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Does Telework Work? Gauging Challenges of Telecommuting to Adapt to a “New Normal”
Get PDFCC BY-NC 4.0The paper aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of organisation management while telecommuting. With exploratory factor analysis (EFA), we define the specific set of telework organising efficiency characteristics. We determined the number of factors with Kaiser Eigenvalues rule as well as Cattel's scree criterion. We conducted the study in Lithuania, the country with a low percentage of teleworkers until organisations have been urged to properly implement their performance to remote means after the COVID-19 quarantine was announced. This paper reveals that the fundamental challenges of teleworking are the feedback issues related to working accomplishment, especially to the task and process overload, and individual self-organisation ability. Moreover,the flexibility of work organisation represents a unique characteristic of telework, and managers should cooperate more effectively with teleworkers to keep them motivated
Public-Private Partnership in Social Responsibility and Security: Eurasian Focus
Get PDFCC BY-NC-ND 4.0This issue brings up a complicated and converging problematics, which essentially includes several
components: public-private partnerships (Bobrovska et al., 2020), social responsibility of businesses
and each particular citizen (Dema et al., 2018), their joint efforts in pursuit of both the sustainable
development of society and the support of the latter’s safety at various levels (Lozhkina et al., 2021)
The Impacts of Leader–Member Exchange, Psychological Capital, and Job Crafting on Innovative Behavior: Evidence from the Public Sector
Get PDFCC BY-NC-ND 4.0The public sector has begun to recruit employees with outstanding psychological
capital (PsyCap) as a way to improve performance, expecting them to find unusual ways to
correct errors in service delivery and redesign work processes. This study aims to examine the
effect of leader–member exchange (LMX) and PsyCap on job crafting and innovative behavior,
respectively. In addition, the effect of job crafting as a mediator between the interactions of
LMX, innovative behavior, and PsyCap was also analyzed. This study surveyed 105 entry-level
employees from a government office in Indonesia, and analyzed the data using Partial Least
Squares. The results show that PsyCap has a positive and significant effect on job crafting and
innovative behavior. LMX does not significantly affect either job crafting or innovative behavior; thus, job crafting does not have a significant mediatory effect. The limitations of this study
include the fact that it was conducted in the governmental sector of a country, and the framing
of LMX and PsyCap as the drivers of job crafting and innovative behavior. This study also suggests ways for the governmental sector to enhance the innovative behavior of their employees by
focusing not only on personal resources but also on high-quality relationships with supervisors
Administracinė teisė, socialinė tikrovė, viešoji politika ir socialiniai pokyčiai
No full textThe authors of the article explore the multi-functionality of administrative law. Administrative legislation should take into account social realities, recognize the usefulness of social order (when assessing the need for legislative changes or their stability) and transfer them to the level of justice (in terms of the adequacy of legal regulation). After the restoration of independence, administrative law in Latvia and Lithuania had to undergo a transformation of values, abandon the imposed Soviet ideological standards and master new standards of democracies. This strengthened social and legal values, enshrined and protected in the Constitutions of both countries and after accession to the EU, in accordance with the provisions of public administration, allowed by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.The article notes that the formation of legislative policy and the creation of legislation usually based on the discretion of the culture of politicians.The authors of the article draw attention to the synergistic knowledge of social reality and the use of this knowledge when building administrative and legal regulation to the level of macro-social regulation
Legal liability for cruelty to animals
No full textThe article analyzes the concept of cruelty to animals and the problem of protection of animal rights.
Official statistics of criminal and administrative cases and facts of cruelty to animals published by the media and
animal welfare organizations shows that cruelty to animals is a relevant issue in Lithuania.
The purpose of this article is to reveal the concept of cruelty to animals, to analyze the legislation providing
for legal liability for cruelty to animals and to present the problems arising in practice in the field of application of
legal liability.
