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Krajowy System Ratowniczo-Gaśniczy (KSRG): teraźniejszość i przyszłość systemu zarządzania ochroną i ratownictwem ludności w Polsce

Author(s): Andrzej Celiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 109/2016

This article presents The National Firefighting and Rescue System (NFRS), which implements in Poland, tasks in rescue service, organization and management. Based on the twenty years of experience, the belief has been established that in order to ensure the safety and protection of the population in the case of natural disasters or technical failures, the integrated solutions are the only effective form of risk prevention. To demonstrate the functionality of NFRS as part of the security system of the state in the area of rescue and civil protection, in the article has been made a general analysis of the system in 20 years, and presented the thesis that the continuous development of civilization and the consequent new and changing threats, causing a continuing need of improving rescue systems in Poland. The approach to the tasks of civil protection must evaluate, which has a beneficial effect on the rescue system, and the solutions adopted for rescue are effective and widely acceptable by Polish society. It is also essential considering how to present reality to link actions NFRS the designed system in Poland to protect the population. It should be noted that for several years the development of the NFRS is aimed at protecting the population, not only in the areas of rescue, so there is no logical justification for creating and maintaining an armchair formation of Civil Defense, since NFRS can fulfill the tasks assigned to these formations.

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ZARZĄDZĄNIE POMOCĄ W DZIEDZINIE WŁĄCZANIA SPOŁECZNEGO KIEROWANĄ DO MŁODZIEŻY Z RODZIN MIGRACYJNYCH NA POZIOMIE UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ

Author(s): Agnieszka Dybowska / Language(s): English Issue: 134/2023

Youth migration can be considered in many aspects. More and more young people from third countries are moving to European countries on their own or with their parents, sometimes at a very young age or even in childhood. At the same time, more and more young Europeans are becoming mobile across the continent. In terms of public policy for youth, it should be noted that students and pupils from a migrant background often struggle with difficulties in adapting to new learning conditions. Social inclusion of all young people, including those with migrant backgrounds, is one of the priorities of EU public policies in the youth field. Nowadays, social inclusion is largely based on activities that do not allow for digital exclusion, because modern education is very closely related to modern technologies. The instruments for implementing public policy for youth involve various programs funded by the European Union. These programs play a very important role in the process of social inclusion of young people from migrant families. As a result of the research, using the method of institutional and legal analysis, it was concluded that the key recommendation is that all activities addressed to young people from migrant families should enable them to function well in youth communities.

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WYZWANIA WE WSPÓŁCZESNYM ZARZĄDZANIU WIELOKULTUROWYMI ZESPOŁAMI: ANALIZA PORÓWNAWCZA WYNIKÓW WYWIADÓW Z EUROPEJSKIMI MENEDŻERAMI

Author(s): Agnieszka Knap-Stefaniuk / Language(s): English Issue: 135/2024

The increasing number of multinational companies has added complexity to tasks performed by multicultural teams. While multiculturalism is common in many companies operating globally, it can impact goal achievement both positively and negatively. However, the effective management of multicultural teams offers several benefits, such as access to employees’ unique knowledge and diverse experiences, improved communication with foreign contractors, and the possibility to introduce innovative solutions. This article aims to identify the challenges in managing multicultural teams based on in-depth interviews conducted in 2024 with managers from Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Greece. These challenges are compared to those reported by managers from other European countries in the interviews conducted in 2023. The theoretical section discusses the importance of multicultural teams in contemporary management. The empirical section presents the results of the 2024 interviews and compares them to the 2023 findings. According to managers from Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Greece, the main challenges in managing multicultural teams include the substantive preparation of managers, their level of cultural intelligence, effective communication within multicultural teams, and the continuous development of the knowledge and skills necessary for working in culturally diverse environments.

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IZAZOVI GLOBALNOG PLANIRANJA U TRANSPORTNOJ INDUSTRIJI

Author(s): Mehmed Konaković,Abidin Deljanin / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 29/2024

A New Era of Civilizational Development Carries the Burden of Ensuring Life and Personal Integrity for 200% More People on Earth Today (4.9 bilion Hectares of Agricultural Land and Over 8 billion People in 2024) Compared to 50 Years Ago (4.5 bilion Hectares of Agricultural Land and 4 billion People in 1970). The needs of civilization are measured in billions of tons of goods and billions of units of services to ensure that life bearers on the planet, both in our time and in the future, can lead a somewhat normal life. It is a fact that an increasing number of the needs of new societies are becoming weapons in the hands of oppressors. It is possible to list many factors that threaten the life and survival of civilization. Science, politics, and strategy, each in their own way, are all trying to meet the demands of life. Solutions must and are being sought in technological achievements. This is the best. The transportation industry, along with the logistics industry, is the most significant factor in solving civilizational challenges. In order to provide a comprehensive civilizational response to challenges, it is essential to operate according to unified standards, apply unified procedures, and harmonize dynamics, all with the goal of establishing a global quality system and quality management in the transportation industry.

