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Risk and Protection of Fire Fighting Voluntary Fire Brigades in Slovakia

Author(s): Milan Dermek,Jana Müllerová / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2017

This paper deals with the intervention activities of voluntary fire brigades in municipalities in cooperation with professional fire brigades. It emphasizes the need of the voluntary fire activities their awareness towards dangerous situations. There are many risks sometimes underestimated during the fire attack or other fire brigade activities. Respecting the basic rules of work prevents the injuries and fatalities. The paper focus on most often dangerous situation and bad habits of the volunteers which are very risky in the sense of health safety. The paper states the types of interventions defined and the requirements for the necessary equipment. List of selected risks for intervening fire fighters and their causes is written. The last part describes firefighter injuries caused by their fault in sense of ignoring basic Health & Safety rules.

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Poradnictwo karier w sektorze szkolnictwa zawodowego – refleksje – dylematy – pytania

Author(s): Magdalena Piorunek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The text brings closer the career (vocational) guidance issues in the context of the vocational education specificity. Liquid modernity, with multi directional changes occurring at a great speed, and growing requirements of the competitive labor market have become fertile soil for the growth of all sorts of guidance services, i.e. activities that concern the entire human life and treat individuals in a holistic way. Being one of them, the career guidance has traveled a long way undergoing a paradigmatic change of its objectives and tasks and of other aspects, i.e. how a relation with a client starts or what methods are applied. Vocational school students are one of those groups where career structuring is in demand. Being a weak link in Poland’s education system before the economic and political system transformations of 1989, after this date the group actually has started drifting,losing to the growing educational aspirations and the boom of secondary education that opened the door to increasingly popular higher education. Current efforts to restore vocational education need to be coupled with career guidance services that are provided professionally to the present and future vocational school students. Assumptions of these career guidance activities do not seem to differ basically from the general assumptions applied in the holistic guidance, which does not mean that a search for methods suited to this group of young people should be discontinued.

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Polityczność wpisana w uwodzenie prasamiczością Artystyczne studium kobiet w ujęciu wybranych dzieł Jerzego Dudy-Gracza i Franciszka Starowieyskiego

Author(s): Joanna Rak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2011

This paper contains remarks on artistic works of two modern Polish artists: Jerzy Duda-Gracz and Franciszek Starowieyski. The Author has defined the term „prasamiczość” and described its political context using examples from works of two artists being the main subject of his analysis. In his opinion artistic view of women, sometimes surrealistic or grotesque, may be a kind of reference to Polish political reality.

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Does the Context Matter? Labour Market Characteristics and Job Satisfaction Among Young European Adults Working on Temporary Contracts

Author(s): Jędrzej Stasiowski,Małgorzata Kłobuszewska / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

The main goal of this study is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between job satisfaction and temporary work among youth in the EU, while considering the role of the context of countries’ labour market characteristics. To address this issue, we use the EU-SILC 2013 database, with an ad hoc module on well-being, which we supplement with macro indicators from Eurostat and ILO. Our findings show that a higher unemployment rate is associated with a lower job satisfaction among youth. Moreover, country-level variables moderate the negative impact of temporary work on the level of job satisfaction among young workers. The negative effect of temporary work is stronger in countries with a higher unemployment rate and a lower level of unionisation.

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Wybrane aspekty podejmowania edukacji w Polsce przez studentów z Białorusi i Ukrainy

Author(s): Jerzy Michno / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The method used in the analyses presented below was focused interview (FGI) conducted for the purpose of qualitative research carried out within the project: "Cross-border Centre for Supporting the Labour Market", microproject: "ABC of studying and working in Poland". The main question that the study attempts to answer is whether Ukrainian and Belarusian students perceive their own position in the Polish university and its immediate surroundings and whether there is cultural diffusion between Polish and foreign students. Foreign students generally rate their own university positively. The relations between the studied students and their Polish colleagues are quite correct. In general, foreign students do not feel discriminated against by Polish students. However, a certain difficulty in these positive relations is the problem of keeping both Polish and Ukrainian students in separate national groups. This division is assessed negatively by foreign students as it makes it difficult to learn Polish. Relations with people from outside the university were rated relatively better or as good by respondents as with colleagues from the university. Low frequency of interactions between students from Ukraine and Belarus and Poles makes cultural diffusion difficult.

