Categories Of Managers Research Articles

Emotional intelligence and school leaders: Evidence from Abu Dhabi

This is a qualitative exploratory study that focuses on emotional intelligence attributes of public-school leaders in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. The research questions endorsed the emotional intelligence school leaders exhibit along five dimensions: (a) self-awareness; (b) managing emotions; (c) motivation; (d) empathy; and (e) social skills. Furthermore, the study focused on how school leaders and managers utilise their emotional intelligence attributes professionally. For the purpose of this study, a qualitative research methodology was employed, which involved the use of interactive and participatory data collection in the form of semi-structured interviews with various categories of school leaders and managers. Furthermore, thematic data analysis was conducted, in order to reveal Abu Dhabi school leaders’ exhibition and utilisation of emotional intelligence attributes within their professional roles and responsibilities. While the study was limited to school leaders and managers in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, the findings implied the need for school leaders and managers to develop and nurture their professional emotional intelligence attributes, as many job-embedded constraints and challenges require the demonstration of essential emotional intelligence skills and traits. Hence, professional learning opportunities within the perspective of emotional intelligence need to be considered and developed to enable, facilitate and enhance school changes.

Lean projects’ evaluation: the perceived level of success and barriers

This work aims at analyzing if the perception of success and barriers of lean projects varies with the managers working position, measuring the perception’s bias of the success and barriers of company managers. The research questions answered by this work are the following ones: is the perception of lean projects’ success and lean practices implementation level biased by the position recovered by the respondent? Do respondents present a different perception of barriers experienced during lean project deployment, depending on their working position? A survey was carried out collecting information from top, middle and non-managers from 171 firms from 23 countries. Data were analysed through a Multiple Analysis of Variance in order to discover differences and similarities in lean projects’ evaluation among various categories of managers and employees. Moreover, as existing literature highlighted that difficulties vary with the project progress, the Multiple Analysis of Variance was separately conducted for the start-up and the sustaining phase of the projects. Useful managerial advice can be extracted from the results since they evidence the existence of significantly different perceptions: the higher is the managerial position, the lower is the direct involvement in lean projects and the perception of success and barriers, and vice versa.

Податковий механізм як фінансово-управлінська категорія

The purpose of the article is to deepen the essence of the as a financial and managerial category, which has its own components and interrelations with the policy and system under the conditions of fiscal and regulatory impact on distribution relations. The versatile approaches of scientists to the disclosure of the category tax were revealed. The differences in the scientific approaches to the purpose of the were shown. Emphasis is placed on the expediency of isolating the specific purpose of the mechanism.The role of the in ordering the distribution relations at the stage of primary and secondary distribution has been clarified. The scientific approaches to the construction of the were presented. The elemental approach and the instrumental approach in the construction were distinguished. The sequence of formation of components of the and their influence on distributive relations were traced. Author proposes to consider the as a financial and managerial category. The category mechanism and the sequence of its application in financial science were characterized. The relationship between the and the financial was shown. The importance of optimization in the implementation of the fiscal and regulatory functions of taxes was argued. The relationship between management and functions was analyzed. The necessity to combine management and functions in determining the has been proved. The essence and selection of regulation methods for their implementation in the were characterized. Classification groups of methods and instruments have been identified. Algorithm of policy implementation through and system has been formed. The basic components of the have been determined. The author defines the and justifies its advantages.

The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices of the Managers on Perceived Organizational Performance—A Study on Ceylon Fisheries Corporation in Sri Lanka

This study is significant to examine the impact of Human Resource Management Practices (HRMP) of the managers on Perceived Organizational Performance (POP). Employees in Managerial category at Ceylon Fisheries Corporation (CFC) in Sri Lanka totaling 123 responded for the survey. The survey questionnaire had comprised with 67 items enveloping selected HRMP and POP of CFC. This study has established that selected HRMP such as recruitment & selection, training & development, performance appraisal and reward management has a significant impact on POP in the context of CFC in Sri Lanka. The study utilized quantitative method and cross sectional approach. The results were derived from the survey study at the convenience of the researcher with quantitative approach. It is found that CFC has enhanced its performance to higher degree, by emphasizing more on proper recruitment & selection procedure, implementing comprehensive training & development programs, application of sound performance appraisal system and execution of effective reward management initiatives. More studies on impact of HRMP on POP have focused on private sectors in Sri Lanka. Hence, this study has attempted to investigate the impact of HRMP on POP in CFC as an element of State-Owned Business Enterprises (SOBEs) in Sri Lanka.

