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The Impact of Sustainable Transition of Automation on Employees in the Automotive Sector and the Influence of Corona Pandemic

Author(s): Nicoleta Isac,Cosmin Dobrin,Waqar Badshah / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

The automotive sector have been hit hard by the corona pandemic and the future is showing that will be a shift towards automation. Automation is not a new phenomenon, and for years, robots have had an increasing role in automobile manufacturing and differs across sectors and activities. According to the sustainability trends, due to automation, business and future of work will be transformed. While automation will completely eliminate very few jobs over the next decade, it will affect portions of almost all jobs to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the type of work involved. The aim of this paper is to analyze the trend of automation in automotive sector and to see the impact of corona pandemic on employees.

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Organizational Aspects of the Erasmus+ Mobility: The Case of a Successful Bulgarian-Russian Partnership

Author(s): Lyudmila Mihaylova,Anna Svirina,Emil Papazov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

The purpose of this paper is to broaden the understanding of the Erasmus+ Program mobility impact on the business and management education in Bulgarian and Russian universities. In particular, it offers an extension of its scope formed on the example of the Erasmus+ cooperation between the University of Ruse (Bulgaria) and Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev (Russia) in the business and management study fields. This case study report highlights some important organizational aspects of the business and management Erasmus+ education in Bulgaria and Russia. It presents also some practical aspects and is based on the Erasmus cooperation between the two mentioned universities. The findings from the case study appear to be in line with existing literature; for instance, it confirmed that academic mobility is shaping the curricula in the universities involved.

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Talent - the New Managerial Resource in Education

Author(s): Alina Angela Manolescu,Valentin P. Munteanu,Alexandru Gavrilă,Doina Dănăiaţă / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

In today's economic environment, where changes are accelerating, organizations have begun to notice that a key factor in their success, which allows them to make a difference, is to maintain competent employees and train them according to the company's strategic objectives. Attracting talent, maintaining and motivating them through training and development programs, bring an advantage to organizations. Educational institutions must pursue opportunities and avoid threats to the current turbulent environment. Recurring legislative changes imply an increase in the flexibility of the educational organization to change. In this context, the educational institution has the predominant role to respond to these changes, but when we talk about the aspect of organizational efficiency, it must also be a promoter of innovative policies.

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Toyota Motor Corporation’s Culture Strategy

Author(s): Marius Profiroiu,Hiroaki Kaneko,Cristian Vlad,Alexandra Dutescu,Hideki Ishida / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

This paper illustrates how Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), focuses on culture and talent engineering to nurture business sustainability, innovation and growth. The authors of this paper worked directly with TMC directors, business leaders, executives, organizational architects and talent operators to determine the main components and characteristics of their talent strategy. The authors have also explored how key elements of traditional Japanese business practices were considered when developing the corporate strategy.

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The Role of Communication in the Management of Multicultural Sports Organizations Case Study on Two Women's Volleyball Teams from Romania and Belgium

Author(s): Daniel Lovin,Alexandru Căpățînă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2020

The world we live in has become increasingly globalized, and freedom of labor is a feature of the society in which we live. All businesses are influenced by this phenomenon of globalization and those who manage them must take into account the opportunities and disadvantages of this phenomenon. As professional sport has recently become a real industry, it is also strongly influenced by the socio-economic changes in the contemporary world. Like all businesses, sports organizations are guided by the principles of management, but still having more differences from other areas of the industry. In addition, sports organizations have become increasingly culturally diversified, being a benchmark for what multiculturalism means. Thus, for the good development of their activity, the staff that is part of them must be able to communicate effectively so that the organization can achieve its objectives. This study presents the role of communication in the management of multicultural teams in Belgium and Romania and proposes several solutions to improve communication within culturally diversified organizations.

