The study analyses the impact of quality management (QM) on Job Satisfaction in Greater Amman Governorate and verifies the role of Knowledge sharing as a moderating variable on this impact. A simple random sample of 242 middle managers was selected. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to participants; 207 valid questionnaires were retrieved, at a 85.53% response rate. The subsequent statistical analysis of the collected data used both SPSS and AMOS computer programmes. The study based on the data analysis revealed that QM has a marked impact on job satisfaction and that knowledge sharing plays a significant role as a moderator in this impact.
- Type: Case Study
- Published on: 30th January, 2020
- Keywords: QM; Leadership; Employee Empowerment; Continuous Improvement; Job Satisfaction; Knowledge Sharing;
- Pages: 7-16
- Received: 7th December, 2019
- Final revision and acceptance: 28th January, 2020
The latest trend pertaining to globalization is to decrease and eventually eliminate any kind of discrimination. Numerous researchers have closely followed this trend across different work fields and their studies have generated a clearer perception of the magnitude of the discrimination paradigm. In this respect, we analyzed the managerial field form the gender point of view, and we have also pointed out the benefits of gender diversity in an organization. The rapid developments in all spheres (economic, cultural, political, social, technological) generate challenges for managers across organizations if they don't adapt quickly enough. As the organizational culture is the context in which all the managerial processes are developed and structured, our research investigates how members of the management board can achieve real change through elements within the organizational culture.
- Type: Case Study
- Published on: 31st January, 2020
- Keywords: Discrimination; Gender; Management; Organizational culture;
- Pages: 17-26
- Received: 4th December, 2019
- Final revision and acceptance: 28th January, 2020
The situation of Muslims is one of the most pressing issues facing British society today. The purpose of this article is to explore the Muslim experience in this climate and to treat some of these problems, such as: the war against terrorism and its effects against all Muslims, the development of Islamophobia, but also the rules that Muslims gradually try to impose in Britain. All of these problems are closely linked, as Islamophobia is the result of the war against terrorism, which affected to a lesser or greater extent all Muslims, and Muslims, as a defensive measure, try to impose some of their own rules. The latter is a defensive measure, a measure of protection against assimilation and loss of religious and ethnic identity, claiming that in this way, they are acting in accordance with their religion. It is also important to see how these issues are represented in the media, because it has the power to influence the public opinion and the perception of certain ethnic groups.
- Type: Perspective, opinion and commentary
- Published on: 5th February, 2020
- Keywords: Multicultural; Islamophobia; Interethnic; Minority; Culture;
- Pages: 27-30
- Received: 7th January, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 2nd February, 2020
The personality of Sandu Tudor, the founder, organizer and catalyst of the spiritual group from Antim has already been the subject of many research approaches, which appeared after 1990 and, at first glance, it can be considered as no longer able to offer the substance of an original study. However, in the following, the author proposes to raise a problem that has not so far found its solution, namely: was the „Rugul Aprins” („The Burning Bush”) Association legally constituted or not? Regarding the restoration of the image of „Rugul Aprins” – the group that gave rise to a real symbiosis between cult and culture, it is no longer as easy as in the case of the Cernăuţi moment, where, thanks to the memorialistic literature, the event can be faithfully reconstructed (from the names of the lecturers to the topics discussed). This time, the author will try to recover the route completed by the Rugul Aprins Association, from its establishment until it became outlawed, going on the wake of the new evidence located in the file no. 012956 from the Archive of CNSAS.
- Type: Case Study
- Published on: 19th February, 2020
- Keywords: Sandu Tudor; Alexandru Teodorescu; Orthodoxy; Christian paradigm; „The Burning Bush” Association;
- Pages: 31-39
- Received: 21st December, 2019
- Final revision and acceptance: 17th February, 2020
The personality of Sandu Tudor, the founder, organizer and catalyst of the spiritual group from Antim has already been the subject of many research approaches, which appeared after 1990 and, at first glance, it can be considered as no longer able to offer the substance of an original study. However, in the following, the author proposes to raise a problem that has not so far found its solution, namely: was the „Rugul Aprins” („The Burning Bush”) Association legally constituted or not? Regarding the restoration of the image of „Rugul Aprins” – the group that gave rise to a real symbiosis between cult and culture, it is no longer as easy as in the case of the Cernăuţi moment, where, thanks to the memorialistic literature, the event can be faithfully reconstructed (from the names of the lecturers to the topics discussed). This time, the author will try to recover the route completed by the Rugul Aprins Association, from its establishment until it became outlawed, going on the wake of the new evidence located in the file no. 012956 from the Archive of CNSAS.