The problem in this area is that the concepts of animal cruelty and torture are very broad, and the laws of
the Republic of Lithuania do not provide definitions of these concepts, but provide a list of actions that are
considered cruelty to animals and torture. The article also discusses the list of activities that are not considered
cruel treatment. The conclusion is made that there are conflicting views on animal cruelty in different societies
and in the same society, so the concept of cruelty to animals is culturally determined and constantly changing
The Constitutional Aspects of the Annulment of the Code of Ethics of Public Information by the Decision of an Administrative Court
No full textThis article analyzes the constitutional aspects of administrative
justice related to the case when the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania, in
examining an individual administrative dispute, resolved the issue of the legality
of the Code of Ethics of Public Information adopted at the meeting of journalists’
representatives. This article also raises problems related to the contradiction of
the concept of administrative doctrine regarding a normative administrative act
and the inconsistency of the examination of normative administrative acts in
administrative courts with the constitutional doctrine. In the author’s opinion,
such administrative justice on an ad hoc basis raises reasonable doubts about its
compliance with the constitutional doctrine formed by the Constitutional Court,
and contradicts the previous practice of administrative justice regarding the
concept of a normative administrative act and the legal assessment of the code
of ethics in public information. The annulment of a legal act in administrative
justice without following the normative procedure of litigation established by
the Law on Administrative Proceedings should be assessed as an extraordinary
example of administrative justice, which potentially violates the right to a fair
trial, as well as undermining trust in administrative courts
Parenting during Covid-19: The Experiences of Parents
No full textThe lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic affected the social lives of the vast majority of the population. Lithuanians reported that this situation significantly affected their leisure time, work and financial situation, and studies – with 27.0% of respondents to a representative survey reporting that their family life has changed. COVID-19 and the associated lockdown brought about changes to the lives of families. According to family resilience theories, the balance of a family’s daily functioning is disturbed when situational requirements outweigh family resources and opportunities – a phenomenon which, it is generally agreed, occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, several studies regarding changes to the daily routines of families were conducted all over the world, including in: Lithuania, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany, the Netherlands, Korea, and India. Whilst various aspects of these changes were investigated in these different studies, they all concluded that families faced new situations and needed to search for a new way to adapt and adjust to a changed reality. As Lee, Chin, and Sung (2020) note, COVID-19 has changed the meaning of home from a place to sleep to a basecamp involving numerous major activities related to work, schooling, parenting, housework, shopping, leisure, and religion. Families have found it challenging to spend intensive time with each other, to share gendered family responsibilities, and to support other families
Assurance of the Right to Privacy and the Protection of Personal Data in Labour Relations
Get PDFDaily work activities of employees and performance of their job functions are inseparable from ensuring
the right to privacy and the protection of personal data. The recent era and adaptation to new working conditions
such as remote work, difficulty of separating corporate and private life, and use of new IT tools pose new
challenges to employee privacy and protection of personal data. Monitoring of employees, checking of
correspondence, collecting information about employees, storage of such information, and its transfer to third
parties concern both the right to privacy of employees and protection of their personal data.
Object of the article – assurance of employee rights to privacy and protection of personal data.
The purpose of the article is to analyse the content of employee right to privacy and protection of personal data
and to identify the main problems related to violations of these rights in order to properly understand and comply
with the legal framework.
The relevance of this research paper is linked with the assurance of the employee right to personal data protection
and privacy requirements, appropriate personal data processing of employees, identification of the nature of
violations, and provision of recommendations seeking to avoid them
Evaluation of Outsourcing Development in the Service Sector
Get PDFThe global pandemic has affected all sectors and disrupted not only supply chains but also had a particular impact on the range of services provided and the whole service sector. Outsourcing is used to adapt to business environment changes. However, in the scholarly literature, outsourcing of services is analysed as a complementary part of the manufacturing process - there is a lack of research on outsourcing in service companies. This article analyses the enablers of outsourcing in all service groups. The aim of the semi-structured interview was to determine not only the enablers, their significance in each WTO (World Trade Organisation) group of services but also the use of outsourcing in the provision of core and non-core services. The results of the empirical study revealed that outsourcing is increasingly used in the service sector; however, enablers vary depending on the provision of services, the nature of the service company’s activities, and the needs they meet, public or for-profit