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FROM PSYCHOPATHY TO EXPEDIENCY: UNRAVELLING THE MEDIATING ROLES OF ORGANISATIONAL CYNICISM AND MORAL DISENGAGEMENT IN LEADERSHIP DYNAMICS

Author(s): Aneu Yulianeu,Faizal Wihuda,Arief Adhy Kurniawan / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2024

The research conducted is grounded on the principles of social exchange (SET), social cognitive theory (SCT), and conservation of resources theories (COR). These theories enabled us to comprehend the indirect correlation between leader psychopathy and employee expediency. To validate our research, we surveyed three waves, collecting information from 282 hotel employees in Indonesia. The PLS-SEM technique was used to test the hypotheses. The results demonstrated evidence that leader psychopathy had a positive direct and indirect effect on employee expediency through organisational cynicism and moral disengagement. We make novel theoretical, empirical, and practical contributions by explaining why leader psychopathy affects employee expediency. This study is one of the first to integrate leader psychopathy, organisational cynicism, moral disengagement, and employee expediency into a single theoretical model.

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The Role of Managerial Skills Through Coaching Within the Contemporary Economy

Author(s): Ionela Stanca Petruta,Denisa Mihaela ȘULĂ,Liliana Ionela NICOLAE ȘTEFAN / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The research aims to study the improvement of managerial skills through coaching, in service-providing and goods-producing industries. The reason for this research started from the need for studies on the coaching market in Romania that would result in concrete data regarding the level of benefits that such services can provide to clients from various industries. The need is to be able, both as a provider and as a user of coaching services, to refer to certain values that determine whether coaching services bring added value, and if so, how much. Starting from this need and from the theoretical areas of known benefits that coaching services bring to clients, the area on which the research will be focused was determined. Thus, the main objective was defined as obtaining a package of values that would determine the level of impact of coaching services on the managerial skills of management personnel in Romanian industries. This general objective gave birth to the objective of determining a model of managerial skills with an impact on managerial performance, which can be developed and improved through coaching programs.

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Managerial Communication from the Perspective of Increasing the Performance of Enterprises

Author(s): Daniela Corina ROTESCU,Cristinel Sorin SPINU,Ionuț Riza,Irina Andreea PEGULESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Communication is an essential component of life because in order to achieve our goals, we must understand the basic elements of communication as correctly as possible. In addition, communication plays a significant role in the performance of an organization. Implementation efficiency is negatively affected by conflict generation and positively by communication, especially in a written and interpersonal form. Excellent communication and transparency between the parties involved, as well as the clear definition of performance factors, have a vital role in the development of economic agents (and implicitly of companies, regardless of their size starting from SMEs to multinationals). The purpose of the article considers the role of managerial communication in increasing the performance of SMEs. Therefore, a major objective of managerial communication is to develop and disseminate knowledge that leads to increased efficiency and effectiveness of managers. Moreover, the manager sees communication as a means to an end, something to be exploited in the service of organizational objectives after weighing cost-benefit considerations.

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Diagnosis of Quality Management in the Call Center Industry

Author(s): Adrian POP / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

The purpose of this study is to carry out a diagnostic analysis of the quality management system (QMS) in the Romanian call center industry In order to achieve this goal, the method of selective research was used, carrying out an investigation in the relevant companies. The sample was made up in such a way that the condition of representativeness in relation to the general community of the call-center industry is fulfilled. The questionnaire contained questions regarding the elements (processes) from which is compose quality management system, because the diagnosis must be made by analyzing the elements that from which the QMS is compose. In the second chapter, the QMS diagnosis was presented, analyzing the four elements that, according to the specialized literature, make the quality management system The third chapter analyzes the current status of quality management system implementation in the call center industry. Through the diagnostic analysis, the QMS dysfunctions most frequently faced by the call center industry were identified. Knowing the causes that determine nonquality, remedial and quality improvement solutions presented in the conclusions section were formulated.

