PRE-COVID FEATURES OF GEOGRAPHY OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FLOWS IN UKRAINE

This study is devoted to the analysis of international tourism flows directed into Ukraine. Diagnostics of tourism flows according to regions of the world was carried out and the tendency of the increasing role of tourism both locally and internationally was noticed. The results of the previous empirical study confirmed that different social groups have their own specific patterns of tourism activity. It also showed what groups responded the most to globalization and the possible consequences it may have for tourism activities. Keywords: international tourism flows, tourism regions, motivation to travel, global imperatives, statistics of international tourism.

Exceso de confianza y decisiones de selección de personal: ¿pueden las entrevistas no estructuradas dañar las decisiones?

Laburpena: Langileen hautaketa eta kontratazioa erakundeen eta giza baliabideen administrazioaren erabaki garrantzitsuenen artean daude, eta administrazio publikoa ez da salbuespena. Hautaketa-prozesuetan gehien erabiltzen den metodoetako bat egituratu gabeko elkarrizketak dira. Artikulu honetan proposatu dugu egituratu gabeko elkarrizketek ez dutela lan-jarduna iragartzeko ia baliorik, beste hautaketa-iragarle batzuen aldean. Are gehiago, gure ustez, askotan, haien erabilerak langileak hautatzeko prozesua okertu ere egin dezake Hori kontuan hartuta, egituratu gabeko elkarrizketen ebidentzia, erakundeetan duten nagusitasuna eta prebalentzia horren arrazoiak aztertu ditugu artikuluan. Halaber, lan- eta antolaketa-psikologiaren konstrukto nabarmenetan oinarritutako proba psikometriko garrantzitsu batzuen ebidentziari erreparatu diogu. Azterketa enpiriko baten emaitzak berrikusi ditugu, eta konparatu dugu nola alda daitezkeen erakundeen giza baliabideetako zuzendariek eta profesionalek hartzen dituzten erabakiak egituratu gabeko elkarrizketen informazioaren ondorioz. Informazio horretan oinarritutako erabakiak, proba psikometrikoen informazioarekin batera aurkezten direnean, are desegokiagoak dira, baina konfiantza handiagoa sortzen dute, eta horrek baliozko eta gehiegizko konfiantza-irudipena areagotzen du. Azkenik, elkarrizketak egiteko funtsezko zazpi printzipio praktiko proposatu ditugu. Hori oinarri hartuta, ondorioztatu dugu elkarrizketa egituratu konduktuala askoz ere aukera hobea dela administrazio publikoaren testuingururako. Resumen: La selección y contratación de personal está dentro de las decisiones más significativas en las organizaciones y la administración de recursos humanos, y la Administración Pública no es la excepción. Uno de los métodos más frecuentes utilizados en los procesos de selección son las entrevistas no estructuradas. En este artículo proponemos que las entrevistas no estructuradas no sólo tienen casi nula validez predictiva del desempeño laboral por encima de otros predictores de selección. Argumentamos que, muchas veces, su uso puede empeorar el proceso de selección de personal. Con esto en mente, en el artículo revisamos la evidencia de las entrevistas no estructuradas, su prevalencia en las organizaciones y las razones de esta prevalencia. También revisamos la evidencia de algunas pruebas psicométricas relevantes, basadas en constructos importantes de la psicología laboral y organizacional. Revisamos los resultados de un estudio empírico en que comparamos cómo las decisiones de directores y profesionales de recursos humanos en organizaciones pueden cambiar en presencia de información de entrevistas no estructuradas. Encontramos que las decisiones basadas en esta información, cuando se presentan en conjunto con información de pruebas psicométricas, son más inexactas y generan al mismo tiempo más confianza, lo que exacerba una ilusión de validez y exceso de confianza. Finalmente, proponemos siete principios fundamentales y prácticos para llevar a cabo entrevistas. En base a esto, concluimos que la entrevista estructurada conductual surge como una alternativa claramente superior para el contexto de la Administración Pública. Abstract: Personnel selection is among the most significant decisions in human resource management and Public Administration is no excepection. One of the most frequent methods used in the selection selection is unstructured interviews. In this article, we propose that unstructured interviews not only have almost zero validity in predicting job performance over psychometric tests. We argue that, many times, their use can worsen the selection process. With this in mind, in this article we first review research regarding unstructured interviews, their prevalence in organizations, and the reasons for this prevalence. We also review research regarding some psychometric tests, based on important constructs from industrial and organizational psychology. We also review the results of a previous empirical study we conducted, in which we compared how the decisions of human resource management directors and professionals in organizations can change in the presence of information from unstructured interviews. We found that decisions based on unstructured interviews, when presented together with information from psychometric tests, are more inaccurate and at the same time generate more confidence, exacerbating an illusion of validity and overconfidence. Finally, we propose seven fundamental and practical principles for conducting interviews. Based on this, we conclude that the structured behavioral interview emerges as a clearly superior alternative in the context of Public Administration.

