Social aspects of management: personal development, cultural changes, economic progress

184 Pages·2014·1.49 MB·English

Social aSpectS
of ManageMent
perSonal developMent, cultural changeS,
econoMic progreSS
ed by
Magdolna Láczay and Dariusz Fatuła
Kraków 2014
Social aSpectS
of ManageMent
perSonal developMent, cultural changeS,
econoMic progreSS
ed by
Magdolna Láczay and Dariusz Fatuła
Kraków 2014
Editorial Council
Klemens Budzowski, Maria Kapiszewska, Zbigniew Maciąg, Jacek Majchrowski
Reviewer
Csaba, Berde PhD, D. habil; Csilla, Juhász, PhD, habil; Krisztina, Dajnoki, PhD, habil;
György, Szabados, PhD; Troy B. Wiwczaroski, language assistant;
dr hab. Kazimierz Śliwa
Copyright© by Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
Krakow 2014
Cover design
Joanna Sroka
English translation:
Anna Sosenko (Preventive Activities of Probation Centres for Juvenile Offenders: Theory and
Practice); Monika Moszczak (Collective Identity in the Context of Integration); Katarzyna Skręt
(Standarization process of research tools in social sciences. The account of the nationwide research
on interests and career predispositions of students); Grzegorz Bełza, Anna Firek (Regional
Innovation Systems in the Process of Region Management)
ISBN 978-83-7571-283-4
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contentS
Preface ....................................................................................................... 7
PART I ................................................................................................... 9
Erzsébet Rákó
Child Protection System in Romania ......................................................11
Beata Zinkiewicz
Preventive Activities of Probation Centres for Juvenile Offenders:
Theory and Practice ............................................................................. 21
Zbigniew Pucek
Collective Identity in the Context of Integration .................................... 37
Gyula Szabó
Regional Aspects of the Connections Between Marriage
and the Quality of Life in Hungary ........................................................ 51
Jolanta Pułka
Standarization process of research tools in social sciences.
The account of the nationwide research on interests and career
predispositions of students .................................................................... 63
PART II
Éva Bácsné Bába
Festival in Tune with Students ............................................................... 75
Veronika Bocsi
The Hungarian Gypsy Minority from the Viewpoint
of Value Sociology ................................................................................ 89
Tomory Ibolya
’Mawe Matatu’ – Three Stones, or Warmth of the
Family Stove Enculturation in East-Africa............................................103
PART III
Barnabás Szilágyi
The Talent-Centred Approach of Managerial
Competence Development .................................................................... 119
Mariann Móré
The Employee Knowledge is the New Opportunity of his
Utilisation in the Higher Education ......................................................129
Anita Kozák
Perspectives for Workplace Socialization and the Importance
of Organizational Culture in It .............................................................137
Magdolna Láczay
Relations of Social Traditions and Progression Processes
in the Enterprises of the Northeastern Region .......................................147
Zbigniew Makieła
Regional Innovation Systems in the Process
of Region Management ........................................................................159
Judit Oláh
The Overview of the Different Factors Influencing
the Rural Labour Market .....................................................................173
Preface
The 20th century brought us so many changes, showed up so many signifcant turn-
ing points that we cannot designate it with one simple label. If we try it anyway, we
can call it the century of changes, when series of wars and peace treaties, inventions
and discoveries made people realize that they had to learn again how to live together
because we were given only one Earth, which appears to be smaller and smaller.
However the economic and political leaders of even the most developed
countries experienced that the “melting pot of peoples” is not functioning any
more in a population which originally include mixed ethnic groups and differ-
ent cultural identities. Nowadays it is already clear since the last century that
when mobility increased, cultural tolerance could not be guaranteed even by legal
measures. A period of years or decades is not suffcient to reach cultural merge,
sometimes centuries and common experiences are needed. Unfortunately even
world wars and the setbacks and losses of the almost unstoppably reoccurring
local wars were not enough to establish a more peaceful coexistence on Earth.
In reality the multi-ethnic and multi-religious empires which made attempts with
large armies and despotism failed continuously. So could it happen that a society,
an economic or political system was shattered by an unexpected event to such
an extent that scientists, who intended to clear up the whys and wherefores real-
ized the signifcance of cultural differences in political, ideological and economic
changes and crises.
The situation is very similar in management science as well. In fact we can
allege that the world expects a new management paradigm instead of the classic
management schools. The idea of consumer society globalized rapidly but it also
brought to surface the other social inequalities closely connected to it.
Several thinkers have already tried to prognosticate the big challenges of
st
the 21 century, for example that in our era the real question is not who has the
power, who is able to enforce interests but how to unify efforts in order to reach
our goals. We have to admit that the formulation of the goals became more diff-
cult. Nevertheless I would like to fnd the answers for the challenges of the new
8 Preface
era based on those fndings of an American researcher (Clarence N. Stone), which
he collected during the observation of US cities – still these results are valid for
the whole mankind. The main point of his opinion is that we have to focus on
the mechanism of coalition building and the successfulness not on certain ac-
tors, even if it is not easy to convince the public about the necessity of the new
approach. The main goal of management would be to set the goals, to create the
coalition but on the other hand it must be kept in mind what is realizable and who
are able to support it for the most part. The essence of this point of view is that
the real challenge of the future is not the power over something but the power to
something.
In the case of Central-European countries there are cultural differences, but
the number of those cultural elements, which connect us, is much higher. The rea-
sons of our socio-economic problems are completely different compared to the
other, more developed parts of the world, only their manifestation may look sim-
ilar. We try to strengthen ourselves in this region of the world, which has suffered
a lot, still it is blessed with stand-alone cultural heritage. During this presumably
long process the common Polish and Hungarian values offered an opportunity to
fnd the best and most expedient answers and to strengthen our cooperation not
only in the past but in the future as well. The papers of this book try to serve as
symbolic building stones for this process.
Prof. dr. habil Magdolna Láczay
PART I