The ways diversity and gender affect military professionalism and how diverse groups perceive this concept

Budeci, Mimoza (author)

Not much research has looked at how diversity and gender affect military professionalism and diverse groups perceive this concept. Using a qualitative approach, the study examined perspectives on military professionalism and unprofessionalism among diverse members of the Albanian Armed Forces (AAF). To ensure a diversity of participants, the study was based on the constructivist paradigm (multiple realities) as well as the Gender Perspective in the Albanian Armed Forces report (2013), which helps identify the varying impacts of such research on diverse groups of men and women. A total of 150 individuals participated in interviews and focus groups between October 2022 and August 2023. The findings show that professionalism and unprofessionalism each have distinct characteristics, where leadership is a key factor. This study sheds light on the members’ experiences and how the latter affect the way in which professionals are perceived

• Language: English
• Keywords: Albanian Armed Forces, military professionalism, qualitative research, diversity, gender differences
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 856–874, 890
• Numbering: Letn. 60, št. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154399
• UDC: [316.34+316.346.2]:355.11-057.86(496.5)
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.60.4.856
• COBISS.SI-ID: 183583491
• Publication date in RUL: 13.02.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

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• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Kako raznolikost skupin ter vidik spola vplivata na vojaško profesionalnost in kako različne skupine dojemajo koncept profesionalnosti?

Abstract

Obstaja majhno število raziskav o tem, kako raznolikost skupin ter vidik spola vplivata na vojaško profesionalnost in kako različne skupine dojemajo koncept profesionalnosti. Ta študija je preučevala poglede različnih skupin znotraj albanskih oboroženih sil (AOS) na vojaško profesionalnost in neprofesionalnost z uporabo kvalitativnega pristopa. Da bi zagotovila udeležbo raznolikih skupin, je študija temeljila na konstruktivistični paradigmi (več realnosti) z uporabo poročila Vidik spola v albanskih oboroženih silah (2013). Omenjeno poročilo pomaga opredeliti različne učinke raziskav skozi vidik spola. V intervjujih in fokusnih skupinah je od oktobra 2022 do avgusta 2023 sodelovalo 150 posameznikov. Rezultati so pokazali, da obstajajo edinstveni vidiki, povezani s profesionalnostjo in neprofesionalnostjo, pri čemer ima voditeljstvo ključno vlogo. Ta študija osvetljuje izkušnje pripadnikov in kako njihove izkušnje oblikujejo dojemanje profesionalnosti.

• Keywords: albanske oborozene sile, AOS, vojaška profesionalnost, kvalitativna raziskava, raznolikost, spolne razlike