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HUMAN CAPITAL QUALITY AND DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPLOYERS' AND EMPLOYEES' COMPARATIVE INSIGHT

Author(s): Olimpia Neagu,Vasile Lazăr,Mircea Teodoru,Simona Macarie / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2016

The aim of the paper is to compare the employers' and employees' insights on human capital quality defining and human capital development at organisational level, based on a survey carried out in the county of Satu Mare, Romania. Our findings show that as human capital buyers, employers understand by human capital quality professional background and skills, professional behaviour and efficiency and productivity for the organisation. As human capital sellers, for employees human capital quality means health and the ability to learn and to be suitable to the job requirements. Regarding the opportunities to develop the organisational human capital, the views of employers and employees are very different when the level of discussion is international (macro-level). Employees consider that the international environment has a greater impact on human capital development in their organisation as the employers.

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Demografik Değişkenlerin Kariyer Tatminine Etkileri: Antalya’da 5 Yıldızlı Otel İşletmelerinde Bir Araştırma

Author(s): Derya Demirdelen,Şevki Ulama / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2013

It is quite important that employees are satisfied with their careers in terms of both employees’ personal satisfactions and the success of the organizations. This study was conducted in order to identify the opinions and the perceptions of middle and top-level managers working in the hotels related to their career satisfactions. In this term, to gather the needed data, a field reseach was carried out in five-star hotels in Antalya and 220 top and middle-level managers were requested to fill in a survey questionnaire which was prepared according to five dimensions of career satisfaction. The survey results were analyzed by statistical methods. The T-test and one-way analysis of varience (ANOVA) which were carried out in terms of demografic characteristics showed that there is a reasonable difference between ‘the Professional success’ and education level, position, working duration. ‘General professional goals’ vary in relation to gender and the position; ‘targets related with income’ vary in terms of marital status and position. While a significant difference exists between ‘improvement in profession’ and position, working duration as a manager; the biggest difference emerges in ‘acquisition of newskills’dimension. Furthermore, we have found a significant difference between ‘acquisition of new skills’ and age, education level, position in the establishment, working duration, working duration as a manager. Considering the arithmetic mean of the answers given to the questionnaire; it was concluded that the top and middle level managers working in the hotels in Antalya are generally satisfied with their careers. It was determined that managers are not satisfied with their careers only in terms of ‘targets related with income.

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Kompleksowe podejście do zapewnienia bezpieczeństwa i ochrony zdrowia pracowników – studium przypadku

Author(s): Barbara Chomątowska,Dorota Molek-Winiarska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2017

Nowadays, more and more organizations are using a system-based, proactive approach to the management of occupational safety and health (OSH). This requires that treatment of worker health and safety now be more complex and comprehensive than it has been. The aim of this paper is to present the diversity of OSH dimensions within the framework of the contemporary approach to OSH management. The paper looks particularly at issues of organizational health and interventions addressing work-related stress. The second part of the article describes a case study of the implementation of a system-based OSH programme in one company, which undertook numerous technical, systemic and behavioral activities requiring the cooperation of many departments and individuals: OSH, HR, quality management and occupational medicine and Occupational Health Psychologists.

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Young People in the EU — National and Regional Dimensions

Author(s): Yauheniya Sazonenka,Ewa Rollnik-Sadowska / Language(s): English Issue: 3.1/2018

In the era of aging process in the European Union, young people are a valuable part of the workforce. However, that group can be treated as vulnerable in the labour market as the indicators for the youths are much worse than for the average population. Moreover, the EU countries do not present the homogeneous situation concerning labour market situation of young people. It depends on labour demand potential which creates the vacancies for the youths and the labour market policy to support labour supply. The diversification of youths situation can also obtain regional dimension. Labour market performance of that group depends on the technical and social infrastructure provided by local authorities as well as regional demand on youths labour. The main aim of the paper is to present the diversification of young people situation in the EU in terms of labour market indicators at national and regional levels. The analysis on the national level was conducted by presenting the situation in the EU countries. The analysis on regional level was limited to introduction of labour market indicators of Polish voivodeships. The undertaken research method was critical analysis of literature as well as desk research of secondary sources like research reports and analysis of statistical data from Eurostat databases.

