The Department focuses on the following research areas:
- theoretical foundations of the functioning of civic organisations; humanistic aspects of managing civic organisations.
- principles of management in the non-governmental sector: theory and practice of civic management, models of civic organisations’ operation, principles, forms, and areas of cooperation in NGOs in the context of public participation and social and cultural values.
- contemporary issues in managing third sector organisations: organisational pathologies, marketisation and nationalisation, ethics and values in action.
- non-profit marketing: promotion of public institutions, enterprises, and NGOs, political marketing, election campaigns, social campaigns, and public figure image.
- contemporary problems of social policy: social policy as science and practice, the system of exercising power and the implementation of social policy goals, insurance and supply elements of the social security system, provision of social services, the role of public and civic institutions in solving social policy issues.
The Department runs the Civic Dialogue Observatory project >>> http://www.uj.edu.pl/web/odo-wzks
Personal squad
dr hab. Ewa Bogacz-Wojtanowska, prof. UJ - manager
dr hab. Zbysław Dobrowolski, prof. UJ
dr hab. Agnieszka Szczudlińska-Kanoś, prof. UJ
dr Sylwia Wrona
mgr Ewelina Milewska