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Effects of responsible human resource management practices on female employees’ turnover intentions

2017

This study focuses on the effects of socially responsible human resource management (SR-HRM) practices on female employees’ turnover intentions and the moderating effect of supervisor gender on this relationship. With a sample of 212 female employees from eight different industries in Finland, the results indicate that SR-HRM practices promoting equal career opportunities and work–family integration play a significant role in reducing women's turnover intentions. The study adds to the academic discourse of corporate social responsibility by highlighting the impact of the organizational-level HRM determinants on the individual-level outcome. In addition, supervisor gender makes a difference …

Early Career Women in Academia: An Exploration of Networking Perceptions

2016

This chapter explores women’s networking perceptions by focusing on early career women in social sciences. Within an exploratory research design it asks how early career women define the early career stage in academia, what definitions, meanings and interpretations they give for networks and networking, how they construct the networking process and their ability to establish and/or join networks, as early career researchers and as women. Based on two group interviews with 12 participants, our findings show that early career women in academia favour networking with peers based on shared interests (organic networking). At the same time though, they challenge and step over the perceived gender…

Women's managerial careers in the context of the United Arab Emirates

2011

The Narrative Approach to Research Professional Identity: Relational, Temporal, and Dialogical Perspectives

2022

In this chapter, we present the narrative approach as applied in the field of professional learning. The specific aim is to present the methodological opportunities and concerns it raises in research on professional identity within the sociocultural frames of work environments. We utilise examples from empirical studies that have employed a range of narrative methods to collect and analyse datasets. The datasets include individuals’ written and spoken narratives, encompassing the told experiences of their identities, and the meanings underlying these. We illustrate how a particular strength of narrative research lies in its ability to portray temporal pathways through the phenomena under in…

Becoming a Language Teacher: A dream come true or a source of anxiety?

2015

In this qualitative study the author examined personal narratives written by 14 Finnish speaking student teachers of Swedish, in order to find out what they tell about their thoughts and feelings concerning their future work as language teachers. The following three themes were in focus: firstly, what university students tell about their reasons for wanting to become teachers in the first place; secondly, what kinds of worries concerning their future work they mention in their narratives; and thirdly, how student teachers could be supported during transition from teacher education to teaching. According to the study, students choose teaching for reasons that are related to: (a) teacher iden…

Staże nauczycielskie w doskonaleniu zawodowym nauczycieli

2015

In this article the author has made anattempt to show possibilities for the improvement of professional competences of teachers with various specialties of a modern vocational school taking as an example the project carried out by University in Opole : ‘Innovations of teachers professional improvement’. One of the ways of professional improvement in the area of vocational schools subjects and of increasing knowledge and skills is serving internships in service and manufacturing companies, which use new technologies, machines and materials. In the globalization society the teacher should be a specialist who is properly prepared to lead didactical and practical classes in the educational inst…

Need for closure moderates the break in the message effect

2016

Abstract Cutting the message into smaller portions is a common practice in the media. Typically such messages consist of a headline followed by a story elaboration. In a series of studies Dolinski and Kofta (2001) have shown that such a break in the message increases the effect of the information provided in the headline over that of a story which actually contained information inconsistent with that headline. A possible explanation of this effect, based on the concept of the need for cognitive closure, is presented in the article. The experiment shows the break-in-the-message effect is found mainly for participants with high need for closure but not for those with low such need.

English language needs and language proficiency of academic professionals as a basis for developing language training : a case study of environmental…

2016

Suomalainen työelämä on monilla aloilla kansainvälistynyt ja sen myötä työtekijöiden kielitarpeet ovat lisääntyneet. Erityisesti tieteellisen tutkimuksen tekeminen vaatii tekijältään laadun ylläpitämiseksi kansainvälistä yhteistyötä ja tutkijat työskentelevät usein tieteellisen tuotoksen julkaisemiseksi englannin kielellä. Euroopassa ja Suomessa, kuten muuallakin maailmassa, lingua franca–asemassa oleva englanti toimii tutkijayhteisöissä tieteellisen kanssakäymisen välineenä. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli kartoittaa suomalaisten ympäristöalalla toimivien tutkijoiden englannin kielen käyttöön liittyviä tarpeita sekä verrata niitä heidän kielitaitoonsa. Vertailua käytettiin lähtökohtana…

Zapobieganie stosowania technik neutralizacji jako zadanie wychowawcze

2017

Autorka w niniejszym artykule zwraca uwagę na zjawisko i mechanizmy usprawiedliwiania własnego zachowania z perspektywy psychologii poznawczej, psychologii społecznej i koncepcji kryminologicznej Sykesa i Matzy. Usprawiedliwianie własnego działania, jeśli skutecznie neutralizuje uczucia moralne, utrudnia jednostce uczenie się na własnych błędach, co prowadzi do powtarzania zachowań niezgodnych z normami społecznymi i prawnymi. To prosta droga do przestępczości. Dlatego rolą pedagogów je s t niedopuszczenie by dzieci i młodzież uczyli się sprawnych technik neutralizacji.

Pedagogical leadership to support new teachers' growth

2016

This study aims to discover the impact of pedagogical leadership on new teachers’ growth. The research is focused on three questions: 1) Are new teachers’ feelings and challenges being understood?; 2) How do new teachers receive support from principals and the school community?; and 3) How does pedagogical leadership impact new teachers’ growth? The research uses the qualitative approach of case studies. Four Finnish schools were selected as participants. The principals of each school and their five new teachers, with less than three years of experience, participated in the interviews. Teachers in Finland have common challenges when they first enter the profession. Finnish school communitie…