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Różnice pokoleniowe a postrzeganie konfliktów

Author(s): Marta Pawłowska,Ewa Więcek-Janka,Karol Andrzejczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7.3/2018

The article presents the results of research on conflicts in family enterprises. Studies are basis for a doctoral dissertation of MSc. Marta Pawłowska. In the article, next to the theoretical part concerning the subject of family entrepreneurship and the conflicts accompanying the process of succession, the authors present different perspectives of both generations – founder and successor. The aim of these considerations is to analyze the existing situation of family enterprises on the verge of succession in the aspect of conflicts and differences in their perception through ownership and succession generations.

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Motywowanie pracowników w przedsiębiorstwach rodzinnych

Author(s): Hanna Soroka-Potrzebna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12.1/2017

Employee motivation is one of the most important function of any business. Appropriate selection of motivation tools guarantees the involvement of employees in the tasks performed. Is it different in family businesses, where one family is an owner of all or most part of it? The aim of the article is to interest in the problem of motivation of employees in family businesses, which is rarely analyzed in the literature.

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Różnorodność oferty edukacyjnej publicznych uczelni w Polsce

Author(s): Magdalena Ławicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11.2/2017

Higher education institutions play an important role in the development of the state economy. They carry out the mission with regard to national social and economic goals by building the intellectual and social capital of the country. Nowadays, higher education faces many difficulties that force university management board to be active and open to changes in the environment. Universities create value which should be addressed to their stakeholders, and their existence depends on adjusting the value to the expectations of the stakeholders. This article characterizes the influence of the various stakeholders and factors surrounding the university environment on the educational offer and also presents some examples of educational offers which respond to the needs of the labor market.

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Organizational Changes within a Governmental Agency as it Becomes an Authority - Transition from Israel Land Administration to Israel Land Authority (Part 1)

Author(s): Ron Spiegel / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

The Israeli Land Administration was established following legislation in order to manage lands owned by the State. This body was composed of two departments: a department for "ownership and registration" that was moved to the Administration for Registration and Development; and the department for "land use", which was moved to the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture. In my research towards a doctor's degree, I studied organizational changes within organizations that were the result of various constraints. Furthermore, I suggested a model that assists those organizations to make those necessary changes smoothly, with an effort to keep the human capital. This is a first paper that puts emphasis on the literature review (the initial research steps), the next one, in the next number of this review, being more relative to the model I developed.

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The relationship between employees’ competences and the consequences and manner of exercising emotional labour (EL)

Author(s): Agnieszka Springer,Karolina Oleksa / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Many job posts require one to display emotions specified by organisational standards. Such work is referred to as emotional labor (EL) and consists in producing particular emotional reactions in contacts with a customer as well as suppressing the actual emotional reactions that could be seen negatively by the other party. An employee may cope with such work by choosing one of two strategies: surface acting or deep acting. Emotional labor has various consequences, and professional burnout is among the negative ones. The objective of the article is to review the literature concerned with the exercise and the consequences of EL and analyse the relationship between surface and deep acting and the level of professional burnout among selected professional groups (N=297). Furthermore, the authors examine the correlation between an employee’s competences and their preferred style of EL and assess the moderating role of competences in negative consequences of EL. Analyses confirm that the persons characterized by surface role-playing display a higher level of professional burnout; however, no correlation is found between deep role-playing and lower professional burnout. Analysis of the coefficients of correlation demonstrates no significant correlation between an employee’s competences and deep acting, whereas a statistically significant correlation is discovered between competences and the surface strategy. The higher the competences, the less likely the employee will exercise surface acting. Verification of the last hypothesis reveals that people with a higher level of competences who follow the surface strategy in terms of faking emotions are characterized by a lower level of professional burnout than employees with lower competences.

