Office Politics: Tatarstan’s Presidency and the Symbolic Politics of Regionalism

This article explores developments in center-region relations between the Russian federal government and the Republic of Tatarstan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. I argue that instrumentalist accounts are unable to satisfactorily explain several key moments in Tatarstan’s relations with the federal center, and that a focus on symbolic politics provides important analytical leverage. I examine three such episodes: aborted plans to introduce a Latin script for the Tatar language in 1999, the expiration of treaty-based relations and the assault on the region’s Tatar-language education policy in 2017, and the institution of the presidency – which exists to this day. In all three cases, interest-based explanations alone fail to account for what actually happened, whereas ideational explanations can help explain and interpret regional leaders’ actions. This has important implications for how we understand regional political dynamics in Russia amidst conditions of centralization.

BARRIERS TO CAREER ADVANCEMENT OF FEMALE JOURNALISTS IN INDONESIA

than their female counterparts due to the heavy fieldwork and irregular working hours. Determining whether this assumption remains relevant, this study maps the proportion of female and male journalists in ten Indonesian mass media organizations while also exploring the factors that contribute to the condition.This research applies quantitative and qualitative mixed methods, involving journalists in 10 media (n = 811) at both the reporter and managerial levels, and a focused-group discussion (FGD) with 14 female editors. At the reporter level, there are 64% male and 36% female journalists. At the managerial level, the figures change to 77% (men) and 23% (women). The three factors that hinder the career of female journalists are a double burden (career and household), mental barriers, and ‘masculine’ office politics.

“The Worst Divorce Case that Ever Happened”: The New York Times Women's Caucus and Workplace Feminism

In 1974, women at the New York Times made national headlines when they filed a class-action sex discrimination lawsuit. The drama of the court case, however, has overshadowed the formation of the Times Women's Caucus two years prior, in 1972. A focus on the Caucus, the daily labor its members undertook in the years before and after filing suit, and the behind-the-scenes negotiation of internal office politics reveals the years-long process of consciousness raising and workplace organizing required to undertake a lawsuit in this novel legal area. Activist newswomen operated with unique restrictions and necessarily distanced themselves from the feminist movement, while quietly advocating for feminist goals. Caucus members drew from the feminist, labor, and union movements strategically rather than ideologically, and laid the foundation for substantial shifts in women's participation and representation in the mainstream media.

MUTASI: BENTUK SANKSI DI BIDANG KEPEGAWAIAN?

In the civil servant management system, developed on the basis of merit system, any official can be at any time be transferred, promoted or demoted. In practice this option may and have often been misused as tool in office politics to remove troublesome civil servant. From the civil servant’s perspective, the options open are either comply or decline the standing order and face the consequence of disciplinary sanction. This article shall discuss, using a legal/juridical normative method, legal aspects of this management tool. The aim is to propose a guidance for civil servants on how to deal with orders of transfer or motion/demotion.

Culture clash

Purpose Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings It is often said that a firm’s greatest competitor is itself. This is true in a number of ways. For example, there are competing elements from the company board all the way down to the shop floor, where office politics and petty rivalries get in the way of moving the business forward in the most effective way. Another example is how larger organizations have to compete for resources, where one department always seems to miss out the latest tech upgrade whereas another always seems to be favored. In many organizations it seems that they are forever competing with themselves before they can even think about the real competitors outside. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Building a More Intimate Connection Between Spirituality and Quality Service Performance at Work

One of the biggest challenges in tertiary education is that lecturers need to be versatile and able to quickly adapt to different challenges in many different functions or activities such as recruiting new student. Moreover, a higher timetable load may contribute to emotional stress, and lecturers need to know how to work with unpredictable situations like difficult students or office politics. Thus, lecturers need a huge support system in place to deal with these situations at work, but information on lecturers’ coping abilities, specifically referred to as spiritual intelligence (SQ) is limited and not yet understood. Therefore, this study aims to examine how the SQ affects performance of lecturers in privately-owned universities by measuring the quality services. Based on the questionnaires distributed to lecturers in selected privately-owned universities, this study found that the SQ level among the young lecturers was quite high. It was also revealed that all sub-dimensions of SQ were positive and also significantly affected the performance of the lecturers. The standardised coefficient beta values indicated that the sub-dimensions of Transcendence contributed to 37%, while Meaning contributed to 31% Service Quality. Keywords: service quality, spiritual intelligence, privately-owned university, Malaysia

That's a case of sexual harassment… Isn't it?

This case centres around a senior vice-president in a private bank, who becomes aware of a potential sexual harassment (SH) case within his team. The case captures his reactions, right from his initial attempt to understand the scenario, to his conversations with the woman concerned, and his eventual attempt to minimise the incident. The purpose of the case is to explore how such incidents can play out in the Indian corporate sector, where socio-cultural factors and gender role expectations influence the way organisational members perceive and respond to the complaints. Influence of factors such as gender role expectations, power dynamics, office politics, individual differences, and business concerns in a) perception of harassment incidents and b) attributes related to harassment incidents

Office Politics as an Element in Office Ecosystem

This study has examined descriptively the difference in gender and level of designation regarding the perception on office politics. It involved 103 government officers who are in grade 41 to 52 and serve in government agencies in Northern Region of Peninsular Malaysia. They are selected by using proportionate stratified random sampling method. In measuring perception of office politics (POPS), this study has adopted (Kachmar and Carlsan, 1997) perception of politics measurement. A t-test and ANOVA have been performed to test the different of POPS between gender and levels of designation. The results showed that there were no differences on office politics perception amongst respondents regardless their gender or levels of designation. This result has carried evidences that office politics become a general phenomenon where all employees will have the same opinion on the nature and results from political game in organization.