scholarly journals Assessment of management efficiency of city managers (based on focused interviews with entrepreneurs)

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
A.B. Ponamarev
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Business Community ◽  
City Managers ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
Institutional Instability ◽  
Business Confidence

The topic of the research is relevant to modern sociological science and social practice. The research problem lies, on the one hand, in the importance of the development of the municipality through contracts for municipal-private cooperation, and on the other hand, in the absence of a comprehensive scientific understanding of the barriers to the implementation of this process. The aim of the research is to assess the effectiveness of the management practices of city managers, in particular, their potential to attract private capital to the municipality. The methodological basis of the research in general theoretical terms is based on the new theory of institutions, in particular, on the concept of institutional evolution by D. North, and in the specific applied - focused interviews conducted with representatives of the business community and local administration in the Southern Federal District. As a result of the research, the following obstacles to the effective work of city managers have been identified: imitation practices, low qualifications of municipal employees, reduced trust of entrepreneurs, high economic risks and institutional instability. To overcome the above problems, the following recommendations have been made: to solve the problems of joining the law on PPP and MPP with anti-corruption legislation, to create a body to support MPP projects and increase business confidence in the municipality by setting clear «rules of the game» in the economic space.

scholarly journals Disability in the Workplace: Legal Barriers Affecting Human Resources Management Practices and Workplace Accommodation for the Persons with Disabilities in Sri Lanka - A Review of Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. N. Chandratilaka ◽  
Prasadini Gamage
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
English Language ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Workplace Accommodation

Disability can be defined as a physical or mental condition that barred such individual from properly interact with physical or social environment. This difficulty provided root course for historical marginalization of persons with disabilities in the society and visible in various fields ranging from education to employment and being analysed by various scholars. This literature review explores the question how various scholars approached the social political and legal issues arise out of low employment rate of the persons with disabilities and expressed their views on how to solve them. Since a systematic literature review has not been conducted in Sri Lanka on this topic, to answer the aforesaid research problem, author will evaluate multiple scholarly approaches towards the barriers affecting human resource practices and workplace accommodation for persons with disabilities and explore solutions available in the existing literature to resolve such issues. This research will be based on literature review methodology and first of such work in the field of disability rights in Sri Lanka. Thereby, results of this research will be produced by collecting and synthesizing previous research for advancing knowledge and facilitating theory development. However, literature survey was limited to the works which recently published in English language and meet certain scholarly standards.

scholarly journals Konsep Worldview: Usaha Melengkapi Konsep Struktur dalam Teori Strukturasi Giddens

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Johanis Putratama Kamuri
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
Cultural Components ◽  
Virtual Structures

The aim of this paper is to complete the concept of structure, in structuration theory, with the concept of worldview. Giddens' structuration theory emphasizes structure as a result as well as a medium for the regularization of social practice. It emphasizes structure in cognition but ignores the structure of society. As a result, the theory does not explain how social practices that produce virtual structures can exist and be practiced continuously in society, before virtual structures are formed in agents’ cognition? Therefore, the concept of structure needs to be complemented with the concept of worldview, which emphasizes the existence of a social structure that reveals itself through cultural components. Systematic reviews, on MacIntyre's thoughts and various thoughts related to the worldview, show that cultural components produce the regularization of social practice. The result is the formation of the worlview as the medium for social practice. It means that the worldview concept emphasizes the correspondence of the society's objective structure and the cognitive structures. This concept can show the existence of the structure of society and the influence of cultural components in it on the regularization of social practice and the formation of the worldview. Worldview concept answers the research problem.

scholarly journals Teaching Spoken Language Through the Text/Discursive Genre Selection Interview: a report on the implementation of a didactic sequence

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Juliana Moratto ◽  
Letícia Jovelina Storto
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Selection Interview ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Educational Product ◽  
Oral Skills ◽  
Common Situation ◽  
Selective Process

