Yaffa Moskovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 301964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaffa Moskovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaffa |
| FAMILY NAME | Moskovich |
| SIGNATURE | MOSKOVICH Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zefat Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6505-8938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Are Hybrid Organizations Always Beneficial
We examined a new type of hybrid organization—an Israeli private-public organization created during COVID-19 to serve older adults and schoolchildren—and the effects of its hybrid nature on its organizational culture. Using the results of 18 interviews, 10 direct observations, and the insights of Schein’s iceberg model, we determined that the relationships within the organization were characterized by widespread mistrust among members, influenced…
Hybrid religious civil society organization, the Israeli case of “the path upwards” lesson learned
Purpose This study aims to investigate the unique cultural attributes of a particular association. The research focuses on a single case study involving a civil society organization whose activities are focused within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Specifically, the association under examination is a religious voluntary organization engaged in social activities within the Israeli Defense Forces. Design/methodology/approach Data collection empl…
Social Solidarity during the Pandemic: The Israeli Experience
Social solidarity is the conscious and voluntary affinity between human beings that instills in them a sense of guaranteed mutual assistance. Israeli society has long been characterized as having a high level of national solidarity, especially in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 put this notion to the test. The lack of agreement about fundamental norms of civil society in general and the nature of Israeli democracy in particular que…
Social identity dilemmas of ultra-orthodox men in Israeli higher education
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the unique dilemmas and challenges of ultra-orthodox men in academia. Design/methodology/approach This research is conducted in the phenomenology approach. It explores the experience and the process that shape the social identity of higher-educated Haredi men through the life stories of twenty individuals. Findings The research found the developmental path of Haredi-educated males, till they adopted a hybridist …
PhD-educated Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women as an Interpretive Cultural Phenomenon
Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel is in a process of change involving growing integration into academia, the labor market, and the military. This study deals with the integration of Ultra-Orthodox women into academia. Specifically, it examines how Haredi female PhDs cope with two different value systems. The study utilizes the sociological definitions of dominant culture, subcultures of values, and countercultures. The methodology is qual…
Hybridization in a kibbutz industry structure: An Israeli case study
Purpose This article analyzes a kibbutz factory and seeks to understand its unique hybrid structure following privatization, comparing it with that of other kibbutz industries in Israeli society. Design/methodology/approach The research used qualitative investigation, including interviews and document analysis practice. Findings The study describes hybrid model that is based on conflicting logic, as the kibbutz industry contains both communal and…
Loss of democracy in a cooperative kibbutz industry: Ethical dilemmas – an Israeli case study
Purpose This study aims to examine the changes in cooperative community and kibbutz industry that did not undergo privatization. Design/methodology/approach This research was based on the case study method, combined with ethnographic interviews and document analysis. Findings The findings showed that the industry was highly successful economically, enabling the management to strengthen its authority without sharing information. The decision-makin…
Promoting Industrial Success through Organizational Culture: An Israeli Case Study
This study shows the value of promoting organizational culture by identifying and analyzing factors of economic success in a particular factory. The research was conducted by qualitative investigation using ethnographic interviews and document analysis procedures. The findings describe how the managers merged socialist traditions of the pre-privatized kibbutz and the capitalism of the global market in order to create a dynamic strategic model. Th…
Lessons Learned from Cultural Features in Kibbutz Industries
Research was conducted in a non-privatized community at T Kibbutz Industries. Its aim was to analyze the unique T factory culture and to understand its covert source. The study develops a typology of cultural features observed at kibbutz industries (based on four previous case studies, with focus on T Industries) that can also be applied to other businesses. Research was conducted using qualitative methods, namely a case study including ethnograp…
Group identity and social closeness: Secular and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israeli academic institutions
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study examine the social identity of Ultra-Orthodox students enrolled in institutions of higher learning in Israel, and specifically the ways in which the identity of Ultra-Orthodox students who interact with other groups on campus compares to the identity of self-segregated Ultra-Orthodox students. Traditionally, Ultra-Orthodox students have preferred self-segregated educational institutions. Today, howeve…
Cultural Transition in a Kibbutz Industry from Clan to Hierarchical Control Attributes
This article describes changes in a kibbutz factory as an outcome of social change in the kibbutz community and in Israeli society. The study estimates the cultural transformation in the specific kibbutz industry and analyzes the transition from its original clan culture to a Weberian hierarchic structure. The findings serve as a basis for comparing the impact of cultural change in various kibbutz industries and other types of enterprises as well…