- Type: Original Research
- Published on: 8th April, 2020
- Keywords: Expatriate couples; International business; Relocation; Cultural distance;
- Pages: 41-46
- Received: 26th March, 2019
- Final revision and acceptance: 7th April, 2020
Until 2050 the number of people on Earth will exceed 9.7 billion, which will increase the food consumption by 70%. This will have a significant impact on consumption trends. In order to meet the grоwing demand, the total factor productivity of agrarian production should increase by at least 1.28% annually. Large integrated ventures are one of the main forms of agricultural production organization in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia. Furthermоre, they play an increasing rоle even in cоuntries where the inception of large agrohоlding structures was not pоssible until recently (Czech Republic, Pоland, Lithuania, Rоmania). Hоwever, these trends are still pооrly cоvered in available scientific sоurces. Integrated agricultural structures in developing countries receive much attention mostly in the cоntext of land seizure. At the same time, society is not familiar with agroholdings’ organizational structure, management methods, efficiency, as well as institutiоnal precоnditions for their develоpment. Therefore, there is a need to investigate these issues in detail by widen the scope of existing research both thematically and geоgraphically. The study aims at describing historical, economic and institutional aspects of agroholdings’ development in Ukraine, identification and description of latest trends in strategic management and corporate structure in Ukrainian integrated agribusiness, with the focus on best practices of some biggest agroholdings.
- Type: Original Research
- Published on: 2nd May, 2020
- Keywords: Agroholdings; Strategic management; Corporate structure; Integrated ventures; Ukraine;
- Pages: 47-51
- Received: 26th February, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 1st May, 2020
The .eu top-level domain name is a method for EU that represents its organizations to mirror their European identification in cyberspace. In this context, the study argues the matter that TLD represents an added value to a larger online exposure as well as advancing customer's needs. On the other hand, it works to enhance the development of the Digital Single Market. This article will try to give potential vision of the European policy related to.eu TLD over EU Single Digital Market, to explain how .eu TLD has led to establishing SDM and further applying for the free movement of services in EU digital zone.
- Type: Original Research
- Published on: 20th June, 2020
- Keywords: .eu TLD; Free movement of services; EU; Single Digital Market; EEA agreement;
- Pages: 53-66
- Received: 29th April, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 18th June, 2020
Today's trend in marketing research overlooks the role of lasting personality traits and momentary emotional influence in customer decision-making. This research seeks an answer to consumers who say they consider advertising to be an important factor in their purchasing decisions, and those who do not see advertising as a factor in their purchasing decisions, what kind of personality and compassion they have in their emotional attitudes. The research performed correlation calculations and t-tests involving 899 and 965 persons, completing a validated personality and empathy test. Comparing the two groups, those who consider advertising important are politer, less in control of their emotions, and less willing to meet social expectations.
- Type: Original Research
- Published on: 19th July, 2020
- Keywords: Emotional Arousal; Advertising; Personality; Empathy; Personal Distress;
- Pages: 67-78
- Received: 28th June, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 18th July, 2020
The article is a study on enhancing adult educators’ intercultural communication competencies as achieved through the INCREASE European project (2019-1-RO01-KA204-063872); the project is being implemented by a partnership of institutions and organisations from six countries, coordinated by the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Romania. The project aims to strengthen the intercultural communication competencies of adult educators who work in various formal and non-formal educational settings in order to help them to overcome the challenges arising from their everyday work with multicultural and multilingual learners. The paper presents the project’s objectives and activities and gives insights into the research findings on multiculturalism in adult education in Romania.
- Type: Case Study
- Published on: 19th July, 2020
- Keywords: Interculturality; Multiculturalism; Adult education; Intercultural communication competencies;
- Pages: 87-91
- Received: 14th May, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 18th July, 2020
During crises, the way leaders communicate to their followers becomes more important. As an overview, shared and collective emotions play their part in generating certain kind of attitude and behaviors in specific circumstances, including a crisis created during pandemic times. The main question of this article is how important is collective pathos in setting up a global environment characterized by calm and rational thinking instead of panic and fear.
- Type: Review Article
- Published on: 9th August, 2020
- Keywords: Collective pathos; Affect; COVID-19; Speech; Orator; Audience;
- Pages: 93-103
- Received: 16th July, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 8th August, 2020
For businesses, one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is to flexibly adapt to the challenges of the new Fourth Industrial Revolution, to increase their individual performance and take the right steps at the right time to maintain their competitiveness with increasing competition and growing market coverage. Globalization creates an increasing market opportunity and, at the same time, a responsibility for companies to catch up with global/European economic players and stand their ground. They can meet global challenges by providing high-quality services and manufacturing excellent products, for which a high level of leadership and management competencies and effective application of disciplines such as controlling are essential. While it is completely natural for large companies, SMEs - especially small ones - may not know and recognize the importance of collecting and processing accounting data beyond mandatory reporting and the decisive role of management accounting and controlling areas in decision support. Among small businesses, there is less interest in controlling systems. What is the reason for this low interest? How could they be convinced of the benefits of a controlling system? What solutions would they choose?
