"Baby Boom" generacije na pragu penzionisanja

Author(s): Jelena Stojilković / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2010

Sudden increase in the number of live births after the Second World War due to an increase in fertility rates has led to the formation of cohorts with specific characteristics or baby boom generation. This generation is unique in the history of the demographic phenomenon that has affected and affects the functioning of many segments of society. The aim of this paper is to assess structure of baby boomers who are few years away from retirement, using demographic data. Impact of baby boomer age structure of current and future retirees is described with a graphical display of current and projected age pyramid of baby boomers. Demographic pattern that women live longer than men is evident in the projected pyramid. In addition, the number of baby boomers will lead to a "younger" old population. The imbalance in the number of men and women pensioners, as well as older cohorts of women and female baby boomers was analysed. As a result, an increasing trend of women's age pensioners who are members of the baby boom generation was clearly observed, which is opposite to the older cohort of women who often were family pensioners. Different circumstances and conditions in which female boomers lived and worked will form a new "pension model" because they will gain their benefits as well as men, for the first time in significant number, unlike their mothers, which gained the right to retire after they become widows. Number of women age pensioners is getting greater compering to men, as the result of changes in the economic activities of women in the last half of the 20th century. When baby boomers retire and exit the working population, this will create a vacuum, because the numerically smaller generations will enter working population, while the sudden and very shortly, the number of population older than 60 or 65 will increase, most of them will likely to acquire the right to a pension. It is undeniable that baby boomers had impact on demographic structure, but also on society as a whole. They have been extremely important factor of development of our country during their working career, they are healthier then previous generation and many of them possess the knowledge and experience gained by the years, so rigid prediction of future changes that will produce the retirement of this generation has no excuses. Retired baby boom generation will perhaps lead to new, better way of life in old age.

"Employee of the Month" in Romania: a Study on Perceptions

Author(s): Sabina Irimie,Bianca Armean / Language(s): English / Issue: 5/2012

An important and complex problem of labor economics in general and of human resource management in particular, is to effectively motivate employees. At the current juncture, under the spectrum of economic crisis, the controversies of theoretical and practical interest such as the importance of the money, the relationship between motivation, satisfaction and performance at work, are more pronounced and more focused on non-financial forms of motivation. At least in part, this is because the usual ways of saving costs in today's organizations seem to aim primarily the expenses on staff (wages, rewards, training funds and so on). In this context, the paper aims to highlight the perceptions of employees on the program "Employee of the Month", as it was implemented in a Romanian organization (in a hybrid approach, combining monetary rewards and recognition awards specific to most common forms of program). Thus, the main results of our study reflect the opinions of people involved in this program, and allow us to sketch some possible changes based on the feedback from employees, in order to further improve the effectiveness of the program.

(Ne)delání rodinné politiky v České republice

Author(s): Linda Sokačová / Language(s): Czech / Publication Year: 0

14th International Scientific Conference Business Logistics in Modern Management

Author(s): Jelena Franjković / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

25. mednarodna konferenca zgodovinarjev delavskega gibanja

Author(s): Andrej Studen / Language(s): Slovenian / Issue: 1-2/1990

25. mednarodna konferenca zgodovinarjev delavskega gibanja (ITH) (Linz, 12. do 16. IX. 1989)

360 DERECE PERFORMANS DEĞERLEME YÖNTEMİ İLE PERFORMANS DEĞERLEME: BANKA ŞUBESİ ÇALIŞANLARI ÜZERİNDE NİTEL BİR ARAŞTIRMA

Author(s): Aras Doğan / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 42/2019

This study focuses on how the key competencies of employees are evaluated using 360 degree performance evaluation system. 360 degree performance appraisal of employees is evaluated not only from superiors but also from himself, subordinates, peers and customers. The main aim of this study is to evaluate six key competencies acknowledged by 360 degree performance evaluation system. With this purpose semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight bank branch employees and the data were arranged and interpreted by means of descriptive analysis. The findings show that seven employees’s performance is above the desired level. But one employee’s performance is below desired level. It is believed that this research will contribute qualitative performance evaluation using 360 degree performance evaluation process.

