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Aim of the study was the analysis of the attitudes and opinions the Ukrainian medical students on smoking ban in the public places, the role of the health provider in the process of quitting, and practical skills in anti-tobacco counseling obtained during studies. The Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) in Ukraine was conducted among 2973 medical students in 20102013. 33.8% of medical students declared current tobacco smoking, the half of students were exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke at home, and nearly 3/4 in public places. 77.6% of students supported the ban on smoking in all public places. More than 66% of students expressed the opinion that the physician plays an important role in shaping the attitudes of patients and anti-tobacco counseling, in addition, over 93% of students said that the physician plays an important role in providing quitting advice. Similarly about 66% of the students think that the patients have more chances to quit smoking if they are advised by health professional. Only 25.8% of students declared that they received specific training on smoking cessation techniques during their studies. In this group the chance of being smoker was significantly lower. In the group of students who opted for support for a smoking ban in all public places, risks of being a smoker was lower. There is a need to efficiently train and oblige students to participate in activities of anti-tobacco counseling, so that doctors can fully carry out its tasks in the future, not only therapeutic but also preventive.
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The focus of the study is on the concept of property management from the standpoint of sustainable development. The paper presents the idea of sustainable development and three domains considered as priorities. The idea of sustainable development in the construction sector was discussed with details of its assumption specified at the stage of design and implementation of the investment. The estimated prospective savings that result from sustainable development were also discussed. The study discusses one of contemporary concepts to support property management in the aspect of sustainable development: facility management (FM). The evaluation of building life cycle was presented as a methodology to quantitatively evaluate its effect on the environment. It was emphasized that development of the construction sector and real estate market represents a key component in leading the economy towards sustainable development.
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What makes some organizations exist for many centuries, while others die as meteors? The most important element of the survival of the organization is its strategy, the building of which requires a huge challenge facing its management when creating the only, unique strategy for the organization. What should have a properly built organizational strategy? This question is difficult to answer. However, analyzing many publications, research results and my own observations, we can conclude that the most important element closely related to the survival of the organization in the long term, so called sustainability, is the confidence that the organization can get in the environment. Thanks to the strategy, which is a document prepared for both internal and external needs, the organization communicates to the environment not only its goals, but also how it will achieve these goals. It specifies what will be its success in several areas: economic, social and environmental. These dimensions give the strategy its profound meaning and indicate the range of activities undertaken, for which the organization must obtain not only capital, but also internal and external allies, without which it will not be able to survive. To achieve this effect the task of the organization is to obtain the trust. The aim of the article is to show how sustainability strategy helps to achieve the trust by public organizations.
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Creating an industrial company’s strategy is based on the properly chosen concepts of activities which include a variety of aspects that might influence its functioning. By analyzing them we may define realistic goals and tasks possible to achieve and quickly react to fast changes in surrounding. The analysis should be completed by the optimal choice for the enterprise strategy. This process is continuous. In this process, it is required to observe changes in the environment inside and outside the company, whereas the new information in respect of which must be made appropriate adjustments in strategy. While designing the strategy many management concepts and methods are used, e.i: SWOT/TOWS analysis, ADL matrix, analysis of key success factors, strategic gap analysis, Kaizen.
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In the area of economic consumer meets the most important role. His role has a significant impact on how they are created and aimed for goods or services. Consumer guided by their habits, behaviors or fashion shows directions of activities for entrepreneurs. It happens that sometimes entrepreneurs want to influence consumer`s behavior. However, the offer must be convincing enough for the consumer to accept the emergence of new products. Only activities of marketing can contribute to the economic success. Entrepreneurs who want to offer something new and encourage consumers to take an interest in a particular product or service must now compile all the information from the environment. The development of information technology has contributed to the fact that the information derived from the environment are stored in electronic form. The paper will present Big Data technology in knowledge management of consumer`s behavior. Big Data significantly expands the area of data processing. This should not be equated only in the number of data. The Big Date special attention should be focused on the variety of forms of writing data in electronic form. Currently, the data processing is performed basic tools of information technology. These tools are geared for a strictly defined data format and the use of them is very limited.