This paper reports on the implementation of a didactic sequence which addresses the oral genre selection interview, as a support in the construction of a didactic model, focusing particularly on the evaluation process implemented. The interview was constructed as an oral genre, hence as a communicative social practice and the aim was to develop students’ oral skills through activities grounded in Conversation Analysis (CA). The proposal was motivated on account of the research problem that investigates whether it is possible to develop, potentialize and optimize oral skills through the teaching and approach to text/discursive genres in high school, purposely designed for students who are concluding their technical/vocational education. From the research problem, the educational product developed encompasses a common situation to workers, whose preparation lacked a model directed at the applicant (interviewee). The integration of the oral element involved in a text production requires, firstly, a social practice that is built in a collective context, the text is produced by means of interactions. Results bespeak a more conscious learning process involving language adequacy for manifold social practices, especially for formal situations of linguistic-discursive interactions, as is the case of a selective process.

Business, government and economic policymaking in the new South Africa, 1990–2000

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette Handley
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
South African ◽  
New South ◽  
African National Congress ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Liberal Reform ◽  
Business Confidence ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Dramatic Shift

The stated economic policy of the African National Congress (ANC) underwent a dramatic shift in the 1990s, away from a soft-left redistributionist position to one much more closely aligned with the policy preferences of the South African business community. To what extent can this shift be attributed to lobbying efforts by that community? The article reviews the development of economic policy by the ANC in the 1990s, and concludes that while business was undoubtedly influential in this process, much of that influence was indirect and derived from two sets of sources: first, the international policy consensus around the neo-liberal reform agenda; and second, indirect signals from ‘the market’ by means of such mechanisms as movements in the value of the currency, and investor and business confidence.

SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF RUSSIA: ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION PROSPECTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
ADIK ALIEV ◽  
◽  
OLGA SURTAEVA ◽  
ANDREY SAVELYEV ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Spatial Development Strategy

The purpose of the article is to provide a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the implementation of the Spatial Development Strategy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025 (hereinafter referred to as the Strategy), on the basis of which it is envisaged to compare such concepts as «federal district», «macroregion» and «aspect of regional studies - zoning», since in theoretical terms, the overlap and confusion of the boundaries of the application of these concepts is seen. This approach is dictated by the need to identify the balanced development of the regions of the Russian Federation and the observed transformation of the spatial organization of the economy and social sphere. Questions remain: will the implementation of the Strategy entail an increase in the number of officials, increased bureaucratization and an increase in additional ineffective budget spending in the country, which is, therefore, extremely high. The article also examines practical issues related to assessing the feasibility of implementing the results of the Strategy contained in such innovations as the formation of agglomerations, the identification of promising industries for each region for future economic specialization and the creation of macroregions. They touch upon a number of problems of a legal, financial, managerial nature and coordination support of this government document, which await their solution in the future. In the course of the study, the conclusions were obtained that the Strategy is a strategic planning document. It provides for large-scale reform and innovative development of the production sector, social economy, management, environmental and a number of other equally significant tasks of the country's territorial modernization.

scholarly journals Explaining the Mediating Role of Knowledge Management between Organisation’s Characteristics and Employee’s Performance: A Public Sector Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Adnan A. S. Al-Ali ◽  
Jarrah F. Al-Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to investigate the mediating role of knowledge management between organizational culture, structure, strategy, and employee and organisational performance. There is a significant research work on Knowledge Management (KM) globally; however, there is a dearth of research in contextualizing the concept in the Middle East. Therefore, adopting a multiple case-based approach, this paper conducted 478 surveys in five public organizations in Kuwait. The results suggested that KM could mediate the impact of organizational strategy and HRD structure. Surprisingly, organizational culture emerged as the only construct that remained uninfluenced by knowledge management practices. This research makes a vital contribution to the under-researched knowledge management concept in the region and the relevant cognitive understanding of social practice in relation to the HRD. It, therefore, proposes an integrative framework which specifies the conceptual linkages between organization characteristics and potential performance.