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Правове регулювання проходження конкурсу на зайняття посад державної служби із застосуванням поліграфа

Author(s): Olena LUTSENKO / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 145/2019

The article has devoted to issues of legal regulation of the employment of civil service positions through competitive selection with the use of a polygraph. The author has found that in most countries polygraph is used for the professional selection of civil service personnel. Particular attention in the article has focused on the USA experience in conducting a polygraph survey in a competition for occupation of federal, state or local government positions, as well as positions in the field of national defense. However, the author focuses on the USA's positive experience in protecting information obtained during polygraph testing, in particular if the candidate for a position has undergone such a polygraph test, the results can only be disclosed to the employer who ordered the test as well as to the employee , who passed the test. Legislation of the USA prohibits potential employers from accessing old test results. The article states that in Ukraine there is no single legislative act that would regulate the procedure for using the polygraph, but there are some departmental acts regulating the use of the polygraph during the competitive selection. The author argues that the main principle of the use of a polygraph should be voluntary. That is, testing can only take place if there is written voluntary consent of the person being inspected. If the person does not consent to the testing and, accordingly, does not sign the application for voluntary consent to the procedure, then the check on this person's polygraph is not carried out, and the reasons for the refusal are indicated in the application. The author concluded that the information obtained during the psycho-physiological research is a prerequisite for determining the situations that should be discussed with the candidate for a vacancy in the civil service, in other words, this information will contribute to the formation of the interview plan, helps the tender committee to determine the content of the questions that it is worth discussing. The interview should be conducted in order to assess the suitability of the candidate's eligibility. In the article, the author insists that the commission, having checked the submitted documents by persons who wish to take part in the competition, on compliance with their requirements to the package of these documents and their contents, as well as the qualification requirement, can not refuse to pass the competition on the basis the fact that the person will not consent to a polygraph check.

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DEMAND OF LOGISTICS SPECIALISTS IN THE LABOR MARKET

Author(s): Irina Solomatina / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The article analyses the demand for logistics specialists in the labor market in Lithuania. Detailed analysis of the logistics term was performed, the main and auxiliary logistics activities were distinguished, and a generalized term of the logistics specialist was formulated. Possible classification of logistics professionals was provided, indicating the boundaries of operations and responsibilities in the supply chain. Quantitative study of the need for logistics specialists in the labor market was performed. Noted that there is scientifically and practically incorrect grouping of professions, without taking into account the specifics of logistic activity. Noted, that profession of logistics specialist is in high demand in the labor market. The geographical location of the Lithuania, investments in transport infrastructure, positive transport and tax policy, globalization processes will increase the demand for logistics specialists in the labor market in the future. Qualitative research method was used to analyze the main requirements for logistics professionals by systematizing the content of job advertisements for logistics specialists and conducting an oral survey of logistics professionals. The main requirements for logistics specialists in the labor market were observed. Specified high education in logistics, management or transport engineering, computer software skills, verbal and written foreign language skills (mainly English and Russian, third language proficiency is considered as advantage) communication / communication culture, analytical thinking, quick decision making (quick orientation), goal seeking, teamwork skills, ability to solve complex problems, excellent negotiation skills, organizational skills, autonomy skills, ability to prioritize, result orientation, activeness, initiative, motivation, conflict management experience / knowledge, flexibility, positive attitude. Requirements for special knowledge and skills are directly dependent on the particularities of the logistics specialist's work.

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MODEL RADNOG OSPOSOBLJAVANJA UČENIKA S VEĆIM INTELEKTUALNIM TEŠKOĆAMA ZA OBAVLJANJE POSLOVA U BANKAMA HRANE

Author(s): Maja Petković / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2010

The ability to work is one of the main criteria of success of each person and according to that job training should be one of the main objectives of the educational system for all people. The achievement of a job role even for people with severe intellectual disability is crucial, all the more that these persons after completion of the program of job training are rarely employed. A proposal of a potential model of training for people with severe intellectual disabilities performing work duties in food bank as a part of the program ofjob training is given in this paper. The food banks as a way of a community based service in the future could become a segment of the community based rehabilitation. This paper also gives a short overview of the possibilities as well as restrictions of a realization of the potential proposal in Republic of Croatia. The model itself is based on the principles of supported employment thanks to which we provide persons with intellectual disability participation in a paid work at regular working environment.

