In this research we explore the issue of “competence management”, as usually defined in the corporate vocabulary, mostly in the human resource (HR) function, and more particularly of “strategic competence management” (long run management of competences which are critical to achieve...

The notion of “process”, which describes the cooperation of heterogeneous practices and competences for a given output, has gained a major position in managerial practices for the last twenty years. This paper presents three ideas about organizational dynamics and processes and tests their...

Theories about management instruments often enter dualistic debates between structure and agency: do instruments determine the forms of collective activity (CA), or do actors shape instruments to their requirements, or are instruments and concrete activity decoupled, as some trends of new...

Collective activity should be a focal subject to study organizational dynamics, particularly in relation with the implementation of management systems such as ERPs. Collective activity is analyzed here as an ongoing dialogical construction by actors. It is always mediated by signs and...

The narrative techniques used in the fictional world have all been taken from real life. One of these techniques is called íinner monologueî which is an act of thinking and individualsí speaking with themselves. This technique is used as a dialogue between íegoî and ísuperegoî in the...

The present study discusses the potential effects of learning and using more than one language (i.e., bilingualism) on the bilingual child in relation to the prevailing discussion on foreign language-medium instruction in Turkey. It is shown that, in contrast to popular beliefs in the society...

The relationship between the patient and doctor is affected by very different factors. The determinants of that relationship could be either doctor’s own characteristics or patients’one. The main objectives of this study are to evaluate the relationship between the patient and...

The connection which Confucius, the greatest philosopher and political theorist in Chinese history, made between social welfare and music production has been taken as the starting point of this paper. Beginning with the industrialization movements in 1950s, many rules, values and believes have...

Investigation of Hopelessness Levels of Prospective Teachers Attending Non-thesis Master Programs: In this study, it was aimed to determine the hopelessness levels of the prospective teachers attending two different non-thesis master program and whether or not their hopelessness levels differed...

Kafka ist nicht nur als Autor von rätselhaften Geschichten bekannt, sondern auch als Hauptvertreter der literarischen Moderne. In den meisten seiner Werke wird der autobiographische Bezug sichtbar. Zum Beispiel: Prag, die Stadt, wo Kafka sein ganzes Leben verbracht hat, ist im Werk immer wieder...