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The concept of Internet of Things is a very important paradigm in Information Technology. Currently, the information society is developing at a very fast pace. One of the main determinants in information society is the concept of the Internet of Things. The merging between the concept and the information society has been going on for a long time. The author introduces as many things in everyday life which would change due to the concept of Internet of Things and argues that each of us belongs to the virtual society. The use of technological developments and new scientific discoveries in the concept of the Internet of things for many spheres of human activity is explained. The author would like to present significant element of the Internet of Things architecture.
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In contrast to customer brand loyalty, prosumption and collaborative consumption are under-investigated phenomena. This gap demands attention of management scholars, because these consumption mega-trends are ambiguous from business perspective: they can bring threats and opportunities for entrepreneurs, especially in turbulent business environment. This paper is based on the survey conducted among 269 Polish consumers which were actively involved in modern consumption patterns. The research results suggest that involvement in these patterns can be actually positively connected with general brand loyalty inclination, which motivates designing strategies oriented at winning loyalty among “consumer activists”.
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The objective of this study is to compare the consumer’s perception of dimensions of shopping experiences in the online and offline shopping context. The experience dimensions were identified on the basis of an extended literature review and empirically verified. The data was gathered by means of both online and pen-and-paper survey. The results show that although both online and offline shopping experiences were positively evaluated by the respondents, the perception of particular dimensions of the shopping experience varied. These preliminary findings show that although both online and offline retailers are able to create memorable experiences, consumers focus on different aspects of the shopping experience in internet and brick-and-mortar stores.
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In classical economic theory, the consumer is called the homo oeconomicus, who is rational, has a full access to the information, and his economic choices are neither related to emotions, nor influenced by the external environment. The consumer marketing concept is based on the opposite approach, where homo oeconomicus does not exist and purchasing decisions are not optimized, but full of emotion, sensitivity. Emotionality and sensitivity of the consumer may be self-centered and express themselves in consumerism, but it can also be directed in the entire process of the service or product and affect the social sphere and the environment. The goal of this article is to present consumer sensitivity to social and environmental issues. The primary objective is to present market trends that relate to the first environmental sensitivity and social users on the Polish market. The article presents the findings of research conducted by the authors on the buying habits.
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The purpose of this article was to test those fields of human relations in work environment, whose influence on adaptation and professional integration of new employees may be of positive or negative nature. A servey was completed by 141 young employees working in different type of organizations. Additional information was drawn from the case studies of the conflicts, which servey respondents have observed in their organizations. Some statements were under consideration. 1. One of the influential determinants of young worker’s adaptation is how there are managed the workload and personal duties in the team 2. The next important determinant of young worker integration and engagement arises from the quality of personal relations between the superior and young worker 3. The atmosphere of peer support and solidarity in a team is powerful antecedent of successful integration of new employee. 4. Educating team in the field of professional communication, problem solving and conflict resolution, what is important for everyone professional and social integration, strongly depends on the potential of organization
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In the article, the author analyzes the behavior of young consumers (from Y generation) looking for an answer, if we can call them conscious consumers. The article is based on the results of the author’s qualitative research conducted via virtual ethnography and focus group interviews (7 FGIs). The collected data are confirming an increase in consumer awareness and a number of emerging consumer trends implementing the idea of ethical consumption, but these behaviors are not always the result of environmental concerns.
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Objective: To assess sport facilities and actions undertaken by local authorities regarding their number and condition, organization of sports events and promotion of physical activity (PA). Material and Methods: CATI survey was conducted on the sample of 1,893 Polish people aged 15–91 using questions concerning the determinants of their sports activity. Results: Poles assessed the state of existing sports and recreation facilities well (paid – 93.7% and free – 83.9%). They were not satisfied with their number (68.4 and 67.2% respectively) and their high charges (77.8%). Local authorities maintain a sufficient number of sports facilities (54.4%), keep them in good condition (77.5%), organize sports events (75.0%) and promote PA (53.8%). These evaluations differ depending on socio-demographic variables. Conclusions: Local authorities should increase participation in sports among all social groups by constructing, renovating and maintaining sports facilities and making them available free of charge or at a low cost.
