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Influences on Urban Competitiveness Development from the Perspectives of Business and Local Authorities

Author(s): Ruxandra-Irina Popescu,Răzvan-Andrei Corboş,Ovidiu-Iulian Bunea / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

This paper aimed at identifying factors that could support increasing urban competitiveness or on the contrary, which may have negative effects on the level of urban competitiveness. The work highlighted a series of viable actions through which Bucharest could maintain a satisfactory level of urban competitiveness. This was accomplished through an empirical research on the urban competitiveness of Bucharest, which included the analysis of the questionnaire results applied on three large employers in Romania in order to test the hypotheses and to capture the factors that could increase the urban competitiveness of Bucharest. Also, the paper revealed the role of local actors regarding the factors that influence competitiveness and what caused Bucharest's decline in terms of urban competitiveness in 2018 compared to 2017.

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Considerations Regarding the Application of Management Tools in Public Institutions - CAF (Common Assessment Framework) in a Romanian Regional Context

Author(s): Mircea Băcală,Nicolae Aurelian Bibu / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2013

The ongoing process of building an efficient government, transparent and citizen oriented public institutions have become, in recent years, more interested in the promotion and introduction of management tools in the public sector. Strategic reasons and efficient public management led to the European Community, to create a standardized tool for assessing the quality of public management and organization of administrative structures in European countries, generic tool called Common Assessment Framework, abbreviated CAF (Common Assessment Framework). The paper deals with Common Assessment Framework - CAF as a tool for measuring the performance of an organization by establishing a diagnostic analysis and the ways that can be used in public institutions in Romania. Regarding the introduction of CAF methodology shows that States have progressed to a certain extent, but self-assessment was only began to develop. It would be desirable for management tools to be implemented in all central and local government institutions - mainly for reasons of transparency, credibility and efficiency.

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The Impact of Disciplinary Problems on Academic Achievements

Author(s): Ensaf Abu-Ahmed / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2013

This article describes aspects affecting pupils' behavior in class, and the impact of pupil's behavior upon his academic achievement. The writer displays factors affecting pupil's in-class behavior, and the ramification of his behavior upon his relations with peers and faculty, and the impact of these relations or the lack of them upon his academic achievements, and vice versa. It depicts the cycle of interrelated impacts upon school climate and learning atmosphere. In the last decade there is an obvious deterioration in discipline breaches in school. Educators and other school employees complain about the worsening daily atmosphere they have to cope with, about pupils' inappropriate behavior, and about the frequency of disciplinary problems. Several teachers report that during the period, instead of teaching, they are constantly required to deal with disciplinary problems. The researcher is of the opinion that if relations between teacher and pupils are negative, the class is doomed to failure, regardless of its location, while good teacher-pupils relations positively affect all the characteristics of the school climate: good relations lead to behavioral and academic improvement, raises scientific curiosity, and contributes to improve relations among pupils, improve emotional experience, and contributes to learning motivation.

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Managing the Transition Process of Students from Junior High-School to High-School

Author(s): Yusef Eman / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

Transitions from primary school to high school is also considered to be a key milestone, while experiencing adolescence, children undergo more developmental changes include physical, cognitive, emotional and psychological changes. During the course of their studies all students experience transitions between schools. The focus of my paper is the transition process and the management of this period by involving all the relevant stakeholders in the process of students’ transition from Junior High School to High School. I have focused my research on different factors involving this transition and the challenges that students and professors have to cope with.

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Political Management between Ethical Grounds and Electoral Purposes. The Case of Taxation

Author(s): Gabriel Stăicuţ / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2012

Many empirical studies illustrate the natural correlation between freedom and economic prosperity. Therefore, the quality of economic and political institutions that prevail in a country must be assessed considering their capacity to promote a lower level of government intervention in all aspects of social life. This paper offers both theoretical and empirical arguments to support “more market and less government” framework as the best way to promote economic prosperity and political stability within our society. In their way to gain political power, politicians and political parties have to adapt their political management and electoral agenda according to the population preferences and expectations. It has been proved in the past elections that Romanians are favourable to a low level of taxation, even if part of them demands in the same time more financial support from the government. This state of facts represents a real challenge for politicians to shape their political management and strategies in order to gain more votes on the one hand, and to not affect budgetary equilibrium on the other. In some extent, the conclusions of the paper provide some possible solutions for the electorate to rationally discern between different electoral offers, to understand their short run and long run economic and social effects.

