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Foresight Technologies Usage in Working Out Long Term. Forecasts of Service and Tourism Personnel Training System Development

Author(s): Natalia A. Zaitseva,Anna A. Larionova,MINERVIN Igor G.,YAKIMENKO Ruslan V.,Irina V. Balitskaya / Language(s): English Issue: 02 (12)/2015

The present article deals with the questions of working out Service and Tourism personnel training system changing forecast on the base of the usage of foresight techniques as actual instrument of social and economic processes forecasting for societies and economics of different countries. The technique allows us not only to estimate the present situation and highlight the main trends which give an actual picture of the present but to reveal threats and possibilities which may appear in the market in near future, and, moreover, to prepare the projects aiming at these threats prevention and at new positive possibilities developing. In Russia ‘Rapid Foresight’ technique was worked out by Agency of Strategic Initiative and now it is quite actively used. Several Profession Atlas versions showing expert opinions of professional societies about the changes which may appear in the structure and quality of personnel in different spheres in remote f t re were developed with the help of Rapid Foresight Technology usage. With the help of ‘Rapid Foresight’ technique perspectives for education and service sphere professions and personnel competencies were developed. On the base of the present technique the authors of the article have carried out an investigation on robotization trend in service and tourism spheres. The investigation showed that the opinions of employers and educational institutes’ representatives are split into two equal parts: one half thinks that in service robotization will prevail and the other half says that the human factor will predominate. Hence, the results of New York Federal Reserve Bank investigation, which forecasted the growth of non-routine labor and connected with that crucial necessity for such catering, service, hospitality and tourism personnel competencies as thought flexibility, ability to settle non-typical problems and use of creative approach in servicing clients. The materials of the article have a practical value for educational institutes, engaged in training of Service and Tourism personnel, and for Service and Tourism enterprises themselves.

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Estimating Willingness to Pay for Safe Beef

Author(s): Saraithong Wuthiya / Language(s): English Issue: 01 (13)/2016

Consumers‟ willingness to pay a premium price for safe and officially certified beef is analyzed in order to provide insights for producers, consumers, and the government. The analysis uses data from interviews in Bangkok, Thailand, with 620 respondents, who have experiences in buying beef. This study employs single and double-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation method. The final model shows that only three variables are statistically significant in determining willingness to pay and used for the willingness to pay estimation. The weighted mean willingness to pay for safe and certified beef of Thai consumers is calculated to reflect the buying intention of both consumers with positive willingness to pay and those with true zero bids, and equal to 35.72 baht/kilogram or about 12% over the current market price of normal beef. This study‟s finding could help producers decide whether to invest and raise the standard of their beef production, and in due course, improve people‟s welfare in general.

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Środowisko biznesu rodzinnego jako stymulanta intencji przedsiębiorczych młodzieży akademickiej

Author(s): Krzysztof Wach / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7.3/2015

The recent research results indicate that family entrepreneurship impacts entrepreneurial intentions of young generations. The experience of family entrepreneurship has an impact on entrepreneurial intentions, especially intergenerational terms. The objective of this article is the empirical verification of the impact of family entrepreneurship on students’ entrepreneurial intentions on the selected sample in Poland. The article is divided into three main sections. The first sections presents the theoretical foundations of entrepreneurial intentions. The second section elaborates on the applied research methodology. Finally, the third section reveals the results of the survey among students. The hypothesis stating that environment and experience of the family business has a positive effect on entrepreneurial intentions, making students coming from family entrepreneurship background more entrepreneurial than those that do not have such experience.

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Realizacja polityki równego traktowania kobiet i mężczyzn

Author(s): Grażyna Giejłaszewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3.2/2019

The article discusses the problems of establishing the legal framework for the implementation of policy of equal status between men and women and combatting discrimination on grounds of sex in Poland. The author analyses circumstances surrounding the appointment of subsequent government plenipotentiary offices and amendments relatingto their tasks and competences. In the light of the limited scope of the study, the author discusses selected problems and cites selected pieces of legislation

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Kilka uwag na tle postępowania przed wojewódzką komisją do spraw orzekania o zdarzeniach medycznych w kontekście jej statusu prawnego

Author(s): Piotr Mikołajczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3.2/2019

The present study focuses on the legal status of regional (voivodeship) adjudication boards for medical incidents and the proceedings before those boards. The status of anadjudication board has not been unambiguously specified by the legislature. The board doesnot exercise public authority, but its decisions are binding on the insurance institution and the healthcare entity. Adjudication board proceedings have a significant drawback, namelythe devolution principle is not applied and the adjudication activity of these boards does notreceive judicial supervision

