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- Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela, 1970-
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Careers between the past and the future - A social representation theory approach
- 2012
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Ingår i: The 40th Annual Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Associatio, 8-10 March 2012. ; , s. 270-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper will present an on-going research project concerned with social representations of careers in today´s working life. Organizational structure has been characterized by hierarchical dependence, fixed and stable organizations, influenced by the industrialization and working life conditions of the 20th century. Furthermore, our understanding of career phenomena is based upon theories, models and concepts developed during the past century. Today, companies and working places need to relate their activities to new conditions of a globalized, knowledge based society, characterized by rapid and constant changes. These conditions appears to reinforce a transformation of working life, that consequently challenges the career field when new demands are imposed upon individuals in their careers. Occupational and educational prospects are no longer linear, predictable or stable. Employments are no longer secure or lifelong. Practitioners in different countries and working fields of career guidance, counselling and human resource departments, are all concerned with career related issues among adults. However, the understanding of career phenomena is neither common nor clarified; the notion of career lacks a definition, has multiple meanings and is also an everyday word, used for different purposes. Because of this lack of clarity and conceptual confusion, together with the on-going transformation of working life, there is a need to deepen our understanding of careers related to these new conditions, as they seem to be caught somewhere between the past and the future. With social representation theory, as both theoretical and methodological approach, this study explores social representations of career among workplaces and employees in processes of work related changes. The purpose of this study is to illuminate how social representation theory can contribute to our understanding of career phenomena in today´s working life, with relevance for both Nordic and international contexts.
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- Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela, 1970-, et al.
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Conclusion: HR work – a balancing act with integrity
- 2019
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Ingår i: Human resource management. - London, UK : Routledge. - 9781138592834 - 9781138592858 - 9780429489761 ; , s. 203-217
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Three important strategic challenges face future HR work: (i) HR departments should deploy a properly informed and critical attitude towards current trends and conditions, (ii) HR departments should deploy a relational and holistic perspective with respect to the work that they perform, and (iii) HR departments should deploy a positive view of other human beings and an ethical stance towards the work that they perform. The chapter ends with a discussion of the particular competencies that HR specialists need to develop so as to successfully meet the challenges described.
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- Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela, 1970-
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Conflicting perspectives on career : implications for career guidancee and social justice
- 2017
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Ingår i: Career Guidance for Social Justice. - Oxford, UK : Routledge. - 9781138087385
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter discusses the various meanings of ‘career’ in a changing world of work that is framed by neoliberalism. It considers what implications these different meanings have for social justice and career guidance. Based upon the results of several studies, ‘career’ is considered as a ‘bridging object’ between several involved parties. Further development of these results draws attention to the issue of shared responsibility, and highlights three conflicting perspectives of ‘career’: the perspective of organisational and business needs; the perspective of people´s everyday knowledge of career; and the perspective of the career guidance community. A tentative proposal is made regarding the implications that these conflicting perspectives have for the meaning that is given to social justice amongst the actors in each field.
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- Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela, 1970-
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Demographic Changes and the Need for Later Career Opportunities
- 2015
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Ingår i: Lifelong learning for older adults. ; , s. 22-22
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- An ageing population creates challenges for society, organizations and individuals. People live longer and are healthier, and many adults of retirement age are still able to continue to work. Some of them want to continue and to prolong their working lives; others are not so keen on the idea. An extended working life is clearly an issue of increasing interest in society. Politicians argue for changes in the retirement system and suggest a raising of the retirement age. This paper is a first step towards a mapping of previous research about extended working lives and later careers as consequences of demographic changes. This study explores the character of issues and themes visible in recent research regarding older adults’ career opportunities, and such issues and themes are critically analysed according to the following research questions: In whose interests are the identified issues and themes highlighted? What possible gaps and challenges are identified for future research?Comprehensive databases, including peer-reviewed scientific articles, were used to search relevant research literature. The selection followed several steps. A brief review of the context and themes of extended working life in the literature was first explored. Thereafter, keywords were tested, revised, and finally selected for the final search procedure, which focused on scholarly, peer-reviewed articles published in the past ten years. Titles and abstracts were examined according to inclusion/exclusion criteria. This procedure resulted in a final selection of relevant articles that were included in the material for analysis. The analysis procedure resulted in several synthesised themes. These themes are critically analysed, and challenges for future research are discussed.