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Ranking Mechanisms in Public Investment

Author(s): Adriana Grigorescu,Andrei Claudiu MOTOC / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2011

Properly spending the budget on public investments is the main issue of public authorities. The investment projects sustained by the state are very important for the entire socio-economic life. This is the reason that put the selection process of the solution under question marks and suspicions. A stable and honest rankings mechanism that is taking into account multiple socio-economic indicators and their social importance could be a solution. The transparency of the process and the implication of the contributors/citizens should be taken into consideration. The paper presents the main characteristics of the public investments regulation and procedure in Romania and it focuses on three mechanisms of ranking the solutions for an investment project. The validation of the mechanism could be made using existing data by a panel of experts as further development of the research.

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Mediation of Conflicts – a Viable Solution for Surpassing Communication Barriers. President-Mediator in the Conflict between the Government and the Syndicate’s Organizations from the Education Field

Author(s): Laura Maria Maruşca / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2009

The premises of this project are that approximately 90% of the conflicts in the modern society and not only, are based on poor communication. Any type of miscommunication (due to cultural, linguistic, politic or religious differences) can and will generate conflicts of various intensities going from simple quarrels to diplomatic incidents and all the way to wars. The mediator has the role to solve any existing conflict and to help repair the breaches from the communicational system between parts, in order to preserve the relationship. The article presents a case study on the involvement of the President of Romania, proclaimed to be a mediator by the Constitution, to settle amicably conflicts triggered during October-November 2005, between the Education Unions and the Government of Romania. The involvement of the President as a mediator in the conflict triggered by the wage claims of teachers and students while our budget was not able to support those claims followed almost all the theoretical recommendations regarding the amicable settlement of conflicts through the intervention of a third part.

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Waste Management in Romania

Author(s): Sanda Vişan,Alina Maria Ion,Virginia Ciobotaru,Florica Ligia Botez / Language(s): English Issue: S1/2009

Waste constitutes a serious problem of the contemporary world, through their quantity and diversity, resulting from all economic fields, towns, services, health, and consumption activities. Integrated management of waste which is applied in Romania too, supposes the reducing wastes in productive activities, collection, transport, storage controlled, monitoring deposits and selling material or energy. This study makes references to the collection of their packaging and recycling.

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Hungarian Higher Education – Sustainability

Author(s): Eva Darabos,Domicián Máté / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2015

Nowadays, the sustainability already goes far beyond the aspects of environmental protection; the knowledge and the education are also part of the sustainable development. In the field of education, a condition of realizing the sustainability is that the state should ensure a predictable and stable budget for the operation of institutions. Aim of the treatise, at first, is to examine the fulfilment of Europe 2020 Strategy objective affecting the higher education directly and then, based on statistical data, to present the trend in number of students of the Hungarian higher education and its composition by regions and to examine the change in the budgetary support.In order to retain the sustainability and competitiveness, the state and the institutions should make efforts to harmonise their sources and expenditures and to ensure a predictable, stable financial environment for the sector and its stakeholders.

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An Analysis of the Health Sector in Romania

Author(s): Ibrahim Almaashi / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2014

The paper intends to present an analysis of the efficiency and the performance of health sector in Romania. The research efforts are based on the description of the operational mechanism and analyses of the financing or underfinancing of the above system. Romania has a significant issue in terms of poverty and fairness. Among EU States, it was ranked second in 2008 in terms of the share of the population exposed the risk of poverty, with a share close to the value of 23%, Latvia, with a rate of 26 %. Given this inequality, it would be advisable for the Government to devise specific policies in plane to ensure access for the poor population to health care. Theoretically, Romania provides such protection through the exemption of those registered in the program concerning the guaranteed minimum income from the payment of contributions and of copayments. However, in practice this mechanism is insufficient.