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Gwarancje procesowe strony a wyjątki od zasady pisemności

Author(s): Agnieszka Korzeniowska-Polak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3.2/2019

The provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure specify 13 general principles of administrative procedure. The principle of written form in proceedings is one of them. Two obligations of the public administrative body arise from this principle. The obligation to keep acts finalising the proceedings in written and the obligation to put in written all the actions that are relevant to the settlement of a matter or to the course of proceedings. The principle of written form in proceedings is not a categorical principle. There are very few exceptions from the principle of written form in proceedings. The present paper is concentratedon the principle of written form in proceedings and one of exceptions from its

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Transfer wartości estetycznych do świata biznesu: studium przypadku incydentalnej interwencji artystycznej

Author(s): Patrycja Mizera-Pęczek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6.1/2019

Art-based intervention programs in business are successfully implemented in enterprises all over the world. The reason for their implementation is the belief in the benefits of active employee participation in cultural projects. In the light of the results of representative secondary research quoted in the article, employees using this type of program increase their thinking fluency, sensitivity or creative activity. The article presents the results of own research carried out using the method of case study devoted to incidental artistic intervention in a company from the financial sector X. Itturned out that the practice of marriage of art and business in this organization is far from the postulates presented in the literature of the subject.

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Scenariusze rozwoju Nowego Szlaku Jedwabnego – strategie i perspektywy przyszłości

Author(s): Magdalena Rybicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6.1/2019

The New Silk Road, inspired by the tradition, laid the foundations for thecreation of a new economic, political and cultural reality linking Asia and Europe at the initiative of China. This article is an attempt to indicate the possibilities of development from the perspective of Poland, together with recommendations concerning the future. The author is aware of the complexity and breadth of this subject matter, and this studyis only a collection of main thoughts related to illustrating the future of the created Silk Road.

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Pracownicy-bumerangi na polskim rynku pracy

Author(s): Anna Krasnova / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6.3/2019

The crisis of talents growing on the Polish labor market causes that employers are beginning to look for new answers to the old question: How to find the right employees? One of the most reasonable answers seems to be the re-employment of former employees. Even the term “boomerang- employees” appeared in the literature, referring to people who, leaving the workplace, being employed in another company and after taking up experience,return to the former employer. The aim of the paper is to present the phenomenon of boomerang employment on the Polish labor market based on the analysis of literature and the results of author’s own research.

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Zarządzanie utalentowanymi pracownikami we współczesnym przedsiębiorstwie

Author(s): Irena Dudzik-Lewicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6.3/2019

The underlying basis of talent management is the assumption that people constitutean enterprise’s major value and decisive factor of its competitive advantage. Therefore,the concept of talent management has already become a part and parcel of a business strategy shared by many leading companies. As demonstrated by studies conducted in Poland by active training and counselling centers (such as HRM Partners S.A. or House of Skills together with The Conference Board), talent management is going to pose one of the major challenges companies will face in a couple of incoming years. Thus, talent management isno longer an option but a necessity, so in this article the author makes and attempt to deep-dive into the current practice of talent management on the Polish market from the point of view of effective talent identification, development and retention, confronting current literary studies with the results of a self-conducted research. The aim of such an interpretation is to arrive at a better understanding of the concept, to reveal its dynamics and underlying aspects so as to offer recommendation about practical ways of talent management.

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Działalność B+R sektora MŚP a ośrodki wsparcia w Polsce w latach 2013–2017 – ujęcie systemowe

Author(s): Arkadiusz Świadek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2019

Business support organization’s positive influence on R&D seems so obvious, but it’s thought to find the systemic research that confirms such phenomenon form the one side. Author didn’t find the papers with specific statistical interaction between them also. The main aim of the paper is to evaluate the systemic impact the business support organizations on R&D activity in SME’s in Poland. The positive feedback from the statistical multiregression logit models shows us homogeneity of the country system from the one side and heterogeneity from the other that flows from these interactions. The impact of the BSO units were statistical significant, strong and positive in most cases, excluding one exception. This might be the important thing for building the more appropriate and effective innovation policy for SME’s. The research was conducted for the years 2013–17 on a group of 5992 industrial companies in Poland.

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Factors Affecting the Activitiesof the Ukrainian Enterprises with Foreign Capital

Author(s): Nataliya Chukhray,Iryna Semin / Language(s): English Issue: 9.3/2016

The article deals with marketing research of factors affecting the establishment and functioning of the Ukrainian industrial enterprises with foreign investments. The factors affecting the choice of the studied subjects corporate strategy are defined. A research of business culture is done with the establishment of cultural differences that are traced in the operation process of the enterprise in the conditions of foreign investment.