Eliciting Weights of Significance of Criteria for a Monitoring Model of Performance of SMEs for Successful Insolvency Administrator’s Intervention

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are accounted for as a major part of the economy of the EU in terms of part of the population employed, turnover, value-added, etc. Causes of insolvency of SMEs can be different; they are categorized in the paper. A considerable shift from resolving cases of bankruptcy with the sole aim to satisfy creditors’ rights to augmenting and enhancing liquidation and reorganization procedures evolved interest of the authors in creating efficient bankruptcy prediction models and, in particular, methodologies for evaluation and monitoring of the performance of SMEs. In the paper, we reviewed several initiatives and instruments created by the EU for supporting SMEs. The paper laid a foundation for creating a more comprehensive methodology for evaluation of the state of a firm undergoing the process of reorganization. A hierarchy structure of criteria for the evaluation of SMEs was used in the paper; methodologies for eliciting weights of importance of criteria from experts and gauging the level of concordance of opinions of experts were applied. Resulting weights of criteria of performance of an insolvent SME were obtained; the importance of the managerial category of criteria was revealed. Prominent features of hierarchy structures and methodology of using the structure for calculating ultimate weights were described and demonstrated. Gauging concordance of opinions of experts revealed a satisfactory level of concordance of opinions of experts; this allowed to prepare the ultimate weights of criteria for multiple criteria evaluation of SMEs for further research.

К вопросу о категории эффективности в деятельности органов власти и управления в российском и зарубежном научных дискурсах

The article discusses the categories that characterize management efficiency issues. The author analyzes such concepts as political, management, authorities, efficiency in Anglo-Saxon and Russian political science. The concept of efficiency is considered both as a universal managerial category, and as a unit of the public administration system. On the base of the analysis performed, the author reveals a causal relationship between political conditions and an increase in the effectiveness of the activities of the authorities and administration in the Russian Federation.

The Concept of Cultural and Educational Space in Pedagogical Discourse

This article is devoted to the problem of definition of approaches of cultural and educational space on the basis of conceptual accents, depending on the purpose of the research. Such hermeneutic aspects are paid attention to as: the problem of correlation between the concepts of climate, environment and space, which are used in pedagogical discourse with similar meanings. The clarification of the content of the cultural and educational space is vital in the interdisciplinary context of philosophy, cultural studies and sociology, since all these scientific disciplines are involved in the formation of the contents, which circulate in the pedagogical discourse. The article eliminates the criteria for the definitions of cultural and educational space by different authors and generalized formulations, which arise from these criteria. In particular, the distinction is made by the following criteria: the physical organizational factor, the organizational and managerial category, the factor of pedagogical influence, the system of coordinates/ values, the communicative space, the object of philosophical and educational discourse, the factor of the formation of the subjectivity of an individual, circumstances of the reality metaphorization while its wording

A Study on Employee Attitude towards Organizational Change and the impact of Change Management on Organization Commitment

Organizations that are aiming to successfully implement change needs the support and acceptance of employees who are their key stakeholder. This study analyses the influence of Employees` attitude towards organization change. The research also aims at evaluating the influence of employees’ attitude towards commitment to organization and job after the introduction of change in the organization. The study was conducted among 300 employees who belonged to executive and managerial category from different star rated hotels in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India which are currently embracing organization changes. The findings indicate that employees of the study demonstrate a positive approach towards the change management in their organization. The observations also project that a positive approach by employees towards changes, is a very good indication for organizations to know that their workforce is committed towards the organizational goals. Hence with the support of change agents, adequate communications and by creating awareness about the need for change will result in sustainable growth in the organizations.

Chinese Asset Management Industry: Its Categories, Growth and Regulations

This study presents the most updated analysis on China’s asset management industry. First, this study introduces each category of the asset managers in China. Second, this study examines the factors that contribute to the growth of assets under management, which is the first of its kind. Finally, this study analyzes the implications of recent regulations and their effect on asset managers.