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Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu jako nowa forma dialogu w obszarze działań gospodarczych

Author(s): Janina Filek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2018

Built on a philosophical and social analysis, the paper’s thesis is that corporate social responsibility is a new form of social dialogue. To support the thesis, the features of social communication (on the level of colloquial language), features of philosophical dialogue, and features of corporate social responsibility dialogue are compared. Following the presentation of the corporate social responsibility dialogue, the anthropological, economic and social advantages of a dialogue between companies and their stakeholders is described. One conclusion the analysis led to is that, in the current social-economic situation, further economic development has been increasingly dependent on a company’s dialogue with its stakeholders. Further benefits a company can derive from conducting a responsible dialogue with stakeholders are also indicated.

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Санитетско обезбеђење одреда Југословенске Народне Армије на Синају 1956 – 1967.

Author(s): Aleksandar Životić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1-2/2007

The detachment of the Yugoslav National Army in Sinai within the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces stayed in the territory of Egypt from November 1956 till June 1967. It was the unit of specific organizational – formational structure adapted to executing special tasks in the dessert. As the detachment was an independent unit, in terms of personnel, organization and logistic, it had in its composition special medical elements. Numerically small units of medical service had a broad range of special tasks from the basic medical protection of the personnel to taking care of their hygiene. During the stay of the Yugoslav soldiers in Sinai, the medical elements of the Detachment fought against series of problems. Medical personnel trained to work in the desert conditions represented completely new experience since in their practice so far they never encountered such circumstances. First of all, there was a great problem of different contagious diseases characteristic for that region, different desert reptiles and insects, bad hygienic conditions in the field, but also occasional cases of neurolability caused by the life conditions and accomplishing the specific tasks in the field. Nevertheless, in spite of a series of objective difficulties, medical elements of the Detachment succeeded in accomplishing their basic specific tasks in the field of medical and hygienic protection of the personnel.

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Формирање и организација југословенске војне управе на Слободној Територији Трста 1947–1954. године

Author(s): Miljan Milkić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2008

The Free Territory of Trieste was formed after the Paris Peace Agreement and it was an independent state under the protectorate of the UN Security Council. However, the Free Territory of Trieste was divided into territories under the supervision of the Anglo-American military administration (Zone A) and the Yugoslav military administration (Zone B). The Yugoslav military administration was an armed force through which the Federative People’s Republic of Yugoslavia conducted its mandate in Zone B. During its existence (1947–1954), the Yugoslav military administration relied completely on state bodies, especially the Ministry of People’s Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Finance. The importance of the Yugoslav military administration for Yugoslav international affairs was determined by the international context and local circumstances. The presence of Yugoslav state bodies on territory under the international protectorate was the best way to organize and influence the Yugoslav military administration.

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Theoretical approaches on international projects/programs

Author(s): Doru Cristian Todorescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

The modern world of the beginning of the twenty-first century finds itself in a complex system of interdependences in which the economic factor has a definitive role to play. These realities produced by “the third wave” surprised both Europe and the rest of the world at the end of the sixth decade of the last century, trapped in an archaic depiction, but have resulted in a very different world. Project management has emerged in this process as a natural consequence of globalization processes manifested in all areas of economic, social, political, military, cultural, and legal. Whether it was the strategy of multinational companies or the visions of socio-political development of world states, the project in its essence as a possible solution to a problem has become a universally accepted way of getting things done, internationally. Conceiving performance projects that utilize resources effectively and respond timely to the needs of society has become the concern of specialists who founded and developed the science named management of international projects.

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From Knowledge Enrichment to Career Development: The Case of Higher Education in Israel

Author(s): Tamar Almor,Shnider Avi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Over the last 20 years, higher education enrolment rates have risen by 7% per year in upper middle-income countries and 5% in lower middle-income countries, showing an ever-increasing appetite for higher education around the world. Most students that enter academia hope to improve their lives with better paid careers and relatively few of them dream of becoming professors and researchers themselves. Concurrently, the academic hegemony over knowledge is receding and sources of knowledge are increasingly moving towards digital platforms that are not owned by academia. In this paper we address the development of higher education in the 21st century and the place of students in this process and analyse it in terms of preparation towards a world which will offer jobs that do not yet exist, exemplifying this process by describing the developments of higher education in Israel and by using the case study of the College of Management. We conclude that institutions of higher education need to change according to four dimensions: (1) The role of the student, (2) the learning process, (3) diversity and (4) skill and capabilities creation and we offer insights into how to manage this process of change.

