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Taina Savolainen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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How organizations promote and avoid learning: development of positive and negative learning cycles
Journal of Workplace Learning, 2000Co-Authors: Taina SavolainenAbstract:Enhancing competitiveness through quality has become an increasingly important challenge of learning in organizations. This paper discusses that challenge by presenting conceptual and empirical implications from a research project on quality implementation strategies and learning. Links managerial perceptions of quality, commitment to quality, and learning as a mechanism of quality implementation. Examines quality implementation from a managerial Ideological perspective. Case study data gathered from four Finnish manufacturing companies show that the advantageous learning in quality implementation is based on developing solid conceptual skills for managers in the first place, managerial commitment to quality and the sharing of quality thinking in the entire organization. Discusses these factors and describes how positive and negative learning cycles develop and lead organizations to promote and avoid learning accordingly. Proposes that implementing quality through learning is basically an Ideological Phenomenon. Ideological thinking may develop into a managerial skill that is a source of organizational strength. Implications are made for managers on the role of conceptual skills and Ideological thinking in effective quality implementation.
Sergei Tret'iakov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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From the Photo-Series to Extended Photo-Observation*
October, 2006Co-Authors: Sergei Tret'iakovAbstract:"From the Photo-Series to Extended Photo-Observation/' which appeared in Proletarskoe foto with Max AVpert and Arkadii Shaikhet's famous photo-essay A Day in the Life of a Moscow Working-Class Family, borrowed many of its arguments from TreViakov's 1929 article "The Biography of the Object" and transposed them from the earlier discussion of narrative, mutatis mutandis, into the field of photography. Like "The Biography of the Object, " which disputed the "Ptolemaic" idealism of the psychological novel, "From the Photo-Series" challenged the conceit of portraiture to provide a comprehensive image of the individual without any indication of his productive relations to society. And also like the earlier essay, "From the Photo-Series" consequently explored the possibilities for a practice that, instead of atomizing and monumentalizing the individual, would situate him within the social fabric of his day. For TreViakov, the photo-series and extended photo-observation were above all techniques for reestablishing the connections between the individual and the social environment that are obscured in traditional portraiture. Within the medium of photography, this meant harmonizing the discrepancy between subject and background. On this count, "From the Photo-Series" draws upon Osip Brik's 1928 "From the Painting to the Photograph," an essay in which Brik exposed the latent humanism of a linear perspective that extracts objects from their setting, isolates them from one another, and then redistributes them within an Ideologically structured pictorial field: "Differentiating individual objects so as to make a pictorial record of them is not only a technical, but also an Ideological Phenomenon. . . . We need a method whereby we can represent [the] individual persona not in isolation, but in connection with other people. . . . Photography can capture him together with the total environment and in such a manner that his dependence on the environment is clear and obvious. "l The goal for both Brik and TreViakov was to produce not a portrait of the individual, but rather a picture of a collective subject.
Jon Abbink - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society - Religion in public spaces: emerging Muslim–Christian polemics in Ethiopia
African Affairs, 2011Co-Authors: Jon AbbinkAbstract:In Ethiopia, as in other parts of Africa, relations between Christians and Muslims show a new dynamic under the impact of both state policies and global connections. Religious identities are becoming more dominant as people's primary public identity, and more Ideological. This development has ramifications for the 'public sphere', where identities of a religious nature are currently presented and contested in a self-consciously polemical fashion. This shared space of national political and civic identity may become more 'fragmented' and thus lend itself to conflict and Ideological battle. This article examines recent developments in the polemics of religion in Ethiopia, and the possible role of the state as custodian (or not) of an overarching civic order beyond religion, as well as the emerging rivalries between communities of faith. A crucial question is what social effects these polemics will have on communal relations and patterns of religious coexistence. Polemics between believers have a long history in Ethiopia, but a new and potentially problematic dynamic has emerged which may challenge mainstream believers, their intergroup social relations, and Ethiopian state policy. Polemics in Ethiopia express hegemonic strategies and claims to power, and are rapidly evolving as an Ideological Phenomenon expanding in public space. The secular state may need to reassert itself more emphatically so as to contain its own erosion in the face of assertive religious challenges. development has ramifications for the 'public sphere', where identities of a religious nature are currently presented and contested in a self-consciously polemical fashion. This shared space of national political and civic identity may become more 'fragmented' and thus lend itself to conflict and Ideological battle. This article examines recent developments in the polemics of religion in Ethiopia, and the possible role of the state as custodian (or not) of an overarching civic order beyond religion, as well as the emerging rivalries between communities of faith. A crucial question is what social effects these polemics will have on communal relations and patterns of religious coexistence. Polemics between believers have a long history in Ethiopia, but a new and potentially problematic dynamic has emerged which may challenge mainstream believers, their intergroup social relations, and Ethiopian state policy. Polemics in Ethiopia express hegemonic strategies and claims to power, and are rapidly evolving as an Ideological Phenomenon expanding in public space. The secular state may need to reassert itself more emphatically so as to contain its own erosion in the face of assertive religious challenges.
Ajayi Temitope Michael - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Identity mapping strategies-cum-ideologies in selected Yoruba Christian songs among Yoruba Christians in Nigeria
Journal of Modern Languages, 2016Co-Authors: Ajayi Temitope MichaelAbstract:Ideology and identity are two inseparable phenomena that characterise the existence of mankind. As human beings, even when we share a common identity as a people of the same faith, members of the same family, and members of the same society, there are certain ways through which we either consciously or unconsciously create different identities for ourselves; a reflection of our cultural ideologies. This paper examines how Yoruba Christian songs are employed by Yoruba Christian faithful in Nigeria to identify with Yoruba belief system while mapping different individualistic identities among themselves. Employing Staszak’s concept of Otherness, which is an Ideological Phenomenon inherent in the Yoruba cultural system, for data analysis, we discovered that although Yoruba Christiansin Nigeria identify with the generic reference term of ‘brethren’ in their gatherings, they still create different individualistic identities, Self and Other, for themselves through their songs. Similarly, they identify with some aspects of the Yoruba Ideological belief system, as evidenced by the selected songs.
Nara Roberta Silva - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A ideologia e sua fundamentação no trabalho
2011Co-Authors: Jesus José Ranieri, Nara Roberta SilvaAbstract:The following article discusses ideology as an element intended to extinguish social conflicts. Based on extracts from Marx’s work, we find the apprehension of the Ideological Phenomenon as only being possible through the understanding of labor as the corner stone of social life. In this sense, ideology can contribute to the social formation. This contribution, as we would like to show, is strictly related with the development of social values and its perception in daily life.