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Etyka zawodowa księgowych z perspektywy studentów – prezentacja wyników badań ankietowych

Author(s): Anna Dyhdalewicz,Renata Gmińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 345/2019

Professional ethics is a set of rules and norms determining how – from a moral point of view – representatives of a particular profession should behave. Codes of ethics are a tool for developing ethical principles and values adapted to specific professional groups, including professional accountants. For several years, there has been the Code of Professional Ethics in Accounting (CPEA) to be followed, adopted by the Association of Accountants in Poland. According to the Code, the basic principles for accounting professionals include honesty, objectivity, professional competence and due diligence, maintaining the confidentiality of information, and professional attitude. The research problem is an attempt to answer the question: Do the individual ethical principles and ethical values of students coincide with the ethical principles of the professional community of accountants that CPEA presents? The aim of the article is to identify moral and potential unethical behaviors among accounting students in the context of the ethical principles of CPEA. To achieve the goal of the article, an empirical study was carried out. The pilot study using the PAPI technique was used in the research process. The quantitative methods were used in the development of the survey results. As results from the research, students pointed to general, well‑known ethical values. However, the students’ individual behavior is not always consistent with what is considered to be appropriate and ethical according to the standards of the professional environment. It is clearly visible that the students are guided by their own ethical principles, even if they violate the law, make choices to behave following their own interest. The obtained research results reveal the tendency of many respondents towards various kinds of unethical activities that threaten the implementation of general ethics in accounting, both among people who intend to work and those who declare their participation in internships in accounting professions.

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Opportunism in Corporate Management

Author(s): Stanisław Rudolf / Language(s): English Issue: 345/2019

A growing interest in the phenomenon of economic opportunism can be mainly explained by new institutional economics (NIE). It has changed the limitation of that phenomenon into the main method of increasing the efficiency of business entities. Opportunistic attitudes and behaviour can be particularly observed in a business entity. A tendency towards opportunism should be considered both while entering contracts and while developing a strategy for a company. The article is aimed at presenting the essence of opportunism and at defining its place in new institutional economics.It is also aimed at identifying opportunistic attitudes in corporate operation and at indicating the ways to limit such attitudes.While analysing the role of opportunism in corporate management, the main focus shall be set on opportunistic interdependencies in corporate governance. Opportunistic attitudes may be presented not only by the management board of a company but also by its other stakeholders. They may use incompleteness of agreements that have been entered into or asymmetry of information in order to increase their gain at the expense of others. The article provides a more detailed analysis of opportunistic attitudes presented by employee organisations in highly developed countries as well as in post‑communist countries, where opportunism is manifested in demanding attitudes or in protection of monopolist positions.

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Ethical Infrastructure in the Post-Socialist Bulgaria

Author(s): Rossitsa Rangelova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The article analyzes the emergence and development of business ethics in Bulgaria from 1989 to the present day, that is, it traces the emergence of ethical infrastructure in the conditions of transition from a centrally planned to a market economy and its development already in the conditions of the country's membership in the EU. The period of the last 30 years is divided into three sub-periods: (a) the collapse of state socialism and the launching of a market economy and democratic principles (1989-1997); (b) the period of deeper structural reforms and the preparation of the economy for EU accession (1997-2007); (c) the years of Bulgaria's EU membership (since 2007 up to now). The research deals with main problems of building ethical infrastructure – at the beginning of the period the ownership change – restitution, privatization, etc., and later on – legislation, freedom of speech, shadow economy, corruption and more are studied. The issues discussed herein are complemented by the results of the surveys conducted in 1996 and 2019. The questions of established business ethics in Bulgaria are posed in the context of the challenges facing the society of this still transforming country.

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Customers’ Awareness of Corporate Social Responsibility in Vietnam and Poland: a Comparative Analysis

Author(s): Doanh Dương Công,Katarzyna Gadomska-Lila / Language(s): English Issue: 347/2020

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become one of emerging issues in such countries as Vietnam and Poland and in the rest of the world. This is due to the advantages it brings to socio‑economic sustainable development or the living environment. The focus of this research is to present a comparative analysis of the current understanding, awareness and attitudes of Polish and Vietnamese customers. The study employs quantitative analyses and some tools of descriptive statistics to show that although Vietnamese and Polish customers have a rather positive attitude towards the issues related to CSR, they are still not interested in CSR reports on companies’ reputation and image as well as environmental pollution. Moreover, customers also pay attention to low prices rather than the CSR reputation of companies. By utilising the Mann‑Whitney U Test, this study shows that even though both countries are seen as transitional economies, there are certain differences in attitudes towards and awareness of CSR activities between Vietnamese and Polish customers.

