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Private Management in Romanian State Owned Companies from Transportation Field
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to reveal the results of the attempt to recruit and to set up private managers in Romanian state owned companies. The study aims to highlight the problems that arose soon after the implementation of this project. Far from being a panacea solution for all these companies, from the very beginning this initiative faced a number of difficulties. The research is realized on the Romanian transport sector revealing the major strengths and weaknesses, but also the opportunities and threats that should be considered in the attempt to solve the financial problems of state owned companies
The Predictable Future of Bio-economic Society
Get PDFThis theoric study aims to draw a picture of midterm future by terms of socio-economic environment. While doing this, we mostly assume ‘social structure’ as dependent variable and the ‘new economy’ ( green energy and new production ) as independent variable. As known, social transformations take more time due to the human generations lifespans, according to technological or economical transformations. İn fact social factors effect economic and technological factors in long term deeply. But in this study we will be generally limited by the mids of 21. Century. According to Jeremy Rifkin, great economic transformations in history appears when a new communication technology interact with a new energy system. New communication system make it possible to organize the more complex civilization, which the new energy system created. We are discussing the socio-economic future of human life on earth; how people will distribute on geography, how they work and how governments will change into new forms of social regulators? IBM, Cisco Systems, Siemens and General Electric, are all trying to construct a smart power grid. This intelligent energy network will embrace virtually every facet of life. Homes, offices and vehicles will continuously communicate wtih each other, sharing information and energy on a 24/7 basis. How this happenings effect the social community all over the world? With other entries like the rising of transnational enterprises, the individual independence on energy acquiring, will destroy the social contracts which establishes nations. İndividuals normally gets together for creating economies of scale. Because individuals cannot build large energy plants like coal plants or nuclear plants by themselves. As a result governments become to loose their basic functional reason of existance againts citizens.
The Process of Globalization of Businesses and Opportunities Offered by the new Technology on Ethics and Responsibility in Business
Get PDFIn this paper the authors aim to create a presentation of the triangle morals-ethics-responsibility with an accent on the current globalized society. Business ethics has to disseminate in all the corners of a company, and first of all it has to be understood. Understanding the moral criteria of behaviour in business is important because the new Organizational structures create new complications, related to information flow and information administration inside various workgroups and in the entire organization, for which there are no traditional precedents. The increase in the importance given to business ethics can be explained through the changes suffered by the strategies and the structures of the corporations. Recent currents in the managerial theory and practice, as total quality management, as well as restructuring and redimensioning processes for top companies left to abandoning many traditional practices for managing economic processes. Intricate and rigid managerial hierarchies have been considerably flattened. As a consequence, the authority and the decisional responsibility have been dispersed more and more inside the company: important decisions are taken at lower hierarchical levels and by more employees. That’s why it is required that each employee, not just the management, should understand as well as possible the complexity of the problems and how they should be reflected in the practical behaviour of the company in the economic environment.
Ethical Unconcern Scale: Construction and Validation
Get PDFThis paper presents the measure development procedure of an Ethical Unconcern (EU) scale. The procedure included literature search, brainstorming, discussion groups in order to generate the pool of the initial 99 items. A student survey was conducted in order to refine the measure. Item analysis and reliability assessment resulted in a final measure of 25 items. A consumer survey was conducted in the urban area of Thessaloniki, Greece to test the new EU scale. Item-to-total correlation and alpha-if-item deleted were applied in the consumer sample and the results indicated that all items obtained coefficients greater than 0.30. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was then conducted by the employment of PCA. After eliminating three items with a factor loading <0.50, the remaining 22 items indicated five factors (with an eigenvalue >1.0) explaining 62.65% of the variance. The five factors were named Doubt, Fair-Trade, Ethical, Scepticism and Powerlessness. Then Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was applied in order to test whether the EU measurement model fit the data well. The AMOS SPSS was used. Goodness-of-fit results indicated that the measurement model fit the data very well (χ2=741.95, p<0.000, CFI=0.926, NFI=0.903, TLI=0.911, RMSEA=0.062)
Youth and Social Cohesion
Get PDFThe present study aims to present and interpret the findings of a survey carried out for the YEU-International, a nonprofit organization based in Brussels. The survey was meant to assess different aspects related to social cohesion, and was conducted on groups of young people from 16 countries. Among the major findings, we can enumerate the fact that the majority of youngsters have strong ties with their families; they are willing to get involved in civic activities; they have no gender prejudices; they do not trust public institutions; school plays an important role in their learning about human rights; economic prosperity creates a better framework for social cohesion; the most stringent social problems are poverty and access to jobs; the majority of respondents have participated at least once in a non-formal education programme, which mainly improved their communication skills, their interest in social issues and concerns of their community, their team –working skills, their intercultural communication, their organization/planning skills, their decision-making abilities and their confidence/autonomy
Postmodernist Identity Construction and Consumption
