Transforming the legal profession: an interview study of change managers in law

A lively debate progresses about change to the professions, including law, especially change in the form of managerialism. ‘Managerialism’ covers the methods and beliefs of managers within organisations, used to actively influence, evaluate, and ‘market’ professional work. But what about when that managerialism is change itself? How do we understand managerialism-as-change? This paper reports on an interview study with change managers, or ‘transformation leaders’ in the legal profession. Transformation leaders offer rich insights into the dynamics of professional change because they are incontrovertibly change agents. They are also themselves a form of managerial change as a new cadre of managers within the professions; managers with ‘hybrid’ identities whose legitimacy in professional settings is not assured. The findings presented include: the change leaders’ identities; the types of change being introduced; the constraints on and affordances for change in legal practices; and how change leaders secure, and sometimes struggle to secure, the authority needed to implement change. The concluding discussion highlights the study's contributions to our understanding of professional change and managerialism in the legal context – both what changes are being pursued and how they are materialising through certain ‘managerial’ goals, strategies, and the interactions of those with mixed identities and status.

Reviewers of Volume 16, 2021 of Revista Ambiente & Água

The list of reviewers who voluntarily dedicated part of their time to review submissions for Revista Ambiente & Água’s Volume 16, 2021 is presented in Table 1. This list includes manuscripts that were accepted and published in one of the six annual issues and also manuscripts submitted and rejected up to November 01, 2021. It may therefore include the names of reviewers that completed their evaluations between December, 2020 and November, 2021. We are deeply indebted to all of them that voluntarily and anonymously devoted part of their time to support our journal and delivered an immense contribution to the quality of the published papers. We gratefully acknowledge their professional work and outstanding product.

Pengaruh Penggunaan Konseling Kelompok Trait and Factor Terhadap Ketepatan Pemilihan Jurusan Siswa

The choice of majors at school is part of career exploration as preparation for entering the world of professional work. However, choosing a major can be confusing for students. This study aims to determine the effect of using trait and factor group counseling on the accuracy of majors selection. The research uses a quantitative approach with the correlational method. The sample in this study were 91 students of class XII who had made the selection of majors. Data were analyzed using regression analysis with the help of SPSS 25 for Windows. The results show that there is no significant effect between the use of trait and factor group counseling on the accuracy of majors selection.

COVID-19 and the Fourth Estate: Asian American Journalists’ Gendered Racial Harms and Racial Activation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Through in-depth interviews, this study explored the voices of Asian American journalists who faced unprecedented stresses due to the racist discourse of Asian Americans as carriers of disease during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Socialized to de-emphasize their vulnerabilities in their professional work, Asian American reporters generally claimed they did not experience racist harms, but further probing revealed indirect harms. Women reporters discussed internalized harms such as elevated anxiety and fear, whereas men reporters referenced only external harms such as racial microaggressions. Women reporters also manifested greater self-reflexivity. The importance of analyzing race and gender in White masculine newsrooms is discussed.

Neither angels nor heroes: nurse speeches during the COVID-19 pandemic from a Foucauldian perspective

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the processes of meaning production, based on the speeches of nursing professionals, about how they feel about the titles of “angels and heroes” given by society during the pandemic of COVID-19. Methods: a qualitative, documentary research. Data was collected in October and November 2020 and analyzed from the perspective of the Discourse Analysis proposed by Michel Foucault. Results: they were organized into two thematic categories: “Angels and heroes? The (not) heroic reality of nursing during the pandemic” and “The search for recognition of the professional work of nursing: between what is said and what is not said”. Final considerations: the nurses’ speeches enunciate the search for decent conditions for the execution of care, fair wages, and recognition of the professional work by society.

Delegitimizing Strategies and Tactics in a Discourse of Political Scientists (on an Example of Publications of Cyril Rogov)

Offered article is devoted to a problem of studying of communicative repertoir of political scientists. The given problem is actual in connection with distinction of objectives which are pursued by politicians and political scientists, and as consequence, distinction of their communicative strategy and tactics used in professional work. A leading position a discourse of political scientists strategy and borrow tactics which have been directed on confirming of legality and illegality of political processes. The article describes the features of the implementation of delegitimizing strategies and tactics in the publications of one of the most authoritative Russian political scientists – Kirill Rogov. Delegitimization as macrostrategy is carried out through a number of private communicative strategy and tactics realizing them, in particular, T. van Leuven has allocated four basic ways of giving of illegality to actions of authority: it is 1) the link on authority; 2) an ethical assessment; 3) rationalization; 4) mythopoetics. All the listed strategy (though and with a different degree of rate) are used in Cyril Rogov’s publications. Results of research specify, that key, possessing the person attractiveness, as communicative tactics of delegitimization tactics of a moral assessment and tactics of analogy act tactics of the appeal to “impersonal” authority. As one of the main features of the argument of own positions Cyril Rogov actively uses the reference to realities of the Soviet epoch, spending thus analogy between events of the present and Stalin reprisals, and in such a way specifies on illegitimacy many political decisions and political events. In addition, all the delegitimizing strategies and tactics used by Kirill Rogov are distinguished by the variety of lexical and syntactic means used, as well as by their pronounced evaluativeness and metaphoricity.

XXV Conference on Accounting and Controlling. Conceptions of the Cost and Performance Management held in Polanica-Zdrój, October 11–13, 2021

The text contains a report of the scientific conference organized by the Chair of Cost Account-ing, Tax Management, and Controlling at the University of Economics and Business in Wroclaw, from 11 to 13 October 2021, in Polanica- Zdrój. The conference in the Accounting and Controlling cycle, under the motto, The Conceptions of Cost and Performance Man-agement, addressed today's problems and challenges in managing costs and performance. That conference was very special because it was the 25th jubilee conference. At this year's conference, Professor Edward Nowak was thanked for his many years of professional work and for organizing all editions of the conference.