410 Romanian Managers’ Opinion Regarding the Place and Role of the Organizational culture in the Sustainable Development Management

Author(s): H. C. Ion Petrescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2011

In the sustainable development management, the following important elements are present and operate: rules of conduct, values, aspirations and expectations, beliefs, specific myths, learned behavior patterns, habits, visible symbols of the company, motivation / reward systems, rights and obligations, components of the organizational culture. These generate the way the activities of sustainable development are structured. The organizational culture influences the sustainable development at the economic, social and environmental level. It contains sustainable values for change, oriented towards the sustainable development management.

50+ do starého železa nepatří!

Author(s): Zdena Bočarova / Language(s): Czech / Publication Year: 0

A "GLOBAL" STRATEGY ON CONSTRUCTING "REGIONAL" ADVANTAGE BY REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS (RIS)

Author(s): Ayşegül Baykul,Selen Işik Maden / Language(s): English / Issue: 19/2019

Studies on regional innovation systems in various geographical levels are gradually increasing. The aim of this study is to reveal the importance of region spatially in the development of innovative capacity. By the regionalization of innovation policies, needs of a specific region or company are exhibited more effectively and it becomes easier to monitor and apply the precautions to be taken. Creating a regional advantage starts with identifying the environments where knowledge production, innovation and entrepreneurship actualise. From this point of view Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) play a strategical role on competitive ability and innovation ability of regions. Systematic malfunctions than can prevent innovation system from operating efficiently can be in question. In this case the intervention of the public need to focus on the malfunctions in the relations, not to overall system. In this sense the regulatory role of the government needs to focus on process-based issues such as developing regional knowledge infrastructure, catalysing to access external knowledge sources, increasing the human capital quality, supporting clusters, establishing networks among innovative actors and supporting them.

A Business Motivational Profile: comparing the Attitudes of the Business, Administration and Young People

Author(s): Diana Kopeva,Nikolai Shterev,Dimitar Blagoev / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2015

The issies of motivational attitudes and the studies in this field have alwaysbeen relevant with reference to the dynamics of the business environment and the fastchanges in them within this context. For this reason, there are numerour previoustheoretical, methodological and practical studies which do not belittle the importance ofany subsequent study.In connection with the above mentioned, the present survey studies andanalyses the motivation of employees and managers of business structures and publicadministration. Its aim is to analyse and make a comparative analysis of the motivationof managers and employees working in business organizations and in the publicadministration and the attitudes of young people who study business towards theirfuture professional realization.The study is structured in three parts which outline the theoretical andmethodological foundations of motivation, the motivational profile and competences;present the results of the administered questionnaires; summarize the findings anddraw conclusions.

A CAUSALITY ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA

Author(s): Daniel Francois Meyer,Kazeem Abimbola Sanusi / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

In terms of macro-economic policy, gross fixed capital formation, which is the major component of domestic investment, is seen as an important process that could accelerate economic growth. This study re-examines the controversial issue of causality between domestic investment, employment and economic growth using South African data. The traditional assumption of causality running from investment to economic growth has remained inconclusive while empirical findings on the investment and employment growth nexus are also largely unsettled. The study makes use of quarterly data from 1995Q1 to 2016Q4 within the framework of the Johansen cointegration and Vector Error Correction Models (VECM). The empirical findings suggest that a long run relationship exists between domestic investment, employment and economic growth, with causality running from economic growth to investment and not vice versa. The results also demonstrate that investment has a positive long-run impact on employment. The empirical evidence further suggests bi-directional causality between employment and economic growth, while evidence of uni-directional causality, from investment to employment, is also found. The major implication of the study is that although there is bi-directional causality between economic growth and employment, economic growth does not translate to increased employment in the long run confirming “jobless growth”. Investment is found to be a positive driver of employment in the South African economy in the long-run. The study concludes that, in order to stimulate employment, investment enhancing policies, such as low interest rates and a favourable economic environment should be put in place to accelerate growth. Measures to promote economic growth, such as improved infrastructural facilities and diversification of the economy, should be further engineered so as to encourage increased investment.