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Understanding Emotional Intelligence - A Study on Romanian Manages and Their Grasp of what EI is

Author(s): Roxana Maria Brișcariu / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2020

Validating the new paradigm, that there are other types of intelligence besides cognitive intelligence, it took some time. Like any paradigm, emotional intelligence has gone through several phases, of organizing and developing the paradigm, criticizing the paradigm, reorganizing and consolidating the paradigm. Emotional intelligence has been accepted in the social sciences and enriched, mainly due to the fact that studies have shown that many outcomes in organization performance. To follow the next step, we have to see to what scale at understanding and knowledge to emotional intelligence is conscious, assumed and used. This is the idea from where this study came to understand whether people have the ability to distinguish between types of intelligence, not just to measure the emotional intelligence of employees, in this particular case of managers. This paper is about identify the ability to distinguish and understand the concept of emotional intelligence of managers from public and private organization, and if the managers hold a good knowledge and understanding of emotional intelligence construct.

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International VAT Rate cuts to Support Entrepreneurship within Coronavirus Pandemic Context

Author(s): Rodica Pripoaie,Irina Olimpia Susanu,Mihai Cadinoiu / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2020

Given that 2020 was completely different to what we used to know, and also a particularly difficult year due to SARS-Cov-2 pandemic and to the restrictions imposed by all states worldwide in order to address such pandemic by limiting movement freedom or people and by enacting quarantine measures in many countries, most businesses and companies, irrespective of their field of activity, had losses and a decrease of business activities. In order to support entrepreneurship in hospitality industry (HoReCa) and in other industries as well, many states enacted certain temporary measures to reduce VAT rates, either for standard tax and reduced tax. Thus, governmental authorities seek to stimulate businesses like HoReCa through VAT reduction, as such businesses were among the most seriously impacted. Moreover, there is an international trending to eliminate or introduce zero-VAT rate for the sale of e-books and other electronic publications.

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Unusual Japanese Decision-making: Markov Process of Decision-making

Author(s): Nobumichi Watahiki,Masaya Matsushita,Luiza Gatan,Elvira Nica,Irina Taraban / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

There is not enough research on decision-making and management process of organizations that do not make a profit. Economists should include healthy companies, as well as sick ones, the same way doctors do. Decisions that are rational or legitimate to the point of view of the parties, but which are incomprehensible to the point of view of the third party, can occur in any era, any country or culture. Although many studies in social psychology and management have been done on abnormal decision-making to save such organizations, abnormal decision-making processes that occur in Japan are different from those studied in Europe and the United States. This is due to institutional or cultural background. It is characterized by not knowing who is responsible, not knowing what they are doing for, decisions that are not for the individual benefit of the decision maker or of course not for the organizational goals. Moreover, the decision is inconsistent. The purpose of this paper is to model this aspect. The Escalation Model shows the rigidity of decision-making arising from the sense of responsibility of decision-makers, while the university case is based on the rigidity of decision-making arising from the irresponsibility of decision-making.

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A Bibliometric Analysis on the Link between Circular Economy and Supply Chain

Author(s): Ovidiu-Iulian Bunea / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

Circular economy and supply chain are two topics that have aroused the interest of researchers in recent years, which we can find in a relationship of interdependence in the literature. The aim of this paper is to make a review using the technique of bibliometric analysis, on the interconnections in the literature between the concepts of circular economy and supply chain. In this sense, papers published on those subjects indexed in Web of Science (WoS) - 473 publications and Scopus - 633 publications were analysed, while identifying the most influential journals and authors in this area of study. The results highlighted an upward trend of publications on this topic, a top of the journals with the most published papers, a top of the most influential journals based on the number of citations received, the most influential papers depending on the number of citations received and a keywords co-occurrence mapping using VOSviewer software. Those results are useful in terms of identifying the most prolific journals regarding the volume of articles published, but also the most influential in terms of the volume of citations received, while drawing a clearer path for future research that may include in an integrated manner the circular economy and supply chain to identify ways to achieve superior economic performance in a sustainable manner.

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The Road to Sustainable Development. The Case of Romania

Author(s): Dragoș Andrei Stoica / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important concept in the past three decades for any company or entity who wishes to maintain competitiveness in their respective sector, given by its large array of actors that are affected by the use, misuse, or the absence of CSR actions and policies (the community, customers, authorities etc.). Even if CSR is not at all a binding mechanism, ignoring it or misusing may hurt not only the company’s perception in the community, but also its strategic market approach. In this article I will set the stage for the implementation of CSR policies and actions in the Romanian business market, by using a qualitative research approach based on 101 surveys. The respondents were actors from the middle and top management sphere within large companies that operate in Romania.