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Design Mentoring Approach in Companies in Poland

Author(s): Małgorzata Baran / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

In the contemporary world of business, mentoring has become common practice. Its objectives include the personal and professional development of employees, training new employees, nurturing talents, planning for successions and developing leaders. A literature review has enabled the author to conclude that a structured, systematic, coordinated and evaluated mentoring program helps businesses achieve the expected results, i.e., the construction of lasting mentoring relationships leading to the realization of intended goals and benefits. The question therefore arises, how do companies build effective mentoring programs? The aim of the article is to determine the conditions for building effective mentoring programs. The research was conducted on a non-probable sample of 30 companies operating in Poland that have implemented mentoring programs within the last 3-5 years. Triangulation of research methods was applied. PAPI and IDI methods were used to survey representatives of chosen companies who manage mentoring programs. The effective mentoring program is achieved by defining the roles of participants in the mentoring process precisely and by defining their competencies, responsibilities and objectives. Furthermore, it is important to establish transparent rules for participation in the mentoring program, i.e., participation criteria for mentors, selection criteria for mentees and placement criteria for bringing participants together into suitable pairs or groups. It is crucial to provide mentoring participants with support in the form of advice, consultation before and between mentoring sessions, and monitoring their expectations of and satisfaction from participating in the program.

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IP Delimitations: A Managerial Point of View

Author(s): Mircea Negruţă,Ion Năftănăilă / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2010

In the context of knowledge-based economy, along with the growing importance of the intangible assets, and along with the changing criteria for defining the competitive advantages, the intellectual property related issues are increasingly addressed. The specific literature is replete with all sorts of approaches regarding the intellectual property, using a series of terms, more or less defined or explained. In this context, the lack of boundaries, at least relative ones, between different terms, may create confusion among the readers. This article intends to explore the subject literature, to establish the empirical correlations a demarcations existing among the main terms that are used in connection with the intellectual property term and to suggests a way of graphically represent them. This approach is particularly useful to managers and is trying to establish a support for future researches.

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Some Characteristics of the New Enterprises and the Profile of New Entrepreneurs

Author(s): Irina M. Drăgan,Alexandru Isaic-Maniu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2009

The implementation of a scientific management generating performances that can lead the sector of SMEs to the requests of the Lisbon Strategy, cannot be completed without the existence of well-trained entrepreneurs, capable to improve their skills in modern management, thus leading to competitive results in a highly competitive market. The analysis performed by this research allows us to formulate, synthetically, strengths and weaknesses in the entrepreneurial evolution during the 1995-2007 period.

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Practice Enterprises – Key Enablers for the Development of Students’ Entrepreneurial Skills: An FSQCA Approach

Author(s): Dana Damian,Alexandru Căpăţînă,Marilena Râpă,Gabriela Chiru / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2018

Although active learning in practice enterprises is a well-known and widely used instructional method for entrepreneurial skills development, it remains a challenging issue to analyse how students immersed in practice enterprise learning journey developed their hard and soft skills and become interested in applying to start-up funding programmes. In this study, a project-based storytelling approach is proposed to address two research propositions. Based on semi-structured interviews, the storytelling approach has been applied to a sample of 20 students involved in three practice enterprises from Faculty of Economics and Business Administration”, Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. All of them had previous experience in dealing with practice enterprises challenges, during their studies at the Economic College “Virgil Madgearu” of Galati. FsQCA methodology was employed to assess the causal conditions that led to students’ success in entrepreneurial initiatives, built on their experiences with Simpract project (Transition from school to active life through internships and practice enterprises). The results show that the project-based active learning within practice enterprises enhanced the students’ hard and soft entrepreneurial skills.

