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Integration of Interests at University

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University students and instructors constantly correlate their personal interests with generally accepted interests and corporate norms. The process of assimilating organizational norms is not always characterized by the optimum dynamics and focus among all the students and even instructors. Students’ and instructors’ personal interests often do not coincide with corporate norms of a higher educational institution. This fact sometimes has an ambiguous influence on their self-fulfillment, ethical, moral values and professional development. Non-institutional character of some personal interests often generates a mistaken opinion that as a result of long studies or work at university a person fully assimilates the values and ethical behavioral norms stipulated in basic corporate acts of the organization. The resolution of a conflict between personal and public interests is one of the main ways to perform the integration of interests.

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  1. The extract from the protocol №1 meeting of the Academic Council of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Dated October 1. (2012). Adoption Code of Conduct of Plekhanov Russian University. http://www.rea.ru/ru/Documents/Doc/korporativnyj_kodeks_RJeU_im_%20G_V_Plehanova.pdf Accessed 25 May 2016.

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We express appreciation for assistance in carrying out the research to the administration of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics: Rector, Doctor of Economics, Professor Victor I. Grishin; Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Informatization, Doctor of Economics, Professor Olga A. Grishina.

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  1. Chair of Political Science and Sociology, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Andrey Koshkin & Andrey Novikov

  2. Center for Humanitarian Training, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Irina Yablochkina

  3. Chair of History, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Irina Kornilova

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Koshkin, A., Yablochkina, I., Kornilova, I. et al. Integration of Interests at University. Interchange 48, 231–255 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-016-9289-3

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