- Type: Review Article
- Published on: 20th September, 2020
- Keywords: Controlling system; Small enterprises; Strategic management;
- Pages: 105-110
- Received: 14th August, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 19th September, 2020
The current business environment proposes great pressure and challenges on organizations to sustain and prosper. Performance measurement systems (PMSs) are considered one of the most accepted and widely used tools that organizations adopt to help them implementing their strategies, monitoring their performance towards achieving their strategic goals, and gathering important and useful information to improve their performance frequently. Previous literature has theoretically suggested that using PMSs will affect the organizational performance; nevertheless, the empirical studies found different results regarding these effects, some of these results supported the suggested benefits, while some did not. In this paper, recent empirical pieces of evidence studying the effects of using these systems on organizational performance have been collected and reviewed, covering a wide variety of industries in different regions. All reviewed articles were published in peer-reviewed journals in the period between 2014 and 2020. Almost all of the reviewed articles support the theoretical claims of having different positive impacts on organizational performance. However, the effects of these systems were not always direct, they vary between being direct, indirect, mediating, or moderating. PMSs affect various aspects of organizations; for example, they affect the overall organizational performance, financial and non-financial performance, employees’ behavior, and many other aspects of organizations.
- Type: Review Article
- Published on: 12th October, 2020
- Keywords: Performance measurement systems; Organizational performance; Efficiency; Effectiveness
- Pages: 111-121
- Received: 16th August, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 11th October, 2020
Work life balance (WLB) has been an academic field within the realms of Sociology, Human Resource Management and Psychology for past five decades. Originally an American phenomenon, its geographical spread now is global, which may be gauged by the countless studies conducted throughout. Several theories have been propounded, some of which have been reviewed recently and conceived as newer formulations. This study focuses on seven major theories in the field of WLB, indicating the field work within the framework of these theories, the locale & sample of the study and the measures used in the study. The motivation is able to provide future researchers in the field with an integrated indication vis-a-vis the fieldwork.
- Type: Review Article
- Published on: 31st October, 2020
- Keywords: Work-life balance; WLB; WLB theories; Work-family;
- Pages: 123-143
- Received: 12th October, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 30th October, 2020
Tourism is an opportunity for people from different cultures to meet and interact, to exchange ideas, traditions and their ways of thinking. Tourism industry of any country consists of different forms of tourism for which matching and adaptation of strategies with the nature of destination is necessary, because provided strategies and policies for development of any form of tourism in different countries are various. Tourism Industry is not an exception and preparing strategies for its development will not be possible without considering its environment. The aim of this article is to determine suitable strategies for Iran’s tourism industry through Marketing. Results show that for development of this industry, maintaining strategies are the first priority. In addition, effort for strengths of the industry and development of services are also suggested among other aggressive strategies.
- Type: Case Study
- Published on: 7th November, 2020
- Keywords: Iran Tourism industry; Marketing; Strategic Approaches;
- Pages: 145-152
- Received: 24th July, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 6th November, 2020
The Hungarian agricultural economy is considered a sector that is a significant part of the national economy. The share of Hungarian agriculture in GDP is currently 3-4%; however, if Hungarian agriculture ceased to exist, at the same time about 15% of GDP (agriculture, food industry, input-output sector, agricultural banking sector) would disappear. It should be noted that agriculture in developed – or moderately developed – societies can never again be a key sector, but it could become a successful one. Following the European Union accession, Hungary was able to benefit from a number of subsidy sources, of which direct agricultural subsidies play a decisive role. There is no better indication of the relevance of subsidies, as area-based direct payments are still a significant part of the annual profits of farmers in Hungary. In the course of the study, an answer was sought to the question of how the regional concentration of direct payments developed, and whether there are significant differences in concentration among individual settlements. The equalization of the regional concentration of direct subsidies is confirmed by the settlement-based concentration studies, since as of 2004 the measurement methods show a similar value, which proves that there are no outstanding subsidy values at the settlement level, the concentration is evenly distributed.
- Type: Review Article
- Published on: 23th November, 2020
- Keywords: Direct payments; Concentration; Lorenz curve; Regional dimension;
- Pages: 153-159
- Received: 27th October, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 22th November, 2020
The COVID-19 epidemic had an enormous impact on the entire world, including the Hungarian population. The situation was accompanied by numerous new restrictions, strict regulations, and their consequences had to be dealt with, which also affected the life of everyone. Therefore, it was considered worthwhile to assess the different reactions to this situation among the population, what effects the people had to face and whether there was a change in their lives. The opinions of respondents on different areas of life were surveyed, such as private life, changes in personal relationships, introduction of changes in workplace habits, and the effects on health and mental state. Also the survey intended to reveal newly developed good and bad habits. The survey method was a questionnaire-based survey, which was delivered to the respondents online (n=362). The results obtained from the sample were evaluated, subjected to descriptive statistical analysis, and then crosstabs were performed based on background variables (gender, age, educational attainment, occupation, and income) to present correlations. The results of the sample are not representative, but they properly represent and summarize the situation.
- Type: Original Research
- Published on: 23th December, 2020
- Keywords: COVID-19; Impact of work; Health; Mood; Relationships; Habits;
- Pages: 161-174
- Received: 6th December, 2020
- Final revision and acceptance: 22th December, 2020