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Foreign Direct Investment and Nigeria Economy Growth

Author(s): Rasheed Abolaji Folarin / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is key to the success of world economic system and a major impetust for development, flow of capital and human resources from one country to another. This study examines the nexus between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and some macroeconomic variables in Nigeria during the period of 2010-2017. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique was used to assess the relationship. The study reveals that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has positive relationship with chosen economic variables namely Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) and Export (EXP). The study recommends that government should formulate policies to attract foreign investors, create enabling environments and strengthen the institutional factors.

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Conceptual Approaches of Industry 5.0. Correlative Elements with Supply Chain Management 5.0

Author(s): Gheorghe MINCULETE,Ghiţă BÂRSAN,Polixenia Olar / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2021

The continuous evolution of civilization in the world, has progressively determined the change of consumer options for different types of products in terms of complexity, which has progressively led to several industrial revolutions. Therefore, in the current stage, the transition to a superior revolution of "Industry 4.0" takes place, where, from a digital point of view, the emphasis was on the devices related to the connection to the so-called Internet of Things. In the conditions mentioned, both the industry and the logistics have developed in stages, revealing today projections and implementations adequate to the configurations of the digital level - 5.0. At this stage, a special emphasis will be systematically placed on research and innovation as essential factors in the process of making that European industry sustainable, resilient and focused on the human factor and interest. The requirements of the information society, based on knowledge are obviously found in the specific coordinates of "Industry 5.0" and in the determining functions of "Supply Chain Management 5.0". In this article we set out to briefly address the importance and role of the issue of "Industry 5.0", but also some correlations with "Supply Chain Management 5.0", given the current and future economic challenges.

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Beyond Adaptations and Accommodations: Management. Practice that Matters as the Key to Retention of Employees with Autism (Part 1)

Author(s): Peter S. Wong,Michelle Donelly,Bill Boyd,Philip A. Neck / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2021

United Nations declares that employment is a basic human right. Numerous public policies reference the devastating impact of unemployment on health and social inclusion and seek to promote the economic participation of people-with-disabilities. Some researchers reckon high levels of economic marginalisation are experienced by people with a disability in Australia, in comparison with other OECD countries. In the literature, 80% unemployment rates are reported among working-age people-with-autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is a critical area of concern that is currently under-researched and poorly addressed. "ASD-ness" (ASD behavioural characteristics) can be regarded as personal differences rather than disorders. Acknowledged experts such as Drucker and Cliffton & Harter argue that individuals gain more when they build on their talents rather than focusing on improving weaknesses. The authors, therefore, take an ASD-ness-strengths-basedapproach philosophy which, in a nutshell, regards ASD-ness as a source of employment strengths and autistic behavioural challenges as personal differences not deficits.

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Integrated Management System, Public Institutions, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Agile, Digital Environment

Author(s): Sylviu Kumbakisaka,Mariana Patrascu,Cristina Bodoni / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2021

The purpose of this study is to highlight the opportunity to develop the economic operators, to optimize the activities of central and local public institutions using the innovative Agile method and the components of integrated management on specific criteria in public institutions and economic operators. This approach starts from the following working question: how can the affected stakeholders influence the agenda of public institutions for the development of an efficient integrated management within local public organizations in order to facilitate the activities of private economic operators. This question is not an abstract one, it appears periodically in public debates inside Romanian private companies. This research is the result of connecting the generic aspects of integrated management with the Agile Method and their applicability in private companies after highlighting the organization and operation of local public institutions; knowing that all these are the most important factors for the relationship between the private economic operator and the public institutions. In turn, these criteria become important to emphasize the role of integrated management in the current context of our lives, of all, whether we are employers, public or private employees, or whether we depend on public institutions when we are entrepreneurs.