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AKTIVNOSTI I PREPREKE U ZASNIVANJU RADNOG ODNOSA ZA OSOBE S INVALIDITETOM

Author(s): Lelia Kiš-Glavaš / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2009

In the year 2007. United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP) for Croatia (www.undp.hr), initiated a new programme - „The Right to live in a Community: Social Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities“ in framework of which a scientific project: “Attitudes of Unemployed Persons with Disabilities towards employment “was developed, as well as some activities which tend to increase their employment ability. Some of these results will be presented in this essay. The aim of this essay is to determine which actions do unemployed persons with disabilities in Republic of Croatia take to Þ nd work and what difÞ culties and obstacles, according to their own evaluation, prevent them from taking more efforts in their job search. Within the sample of 573 examinees, representative of all four Croatian regions, based the on selected variables of the applied Questionnaire for employment of persons with disabilities, and using the factor analysis as well, the total of 8 factors were identified. The results indicate a passive attitude of persons with disabilities towards job search. At the same time, there are no signiÞ cant difÞ culties and obstacles which would prevent them to be more active. Therefore, it is important to point out that the persons with disabilities are also responsible for creating their own future.

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TEŠKOĆE PRI ZAPOŠLJAVANJU I RADU OSOBA S OŠTEĆENJIMA VIDA PERCIPIRANE OD STRANE POSLODAVACA

Author(s): Sanja Skočić Mihić,Zorina Pinoza Kukurin / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2009

High unemployment rate of persons with visual disabilities is a consequence of general difficult conditions for their employment and the transitional changes in the Republic of Croatia. This research tries to Þ nd out barriers to employment of persons with visual impairments perceived by the employers from County Primorsko-goranska. The sample included 154 employment policy makers in various companies. Visual Impairment Scale (OV) consisting of 22 items was applied. Factor analysis derived four latent factors as follows: First factor disadvantage due to limitations, Second factor of employer´s uncomfortable feeling in communication and in situation when help is required, Third factor expected work limitations and Fourth factor social unacceptability. The analysis of the factors shows that the employment of persons with visual impairments in employer's companies is considered complicated for several reasons: they are worried about expected pure work performance of visually impaired employees compared to other workers, their unability to use written instructions and usual technical office tools, expected workrelated injuries as well as specially adapted work place which means additional costs. On one hand, not so important reasons for employers are their own feeling of uncomfortability in contact with persons with visual impairments and possible social rejecting by costumers and co/workers. Findings indicate the sistematic approach to potential employers by giving them information of work abillities of employees with visual impairments, incentive measures for employers and assistive technology.

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Poticajne mjere kao motivirajući čimbenik zapošljavanja osoba s invaliditetom procjenjene od strane poslodavca

Author(s): Sanja Skočić Mihić,Lelia Kiš Glavaš / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2005

A high percentage of people with disabilities are unemployed. In the developed countries the system of stimulating activities, which monitors their employing has been developed. In the Republic of Croatia such a system does not exist at the moment, although it is provided for in the Law on Professional Rehabilitation and Employing People with Disabilities. The main purpose of this research was to establish the latent structure of stimulating activities as a motivating factor in employing people with disabilities. The survey was based on a sample of 116 employers in the County of Primorje-Gorski Kotar which influence the employing of new employees. The assessment of stimulating activities scale used is a part of the questionnaire on the employers’ motivation in employing people with disabilities. The structure of stimulating activities was established by factor analysis. Two factors were discovered: the factor of financial income and the factor of financial support. Both of the factors are weakly to moderately perceived by the employers as motivating factors in employing people with disabilities. The results of the employers on particular stimulating activities are shown in the paper.