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- Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela, 1970-
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Demographic changes and the need for later career opportunities
- 2017
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Ingår i: Adult Education Discourses. - 2084-2740. ; :18, s. 187-206
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores previous research about extended working lives and later careers, as consequences of demographic changes alongside with a changing working life. Issues and themes visible in recent research on midlife and older adults’ careers opportunities are explored. A traditional literature review is conducted, in which peer reviewed articles on midlife and older adults’ careers issues and opportunities in an extended and changing working life are localized and downloaded as material for this study. This paper presents an analysis of empirical material downloaded from the Academic Search Elite database. The process of locating material from databases resulted in 141 articles selected for a deeper screening. Among these, 63 were finally selected as empirical material for analysis. Initially, the content of each article was identified, mapped, coded and categorized with content analysis as the basic method. The codes and categories with same or similar content were then brought together, and resulted in five overall themes: the need for all-age-career guidance services, career issues among certain professions, immigrants’ career paths, later careers and factors of well-being, and longitudinal correlations between early life conditions and late career. These themes are then discussed in terms of perspectives and interests that seem to dominate, and possible gaps and challenges for future research are also discussed.
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- Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela, 1970-, et al.
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Exploring Social Representations of Leadership Development : Designing for Work-Integrated Learning
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Conference on Work Integrated Learning. - Trollhättan : University West. - 9789189325302 ; , s. 83-86
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explored social representations of leadership and leadership development shaping an organizations leadership development system (LDS). This study is based on the initial phase of a 4-year collaborative research project on LDSs, adopting an interactive research approach to co-produce knowledge through joint meetings and learning workshops (Ellström et al., 2020). The research project involves researchers from different disciplines, and five organizations operating in different business domains. The participating organizations vary in terms of size, strategies, markets, processes, products, and ways of organizing, but they all share a common interest in how to develop sustainable approaches to leadership development. An LDS encompasses all the metho ds and practices in an organization that contribute to developing and producing effective leaders (McCauley et al 2010). The importance of understanding the characteristics of the context the LDS is embedded in has been highlighted in a previous study (Avby et al., 2022), and serve as a point-of-reference in this study. However, less is known of what underlying assumptions an LDS is based upon. This study paid attention to the underlying values, ideas, and perspectives on leadership and leadership development that shape an organizations’ ways of thinking, communicating, and acting in the LDS. We suggest that the potential to develop a more deliberate practice of leadership development was enhanced by exploring and articulating the tacit knowledge and assumpt ions that an LDS rests upon.Aim The aim of this study was to explore how socially and contextually shaped assumptions on leadership and leadership development can be visualized and practically applied to develop the leadership in the organization. The question addressed was how the awareness of underlying assumptions can support the methods and practices applied, and in what way the disclosing of underlying ideas, values and practices may foster work -integrated learning?Design and methods From a social representation theory approach (Moscovici, 2001, Jovchelovitch, 2007, Markova, 2003, BergmoPrvulovic, 2015), underlying assumptions of leadership and leadership development were explored. In the collaborative project an initial mapping of the participating organizations’ LDSs has been co nducted, based on different sources of data. The results of this mapping have been presented through a metaphorical analysis (Avby et al., 2022), in which the participating organizations are described with certain metaphors of their LDS. This study paid specific attention to the organization entitled The Self-Managing Team, and added to the initial stage of mapping LDSs by exploring the underlying assumptions that underpins the expressions and formulations on leadership and leadership development found in the organization’s documents, websites, formulations in meetings and strategies. The exploration of social representations of LDSs was based upon the free association method (Abric, 1995), further developed, and used in studies exploring social representations of similar abstract and complex phenomena, such as career (Bergmo-Prvulovic, 2013: 2015). The method consists of questions, words and series of words given to the respondents who spontaneously write down their immediate associations towards a specific concept and complex phenomenon with a gradual deepening of questions related to specific words, series of words. In this study, a digital enquiry was created in Esmaker. The enquiry was designed to ask for respondents spontaneous, immediate thoughts on words, and series of words related to leadership and leadership development. The gradually deepening of questions, were designed by