Democratic Competences and Social Practices in Organizations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Weber, Wolfgang G. (Editor), Thoma, Michael (Editor), Ostendorf, Annette (Editor), Chisholm, Lynne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften : Imprint: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychology, general.

 The contributions in this book address the question of how to develop and foster democratic competences. This may take place via school curricula, resource materials and teaching/learning methods; in workplaces by means of formalised arrangements that encourage self-direction and through the informal processes engendered by expansive working environments; and in personal and community life, including in the course of incidental learning in social networks. The studies and analyses are somewhat nonconformist in its thematic spread and its boundary-crossing between disciplines and perspectives that conventionally live separate lives. 

 Introduction: Whither Democracy in Everyday Social Life? -- The Democratization of Markets through Participative and Collaborative Practises -- The European Citizens' Initiative: Empowering Political Participation in the EU? -- Participation in Schools – a Classification Concept -- Moral Competence and Democratic Ways of Life -- Images of Corporate Participation and Democratic Structures in Business Administration Textbooks used in Higher Vocational Schools in Austria, Switzerland and Germany -- Co-determination in Times of Economic Crisis: Changes in the Social Positioning of Works Councillors? -- The Analysis of Preconditions for the Fostering of Democratic Behavioural Orientations in Business Organizations – The ODEM Questionnaire (POPD) -- Changing Police Managers’ Attitudes towards Participative Management:Translating Research-based Knowledge into Practical Solutions -- Innovatory Qualifications at Work -- Post-democracy and Engaged Citizenship – The Case of Attac.