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Knowledge Management Model for Romanian Companies

Author(s): Sebastian Ion Ceptureanu / Language(s): English Issue: S1/2009

Knowledge is essential in everyday work. Everyone knows how to carry out his work and this knowledge can be reused later in similar tasks by adopting this knowledge to new situations. The general purpose of Knowledge Management (KM) is to make knowledge usable for more than one individual, e.g. for an organisation as a whole; that is, to share it. New knowledge-based views on organisations suggest that it is knowledge that holds organisations together. KM has existed and has been used for a long time, although it was neither called by this name nor necessarily recognised as what it is until a few years ago. The way of making knowledge available for others has evolved with time. It once started with family clans, where knowledge was passed on from father to son by a long process of learning. With the coming up of teamwork, people were supposed to work closer together to benefit from the synergy of their joint knowledge. Today's efforts aim at knowledge being shared among large organisations which may be geographically spread over the world and active in different kinds of areas. First cases perform this sharing even among different organisations, e.g. use defined interfaces to mediate knowledge not only inside one specific organisation but to also share parts of it among partners. This paper presents a general model for Knowledge Management based on author experience in his Ph.D. studies.

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Value Oriented Developmental Interaction Capability: A Driver for Teamwork Performance

Author(s): Endang Sulistiyani,Augusty Tae Ferdinand / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The objective of this research is to develop a conceptual model, by proposing the concept of value oriented developmental interaction capability, to fill in the research gap between knowledge sharing and team performance among the functional teams in the organization, then testing the model in the hotel industries in Yogyakarta Special Region and Central Java Province in Indonesia. Adopting the interaction theory and the concept of work values, the concept of value oriented developmental interaction capability is introduced and inserted in the research model for mediating the influence of knowledge sharing to teamwork performance. A purposive sampling is adopted in inviting employee in a hospitality industry sector to participate in this research. Following the acceptance of the regression coefficients, the Sobel test statistics is conducted and proving the role of value oriented developmental interaction capability as a mediator between knowledge sharing and teamwork performance.

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CHANGES IN APPROACH TO EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS ON A REGIONAL SCALE

Author(s): Zdenko Stacho,Katarína Stachová,Agota Giedrė Raišienė / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Human capital is frequently viewed as the only resource that can be constantly developed, and it can be denoted as key in the long term in efforts to increase the level of organisations. This paper aims at analysing the present state of focus of Slovak organisations on systematic education, on comprehensive targeting of education on all employees, as well as on the assessment of effectiveness in education in the context of a relationship to the region in which such organisations operate. Several partial objectives, such as a questionnaire survey conducted in Slovak organisations between 2013 – 2017, were fulfilled in order to accomplish this objective. Statistical hypothesis testing aimed at specifying the relationship between the region of operation of the given organisation and the execution of activities related to systematic education of employees in it, the focus of the organisation on education of all employees, and the assessment of effectiveness in the education provided by them, confirmed a link between the analysed variables. Positive changes in the selected attributes in time were evaluated by the fixed-base index.

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THE SOCIAL BRANCH: A NEW MECHANISM FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Author(s): Bunea Rareș Vlad,Lucian T. Butaru / Language(s): English Issue: 30/2019

“The neoliberal policies activated since the 1970s have created unprecedented levels ofwealth and income inequality, stagnating social mobility, aggravating effects that compound theclimate crisis, and especially little prospects for an improvement of the general welfare of all citizens,not just the ruling wealthy. Many theoretical mechanisms have been proposed to fix the ailments ofcapitalism, Universal Basic Income (UBI) being amongst the most transformative and cutting-edge.These policy proposals all suffer a great shortcoming: they must be political. Leftwing and rightwinggovernments take turns at running UBI pilots then cutting them immediately after winning elections(Forget, 2018). The challenge to a solid long-term solution that brings economic justice for the many,not just the few, is to overcome the politics. This means deploying broad-spectrum and reasonable(re)distribution models that satisfy both the laissez-faire desires of the libertarian enthusiasts and the sentiments of solidarity of left-leaning activists. A transformative (re)distribution paradigm must become apolitical and must transcend the traditional separations of power in the state. This paper outlines the high-level attributes of this new mechanism: what it would look like, why it is so necessary,and how can be realized given the tremendous pressures imposed by the climate crisis