paying attention to the five dimensions of representations suggested by Jovchelovitch (2007), by exploring who are concerned, why and for what leadership is needed, what is the content 84 of leadership, when it works and doesn’t work, when and how it occurs as well who is responsible, whose engagement and what conditions are needed. This study was based on 19 respondents’ answers a ll member in the Self-Managing Team. They were selected by the organization, as identified having important roles and functions in the company’s LDS. A facilitator in the organization introduced an online enquiry with 12 questions, given one by one to the respondents, providing 1-2 minutes for each. The respondents wrote down their associations to each question, some background data, and questions about leadership identity. The analytical procedure was made according to qualitative content analysis method as the basic procedure of qualitatively exploring social representations (Bergmo-Prvulovic, 2013; 2015). Expressions were numbered with a certain code for each respondent related to each answered question, thereafter each textual units were condensed, meaning units were coded and grouped into constitutive elements that builds up preliminary and primary themes generating a web of social representations of LDS for the group of respondents.Preliminary results The results disclosed a web of underlying social representations shaping the LDS in The Self-Managing Team. The social representations shape a basic, contextually characterized system of values, ideas, and practices, on which the company at present form their LDS. Given the collaborative design of the project, the results were fed back to the organization to validate the analytical procedure, as well as to support the designing for work -integrated learning and further knowledge use in the organization. The results revealed the respondents’ assumptions on leadership, leadership development, and self-leadership. These assumptions are clearly anchored in the organization’s aim to build in self-management, as a collective way of working with leadership. However, the existing knowledge base encloses both commonalities and contradictions that needs to be further highlighted to create a sustainable LDS. Results showed both stable representations, that occur repeatedly throughout the material, and dynamic social rep resentations, that express a negotiating character between different views, or as being antinomies of thoughts. By identifying and raising awareness of ambiguities deriving from the results, a base of designing for reflective work-integrated learning was provided. A joint learning process to discuss how the results could be utilized as a tool for work-integrated learning was initiated. Some challenges were recognized, and the organization especially addressed the need to work with a second step of workplace reflection. A first learning cycle was initiated to be continuously developed by involving the employees in the process. In all, the contribution of the study explains the basis of leadership development practice, which unnoticed might create ambiguity in service delivery. The mapping of social representations of an LDS can be utilized as a tool for a more deliberate leadership development practice and highlight possibilities and challenges that need to be addressed for integrating methods and practices in everyday work.
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- Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela, 1970-, et al.
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Försteläraren och skolans akademisering
- 2021
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Ingår i: Skola på vetenskaplig grund i praktiken. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144138985 ; , s. 191-209
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela, 1970-, et al.
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Governance of teachers' professional development and learning within a new career position
- 2019
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Ingår i: Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów. - Zielona Góra : Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórski. - 2084-2740. ; :20, s. 157-178
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2013, the Swedish government introduced a career reform for teachers (SFS 2013, p. 70) that established two new career-track positions, namely, lead teachers and senior subject teachers. This study analyses the process of integrating this career reform into the Swedish school system in its early stage and focuses on lead teachers’ professional development and learning when trying to interpret and translate this new career position in their daily working life. The study explored teacher´s ideas, strategies and actions to govern themselves in relation to the demands for research and proven experience within the career reform, as well as their underlying views of career. For the empirical data collection, we interviewed twelve lead teachers. The analysis of the data generated four different governmentalities that these teachers used to govern themselves when trying to handle the career reform in their practices: the school developer, the process manager, the subject specialist and the involuntary careerist. Teachers relate their rationalities to different career discourses where organizational, individual and professional discourses are prominent to various degrees. Furthermore, underlying representations of career relate to both hierarchical views, and to a perspective of exchange. In addition, two new representations of career emerged: career as a non-hierarchical or equal level position, and career as a sorting tool. The results indicate that lead teachers have found themselves caught in tensions between multifaceted meanings of career, research-based education, and personal and organizational pressures associated with the intentions of the career reform.
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