The past, which is very current. What can biographies of famous Jews from Polish lands teach us? 2600-PBO-OG

The lecture is the result of cooperation between the Centre for Organizational History "Coherence" at the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw and the POLIN Museum. The lecture is inspired by the multimedia "Heritage" Gallery in the POLIN Museum. According to the online description of this Gallery, it is “dedicated to the cultural heritage of Polish Jews. We want to remind people whose achievements have become the heritage of successive generations and us today. We want to show their extraordinary biographies, which reflect many turbulent historical events. At the same time, we also want to look at the profiles of these people in the light of their Jewish-Polish roots” (https://polin.pl/pl/galeria-dziedzictwo). The course will implement the mentioned goals in a university form, so that students can experience the multiple meanings of the heritage of Polish Jews and can discuss the usefulness of this heritage in managing their own (and not only their own) personal and professional development. The subject combines historical (in the sense of organizational history), sociological (organization's activities for their social environment), psychological, managerial and ethical perspectives

Type of course

general courses

Mode

Blended learning

Prerequisites (description)

Lack of prejudice towards history or the desire to confront the prejudices is an asset, the course corresponds to the organizational sociology and psychology in business organizational behaviour as well as social competences building

Course coordinators

Tomasz Ochinowski

Learning outcomes

The student is able to critically use case studies in the field of biographies of historical figures, is able to reconstruct these biographies and their contexts, extract from them good practices of personal and professional development, avoid bad practices and use these skills for their own development and help others in this regard
The student shows sensitivity to the problem of equal treatment and the impact of minority discrimination on personal and social development
The student is aware that respect for cultural diversity positively affects the functioning of individuals, organizations and societies.
The student is able to diagnose the situation of social diversity as a context for the development of an individual, organization and community, and predict how minority-majority relations may develop in times of crises and social tensions.

Assessment criteria

Report from the workshop at the museum; preparation of a case study on a topic that will be a "meeting" of the needs of a given student with a selected biography of the hero/heroes of the "Heritage" Gallery at the POLIN Museum.

Bibliography

Primary items:
1. Multimedia materials, which are available in the "Heritage" Gallery of the POLIN Museum
Complementary items:
1. Skodlarski J, Pieczewski, A., red. (2014) Rola Żydów w rozwoju gospodarczym ziem polskch, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
2. Krzemiński, I. (2016), Żydzi – problem prawdziwego Polaka, Warszawa: Instytut Socjologii UW
3. Maclean, M., Clegg, S. R. and V. Cha Harvey, V. Ch. (ed.). (2020). Historical Organization Studies. Theory and Applications. Routledge.

Additional information

Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:

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Description of 2600-PBO-OG in USOSweb