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Retail 4.0 and Adoption of Performance of SMEs in Malaysia

Author(s): Takouhi Kozikojoukian / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2021

Changes in the retail market are urging businesses to adopt a modern manufacturing paradigm known as agile development. In a market that is extremely competitive with changing consumer demands and dramatic improvements in performance, it is seen as a good strategy. R4.0 plays a vital function in simplifying internet networks. R4.0 is defined as "a meta concept to improve development further and to build value structures by connecting the physical world with the digital environment. This paper focuses on modern technology that links between two machines and contact between all supply chain elements, also known as digital production. The fourth technological revolution is this modern technology, regarded as the Internet of Things or retail 4.0. It raises multiple challenges and prospects for the industrial world. Business processes, approaches and collaboration with sellers and end consumers must be adapted. This thesis explores the requirements and the usage of technology in this transition. Furthermore, after a sample of over 600 respondents, 443 responses were obtained the inquiry would incorporate a quantitative approach. The test was evaluated using the SPSS statistical method, and regression analysis was used to verify the conclusions. The findings indicate that digitalization and the distribution chain in the retail industry have a direct connection.

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Factors That Trigger Changes in Modern Organizations

Author(s): Simona Mascu / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2021

The whole world is now going through a period of great transformations, some determined by elements of progress, others by elements that endanger the proper functioning of society. The organizations face an increasing complexity in their external and internal environment, facts that determine them to be more prepared than ever to embark on different types of changes. It is managers, but especially leaders mission to assure that their organization, both in hard and software sides are able to cope with new range of challenges. COVID-19 pandemic created a disruptive change at the level of society and economy, making the organizations to fight for survival and development. This paper examines some important factors that trigger changes in modern organizations and to which the leaders should pay high attention in order to be sure that they will be able to continue the existence of their organizations and that they will contribute to the mission of making a better world for all the involved stakeholders.

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Reflections on New Service Development in Healthcare Industry

Author(s): Emil Lucian Crișan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The research of new service development in the healthcare industry is just emerging. This is linked to the change of focus of healthcare services from being internally oriented to being focused on patients, but also to the still undeveloped nature of new service development as a field. This paper provides a review of the most important topics on introducing service development in healthcare industry, covering the involvement of customers in service development and the use of information technology. Our results suggest that the solution to solving the co-production and the co-creation puzzles is digital transformation. There are proofs that information technology is part of the new services developed within the healthcare industry, as there are proofs that the use of information technology leads to services which increase patients’ participation in service production.

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Value-ADDED Automation, a Solution for the Future of Work in Automotive Manufacturing in Romania

Author(s): Marc Gilbert Joseph Buchholzer / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

We argued in this paper that the Romanian automotive manufacturing industry needs a disruptive change in order to sustain GDP growth. How to add value in the production and management process through automation and robotization? Based on main author’s years of experience as General Manager in different international automotive companies in Romania and critical review of the international literature the article attempts to build solid foundations for a possible future of work in the Romanian automotive manufacturing industry. With already existing technologies, today one third of the activities in an automotive manufacturing plant in Romania could be automated. In order to maintain a fast-growing GDP rate, Romania cannot rely anymore just on the best cost and available qualified and unqualified workforce on the labor market. The speed and extend of automation and robotization of the manufacturing processes depend on several local factors.

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Consumption and Consumer Behaviour of Organic AGRI-FOOD Products

Author(s): Mahmoud Tarhini / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The trend for a healthy life obtained as a result of a balanced diet is found in the list of main trends that will affect consumer behaviour and their choices about consumption. Information and the increase in purchasing power especially among millennials allows a significant increase in demand for organic products, obtained as a result of sustainable production processes. The primary aim of the present research is to investigate the consumption and consumer behaviour of organic agri-food products based on literature review and reports analysis. The main findings show that consumers are much more flexible, willing to make purchases on different platforms, and merchants must respond to this trend through investments to ensure their online presence. The expectations of the modern consumer involve establishing a postpurchase connection with the organic agri-food manufacturer. Purchasing local agrifood products is gaining ground, as it supports local entrepreneurship, assimilates the principles of environmental protection, avoiding as much as possible imported products, that involve transport and default pollution. There is a significant increase in the interest that both large companies and niche entrepreneurs show about the environment. In this sense, agri-food producers develop authentic environmental strategies, thus creating profitable business models from innovative green businesses.

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Stakeholder Management and Social Responsibility: Concepts, Approaches and Tools in the COVID Context

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Review of: Ovidiu Nicolescu, Ciprian Nicolescu “Stakeholder Management and Social Responsibility: Concepts, Approaches and Tools in the COVID Context”, Routledge.

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