AUC PHILOSOPHICA ET HISTORICA
AUC PHILOSOPHICA ET HISTORICA

AUC Philosophica et Historica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica) is a multidisciplinary academic journal focused on the humanities with more than 50 years of tradition.

The journal is indexed in CEEOL, DOAJ, and EBSCO.

AUC PHILOSOPHICA ET HISTORICA, Vol 1997 No 4 (2000), 123–133

Postsocialistický management mezi zajišťováním kariéry a profesionalizací

[Post-Socialist Management Between Securing a Career and Professionalization]

Ivana Mazálková-Hollerová, Dirk Tänzler

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24647055.2018.53
published online: 12. 01. 2018

abstract

The role of management in post-socialist economies and societies is usually described bv sociologists as that of control by a group of managers. On the basis of a case study in one Czech machine-tool concern this article examines this thesis of a reborn, powerful nomenklatura. The core question is that of whether and in what way managers are using their experience from socialism and transformation to create rational competences for action and a new style of management. The empirical basis of the analysis consists partly of qualitative research on employees from top managers to production workers, and partly on the results of observation in the concern. The study shows that the sociostructural continuity mentioned above partly conceals the special dynamic of the personal and professional formation of management in the process of industrial reorganisation. It is our view that management in Eastern Europe is trying, in turbulent social, economic and company conditions, to find a balance between securing career and professionalisation which is leading to the emergence of entirely different types of action and habitus, communication and supervision.


periodicity: 2 x per year
ISSN: 0567-8293
E-ISSN: 2464-7055

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