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Empowering Changemakers for a Better Society: The Case of Iéseg School of Management, France

Author(s): Douglas Grant / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This paper presents the case of IÉSEG School of Management, Lille and Paris and its attempt to move from being an internationally recognized, triple-accredited school to a truly intercultural one. By focusing on the deep-visioning process that allowed the school to redefine its vision, mission and values, the paper will highlight the central role that has been given to the ethical, CSR and intercultural aspects of education and management. Concrete examples of the courses, projects and extra-curricular activities are given to illustrate how the school tries to reach its objectives. It is hoped the paper might provide insights that other schools might like to explore in the light of their own contexts in relation to internationalization and the development of the teaching of ethics and CSR

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Upravna ureditev železnic na Slovenskem od začetkov do leta 1991

Author(s): Maruša Pleterski / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 2/1999

The complexity of a railway system demands an extremely well organised management. Relatively soon after the introduction of this new transportation mode in Europe, in 1830's, the railway network extended throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, including the Slovenian territory. The construction of tracks and growing traffic were accompanied by the development and changes in the operational and administrative structure of the national railways. The railways management in Slovenia has always been influenced by current political changes. A large and complex system was set up for the management of railway traffic. The author shows how the railway management was organised by the state in the periods before the First World War, between the two World Wars, and after the Second World War.

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JOB SATISFACTION OF TEACHERS FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR UNIVERSITIES IN LAHORE, PAKISTAN

Author(s): Fatima Hameed,Iftikhar Ahmed-Baig,María Luz Cacheiro / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Job Satisfaction of teachers in Higher Education Institutions from the Public and Private Sector in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. A comparative study has been carried out, based on the survey method using a quantitative approach. Data were collected from a questionnaire completed by 345 Teachers (203 from public and 142 from private sector), from 10 universities (5 public and 5 private), using convenience sampling. The results of the Chi-Squared independence hypothesis test reveal statistically significant differences in degree of agreement for some of the statements between the Public and Private University Teachers on the Job Satisfaction scale (salary, promotion, benefits, coworkers, type of work done, and communication within the organization). Suggestions have been proposed for educational managers to consider professional and personal perceptions related to Job Satisfaction based on Teacher’s needs and perceptions.

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Organisational Learning in Startup Development and International Growth

Author(s): Jurgita Sekliuckiene,Rimgailė Vaitkienė,Vestina Vainauskiene / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

Objective: This article explores the conceptual link between the development stages of a startup and organisational learning with the aim to conceptualise the practices of organisational learning levels emerging in specific life cycle stages of a global startup. Research Design & Methods: This article presents a review as well as a synthesis of the extant literature. The research integrates the theories of organisational learning and international entrepreneurship, and offers a conceptual framework that reveals interactions between the constructs in question. Findings: The results suggest that the ontological level and the processes of organisation learning can vary in global startups at different life cycle stages. In addition, the research findings also indicate that, for a global startup, for a successful transition from one cycle to another, learning processes of cyclical entrepreneurship learning have to take place. Implications & Recommendations: The findings of the study have implications in particular for global startup founders and their team members who would like to establish entrepreneurial businesses. Organisation learning practices should be applied in enterprises from the very beginning of the bootstrapping phase with the goal to develop a culture of learning and sharing knowledge when developing the startup idea. Contribution & Value Added: The originality of this work lies in proposing a conceptual framework that examines the organisational learning in startup development and international growth and a set of important considerations for further research, as well as contributing to the literature on international entrepreneurship.

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A. Lipka, S. Waszczak, M. Król, A. Giszterowicz, Empatyczne zarządzanie w czasach kreatywności performatywnej,

Author(s): Marcin Laberschek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

Review of: A. Lipka, S. Waszczak, M. Król, A. Giszterowicz,Empatyczne zarządzanie w czasach kreatywności performatywnej,Wydawnictwo CeDeWu, Warszawa 2018, 186 ss. Review by: Marcin Laberschek

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