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Regulative Structure of Locally Distributed Benefit Schemes and Inter-municipal Inequality: The Case of Estonia

Author(s): Kersti Kriisk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Studies of locally distributed social policy schemes, their central-local regulations and outcomes have mostly focused on single benefit schemes. However, the landscape of local social policy and access to social rights is more complex. Variety of local social policy schemes with various regulative structures can exist side-by-side within a welfare state, and often both central and local governmental levels have regulative powers for these. We assume that this complex web of central-local regulations of local social policy and changes thereof has consequences. In this study, we scrutinise regulative structures and spending patterns of all locally distributed benefit schemes in a given country (Estonia) and analyse their impact on inter-municipal inequality. We find that central steering of local schemes is not per se a guarantee for lower/stable inter-municipal inequality. The results also emphasise the complexity of central-local regulations within a country and point to unintended consequences of reforms. In the case of Estonia, we identify processes of silent centralisation in locally distributed benefit schemes.

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Employment Policies for People with Disabilities in Kosovo

Author(s): Ylber Aliu,Petrit Bushi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The purpose of the paper is to understand the employment policies related to people with disabilities in Kosovo. Two main methods are used in the paper, first, the method of analysing statistical and administrative data on the situation of persons with disabilities in the labour market, and analysing budget expenditures for disability schemes in Kosovo, and, second, the method of analysing institutional strategies, action plans, and primary and secondary legislation governing the employment of persons with disabilities. The main conclusions of the paper are: (i) Kosovo does not have official statistics regarding the number of persons with disabilities in general, and their situation in the labour market; (ii) expenditure from Kosovo's budget for financing disability schemes has steadily increased in the last three years; (iii) Kosovo has prepared and adopted an advanced legal framework that promotes vocational training, vocational retraining and employment of people with disabilities; iv) Kosovo does not have a strategic document (strategy or action plan) that defines the vision and long-term goal of increasing the employment of persons with disabilities.

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ÖZGEÇMIŞ VE ADAY MEKTUBUNU GÜÇLENDİRME: KARİYER AMACI NASIL YAZILIR

Author(s): Hasan Latif,C. Gazi Uçkun,Bariş Demir,Seher Uçkun / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 44/2019

This article focuses on a special detail of the curriculum vitae and motivation letter. The article includes explanations and suggestions on how to write the career aim of the candidate in resume and candidate letters as a job search tool.

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ENDÜSTRİ 4.0 ve TOPLUMSAL SINIFLARIN DEĞİŞİM SÜRECİNDE SENDİKALAR

Author(s): Mahmut Küçükoğlu,Hacı Yunus Taş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 44/2019

As in the developed world countries, Turkey in particular came out of the globalization process is taking place 80 years after the structure of employment and information technology and use of the results can be viewed on the use changes. Advanced World countries and Turkey's labor relations and economics in his career with starting Industry 4.0 to be effective robots and unskilled labor replaced by the introduction of new technologies, knowledge is high, leaving the trained workforce. This change in the structure of employment has become more pronounced with the change in working conditions. While employment decreased in areas requiring physical migration, employment growth and new forms of work (such as flexible / part-time work) in the service sector, where more qualified workforce such as technology use was needed and partially felt less than union members, led to a decrease in the rate of unionization.

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Perceived Corporate Reputation and Pride as Drivers of Frontline Employees’ Reputation Impact Awareness: Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

Author(s): Vesna Babić-Hodović,Maja Arslanagić-Kalajdžić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Purpose – Service employees play a crucial role in creating and sustaining the reputation of service firms. Their attitudes and commitment to the firm are reflected in customers’ perceptions of quality and loyalty, which ultimately improve corporate performance. The aim of this study is to better understand what contributes to raising frontline employees’ awareness of their role in building and sustaining the corporate reputation of service firms. Design/methodology/approach – We adapt Helm’s (2011) conceptual framework based on a work-related social identity theory and test the adapted model through an empirical study on 544 service firms’ frontline employees. Findings – Our findings show that job satisfaction of frontline employees is a significant determinant of their reputation impact awareness, as well as a mediator of the effects that pride and perceived corporate reputation have on corporate reputation impact awareness. Limitations – Possible existence of other dimensions of perceived corporate reputation, when it comes to internal stakeholders – the employees, present a limitation of this study and should certainly be considered in future research. Originality/value – We compare and contrast our fi ndings with previous studies and shed more light on internal marketing possibilities targeted towards frontline employees.

