Search results for "manager"

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

2011

Johtajuutta etsimässä : naislähijohtajan identiteettitarinan rakentuminen siivoustoimialalla

2013

Narratives by women managers about spousal support for their careers

2014

In this article we present a qualitative study of spousal support for the careers of women managers. The research material consists of the narratives of 25 women managers in Finland. The study has two main implications. Firstly, unlike previous studies, we use a narrative approach to demonstrate that a woman manager's career and spousal support are experienced as ambiguous and evolving over the career. The support was constructed by the women managers as flourishing, irrelevant, deficient or inconsistent. Secondly, to increase our knowledge about gender relations, we combine discussion of the topic with gender order analysis and suggest that gender order is critical for an understanding of …

Urheilujohdon eliittiin etenemisen kertomuksia : kasvaen, ajautuen, sattumalta vai pyrkien?

2016

Narratives on the Accounting Worldview of Practising Managers

2017

This paper examines management accounting from the perspective of its most important user: practising managers. We seek to enhance the understanding of the relationship between managerial work and accounting. This interpretative and qualitative study takes a unique approach by using narrative texts for building an understanding of how managers view accounting in their work. First, a deeper understanding of accounting and managerial work is sought on the basis of learning experiences of managers. Second, a wider point of view is achieved by looking at managers’ perspectives on organizational development. Third, the study addresses managers’ objectives for building their personal competence i…

Miten ja kenelle valtakunnalliset nuorisojärjestöt legitimoivat toimintansa?

2018

Perinteisesti kansalaisten omaehtoiseen toimintaan perustuneen kolmannen sektorin tehtävät ja toimintatavat ovat muutoksessa. Aiempi tutkimus osoittaa, miten palvelutuotanto, kaupallistuminen, ammatillisuus ja muut julkisen ja yksityisen sektorin toimintaperiaatteita yhdistävät hybridit piirteet lisääntyvät järjestöjen toiminnassa. Artikkelissa tarkastellaan, miten nuorisotyön kentällä toimivat valtakunnalliset nuorisojärjestöt legitimoivat olemassaoloaan osana muuttuvaa kolmatta sektoria. Laadullisen tarkastelun kohteena ovat järjestöjen legitimaatioargumentit sekä legitimaatioyleisöt, joille argumentit osoitetaan. Tärkeimpiä nuorisojärjestöjen legitimaatioyleisöjä …

Keskijohdon kaksoissidokset tietotyön organisoinnissa

2019

Artikkelimme käsittelee keskijohdon asemaa tietotyön, tässä tapauksessa yliopistotyön, organisoinnissa. Tutkimuksen empiria perustuu haastatteluaineistoon, joka on osa laajempaa etnografista aineistoa. Kuvaamme haastatteluaineiston kautta erästä työyhteisöä tapausesimerkkinä käyttäen millaisia positioita, puhetapoja ja artikulaatiota keskijohdon kaksoisasema organisaatiossa heille tuottaa sekä oman että alaisten työn johtamisessa. Kysymme erityisesti: 1) Miten keskijohdon edustajat hahmottavat epävarmuuden osana organisaation toimintaa, omaa työtään ja alaisten työn organisointia? 2) Miten epävarmuuteen keskijohdon positiosta suhtaudutaan ja millaisia mahdollisia ristiriitatilanteita tämä t…

Kaiken keskellä : keskijohto strategisen muutoksen tekijänä ja kokijana

2018

This research focuses on the actions and perceptions of the middle managers during a strategic change. Over the years, strategic change and middle managers have been studied from various points of view. The importance of middle managers and their roles and actions have been argued both for and against. Most of the recent research emphasises the middle managers’ importance in strategic organizational change as mediators between the change initiators and the change recipients. However, there is less research on middle managers’ and subordinates’ sensemaking processes during a strategic organizational change, especially when identity, culture, artefacts, emotions and change resistance are cons…

Do Powerful CEOs Determine Microfinance Performance?

2012

Authors version of an article published in Journal of Management Studies. The definitive version is available from Wiley at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01046.x Recently, microfinance has been coming under public and media attacks. The microcredit crisis following from microfinance-induced suicides in 2010 in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh indicates that weak corporate governance and imprudent risk taking have far-reaching consequences. Yet, analyses of corporate governance mechanisms among microfinance institutions (MFIs) remain underdeveloped. As a response, this study examines the impact of CEO power on MFI risk taking by deriving explicit predictions of this effect fr…

Potrzeby rynku pracy siłą napędową rozwoju kompetencji w zakresie zarządzania projektami

2016

To prepare the graduates better for the demand of Polish labor market and to enable more innovative management practice in Polish enterprises, we must build project management competences in academic education. Project management competences are believed to play a significant role in Polish labor market. Considering the challenges of contemporary enterprises from the perspective of project driven management expectations, the project management competences have particular significance. There is a need to educate in the area of project management. The Polish enterprises are looking for highly educated project managers. The paper presents the latest trends in project management and the challen…