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WORK MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS IN GERMAN AND POLISH MANUFACTURING COMPANIES

Author(s): Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska,Irene Krebs / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

Well-motivated employees engage more in their work activities. This article presents a comparative analysis of the importance of work motivational factors relevant to profiles of workers in a manufacturing company This study is based on data obtained from 85 Polish and German Manufacturing Companies from the cross-border cooperation region of Lubuskie/Poland-Brandenburg/Germany. This is followed by a discussion of the results of empirical studies and of the supporting literature.

A comparative study of male and female perceptions of service quality in fast food industry

Author(s): Ogunnaike Olaleke Oluseye / Language(s): English / Issue: 10/2009

The development of technology has brought about sudden shift in the economy towards service economy. It becomes important therefore that marketers need to bring marketing principles, theories, and strategies to bear in this emerging economy if they must satisfy their customers profitably. The study makes use of SERVQUAL, a research instrument developed by Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry to measure the impact of customer expectations on the perceptions of service quality. Three hypotheses were put forward and tested. The first hypothesis was to determine whether there was any difference between customer expectations and perceptions of fast food service. Dependent t-test was used and it was discovered that there was no significant difference between the two parameters. The second hypothesis was to deter-mine whether there was difference between male and female expectations of service quality. Independent-test was employed and it was found that there was no significant difference between the two parameters.The third hypothesis of the study was to determine whether there was difference between male and female perceptions of service quality. An independent t-test was also used for this hypothesis and it was discovered that there was no significant difference between the two parameters measure.Based on the findings above some of the recommendations made were:1. It is important that Nigerian fast food restaurants established a strong presence in the cyber space by having a functional website.2. There is a need for the fast food operators to improve upon working conditions, including salaries paid to workers in the sector.

A Comparative Study of two Organisational Change-Models

Author(s): Daniela Brăduţanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 01 (25)/2012

This paper aims to study the comparative patterns of change suggested by Price Waterhouse (1995) in their book “A better change: Best practices for transforming your organization” and John Kotter (1996), in his book “Leading change”. Price Waterhouse’s and Kotter’s change models are nearly identical in many aspects. In his book “Leading change”, Kotter appears to have much of the same perspective as Price Waterhouse when it comes to culture, organizational change in general and vision. However, Price Waterhouse takes an approach that requires nearly every person to be on board with the organization’s change program, whereas Kotter implies that the leader primarily focuses on stakeholders-

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON IMMIGRANTS’ INTEGRATION POLICIES IN ROMANIA AND SWEDEN

Author(s): Alexandru Kis,Alin Kis / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

The immigration crisis in Europe has brought an intensive debate over EU nations’ shared responsibility toward integrating foreigners fleeing insecurity. In this context, Eastern EU countries have shown a lot of anxiety and reluctance to opening their societies to immigrants. The nature of this fear, beside the emerging threat of terrorism, is strongly linked to prejudices, and maybe to a chronic lack of know-how on integrating people without historical (or any other) ties with the host nation.This paper offers a comparative study between integration policies for immigrants in Sweden – a top ranking country in the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) 2015 – and Romania, with the aim to determine areas to improve the latter’s approach toward this issue.

A Conceptual Discussion of Transformational Leadership and Intercultural Competence

Author(s): Franco Gandolfi / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2012

Transformational leadership has been defined as a process by which leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of morality and motivation (Burns, 1978). This paper examines the concepts of transformational leadership and intercultural communication competence. A deeper insight is required in order to understand the effectiveness of transformational leadership in various cultural contexts (Migliore, 2011). It has been shown that national culture orientation and intercultural communication competence tend to impact both the leadership framework and transformational leadership dimensions. Further, various aspects of effective leadership and the choice of communication strategies diverge for different cultural contexts. This paper is based on Matveev and Lvina’s (2007) work and reviews various intercultural studies of leadership that expound culturally-oriented leadership models. While universal and particularistic leadership components are present, it has been shown that the leadership styles involving charismatic components contribute the most to the perception of what effective leadership style constitutes.