Cultural change in a kibbutz factory as an outcome of the privatization process: An Israeli case study
The privatization process that engulfed most Israeli kibbutzim influenced cultural changes in the Newplast factory. Following organizational difficulties and economic losses, the kibbutz management appointed a factory manager from outside to oversee changes. This management change accelerated inevitable transformations: the collectivist culture, which had previously favoured kibbutz members, became far more capitalistic. Today, the factory operat…
Clan-Culture Attributes in a Privatized Kibbutz Industry: An Israeli Case Study
This article focuses on one privatized kibbutz factory. The research question was: How did this factory preserve clan cultural features after the process of privatization, while most other privatized kibbutz factories discarded their communal nature and became bureaucratic and highly hierarchic? While most privatized kibbutz factories experienced worker alienation and frustration, this case study describes an organization with a strong culture of…
Loss of organizational solidarity in three kibbutz factories
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the loss of solidarity in three kibbutz factories as an outcome of the process of privatization in their kibbutz communities. Design/methodology/approach – The research was a qualitative investigation, including interviews in three factories. Findings – The research found high a sense of vertical and horizontal solidarity before the privatization. The solidarity stemmed from socialistic principles o…
The Worker's Hotline in Israel: Simultaneous Subculture of Opposition and Collaboration
This paper studies the cultural features of one organization promoting workers' social welfare. The Worker's Hotline challenges human rights violations by exploitive employers and the Israeli government. The Worker's Hotline uses a variety of political strategies: collaborating with governmental agencies and fighting against the authorities, even while being funded by them. The main research question is: What is the Hotline's defining cultural fe…
NGOs helping migrants: An Israeli case study of counterculture
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the NGOs in the immigration field as a counterculture working simultaneously with and against the establishment. Design/methodology/approach – Case study approach using interviews and documents analysis. Findings – This paper studies the cultural features of three civil associations, interested in promoting social welfare for immigrants. These NGOs challenge the Israeli government when it violates h…
The transformation of the Israeli Civil Guard into a police force
This article examines goal displacement in the Civil Guard (CG), established in Israel in 1974 to fight terrorism. Shortly after its establishment, the CG began encroaching on police duties attempting to survive police opposition, official criticism, and negative public opinion. To face these threats and fend them off, the CG adapted its goals to suit the police, but this strategy did not help it survive. Instead, the similarities between its goa…
Clan-Culture Attributes in a Privatized Kibbutz Industry: An Israeli Case Study
This article focuses on one privatized kibbutz factory. The research question was: How did this factory preserve clan cultural features after the process of privatization, while most other privatized kibbutz factories discarded their communal nature and became bureaucratic and highly hierarchic? While most privatized kibbutz factories experienced worker alienation and frustration, this case study describes an organization with a strong culture of…
Group identity and social closeness: Secular and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israeli academic institutions
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study examine the social identity of Ultra-Orthodox students enrolled in institutions of higher learning in Israel, and specifically the ways in which the identity of Ultra-Orthodox students who interact with other groups on campus compares to the identity of self-segregated Ultra-Orthodox students. Traditionally, Ultra-Orthodox students have preferred self-segregated educational institutions. Today, howeve…
Cultural Transition in a Kibbutz Industry from Clan to Hierarchical Control Attributes
This article describes changes in a kibbutz factory as an outcome of social change in the kibbutz community and in Israeli society. The study estimates the cultural transformation in the specific kibbutz industry and analyzes the transition from its original clan culture to a Weberian hierarchic structure. The findings serve as a basis for comparing the impact of cultural change in various kibbutz industries and other types of enterprises as well…
NGOs helping migrants: An Israeli case study of counterculture
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the NGOs in the immigration field as a counterculture working simultaneously with and against the establishment. Design/methodology/approach – Case study approach using interviews and documents analysis. Findings – This paper studies the cultural features of three civil associations, interested in promoting social welfare for immigrants. These NGOs challenge the Israeli government when it violates h…
Social identity dilemmas of ultra-orthodox men in Israeli higher education
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the unique dilemmas and challenges of ultra-orthodox men in academia. Design/methodology/approach This research is conducted in the phenomenology approach. It explores the experience and the process that shape the social identity of higher-educated Haredi men through the life stories of twenty individuals. Findings The research found the developmental path of Haredi-educated males, till they adopted a hybridist …
PhD-educated Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women as an Interpretive Cultural Phenomenon
Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel is in a process of change involving growing integration into academia, the labor market, and the military. This study deals with the integration of Ultra-Orthodox women into academia. Specifically, it examines how Haredi female PhDs cope with two different value systems. The study utilizes the sociological definitions of dominant culture, subcultures of values, and countercultures. The methodology is qual…
Loss of democracy in a cooperative kibbutz industry: Ethical dilemmas – an Israeli case study
Purpose This study aims to examine the changes in cooperative community and kibbutz industry that did not undergo privatization. Design/methodology/approach This research was based on the case study method, combined with ethnographic interviews and document analysis. Findings The findings showed that the industry was highly successful economically, enabling the management to strengthen its authority without sharing information. The decision-makin…
Promoting Industrial Success through Organizational Culture: An Israeli Case Study
This study shows the value of promoting organizational culture by identifying and analyzing factors of economic success in a particular factory. The research was conducted by qualitative investigation using ethnographic interviews and document analysis procedures. The findings describe how the managers merged socialist traditions of the pre-privatized kibbutz and the capitalism of the global market in order to create a dynamic strategic model. Th…
Lessons Learned from Cultural Features in Kibbutz Industries
Research was conducted in a non-privatized community at T Kibbutz Industries. Its aim was to analyze the unique T factory culture and to understand its covert source. The study develops a typology of cultural features observed at kibbutz industries (based on four previous case studies, with focus on T Industries) that can also be applied to other businesses. Research was conducted using qualitative methods, namely a case study including ethnograp…
Loss of organizational solidarity in three kibbutz factories
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the loss of solidarity in three kibbutz factories as an outcome of the process of privatization in their kibbutz communities. Design/methodology/approach – The research was a qualitative investigation, including interviews in three factories. Findings – The research found high a sense of vertical and horizontal solidarity before the privatization. The solidarity stemmed from socialistic principles o…
The Worker's Hotline in Israel: Simultaneous Subculture of Opposition and Collaboration
This paper studies the cultural features of one organization promoting workers' social welfare. The Worker's Hotline challenges human rights violations by exploitive employers and the Israeli government. The Worker's Hotline uses a variety of political strategies: collaborating with governmental agencies and fighting against the authorities, even while being funded by them. The main research question is: What is the Hotline's defining cultural fe…
The transformation of the Israeli Civil Guard into a police force
This article examines goal displacement in the Civil Guard (CG), established in Israel in 1974 to fight terrorism. Shortly after its establishment, the CG began encroaching on police duties attempting to survive police opposition, official criticism, and negative public opinion. To face these threats and fend them off, the CG adapted its goals to suit the police, but this strategy did not help it survive. Instead, the similarities between its goa…
NGOs helping migrants: An Israeli case study of counterculture
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the NGOs in the immigration field as a counterculture working simultaneously with and against the establishment. Design/methodology/approach – Case study approach using interviews and documents analysis. Findings – This paper studies the cultural features of three civil associations, interested in promoting social welfare for immigrants. These NGOs challenge the Israeli government when it violates h…
Loss of organizational solidarity in three kibbutz factories
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the loss of solidarity in three kibbutz factories as an outcome of the process of privatization in their kibbutz communities. Design/methodology/approach – The research was a qualitative investigation, including interviews in three factories. Findings – The research found high a sense of vertical and horizontal solidarity before the privatization. The solidarity stemmed from socialistic principles o…
The Worker's Hotline in Israel: Simultaneous Subculture of Opposition and Collaboration
This paper studies the cultural features of one organization promoting workers' social welfare. The Worker's Hotline challenges human rights violations by exploitive employers and the Israeli government. The Worker's Hotline uses a variety of political strategies: collaborating with governmental agencies and fighting against the authorities, even while being funded by them. The main research question is: What is the Hotline's defining cultural fe…
Cultural change in a kibbutz factory as an outcome of the privatization process: An Israeli case study
The privatization process that engulfed most Israeli kibbutzim influenced cultural changes in the Newplast factory. Following organizational difficulties and economic losses, the kibbutz management appointed a factory manager from outside to oversee changes. This management change accelerated inevitable transformations: the collectivist culture, which had previously favoured kibbutz members, became far more capitalistic. Today, the factory operat…
Clan-Culture Attributes in a Privatized Kibbutz Industry: An Israeli Case Study
This article focuses on one privatized kibbutz factory. The research question was: How did this factory preserve clan cultural features after the process of privatization, while most other privatized kibbutz factories discarded their communal nature and became bureaucratic and highly hierarchic? While most privatized kibbutz factories experienced worker alienation and frustration, this case study describes an organization with a strong culture of…