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ÖĞRETMENLERİN “ETKİLİ SOSYAL BİLGİLER ÖĞRETMENİ” ALGISI: NİTEL BİR ARAŞTIRMA

Author(s): Çiğdem Aldan Karademir / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 03/2019

In this study, “Effective Social Studies Teacher Perception” was examined in line with teacher views. In this research, the phenomenology, a kind of qualitative research design was used. The study group consisted of 13 (7 female-6 male) social studies teachers working in public schools at the 2017-2018 academic year. The maximum diversity sampling technique was used to determine the study group and reached to the teachers with various vocational seniority. Interview was used as data collection technique and at interviews, semi-structured interview form was used. Analyzing the data content analysis was used and the characteristics of effective social studies teachers “in-class”, “out of class” and “out of school” were determined according to teachers’ perceptions. According to the teachers’ views, social studies teachers have the characteristics of “being model”, “aware of the agenda”, “emphasizing individual differences”, “having a culture of democracy and knowledge of politics and citizenship”, “guiding” and “being a leader”. The perception of effective social studies teacher coincides with the characteristics of “effective teacher” in the literature. However, according to the teachers’ views, the subjects such as the “country, nation, history love” and the methods used are not covered in detail by the teachers expressing some reasons.

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EĞİTİM HARCAMALARI VE EKONOMİK BÜYÜME ÜZERİNE BİR NEDENSELLİK ANALİZİ: TÜRKİYE ÖRNEĞİ

Author(s): Çiğdem Karış / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 18/2019

In this study, the existence of the co-integration and causality relationship between the variables of “education expenses” and “economic growth” in the Turkish economy during the 2003:Q1-2018:Q2 period have been tested by means of the Engle-Granger co-integration test and causality analysis based on error correction model. According to the results of the co-integration analysis, at least one co-integration vector has been detected between these two variables. The results of causality analysis, in turn have revealed that economic growth is in fact not the cause of education expenses in the short and long terms; however, education expenses happen to be the cause of economic growth only in the long term. In this regard; it is obvious that the education expenditures, which are crucial for the cultivation of human capital per se, are the main triggers of economic growth. Although educational expenses, which are deemed particularly important especially in advanced economies of the world, don’t have causality effect on the short term economic growth in Turkey, which is a developing country; this fact shouldn’t be interpreted as educational expenses not having a qualitative effect on economic growth.

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Determining the Marginal Willingness to Pay for the Cervical Cancer Screening Program in Croatia: A Best-Worst Scaling Approach

Author(s): Nikolina Dukić Samaržija / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

Croatia is faced with a low response to cancer-screening programs, especially the national cervical cancer screening program, which ultimately resulted in its suspension. If judged solely on the basis of revealed preferences, such a poor response would imply that the population assigns a low social value to preventive screening programs. However, the question arises as to whether revealed preferences (the population's response), in the case of the absence of response to a preventive program, provide insight into its value (utility). Therefore, the objective of this paper is to determine the value that respondents assign to different attributes of cervical screening and, in a broader sense, to decide whether the best-worst scaling (BWS) approach is appropriate for determining the marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) for public health programs. The MWTP for certain attributes of cervical cancer screening is derived from the results of a BWS study conducted in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia. The cost function was estimated by regressing the conditional logit coefficients (level of utility) of three levels of the cost attribute on its corresponding values, that is, the hypothetical price. Because the sum of the MWTP corresponds with the market price of a gynecological examination in private practice, we conclude that the results obtained by the BWS confirm the revealed preferences (the market value of the service).

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