle is especially useful for approachingthe problems that affect the exercise of representation. It is always possible to improve the electoral system. However, no electoral system guarantees that representatives exercise their function properly. There are other ways to ensure that representative assemblies, their members and political parties are more receptive to citizens’ demands. This paper proposes to strengthen the social, political and juridical controls that make effective the responsibility of representatives because these type of controls are the other face of democracy.

scholarly journals Barriers and measurement of work/life balance of managers and other employees

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Milica Mladenović ◽  
Bojan Krstić
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Leadership Strategy ◽  
The Way

Due to major changes and challenges in the way of conducting business in recent decades, establishing work/life balance of employees and managers has become a very important topic. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the obstacles to successfully establishing this balance, the most important of which being the supportive organizational culture and superiors' communication. Another goal of this paper is to introduce the Standards of Excellence Index as a measure for determining the success of the companies' work/life balance programs for employees and managers within 7 components: leadership, strategy, infrastructure, accountability, relationship building, communication, and measurement. In this regard, this paper presents research results on this index in companies in America, where this index was created.

scholarly journals A construction of independent means: the history of the Way construction revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
TERESA FANEGO
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Middle English ◽  
Old English ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Front Door ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Form ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

The emergence and development of the Way construction was famously examined by Israel (1996) in a study which traced the modern form of the construction to three senses or subschemas, namely manner of motion (He stumbled his way to the front door), means of motion (He dug his way out of the prison) and incidental activity (He whistled his way out of the room). The present article moves beyond the late Middle English period – the starting point of Israel's research – and looks at the precursors of the Way construction since Old English times, as well as its interaction with the Intransitive Motion construction (IMC) (He walked into the room). By approaching the data in terms of Goldberg's typology (1997) of verb-construction relationships, which is finer-grained than Israel's tripartite division, the analysis identifies the areas of conceptual and constructional overlap that have existed between the Way construction and the IMC in the course of history, and shows that the Way construction has gradually specialised in the expression of those relations which could not be readily coded in the IMC, such as means of motion and incidental activity. The study thus seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how the constructicon, the repertory of constructions making up the grammar of a language, may change over time.

Through the Lens of the Adam Narrative: A Re-consideration of Sūrat al-Baqara

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.O. Klar
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Dominant Theme ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
A Chain

The thesis of a single pillar or axis around which the longer Medinan suras are structured has been highly influential in the field of sura unity, and scholarship on the structure and coherence of Sūrat al-Baqara has tended to work towards charting the progress of a dominant theme throughout the textual blocks that make up the sura. In order to achieve this, scholars have divided the sura into discrete blocks; many have posited a chain of lexical and thematic links from one block to the next; some have concentrated solely on the hinges and borders between these suggested textual blocks. The present article argues that such methods, while often in themselves illuminating, are by their very nature reductive. As such they can result in the oversight of important elements of the sura. From a starting point of the Adam pericope provided in Q. 2:30–9, this study will focus on the recurrence of a number of its lexical items throughout Sūrat al-Baqara. By methodically tracing the passage of repeated, loosely Fall-related, vocabulary, it will attempt to widen the contextual lens through which the sura's textual blocks are viewed, and establish a broader perspective on its coherence. Via a discussion of the themes of ‘gardens’, ‘parable’, ‘prostration’, ‘covenant’, ‘wrongdoing’ and finally ‘blindness’, this article will posit ‘garments’, not as a structural pillar, but as a pivot around which many of the repeated lexical items of the sura rotate.

Thread of Generations [On the History of N. Krupskaya Astrakhan Regional Research Library]

2009 ◽  
pp. 116-119
Author(s):  
Larisa V. Kolenko
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Regional Research ◽  
Research Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Representing History

The present article is concerned with the research results of the chronicles of N. Krupskaya Astrakhan Regional Research Library, representing history of the largest regional library of the Volga region in the context of development of the country librarianship as well as regional culture.