scholarly journals AUE youth organization as an integrated phenomenon of the Russian postmodernity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey N. Chirun
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Siberian Federal District ◽  
School Students ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Youth Subculture

The article is devoted to the analysis of the AUE phenomenon (Convict's Codex is Unified) using a Siberian Federal District case study. The author bases the analysis primarily on neo-institutional and post-structuralist approaches.  The paper considers non-formal aspects of the AUE institution functioning related to the relationships between the nodes forming various forms and models of network interactions. The purpose of the study is the need for scientific analysis and interpretation as well as the importance to design ways to prevent and detect this phenomenon. The research problem is the contradiction between today’s approaches towards interpretation of the AUE phenomenon and inability to create effective youth policies to prevent it. The study is founded on empirical material gathered by the author in Siberian Federal District in cooperation with the “Siberian Politics” Foundation in 2017 - early 2018. The empirical part includes 9 focus groups, a survey of high school students (920 respondents), a focused interview and an expert survey. The author argues that the AUE structure includes three partly overlapping phenomena: criminal youth subculture, rhizomatous youth movement, and criminal youth organization. However, the author proves that the AUE phenomenon cannot be fully identified with any of them.

scholarly journals GAMBARAN DAMPAK SIKAP TERHADAP UANG (money attitude) PADA PERILAKU PENGELOLAAN KEUANGAN PRIBADI

Jurnal Soso-Q ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa Silooy
Keyword(s):  
Retention Time ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Personal Finances ◽  
Money Attitude ◽  
The Impact

Financial management is a set of behaviors carried out through planning, budgeting, and evaluating which includes cash, credit, investment, insurance and retirement, and inheritance planning activities. Financial management practices in the younger generation have received serious attention from various organizations, such as governments, financial institutions, universities, and others. This is because when they began to enter the world of lectures, most of them did not have a sense of responsibility towards their own personal finances also showed that today's young generation rarely practiced basic financial capabilities, such as budgeting, daily savings planning or planning for long-term needs. To answer the research problem, researchers use the Money Attitude Scale (MAS) developed by Yamauchi & Templer (1982), which is a valid measurement tool in assessing the impact of attitudes on money on personal financial management, namely: (1) power-prestige, showing the use of money as a tool to influence and impress others and as a symbol of success, (2) retention-time, describes the use of money directed to the future, which requires financial planning. People with a retention-time attitude will be careful when using money and are very concerned with the financial situation that occurs. The results showed power prestige, retention-time.Keywords: Impact of attitude towards money (money attitude), personal financial management behavior

scholarly journals Transformation of the System of Political Symbols in the Russian Far East in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-236
Author(s):  
Alexey Mikhalev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
World View ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Regional Partnership ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Russian Far East

Introduction. The presented paper is a study of political symbols in the Russian Far East. We are going to discuss not only memorials, but also state symbols, works of art, texts – all the things that shape a world view. The aim of the study is to find political symbols that are universal for the entire Far East region, and to assess their political mobilization capacity. Methods and materials. The article is based upon field study materials conducted in regional centers of the Far Eastern Federal District of the Russian Federation in the spring of 2019. In theoretical terms, the work is based on symbolic politics studies of O.Yu. Malinova, S.P. Potseluev, M. Edelman. Analysis. In the course of the study, we identified several groups of political symbols with mobilization capacity. The first corpus of political symbols is related to the Soviet symbols of victory over Japan. Struggle for the use of these symbols is between the regional branches of the Communist Party and regional authorities. To put things into perspective it is important to assess the impact of Japanophobia on the further development of regional partnership with Japan. The second corpus is the symbols of Russian expansion to the Far East (worship crosses, monuments to pioneers). These symbols are a focal point of struggle between representatives of indigenous peoples, on the one hand, and Cossacks and military-patriotic organizations, on the other hand. Results. In the course of the study of the Russian Far East, we found out that, despite the complicated transformations of the past thirty years, the region is still represented as a unified symbolic space. At the same time, a number of symbolic conflicts and the devaluation of meanings have been observed.

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