Get PDFWith transition from modernism to postmodernism, identity as a concept is started to redefine in sociological literature. The aim of the study is that postmodernism and symbolic interactionism are fused together to determine the scene as well as actor’s identity. In that way, both that the interaction of social structure with culture won’t be completely ignored and with the opinion of that the categorized roles can be shaped and diversified by actors skillfully will be moved away from pure determinism. However, individuals pay more attention to their appearance more than who they are to be accepted by each group. In this manner, metaphysical shell game begins. In the study, “Social Appearance Anxiety” is used indicator of this game.The study was based on the analysis of the data collected through a questionnaire from 181 students studying in Hitit University. The INDCOL (Singelis et al., 1995) was used to determine cultural values of students in four dimensions; namely, vertical individualism and collectivism, and horizontal individualism and collectivism. To measure “Social Appearance Anxiety”, validity of Turkish version of the scale developed by Hart et al. in 2008 (Doğan, 2010) was used. The findings show that individuals being greater vertical individualistic value are more malleable to have social appearance anxiety. The findings also indicate that individuals having more collectivist value are not affected this kind of anxiety. Also new generation advertisement especially emphasizes importance of appearance. Due to this trend, Social Appearance Anxiety can be resulting in excessive consumption for more individualistic individual. References [1] Singelis, T. M, Triandis, H. C., Bhawuk, D. S., ve Gelfand, M. J. 1995. Horizontal and vertical dimensions of individualism and collectivism: A theoretical and measurement refinement. Cross-Cultural Research, 29 (3): 240-275. [2] Doğan,Tayfun (2010) Sosyal Görünüş Kaygısı Ölçeği’ Nin (SGKÖ) Türkçe Uyarlaması: Geçerlik Ve Güvenirlik Çalışması, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi (H. U. Journal of Education) 39: 151- 159
Development Agencıes on the Way to the Regıonal Development: Comparıson of Turkey and Românıa
No full textAlthough the levels of regional development disparities change from country to country, almost all countries suffer from this problem. In order to minimize these disparities, the Regional Development Agencies have been established in many countries. By prompting the regional potential and internal dynamics, regional development agencies which were established to stimulate the regional economies aim to produce economic and socio-cultural values. The development agencies contribute economic development of countries by stimulating the regional economies. Also they contribute to minimize the unemployment rate thanks to the investments invited into the region. The objective of this study is to display the roles of development agencies on elimination of the regional development disparities comparing Romania and Turkey
Sustainable Environment and in the Context of Environment Economy Necessary and an Analyze
Get PDFIn global world, the environment has become a scarce resource. Since economics is about how to deal with scarce resources, environment and economics are interrelated with each other. On the other hand it is also clear that economics which creates both positive and negative externalities, affects the environment. For this reason, it is not possible to except environmental problems from the economics. Today some socio-economic activities like increasing consumption based on shopping malls, urban regeneration, fast population growth and etc. have being created environmental cost. One way of using economics is to ensure that the costs and the benefits of environmental measures are well balanced. Although it is difficult to estimate costs and benefits, there is an increasing demand that this is should be done before the economical activity. Economic and environmental objectives are often perceived as being contradictory. It is believed that a choice must be made between one and the other and that cannot be achieved concurrently. To change this perception, some measures should be taken on both national and international level. At this point, an efficient environmental auditing is being important day by day to ensure environmental economics. In this study we will research what was done in the world in terms of environmental economics. In this context, we will examine what will have to do in Turkey in terms of legislation
From Performance Measurement to Strategic Management Model: Balanced Scorecard
Get PDFIn Today’s competitive markets, one of the main conditions of the surviving of enterprises is the necessity to have effective performance management systems. Decisions must be taken by the management according to the performance of assets. In the transition from industrial society to information society, the presence of business structures have changed and the values of non-financial assets have increased in this period. So some systems have emerged based on intangible assets and to measure them instead of tangible assets and their measurement’s. With economic and technological development multi-dimentional evaluation in the business couldn’t be sufficient. Performance evaluation methods can be applied in business with an integrated approach by its accordance with business strategy, linking to reward system and cause effects link established between performance measures. Balanced scorecard is one of the commonly used in measurement methods. While it was used for the first time in 1992 as a performance measurement tool today it has been used as a strategic management model besides its conventional uses. BSC contains customer perspective, internal perspective and learning and growth perspective besides financial perspective. Learning and growth perspective is determinant of other perspectives. In order to achieve the objectives set out in the financial perspective in other dimensions that need to be accomplished, is emphasized. Establishing a causal link between performance measures and targets how to achieve specified goals with strategy maps are described
Improvement practice of the students in an EU project. Economic importance and lessons for the future. Case study of Spiru Haret University
No full textThe paper is a case study for the project < Student practitioners- students active and integrated> financed by Social European Fund. The project was developed in Romania in the Social Operational Program for Development Human Resources. The project has as objective to improve the practice of the students. The aim of the research is to identify and to indicate the economic and social importance of the practice in universities, how much may this to change in the society. The focus on skills and entrepreneurship will be analysed from the point of view of knowledge economy and society. In accordance with the theory in economics and labour market are evaluated direct and indirect impact on economy and society of a better equilibrium between demand and supply of labour market in the segment of higher qualifications. In these paper we pass from theoretic concepts to practice computation in a concrete projects. Our paper expects to start de applicative studies regarding the economic and social impact of different project and to put together the theory and the social practice in the field of EU funds. We also want to disseminate some ideas for a best practice of the students received in this project. The paper will help public authorities in a better design of official documents of EU funds calls and the tools for their monitoring, controlling. The paper is a part of research included in project activities. The modern world is faced with practical challenges. Following the implementation of this project, by holding a contest with prizes between its beneficiaries, we wanted identifying the best solutions to improve in future of carrying out internships for students, so that with balanced funds, but with a lot of intelligence, to obtain maximum efficiency