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Social Sustainability Model through Quality Management in Education

Author(s): Geanina Colan,Aura COLAN,Adriana MATEI,Nicoleta Cristache,Sabin MURARIU,Narcis RĂDUCAN / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

The development of the Romanian education system must be carried out according to the needs of the consumers of educational services through the development of modern policies and reforms, through partnership between stakeholders, through the use of quality management models in order to review management efficiency. The models, methods, and tools that educational institutions use create the space for lifelong learning and the opportunity for flexible education. The focus on the development of sustainable quality management systems for educational institutions shows that there is a growing awareness for quality management in educational institutions, as they want to increase the competitiveness of institutions in the European market. It is necessary to create a culture of quality, which is an essential condition for the implementation of TQM principles in an educational institution.

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The Correlation between the Principal's Leadership Style and the Commitment of Teachers in Arab Schools in Israel

Author(s): Khadija HIBA / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2023

The purpose of the present study is to examine the influence of principal's leadership style on the teachers' commitment. The research question is: What is the correlation between the school principal's leadership style and teachers' sense of commitment? The research population is from The Triangle, Israeli Arab towns, and villages adjacent to the Green Line. The settlements are home to approximately 300,000 Arab citizens of Israel, representing about 24%% of Israel's Palestinian Arab population who are Muslim. 352 teachers participated in the study. The teachers teach in middle schools and high schools. The research tools used in the study include two questionnaires: 1) Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire – MLQ by Bass and Avolio (1990). 2) The Allen and Meyer (1990) commitment to school questionnaire. Hypothesis H1 was confirmed, the study findings showed that there are positive relationships of moderate and significant strengths between all leadership indicators and commitment indicators. while high levels of leadership (transformational, transactions,l and laissez-faire) the teacher reported about his principal, are associated with high levels of affective and continuance commitment. In addition, it was found that the relationship between transactional leadership and affective commitment is (slightly) stronger than the relationship between transformational leadership and affective commitment.

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Management of Performing Teams in the Conditions of a VUCA Environment

Author(s): Elena Casandra NIȚULESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Team management is an essential concept, increasingly widespread, in order to form a united, performing and successful team that will be able to achieve the set goals. Managing a team means creating a balance between its needs and the needs of each team member, between the freedom that employees need to be creative and taking responsibility for their actions. Moreover, in our time, there is an increased emphasis on the operation of virtual teams at the most professional level. The article presents the vision approached in the literature on this subject and the institutional implications. All of this, with the corollary of the managerial approach from the perspectives of managing performance within teams, their delimitation from the group notion, and the implications within an organization, are key points analyzed in the article, in correlation with a VUCA environment.

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Impact of Leadership Styles on Organizational Performance and Employee Retention – Case Study of Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Author(s): Flavius Cosmin DARIE / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

This study aims to examine the complex relationship between leadership styles, organizational performance, and employee retention across different economic systems. Furthermore, it seeks to illustrate how different leadership approaches impact organizational dynamics within different economic contexts. Employing a mix of case study and qualitative methodologies, the research investigates the multiple organizations in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, utilizing a structured analysis on the collected data. The methodology is designed to capture the nuanced ways in which leadership influences key organizational outcomes, including employee loyalty and organizational efficacy. The findings suggest that transformational leadership universally enhances organizational performance and employee retention, yet the effectiveness of leadership styles is significantly shaped by cultural and economic factors. In conclusion, this research paper indicates that adaptable, context-aware leadership is crucial for navigating the complexities of global economic systems, highlighting the need for leaders to tailor their approaches according to the environment in which it operates.

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Blocking Psychological Contract Breach and Improving Leader-Member Exchange through Innovative Leadership

Author(s): Dina SAFITRI / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

This theoretical paper investigates the role of innovative leadership in enhancing leader-member exchange (LMX) and mitigating psychological contract breach (PCB). The focus is on how innovation in leadership strengthens the quality of relationships between leaders and employees, subsequently impacting employee behavior positively. The characteristics of innovative leadership are examined to elucidate its potential in fostering trust, commitment, and mutual respect within organizations. Furthermore, this paper addresses how improved LMX through innovative leadership influences employees' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), leading to enhanced overall organizational performance. By exploring the dynamics between innovative leadership, LMX, and PCB, the paper provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms through which innovative leadership can prevent PCB and improve LMX. This analysis offers valuable insights for both scholars and practitioners in the fields of organizational behavior and leadership, highlighting practical implications for fostering a positive organizational environment.