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Türkiye’de Beceri Açığı: Firma Verisi Analizi

Author(s): Z. Bilgen Susanli / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2020

The term skill shortage refers to a situation in which the demand for skilled labor exceeds the supply of it in the labor market. By drawing on firm level data from Enterprise Surveys conducted by the World Bank, this study explores the incidence and likelihood of skill shortages in Turkey in 2008 and 2013. The responses given by the firms as to whether an inadequately educated workforce is an obstacle to their operations serves as an indication of skill shortages. Probit model estimations indicate that there is a positive and statistically significant association between firm size and the likelihood of skill shortages. The activities of informal competitors are also found to increase skill shortages. The determinants of skill shortages vary across 2008 and 2013.

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Методичний підхід до оцінювання ефективності регулювання ринку праці в Україні

Author(s): Anna Pivtorak / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 12/2019

The article describes a methodical approach to assessing the efficiency of labor market regulation in Ukraine, the essence of which is the possibility of conducting a partial and integrated assessment, based on the generally accepted cost / income ratio. Differentiated assessment of regulatory effectiveness also provides for different levels of coverage for regulatory entities. One of the important institutional units for labor market regulation is the State Employment Service. The article presents an example of calculating the efficiency of labor market regulation based on a partial subjective evaluation of the State Employment Service. Five key objectives of labor market regulation have been identified, which are one of the stages of evaluation: 1) improving demographics, gender and youth support; 2) structural restructuring of the economy, diversification of employment and reduction of unemployment; 3) reducing the level of shadow employment; 4) payment of social guarantees; 5) regulation of labor relations. The presented methodological approach involves the implementation of 6 stages, in particular the definition of: 1) the goals of labor market regulation; 2) a comparative period to evaluate the effectiveness of regulation; 3) the coverage area of the subjects of regulation; 4) the size of the expenditures for the subjects of regulation; 5) the criterion indicator of assessment, for example - increase in the number of employees, decrease in the number of unemployed, increase in labor productivity, increase in the level of production of gross production, etc .; 6) comparison of revenue and cost parts in the process of evaluating regulatory effectiveness.

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FACTORS OF JOB SATISFACTION AND THEIR EFFECTS ON EMPLOYEES’ BEHAVIOR IN A MANUFACTURING COMPANY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Author(s): Andrijana Ristovska,Ljupcho Eftimov / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2019

This paper elaborates the issue about job satisfaction, observing it through the prism of the factors that lead towards its achievement, but also observing whether its absence has an impact on the employees’ behavior in the organization, employees’ productivity, absenteeism, fluctuation, as well as customers’ behavior, satisfaction and loyalty. Based on a sample of 100 employees with different gender, educational and age structure from one of the leading manufacturing companies in the Republic of Macedonia, this research revealed which factors cause job satisfaction of the employees in the Republic of Macedonia, whether the demographic characteristics influence the differences in the ranking of these factors, as well as which conditions and processes at the workplace, the absence of job satisfaction affects significantly. We can conclude that employee job satisfaction in the country is largely determined by the factors that enable the realization of self-esteem and self-realization needs, according to the Maslow's hierarchy of needs, while the wages and the financial rewards and benefits are not ranked as the most significant factors observed at the level of all respondents. Analyzing them individually, according to gender, as well as by the level of education, which often arises as a reason for the difference in the choice of the respondents, the findings show that the financial motivators have key influence on the job satisfaction of the male employees, as well as of those with completed secondary education.

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Young peoples’ relationship with the labour market: the Republic of Moldova vs. the European Union

Author(s): Alic Bîrcă,Alla Mămăligă / Language(s): English Issue: 38/2019

This scientific work tackles the young people’s problem on the labour market in the Republic of Moldova and the European Union. Young people represent that category of the labour force that has the most difficulties in entering the labour market. Due to the demands, sometimes exaggerated by the employers, the period of transition from school to the professional life of young people can last a longer time period which can lead to discouraging young people. However, the employment rate of young people is the lowest in relation to the other age categories of the employed population. At the same time, the youth unemployment rate is higher compared to other age categories. Under these circumstances, it is compulsory to develop policies to support young people that would aim to reduce unemployment among them and increase the employment rate.

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