The Department's set of competencies
Consulting and training
Subject areas:
- Preparation of tools to support the formation of an organizational culture based on ethical values,
- Consulting in the implementation of ISO 26000 assumptions,
- Technology Assessment - expert model and participatory model,
- Training of ethical auditors,
- Conducting ethical sensitivity training,
- Human Resources/Personnel Management,
- Knowledge Management,
- Sociology of organizations, Sociology of work, Humanistic management,
- Social Philosophy,
- Knowledge of labor market issues,
- Social psychology,
- Psychology in management,
- Sociology of politics,
- Sociology of adaptation,
- Sociology of macrostructures,
- Sociology of labor and management,
- Sociology of education,
- Media sociology,
- Sociology of new media,
- Public safety,
- Security of mass events,
- Sociology of old age,
- Gerontology,
- Sociology of local communities,
- Quality management of medical services,
- Implementation of a quality management system,
- Principles of creating and managing a civic budget,
- Philosophical counseling (philosophical coaching),
- Teamwork skills, time management skills,
- Negotiation, exerting influence,
- Communication in the organization,
- Conflict management,
- Moderating meetings and discussions, e.g. with residents on projects for the civic budget,
- Intercultural communication.
Conducting audits and evaluations
Subject areas:
- Conducting personnel audits in companies,
- Developing procedures and conducting ethics audits.
Developing strategies and projects
Subject areas:
- Preparation of CSR strategies of enterprises,
- Preparation of sustainable development strategies of enterprises/government institutions,
- Conducting projects in the area of human resource management, especially:
- concerning the recruitment and selection process,
- labor analysis, hiring, staff development and performance appraisal,
- diversity management (age management),
- Projects in the field of social aspects of renewable energy sources,
- Commercialization of innovative scientific research and knowledge transfer nationally and internationally,
- Innovation as corporate social responsibility with the support of science,
Codes of ethics of organizations (consulting, evaluation), - Globalization as a context for creating an organization's strategy,
- Political culture/cultural contexts of democracy,
- Learning organizations (diagnosis, design),
- Strategies for civic security management,
- Education for security.
Conducting analyses and diagnoses
Research activities:
- Quantitative and qualitative research (sociology, marketing),
- Preparation and implementation of research in the social sciences using quantitative and qualitative research methods and techniques, ie:
- selection of a representative research sample,
- formulation of cause-and-effect hypotheses,
- creation of questionnaires for quantitative research,
- implementation of qualitative research using techniques of autobiographical narrative interview, in-depth interview and focus interview, among others;
- Statistical analysis of quantitative data,
- Qualitative analysis of the data obtained using qualitative techniques and foundational data,
- Design of research tools,
- Ethnographic research of organizations (organizational culture, division of labor, anatomy of conflicts, informal groups) including:
- ethnographic study of consumers,
- survey of logos and corporate symbolism,
- survey of quality of life in cities, settlements,
- survey of residents' opinions about the city, investments.
Major subject areas:
- Conducting a training needs analysis,
- Analysis of the adaptation of the elderly to changes in the residential environment,
- Analysis of security threats,
- Threats in emergency situations(natural disasters, mass protests, wars),
- Threats of "everyday life" (mass events, urbanized areas, socially
degraded, structural crime), - Survey of residents' needs regarding future investments in the city space,
- Training needs analysis, sector attractiveness analysis, strategic analysis,
- Qualitative and quantitative research in the HR field,
- Innovative cooperation of centers-science and research (universities) with enterprises:
- in-depth diagnosis of problems on both sides,
- in what direction the innovativeness of the Polish economy should go while taking into account the directions of scientific development,
- Analyzing the innovativeness of the Polish economy including determining the principles of creating effective research and investment projects,
- Determining the principles of effective combination of two worlds - the world of science and the world of business,
- Sociological diagnosis of organizations (formal and informal structures, conflict and cooperation, types of power),
- Violence (diagnosis and prevention).
Additional competencies
Foreign languages:
- English,
- German,
- French,
- Spanish,
- Hebrew,
- Russian.