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Measuring the Association between Emotional and Financial Employee Well-Being and Work Satisfaction

Author(s): Nicoleta Valentina FLOREA,Gabriel Croitoru,Alina Stefania STROE / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

The article provides a concise yet significant overview of the emotional and financial well-being of employees at work, categorized as soft and hard aspects. Well-being is a multidisciplinary topic, now seen at the workplace as a factor in performance. Employee well-being is crucial not only for the individuals but also for the organizations, with a correlation between emotional and financial well-being and job satisfaction being assessed. Additionally, the study examined the impact of three variables - gender, age, and organization - on job satisfaction. The analysis, utilizing SPAS and R square, revealed that there is no significant association between gender (2.3%), age (0.9%), and organization (0.5%) and job satisfaction. Only a small percentage, ranging from 0.5% to 2.3%, of the variance in job satisfaction can be explained by these three variables. Furthermore, it was found that the emotional and financial well-being of employees significantly influences job satisfaction. A substantial 99.5% of the variance in these two types of well-being is linked to job satisfaction, making them strong predictors. This leads to increased job satisfaction among employees, resulting in enhanced performance at work. This mutually beneficial scenario is achieved through the use of simulation and forecasting, two methods that are both simple and complex. Organizations and their managers can use this as a starting point to comprehend the soft and hard aspects of achieving well-being and satisfaction at work to enhance performance.

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Impact of Organizational Culture on Teachers' regulation of Emotions in Arab High Schools in Israel

Author(s): Manal Hijazi,Ana Năstase / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2024

The study investigates the effect of organizational culture on teachers' emotions in Arab high schools within Israeli society. Emotions in teaching, both positive and negative, are seen as integral to the learning environment, influencing job satisfaction, stress levels, and overall teacher performance. The research utilized a quantitative approach, employing a cross-sectional study with 504 participants from 19 Arab schools, examining the relationship between organizational culture and emotional regulation at work. The findings reveal a significant positive correlation between all dimensions of organizational culture— such as clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy—and various aspects of teachers' emotions, including enhancing positive effect, perspective-taking, soothing, and social modeling. The results underscore the importance of understanding the cultural diversity within Arab society and how it impacts teachers' emotional experiences. The study concludes that fostering a supportive organizational culture in schools is critical for improving teachers’ emotional well-being and, consequently, their performance.

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THE ROLE OF THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE WORK OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER A BRIEF GUIDEBOOK TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Author(s): Mihaiela David / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2023

Along with the development and the diversification of the duties that fall within the scope of the human resources department, the issue of reorganizing this sector as well as increasing the range of skills and abilities possessed by specialists working in the human resources has also been raised. If for the preparation of individual employment contract knowledge of the labor legislation was required, and for the preparation of a payroll elements of accounting were required, today the requirements for a human resources specialist involve a much more diverse range of knowledge and skills. Thus, the economic or administrative training is joined by knowledge in the fields of psychology, sociology, and biology, without which it would be difficult for the human resources specialist to achieve performance both at the personal level and at the level of personnel management that administer it. The access to information related to the personal development and the knowledge of the human behavior is no longer the exclusive right of psychology. Without diminishing the importance of an academic course in this respect, we would like to bring to attention a "shortcut" thereof, as a result of which any person can acquire a series of knowledge and skills specific to the field. This paper proposes to bring to the field of knowledge the category of information accessible as content, to the employees in the field of human resources who have studies in psychology. We thus connect to a universe of knowledge at the level of personal skills, self-motivation, empathy, identification and observation of emotions, and more concretely, to the emotional intelligence. The present paper came in response to the difficulties that the human resources personnel with predominantly economic education encounter in the activities that require understanding the behavior of employees, in their capacity as human resources. The paper summarizes the elements that define the concept of emotional intelligence and proposes a five-step guide to its development.

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Intenzitet primjene ključnih odrednica transformacijskog liderstva direktora osnovnih škola u Kantonu Sarajevo

Author(s): Zijada Rahimić,Aida Omersoftić / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 3/2024

Dynamics, uncertainty and unpredictability of change are present in all social spheres, including in the education sector. The position of the school director is considered crucial for creating an innovative school climate in accordance with environmental changes. The transformational leadership style is recognized as a style that enables capacity development, dedication and involvement of teachers in the process of innovative work in the direction of fulfilling the set goals of the school. Theoretical and empirical research proves that this leadership style in schools contributes to the empowerment of teachers in the application of innovative practices and the creation of an innovative school. Special emphasis is placed on the factors of building a vision, individual attention and intellectual stimulation by which transformational leaders motivate, inspire, encourage and stimulate teachers in intellectual work. This paper investigates the presence of the transformational leadership of primary schools principals in Sarajevo Canton. Using a sample of 675 teachers from 30 elementary schools, this paper examines whether and to what extent the principal's transformational leadership is represented using a quantitative research method. The results obtained on the basis of teachers' perceptions of the leadership of their principals show a high level of the presence of elements of transformational leadership: vision building, individual attention and intellectual stimulation. A high level of teacher evaluation indicates the director's readiness for innovative work, teachers' acceptance of a common vision and intellectual improvement in classroom work. Statistically significant differences in relation to the variables: gender, age, level of professional education, teaching area and years of work at the school, additionally explain the teachers' perceptions of the principal's transformational behavior. The teachers' acceptance of the change initiated by the director points to the need for systematic education of directors in the field of educational management, especially in the field of leadership.

