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Johtajasta tohtoriksi - osaajasta oppijaksi? : organisaatiossa oppimisen monta todellisuutta goffmanilaisena kehysanalyysina
2012
Supporting the success of an information systems project : viewpoints on education and replacement of the project manager
2013
Kentältä kokemuksen kautta huipulle : narratiivinen tutkimus suomalaisten urheilujohtajien etenemisestä liikunnan ja urheiluhallinnon ylimpään johtoon
2016
This study examines Finnish sport managers’ stories of their careers: how they had proceeded and what kinds of meanings they constructed in their stories. The data included interviews of sixteen Finnish operational and governmental managers from the top of Finnish sport administration. Four different story types were distinguished: the story of growth, drifting story, the story of coincidence and aspiration story. Sport managers’ stories illustrated at the individual level how the sport managers’ careers were constructed, but they also reflected the social reality and the wider sociocultural context of Finnish sport administration and management. Keywords: Sport manager, sport management, n…
Yhteisiä päätöksiä vai johtajavaltaisuutta? : kollegiaalisuus yliopistojen perustana
2017
Yliopistojen toiminnan ytimessä on 1100-luvulta lähtien ollut akateemisten opettajien välinen yhteistyö. Perusajatuksena on ollut, että opettajat kollegoina sopivat asiat yhteistuumin. Tätä periaatetta on noudatettu niin opetuksessa ja tutkimuksessa kuin akateemisessa päätöksenteossa laajemminkin. Keskiaikainen kollegiaalisuuden periaate on kestänyt vuosisatojen testin hyvin, sillä se on edelleenkin akateemisten yhteisöiden perustana. 2000-luvulla näyttää kuitenkin siltä, että managerialismi eli tehokkuuden ja johtajavaltaisuuden korostaminen on syrjäyttämässä kollegiaalisuuden. Onko todella näin? Ennen kuin vastaan, pohdin kollegiaalisuuden luonnetta ja kehitystä yleisesti ja erityisesti S…
Bold ambition, blunted agency? : Examining top management perspectives on a circular economy transition in Finland
2022
The circular economy is proposed as a company-driven means to further sustainability transitions. Top managers have a critical role in fostering the circular economy as they are responsible for shaping and implementing a company's sustainability strategy and performance. In this paper, we adopt a microfoundations perspective to enhance our understanding of the influence of top managers as agents of the sustainability transition to the circular economy. In a qualitative research study, we interviewed 34 top managers of Finnish companies that are actively pursuing the circular economy. The main implication of our study is in exploring the role of top managers, as they engage in actively struc…
Knowledge of managerial competencies: cross-cultural analysis between American and European students
2019
This paper reports on the differences of managerial competencies among MBA students from American and European business schools. The results of this research suggest that there are certain differences of not only nationality but also gender. The study also points out the need for different managerial competency profiles to better assess MBA students looking for future career development. The results of this study indicate that there is a difference at the national level between assessed managerial competencies of American and European MBA students that can be attributed to cultural factors. This conclusion confirms the findings of Chong (2008) and Akinola, Martin, and Phillips (2018). Secon…
Kompetencje menedżerskie w kształtowaniu kompetencji organizacyjnych jednostek ratownictwa medycznego w świetle badań
2019
Zakładając, że kompetencje są pojęciem wielowymiarowym i wymagają zintegrowanego podejścia, w przyjętym modelu kompetencji menedżerskich w jednostkach ratownictwa medycznego wyróżniono pięć grup kompetencji ogólnych: przywódcze, komunikacyjne i relacyjne, zawodowe i społeczne, sektorowe oraz biznesowe, a w ich ramach 26 kompetencji szczegółowych. Celem artykułu była identyfikacja obecnego poziomu kompetencji menedżerskich kadry zarządzającej tymi jednostkami oraz ustalenie stopnia, w jakim poszczególne kompetencje menedżerskie oddziałują na kompetencje organizacyjne tych podmiotów w sferach: marketingu (rozpoznawanie potrzeb pacjenta), jakości (poziom świadczonych usług medycznych) i logist…
Pokolenie X i Y - podobieństwa i różnice w osobowości i hierarchii wartości między kierownikami a pracownikami na tle poczucia jakości życia
2014
Kontrollin käsite muutoksessa: käskytyksestä kohti asiantuntijaohjausta
2014
Management control is a prerequisite for a coordinated and efficient organization having - as a multilayered conception – utterly ambiguous meanings. Control has no sole, coherent definition and the translation between Finnish and English brings about even more confusion. Alongside industrialization, strict control in organizations was adopted. Later, the advances in education and technology have changed the idea of worker as an organizational actor and mechanistic human conception has fractured. However, the mainstream in management literature still treats control as an essential yet excessive managerialist way: Control is a top-down activity which belongs to the management. In this articl…
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN SMES AND IN LARGE COMPANIES
2012
This article presents the importance of the decisional act in the entrepreneurial process, trying to emphasize its implications in various situations faced by managers and decision factors. Starting with the classic definition of the “decision” concept, this paper extends its meaning by applying it on the economic field and by deepening its meaning in the economic field, shaping the imperative requests a decision has to make. Narrowing the research field to the sphere of small and medium-sized enterprises, the analysis of the decision is made on their level, being built on the antithesis SME- large company. The results of the study consist in the appreciation of the importance the decision …