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Cadrul general al decontărilor cu personalul

Author(s): Mihaela Atudorei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2015

This paper emphasizes the theoretical and legal settlements with staff, explaining the forms and pay systems, legal regulations, focusing on the formation of gross salary, adding that salary is one of the comer stones of collective and individual employment contracts. Disbursements staff comprise the salary, bonuses, additions, awards of payroll, compensation for rest and those for temporary disability paid from the first payroll accounting staff participation in profits, granted by law, and other rights in cash and / or kind of entity due to staff for their work.

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Human rights should be our business

Author(s): Marcin Kilanowski / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

Motivation: Until today, businesses have very often not seen the need to focus on the protection of human rights when conducting business activities. Recent cases involving BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Volkswagen show that even the most well-known corporations violate human rights. After the analysis of several pertinent legal texts, I will present my arguments as to why businesses should protect human rights even though it is difficult to present a universal basis for these rights.Aim: The business world is often critical of its obligation to protect human rights and its core value which is human dignity. There are however difficulties in presenting arguments that can frame how we should understand the nature of human dignity. This article aims to present these difficulties, which can be understood not only as a challenge but also as an opportunity to rethink the reasons why businesses should adjust their conduct in a way that does not violate human rights.Results: The analysis of the legal and philosophical literature as well as international texts and court rulings shows that it is difficult to present a clear answer regarding the meaning of the notion of human dignity as the basis for the protection of human rights. Such a difficulty can be perceived however as an opportunity to apply a pragmatic approach and to create an open dialogue about the scope of human rights protection of which businesses should be a part. It should not only be in the interest of states to protect human rights, who are involved in creating treaties and in their implementation, but also in the interest of business entities. Human rights are our business and they should also be the business of businesses, taking responsibility for the human rights violations caused by their operations. These violations can be prevented by applying a pragmatic approach, thanks to communication with those willing to present critical views, and by resting the judgements of businesses on their ongoing critical assessment of their activities, taking under considerations not only profit margins but also the other human beings impacted by their operations.

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ÖRGÜTSEL ÇALIŞMALARIN AHLAKİ DOĞASINI ŞEKİLLENDİRMEDE MİHENK TAŞI: ALASDAIR MACINTYRE’NİN ERDEM ETİĞİ PERSPEKTİFİ

Author(s): Halit Keskin,Selahaddin Samil Fidan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 21/2020

This article aims to discuss core concepts of moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s virtue ethics perspective in business ethics area. Through tracing the development of MacIntyrean virtue ethics perspective on organization studies, MacIntyre’s virtues-goods-practice-institution schema is reviewed in the context of virtuous agents, a conducive mode of institutionalization and a conducive environment. This provides an understanding of why some organizations protect their practices, flourish their virtues and stimulate the exercise of their moral agency. Besides, this article evaluates organizational virtue mapping with indicative virtues. In this direction, in order to deal with disconnection between organization studies and business ethics, MacIntyrean virtue ethics perspective is proposed.

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Ethical dilemmas of the silver economy

Author(s): Grażyna Krzyminiewska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Motivation: The silver economy means the existing and emerging economic opportunities caused by the ageing population. It creates a number of dilemmas encourages its broader analysis in view of the emerging ethical problems.Aim: The aim of the article is to present ethical problems arising in connection with the aging of the population. The article hypothesizes that the development of individual activities undertaken in the field of the so-called ‘silver economy’ repeatedly violates the ethical rules of social relations, which may contribute to reducing the quality of life and social status of senior citizens. The implementation of the silver economy, related to the rejection of biases and stereotypes concerning the elderly, is the essence of the problem analysis. The ethical dilemmas mentioned in the title indicate the need to reflect on the problem, whose solution presents a difficult choice between two equally important perspectives: the personalized, pro-senior citizen approach; and a pragmatic approach to alleviating the impacts of an ageing society on society overall. The problem is considered with respect to various fields of activity of the silver economy, concentrated around the silver industry, social innovation and gerontechnology.Results: The development of the silver economy will be one of the expected megatrends in the economy. The activities of silver industries, social innovation and gerontechnology are a condition to increase the level and quality of life of the older generation. The silver economy is a major stimulus for development, provided that it is based on ethical principles that promote social and economic inclusion, as well as on counteracting the negative consequences of stereotyping, ageism and social exclusion. The analyzes carried out indicate that the ethical approach to the development of the ‘silver economy’ has not been sufficiently considered to date.

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