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CORPORATE REPUTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY A LITERATURE REVIEW

Author(s): Luiza Ion (Domnișoru) / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2024

Across the last four decades, a vast scientific literature has analyzed the relationship between corporate reputation and organizational legitimacy (Cornelissen, 2004; Deephouse & Suchman, 2008; Tost, 2011; Bartlett et al., 2013; Bitektine & Haack, 2015) to highlight differences and similarities. This study aimed to analyze the scientific literature about organizational legitimacy and corporate reputation, employing a methodological design in three steps: literature refining through a systematic literature review, corpus selection, and conceptual universe delimitation. The systematic review was performed across the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The search equations were organizational reputation AND legit (legitimation/ legitimacy) within domains related to communications, sociology, and business management. The final sample was established after filtering the queries by English language, open-access articles, and texts having both terms present in abstracts or keywords (n=71 articles) for the final corpus selected articles being cited at least once (n=57). A content analysis using mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) of the selected corpus and Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) Leximancer and Atlas.ti completed the systematic review. The scientific literature published between 1994 and 2022 on organizational legitimacy and corporate reputation concepts showed that the theory of legitimacy and the sociopolitical approach were the prevailing themes. The most commonly used research method was qualitative (case studies, discourse analysis, in depth or directed interviews). Companies and profitable organizations associate reputation and legitimacy through social norms and ideological constructs (Palazzo & Scherer, 2006). Organizations invest in communication efforts, such as social media (Twitter, Instagram), business and sustainability reporting, and stakeholder communication management, to strengthen the relationship between these intangible assets (Rao, 1994; Sorenson, 2014; Martinez et al, 2018; Del-Castillo-Feito et al., 2020). The findings of this study can bring important insights for future research on the strategies used by the profitable organizations to build their reputation and self-representation on social media through discursive legitimation practices.

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TEACHER ATTRITION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A CASE STUDY

Author(s): Mapula Rebecca Mabusela,Vimbi Petrus Mahlangu / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2025

The purpose of the article was to examine the way female principals experienced teacher attrition in their schools. The purpose about this study was not to generalise but to better understand how female principals experienced teacher attrition. The main question that this article wanted to understand was: What are the causes of teacher attrition in public schools?” The study was conducted in the Tshwane West District of Gauteng Province. The Tshwane West District is one of the fifteen districts of Gauteng Province, situated to the West of Pretoria. Qualitative approach was used, and method of data collected was through interviews. Fourteen (14) female school principals were selected as key informants who could provide information on teacher attrition. Of the fourteen female principals, nine (9) were primary school principals and five secondary school principals. These participants were chosen because they were likely to be knowledgeable and informative about teacher attrition. Analysis: Data was coded, and it was ensured that data that corresponded to the codes which were identified as the analysis was done. Patterns and themes emerged as the coding continued. Then interpretive paradigm was used to understand the participants experiences. It was found that the cause of teacher attrition was due to factors beyond the control of the schools such as legislation, technology, economy, retirement, dismissals, and redundancies in schools.

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THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT ON GROUP BEHAVIOUR

Author(s): Adrian Vilcu,Raluca Petronela Lăzărescu,Ionut Viorel Herghiligiu / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2022

Organisational behaviour (OB) is found in all economic and social fields. Thus, it supports many definitions, classifications and components depending on the field in which it is analysed. But regardless of the size in which it occurs, OB is centred by the individual, seen to the other elements of the system in which it is defined. Current research examines the changes that can be made by online learning about the individual to the group, the person himself and from the perspective of the task he has to solve. Thus, a statistical analysis was performed on two heterogeneous groups of students from different years, a group subjected to an entire online learning system for two years and a group with hybrid learning. The data of the systemic approach are presented - working hypotheses, components of the proposed model for analysing the individual's behaviour within the group, component of the questionnaire with structured aspects on three dimensions, its application on the two groups of respondents, statistical regression methodology - the creation of systemic variables, normality check distributions, the choice of statistical tests, the application of the regression method specific to the series distribution and the comparative analysis of the two psychometric relations for the two studied groups. The conclusions, limitations of the research, applicability, and future research directions are highlighted at the end of the paper.

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