Associate Professor (UJ), Zakład Negocjacji

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ul. prof. Stanisława Łojasiewicza 4, 30-348 Kraków, room 2.319
jan.jacko@uj.edu.pl, USOS, phone: +48 12 664 58 89

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Scientific activity

I study the philosophical foundations of social and organisational practice, combining ontology, ethics, and methodology with decision theory, nonverbal communication, and management sciences. My work focuses on how philosophical concepts and models structure choices, norms, and tools of action.

Main areas of research include:

• ontology and metaphysics of practice: the structure of actions, roles, and “situations” in communication sciences;
• ethics of management and metaethics: criteria linking effectiveness with responsibility, justification of norms and evaluations;
• logic and methodology of research: rationality of decisions, logic of strategies, assumptions of game theory;
• semiotics and proxemics: architecture of nonverbal communication (negotiations, self-presentation, public speaking), symbolism of space;
• philosophical foundations of innovation theory: distinction between innovations and pseudo-innovations, responsible innovation;
• philosophy of management: ontological and ethical assumptions of organisational theory.

Current research topics include:

• logic of strategic thinking and informational rationality in management;
• proxemic and semiotic tactics in negotiations;
• ontology of communicative situations;
• normative criteria for assessing innovations and public policies.

Applications:

• ethical decision-making tools,
• body language and negotiation training,
• assessment of communicative and axiological risks in organisations.

Key words: ontology of practice, ethics of management, metaethics, logic of decision, game theory, semiotics, proxemics, nonverbal communication, responsible innovation, philosophy of management.

Projekty badawcze

• 2009–2012, principal investigator: Negotiation Tactics in the Context of Proxemics. Methodological Analysis — postdoctoral research project, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, grant no. NN 115 246736.
• 2008–2010, co-investigator: Preventing Conflicts over Landscape Protection and Management through Public Participation Methods — research and development project, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, grant no. 16 00 03 04.
• 2002–2004, principal investigator: Similarities and Differences in Nonverbal Forms of Business Communication between Poland and Selected EU Countries — research project, Jagiellonian University.
• 2006, visiting researcher: Research on the Ontology of Interpersonal Space and Intentionality — University at Buffalo (USA), funded by the Kathy Kubala Fund.

Działalność dydaktyczna

Jagiellonian University

• Dekodowanie manipulacji
• Etyka biznesu
• Etyka w zarządzaniu
• Filozofia
• Mowa ciała
• Etykieta i autoprezentacja
• Wielokulturowość i różnice kulturowe
• Semiotyka biznesu – Introduction to Philosophy
• Business Ethics
• Decoding Manipulation
• Body Language in Business Situations
• Intercultural Differences and Cross-Cultural Communication in Business
• Management Ethics
• Proxemics
• The Role of Space in Communication

The International Academy for Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein

• Philosophy of Non-Verbal Communication and Expression
• Elements of Social Philosophy
• Philosophy of History
• The Philosophical Roots of Europe
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophie des Theaters und der Körpersprache

Guest lectures abroad

• Management Ethics in Decision Making
• Aristotle versus Plato
• Territorial Ethics
• Business Ethics
• Nonverbal Communication in Business
• Body Language in Business Situations
• Ontology of Interpersonal Space

Functions

• Chair of the Faculty Committee on Research Ethics, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University
• Member of the Rector’s Standing Committee on Research Ethics, Jagiellonian University
• Academic supervisor of the Student Research Group “Strateg” (Institute of Economics, Finance and Management, JU)

Selected publications

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