Un Dieu sadique : le rôle de l’image blasphématoire de Dieu dans Dolce agonia de Nancy Huston

2013 ◽  
pp. 160-166
Author(s):  
Izabela Front
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Character Of God ◽  
Double Character ◽  
The Way

The present article seeks to analyze the way in which the blasphemous figure of God in Dolce agonia by Nancy Huston allows the author to describe the sacred element in human life, seen as deprived of transcendental character. This is possible thanks to the three aspects of the text dependent on the type of God’s figure, which are: the contrast between passages marked by the cynical God’s voice and passages focused on man’s life filled with suffering; the tone and the appropriation of time var-iations and, finally, the double character of God who, at the same time, is indifferent to man’s lot while touched by his capacity of love.

A Reactive Culture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Hardt
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Memory Development ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Institutional Memory ◽  
The Way

Chapter 7 explains why NATO’s institutional memory continues to develop in the way that it does – despite formal learning processes being underutilized. Findings in this chapter draw on the author’s survey-based interviews with 120 NATO elites. The chapter begins by arguing that NATO’s organizational culture locks-in elites’ preference for relying on informal processes and avoiding formal processes. Key characteristics of NATO’s culture posed challenges for identifying and reporting strategic errors. The organization’s norm of consensus made formal agreements on past strategic errors difficult. Moreover, NATO’s focus on reaction over retrospection and a broader culture of blame aversion provided elites with little incentive to break the tradition of reliance on informal processes for memory development. Elites described feeling continuous pressure to react to the crisis at hand and treat past crises as unique – leaving little reason to invest in learning from past failures.

Parts of a Whole

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Champollion
Keyword(s):  
Algebraic Semantics ◽  
Reference Measurement ◽  
Single Constraint ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Accessible Format ◽  
The Way

Why can I tell you that I ran for five minutes but not that I *ran all the way to the store for five minutes? Why can you say that there are five pounds of books in this package if it contains several books, but not *five pounds of book if it contains only one? What keeps you from using *sixty degrees of water to tell me the temperature of the water in your pool when you can use sixty inches of water to tell me its height? And what goes wrong when I complain that *all the ants in my kitchen are numerous? The constraints on these constructions involve concepts that are generally studied separately: aspect, plural and mass reference, measurement, and distributivity. This work provides a unified perspective on these domains, connects them formally within the framework of algebraic semantics and mereology, and uses this connection to transfer insights across unrelated bodies of literature and formulate a single constraint that explains each of the judgments above. This provides a starting point from which various linguistic applications of mereology are developed and explored. The main foundational issues, relevant data, and choice points are introduced in an accessible format.

Engels on women, the family, class and gender

2021 ◽  
pp. 194277862110000
Author(s):  
Sheila Margaret McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Women's Oppression ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This article looks at Engels’s writings to show that his ideas about the role of labour in the evolution of human beings in a dialectical relationship between human beings and nature is a crucial starting point for understanding human society and is correct in its essentials. It is important for understanding that we developed as a species on the basis of social cooperation. The way human beings produce and reproduce themselves, the method of historical materialism, provides the basis for understanding how class and women’s oppression arose and how that can explain LGBTQ oppression. Although Engels’s analysis was once widely accepted by the socialist movement, it has mainly been ignored or opposed by academic researchers and others, including geographers, and more recently by Marxist feminists. However, anthropological research from the 1960s and 1970s as well as more recent anthropological and archaeological research provide overwhelming evidence for the validity of Engels’s argument that there were egalitarian, pre-class societies without women’s oppression. However, much remains to be explained about the transition to class societies. Engels’s analysis of the impact of industrial capitalism on gender roles shows how society shapes our behaviour. Engels’s method needs to be constantly reasserted against those who would argue that we are a competitive, aggressive species who require rules to suppress our true nature, and that social development is driven by ideas, not by changes in the way we produce and reproduce ourselves.

Immigrants and Associations: Their Role in the Socio-Political Process of Immigrant Worker Integration in West Germany and Switzerland

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Schmitter
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Immigrant Worker ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Way

This paper presents an analysis of the way “secondary political rights” have been used in two of Europe's foremost labor importing countries: West Germany and Switzerland. It focuses on structural possibilities that could provide avenues for participation to the migrants and on nonwork related organizational structures that can potentially provide important links between migrants and the larger sociopolitical structure of the host country that are absent from labor market and work related structures.

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