Human resources of Ukraine's health care system: a new approach to management staff development

Introduction. The article is devoted to the problem of development of managerial human capital of national healthcare institutions as a basis for ensuring medical sphere effective reform. The relevance of the research is due to the high degree of implemented and planned changes dependence in the field of medicine on the knowledge, skills, skills and experience of representatives of medical institutions governing bodies. Purpose. The article analyzes the existing requirements and recommendations for the implementation of the processes of providing medical institutions with leading staff of the relevant qualification and the trajectory of its development, which became the subject of research. Attention is drawn to the need to improve approaches to the development of managerial human capital in health care facilities, taking into account the intellectual economy conditions characterized by the dominance of intangible resources. Method (methodology). Usage the approach proposed by the American psychologist E. Giselli and domestic scientists research allowed to form a graphical dependence of medical institution effectiveness on the level of management corps human capital development. In this case, the scenarios of the activity of the healthcare institution are defined and characterized, depending on the chosen trajectory of managers development. Based on the results of the substantiation of the medical institution activity optimistic scenario, a profile of manager competencies is formed in the form of professional competences and personal qualities. Results. The conducted survey of existing and potential managers of medical institutions allowed to establish the degree of importance of the developed characteristics for this category of managers. The results obtained and elaborated according to the developed methodology show the highest degree of importance for such personal characteristics as «human orientation» and «innovative ability». Proposals for improving the development of managerial human capital of medical institutions were offered in form of a list of manager abilities, skills and skills, as well as opportunities for their acquisition in the system of training managers of the medical industry.

The Relationship of Socio-Economic Status and Achievement of Learners in English as a Subject at Secondary Level in Pakistan

In Pakistan English is taught as a compulsory subject in private as well as public schools form primary till university level. Resulting in the different outcomes by different socioeconomic status student. The current study attempts to study the correlation between socio-economic status and their achievement in the subject of English using survey method. The data was collected through simple random sampling technique. Data was collected 162 students through questionnaire. The descriptive and Pearson correlation were used for data analysis. The results revealed that the students whose parents having managerial category had a high correlation with all the four (sentence, grammar, vocabulary and spelling) skills of English learning. Whereas, students from the unskilled and semiskilled families resulted in a low achievement in English.

Muslim women in the Canadian labor market: Between ethnic exclusion and religious discrimination

This paper compares the labor market position of women from religious minority backgrounds with that of the majority group of Christian White Canadian women. In particular, it examines the relative disadvantage of Muslim women in relation to labor market participation, unemployment rate and the likelihood of obtaining managerial and professional occupations. The analysis was carried out using data obtained from the 2011 Canadian National Household Survey (NHS). The results suggested that, relative to White Christian women, most ethno-religious groups were significantly disadvantaged in the Canadian labor market, especially in relation to participation and unemployment. However, the pattern that was found in relation to occupational attainment was different and worth discussing. Not all Muslim women seemed to be disadvantaged in obtaining managerial and professional jobs. Black and Arab Muslim women, surprisingly enough, were as likely as the majority, Christian White women to be represented within the category of managers and professionals. This paper considers cultural explanations and the role of discrimination and a human capital deficit, as well as suggesting new directions by proposing the hypothesis of ‘discouraged women’, in explaining the low rate of participation, and a ‘surplus education’ hypothesis to explain occupational attainment. However, by and large, structural inequality, fostered by cultural racism and that based on color, remains the most plausible explanation.

Clinical utility of neuropsychological tests for employment outcomes in persons with cognitive impairment after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury

ABSTRACTObjective: To retrospectively examine the clinical utility of neuropsychological tests (NPTs) for predicting employment outcomes in persons with cognitive impairment after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).Methods: 132 individuals of working age with cognitive impairment after moderate to severe TBI were classified into three groups by employment status: competitive employment (CE); supported employment (SE); and unemployed (UE). NPT scores were compared among groups. Using multinomial logistic regression with group allocation as the dependent variable, significant variables were identified, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were calculated.Results: Comparison of NPT results among the three groups showed significant differences for all NPTs (all items, p < 0.01). Using multinomial logistic regression analysis, Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test (RBMT) and Behavioral Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome from CE versus SE and Trail Making Test-B and RBMT from SE versus UE were identified. ROC curve analysis indicated small to moderate accuracy (area under the curve, 0.63–0.84).Conclusion: NPT scores can predict future employment status in patients with cognitive impairment after TBI. These findings may lead to improved clinical assessments when providing work support. Future research should consider occupational categories, managerial categories, and types of re-employment.