A Country with non-Existent Unemployment. The Special Characteristics of the Czech Labour Market

Author(s): Krzysztof Dębiec / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2019

Since 2016, the Czech Republic has had the lowest unemployment rate among all EU member states (cf. Chart 1). In mid-2017, it overtook Japan to reach the top position in the ranking of OECD member states. This situation adversely affects companies which are looking for ways to cope with workforce shortages. One solution is the automation of production processes, but employers are also appealing for the country to become more open to receiving immigrant workers, above all from Ukraine. The trade unions are opposed to this, fearing that an influx of workers from other countries will slow down the rate of increase of wages. At the same time, there is a debate in the Czech Republic about the degree to which the present economic model contributes to the country catching up with the Western economies and what should be done to speed up the convergence.

A Critical Review of Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Author(s): Ali Çağlar Güllüce / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2010

The role of emotional intelligence and leadership is becoming increasingly important. Effectiveness relies on the ability of leaders to respond to ongoing pressures and to manage others efficiently. One goal of the emotional intelligence is to improve the effectiveness of today’s and future leaders by implementing rigorous standards for selecting, developing, and assessing leaders. This focus on leader selection and development has prompted an interest in examining the qualities of successful leaders. Recently, interest in the new concept of emotional intelligence has flourished as a result of the claims suggesting that emotional intelligence can be used to select and develop successful leaders. Leaders who exhibit heightened levels of emotional intelligence may be more likely to engage in transformational leadership behaviours than those individuals who possess lower levels of emotional. However, only a few studies have examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership. The purpose of this paper is to present a review of emotional intelligence models and measures, and to make a conceptual link between components that fall under the concept of emotional intelligence and effective leadership behaviours.

A deficit of decent work as a current trend in the development of social and labor sphere in Ukraine

Author(s): Anatoliy Kolot,Oksana Herasymenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Sustainable development of the national economy is impossible without the creation of conditions for safe, high-quality, efficient work. The relevance of the study is explained by the need of methodological substantiation and development of theoretical and applied instruments for ensuring decent work. The scientific and practical significance of the study is to distinguish the forms of manifestation, to establish the causes of decent work deficit within the new economy and to determine the vectors of its overcoming in Ukraine. The results of the study are focused on generalization of the modern trends in the development of social and labor sphere in Ukraine and improvement of the concept of decent work to be used in practice in order to achieve progress in the social and labor sphere. The subject of the study is theoretical and applied principles of the concept of decent work as a basis for the development of mechanisms and instruments to overcome the deficit of decent work. The methodological platform of the study is formed by the general scientific and special methods: theoretical generalization; abstract and logical synthesis; induction and deduction; classification and typology; comparative and structural analysis that would allow carrying out multidirectional research of the progress (regress) in the sphere of work on different levels. The methodological basis for achieving this goal is the systematic and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of socio-economic indicators of decent work deficit. The purpose of the study is a scientific and theoretical substantiation of the decent work deficit and determination of strategic guidelines for its overcoming in Ukraine. In the article the authors present their view on the institute of decent work. Forms of manifestation and causes of decent work deficit are presented. The content of the article shows the relationship of the deficit of decent work and the precariat phenomenon. The authors present their vision of the concept of decent work as a strategic development of social and labor sphere and a major road towards elimination of the deficit of decent work in Ukraine.

A Different Approach to Knowledge

Author(s): Ivona Orzea / Language(s): English / Issue: S1/2009

Defining knowledge is not an easy job because it is one of those concepts that don’t have a universal definition. It can be looked upon as the processing of information with the main purpose of gaining understanding of the events occurring in the surrounding environment. It is a concept deeply influenced by the personality of the holder, its beliefs, attitudes and culture. Knowledge is dynamic, it moves up and down, it becomes obsolete easily hence the challenge for companies to understand how they can use it in order to gain a competitive advantage. The main purpose of this paper is to present the processes of transformation that knowledge undergoes into an organization, its dynamics and how companies can use it into their advantage.