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Will the University be able to suport effectively the development of innovative economy, if it is not innovative? Does traditional thinking about the competence and doctoral education allow the graduates to join the innovation processes in companies or be a keystone of the relationship between science and practice? What would have to change in the university and its environment, that doctors of sciences have become an important factor of innovation processes? The research results indicate lack of support mechanisms for the transition from university to the labor market. Businesses are not particularly interested in recruiting doctors, and even there are cases of rejection based on the applicant held a degree. The graduates themselves are not blameless. They often do not know the needs of the labor market outside the university and do not develop the competence that could make them more attractive on the labor market. At the same time we talk increasingly about innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity in the context of the modern university. Do we need today such innovations in the university? What would they be? Where to find their sources? As part of the university or outside it? Or and perhaps in the relationship with the environment, including those with the participation of PhD students and graduates? The authors attempt to answer at least part of these questions, using the results of research, but some are left unanswered as an impulse to think about the universities and the challenge for the future research projects.
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The development of Internet contributed to the development of the information society. Since the 90’s, the Internet has been developed also in Poland. A virtual world has become an environment for the new unknown risks faced by the Polish society. It is necessary to take steps and create rules regulating functioning in a virtual world.
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Ecological competences, similarly to ecological products, technologies and innovations have played an increasingly important role in the development of the company, determining both the increase in company’s value and its market success for a longer period of time. Ecological knowledge and competences possessed by companies may effectively prevent the occurrence of environmental issues and properly shape environmental security, which is associated with the elimination of ecological threats not only for individual companies, but also for the entire global economy. Ecological competences, which are created as a combination of mutually complementary and strengthening skills and environmental knowledge possessed by both managers and employees, allow the company to realise its production process without threat to environment and to create products of high ecological standards. As a consequence, these competences become a key element of the company’s success, which is crucial for gaining a competitive advantage, so it is worth looking into this issue.
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The main problem related to food production is that food is produced for profit rather than to meet the food needs of the population. Food waste takes place during the entire production process, from the moment it was created, in distribution, and then by intermediaries in stores, warehouses, and finally by the target recipients — in restaurants and homes. At each step, food can become waste. There are many market and technological solutions that can reduce the problem of food waste. However, these are technological solutions that do not contribute to changing the producers’ and recipients’ approach to food. They do not provide an answer to the question of why a farmer decides to leave food on the field instead of selling or distributing it in cases of production surpluses. The answer to these problems may be an attempt to change human mentality, striving towards social responsibility. The main question that will be posed here is whether the only solution to the problem of food waste is changing the human mentality. Does foodsaving equal social responsibility?
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Review of: Umweltphilosophie und Landschaftsdenken im baltischen Kulturraum / Environmental Philosophy and Landscape Thinking. Hrsg. von Liina Lukas , Ulrike Plath und Kadri Tüür unter Mitwirkung von Jaan Undusk . (collegium literarum, Bd. 24.) Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus. Tallinn 2011. 376, XXII S., Ill., Kt. ISBN 978-9985-865-34-7. (€ 29,–.). Reviewed by Julia Obertreis.
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Should we want to consider the actual relevance and significance of the eco-interreligious civilization of love, we can discuss this idea in the current difficult times in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. The world was shocked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which made people of all nations experience changes in life spiritually, physically, and socially. In the perspective of Laudato Si’ encyclical, the COVID-19 pandemic challenges all people without discrimination to bring about ecological conversion and a culture of love, even eco-interreligious civilization of love. This paper aims to explain the idea of eco-interreligious love civilization as the fruit of ecological conversion amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative reflection uses the encyclical Laudato Si’ as a theoretical foundation to examine the importance of interfaith civilization of love in the context of the Indonesian Catholic Church, primarily based on the response of two Archbishop of Jakarta Archdiocese and Semarang Archdiocese. The COVID-19 pandemic was a natural reaction to the error of the human collective towards nature. In the language of faith, the plague is partly caused by ecological sin that needs ecological conversion to conduct an eco-interreligious civilization of love.
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The necessity of considering the mass media and a broad spectrum of their effects on social and cultural processes in reflecting any current phenomenon can hardly be challenged. Environmentalism and climate change are among those topics that have begun resonating in the media ever more frequently in recent years. Although scientific findings on climate change quite often become victims of post-truth, the mass media do reflect on this issue and so they shape the public discourse significantly. Similar passions as seen with media theorists reflecting on the power of the media and their role in public discourse can also be witnessed with eco-philosophers pointing to an alarming situation of the environment. Meanwhile, average recipients acquire most information on environmental issues and possible solutions to these problems from news and documentary forms of presentation by the media. It is obvious therefore that the way of how the media deal with environmental issues requires a thorough reflection, particularly considering the vital importance of many environmental problems.
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