International Mindedness: A Revised Conceptual Framework

This paper suggests a revised framework for explaining, developing and assessing international mindedness (IM). A review of the literature – that presents initiatives, challenges, and debates regarding IM – concludes with an overview of selected conceptual frameworks that have been used to develop a shared understanding of IM. When the authors applied one of these frameworks in a previous empirical study, they found during data analysis that some aspects of the framework’s key pillars played a more supportive role and that other components of IM needed further identification. As a result, this paper proposes a revision of the framework that features intercultural competence and global engagement, and identifies more specific components of these attributes, namely knowledge, skills, dispositions, and agency. The paper includes another review of the literature to emphasise how these components are important for the development, implementation, and assessment of international mindedness.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Changing the Dominant Narrative About (and In) Research Institutions

Despite calls for and advances in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) over the years, research-intensive institutions have a persistent reputation as preferring and demanding Boyer’s “scholarship of discovery” at the expense of SOTL work. In this article, we challenge the dominant narrative that research-focused institutions—the Carnegie “R1”and “R2”—do not engage in or value SOTL research in business and management education (BME). In a previous empirical study, we found evidence that a surprising proportion of R1 and R2 schools are already creating and disseminating innovative and impactful BME work. Using diffusion of innovations theory, we argue that those institutions can provide leadership due to their BME work, and examine what this might mean in terms of the prospects for diffusion of BME research among all research-intensive institutions. Due to external stakeholder pressures for excellent, evidence-based instruction, we assert that institutions that do subordinate SOTL to discipline-based scholarship will be forced to reframe their research portfolios. We end the article with solutions for how faculty could include BME work within their overall research efforts and challenge institutions to reconsider how BME scholarship may help them craft a more inclusive research narrative.

When Translation Competence Is Not Enough: A Focus Group Study of Medical Translators

Functionalist approaches to translation brought about a shift in the status and role of the translator: the translator is now considered to be an active, responsible agent in the communication process, which increases the importance of translation expertise and translation competence. Translation competence has thus attracted mounting research interest; however, empirical studies have primarily been conducted in controlled environments, omitting the translation context that professional translators usually work within. This study offers empirical evidence of the importance of the translation context when investigating translation competence. Based on a previous empirical study of translated Patient Information Leaflets, which showed a lack of translation competence, this study includes the translators’ perception using the focus group methodology. Results show the strong influence of contextual constraints on medical translators’ processes and thus products. The study concludes that an analysis of translation products alone may give a skewed picture of translators’ competence.

Data collaboratives as “bazaars”?

Purpose In “data collaboratives”, private and public organizations coordinate their activities to leverage data to address a societal challenge. This paper aims to focus on analyzing challenges and coordination mechanisms of data collaboratives. Design/methodology/approach This study uses coordination theory to identify and discuss the coordination problems and coordination mechanisms associated with data collaboratives. The authors also use a taxonomy of data collaborative forms from a previous empirical study to discuss how different forms of data collaboratives may require different coordination mechanisms. Findings The study analyzed data collaboratives from the perspective of organizational and task levels. At the organizational level, the authors argue that data collaboratives present an example of the bazaar form of coordination. At the task level, the authors identified five coordination problems and discussed potential coordination mechanisms to address them, such as coordination by negotiation, by third party, by standardization, to name a few. Research limitations/implications This study is one of the first few to systematically analyze the phenomenon of “data collaboratives”. Practical implications This study can help practitioners better understand the coordination challenges they may face when initiating a data collaborative and to develop successful data collaboratives by using coordination mechanisms to mitigate these challenges. Originality/value Data collaboratives are a novel form of data-driven initiatives which have seen rapid experimentation lately. This study draws attention to this concept in the academic literature and highlights some of the complexities of organizing data collaboratives in practice.

Flow Genres

The goal of this theoretical study is to conceptually revise the flow theory formulated originally by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Concept of flow is one of the most frequently used terms that describe an optimal experience while performing activity and this does not apply only for video game industry. In this article we discuss the varieties of flow experience with respect to video games. Further, the authors emphasize relativity of the original concept of flow, understood as a universal experience of independent nature in terms of activity or personality of the participant. Following detailed analysis of existing literature and our previous empirical study, they define the concept of flow as a genre triad that portrays experience of climax, ilinx, and ludic trance. A further revision and extension of the original concept of flow is deemed necessary in order to map the variety of user experiences while playing video games with sufficient precision.