Group identity and social closeness: Secular and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israeli academic institutions
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study examine the social identity of Ultra-Orthodox students enrolled in institutions of higher learning in Israel, and specifically the ways in which the identity of Ultra-Orthodox students who interact with other groups on campus compares to the identity of self-segregated Ultra-Orthodox students. Traditionally, Ultra-Orthodox students have preferred self-segregated educational institutions. Today, howeve…
Cultural Transition in a Kibbutz Industry from Clan to Hierarchical Control Attributes
This article describes changes in a kibbutz factory as an outcome of social change in the kibbutz community and in Israeli society. The study estimates the cultural transformation in the specific kibbutz industry and analyzes the transition from its original clan culture to a Weberian hierarchic structure. The findings serve as a basis for comparing the impact of cultural change in various kibbutz industries and other types of enterprises as well…
Lessons Learned from Cultural Features in Kibbutz Industries
Research was conducted in a non-privatized community at T Kibbutz Industries. Its aim was to analyze the unique T factory culture and to understand its covert source. The study develops a typology of cultural features observed at kibbutz industries (based on four previous case studies, with focus on T Industries) that can also be applied to other businesses. Research was conducted using qualitative methods, namely a case study including ethnograp…
Loss of democracy in a cooperative kibbutz industry: Ethical dilemmas – an Israeli case study
Purpose This study aims to examine the changes in cooperative community and kibbutz industry that did not undergo privatization. Design/methodology/approach This research was based on the case study method, combined with ethnographic interviews and document analysis. Findings The findings showed that the industry was highly successful economically, enabling the management to strengthen its authority without sharing information. The decision-makin…
Promoting Industrial Success through Organizational Culture: An Israeli Case Study
This study shows the value of promoting organizational culture by identifying and analyzing factors of economic success in a particular factory. The research was conducted by qualitative investigation using ethnographic interviews and document analysis procedures. The findings describe how the managers merged socialist traditions of the pre-privatized kibbutz and the capitalism of the global market in order to create a dynamic strategic model. Th…
PhD-educated Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women as an Interpretive Cultural Phenomenon
Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel is in a process of change involving growing integration into academia, the labor market, and the military. This study deals with the integration of Ultra-Orthodox women into academia. Specifically, it examines how Haredi female PhDs cope with two different value systems. The study utilizes the sociological definitions of dominant culture, subcultures of values, and countercultures. The methodology is qual…
Hybridization in a kibbutz industry structure: An Israeli case study
Purpose This article analyzes a kibbutz factory and seeks to understand its unique hybrid structure following privatization, comparing it with that of other kibbutz industries in Israeli society. Design/methodology/approach The research used qualitative investigation, including interviews and document analysis practice. Findings The study describes hybrid model that is based on conflicting logic, as the kibbutz industry contains both communal and…
Social Solidarity during the Pandemic: The Israeli Experience
Social solidarity is the conscious and voluntary affinity between human beings that instills in them a sense of guaranteed mutual assistance. Israeli society has long been characterized as having a high level of national solidarity, especially in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 put this notion to the test. The lack of agreement about fundamental norms of civil society in general and the nature of Israeli democracy in particular que…
Social identity dilemmas of ultra-orthodox men in Israeli higher education
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the unique dilemmas and challenges of ultra-orthodox men in academia. Design/methodology/approach This research is conducted in the phenomenology approach. It explores the experience and the process that shape the social identity of higher-educated Haredi men through the life stories of twenty individuals. Findings The research found the developmental path of Haredi-educated males, till they adopted a hybridist …
Hybrid religious civil society organization, the Israeli case of “the path upwards” lesson learned
Purpose This study aims to investigate the unique cultural attributes of a particular association. The research focuses on a single case study involving a civil society organization whose activities are focused within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Specifically, the association under examination is a religious voluntary organization engaged in social activities within the Israeli Defense Forces. Design/methodology/approach Data collection empl…
Are Hybrid Organizations Always Beneficial
We examined a new type of hybrid organization—an Israeli private-public organization created during COVID-19 to serve older adults and schoolchildren—and the effects of its hybrid nature on its organizational culture. Using the results of 18 interviews, 10 direct observations, and the insights of Schein’s iceberg model, we determined that the relationships within the organization were characterized by widespread mistrust among members, influenced…
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