Responsibilities and competencies in personnel management at Czech schools

Research background: The fundamental conclusions about the relationship be-tween personnel management and organizational performance can be also applied to personnel management in primary and secondary schools, which play an important role in the society. There is no doubt that headmasters, deputy headmasters and other school managers who want to achieve excellent performance of their schools, must pay special attention to management of all employees (including teaching and non-teaching staff) because their abilities, motivation and performance determine the desired results of schools.&#x0D; Purpose of the article: The purpose of the article is to define particular categories of man-agers in Czech primary and secondary schools and specify their responsibilities and competencies in personnel management in order to propose an optimal organization of personnel management at Czech schools.&#x0D; Methods: Achieving the purpose of the article is based on the analysis of available scientific literature and the results of the authors' questionnaire survey on the organization of personnel management at Czech primary and secondary schools. The survey was conducted from January to March 2017. The respondents were headmasters, deputy headmasters and other managers of Czech primary and secondary schools. The relevant data were obtained from 90 respondents. The data analysis was based on the calculation of relative frequencies and the evaluation of the dependence of responses using contingency tables and chi-square tests of independence.&#x0D; Findings &amp; Value added: The findings show that responsibilities for managing teaching and non-teaching staff at Czech schools belong not only to headmasters, but also to other managers at schools, including deputy headmasters, head teachers, heads of school clubs, heads of school canteens, educational consultants, school psychologists, treasurers, or school caretakers. Anyone who influences and directs others in the organization should be involved in personnel management and participate in various personnel management activities related to employee selection, appraisal, compensation or training. The significant competencies of headmasters and other managers in personnel and school management include managerial competencies (the ability to manage others), personal competencies (the ability to manage yourself), or professional competencies (the ability to manage the school).

The «smart city» concept: fixing key concepts in the context of providing the development of a big municipality

The article reveals the content and explores the conceptual-categorical apparatus of the problem of the «smart city» formation on the territory of a large municipal entity. The classification of big municipalities, aimed at their services (communal, educational, medical, public) ‘smartization’, by type, is given. It is determined that smart cities are considered by the world scientific community from two positions: on the one hand, as objects of the spontaneous socio-economic movement, which cannot always be directed in a given strategic direction; on the other hand, as a managerial category – cities that effectively use all available information for better understanding and control of their functions and optimal use of resources available, including the potential of residents. A system of factors, the development of which is aimed at forming the foundations of a smart city, is given. The basis for developing such a system is the concept of sustainable development. Accordingly, the complex of the following factors influencing the ‘smartization’ of urban development is presented: technological (determines the level of development and public availability of digital technologies in urban services); human (creates a space for creativity, learning, obtaining and generating knowledge); economic (outlines the limits of economic capacity of the city, the coordination of economic tasks with social priorities and environmental needs); institutional (forms the basis for proper management of the city’s integrated development, promotes the development of the smart community and the attraction of intellectual capital). The criteria for meeting the goals of smart city management that outline the content and determine the directions of smart administration on the basis of sustainability are given; the factors of the formation of such a city (institutional, social, economic, technological) are presented and structured; accordingly, the concept of «smart city» is defined through the prism of institutional, social, economic, technological and integrated managerial approaches.

Cluster analysis used as the strategic advantage of human resource management in small and medium-sized enterprises in the wood-processing industry

This paper presents the possibility of creating motivational programs for employees working in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The applicability of the proposed option is verified and presented to a medium-sized enterprise operating in the wood-processing industry in Slovakia. Using cluster analysis, three motivational-oriented groups were defined in the category of managers and three similar motivational-oriented groups in the category of workers. Subsequently, the sampling units were tested by the Tukey’s honest significant difference (HSD) test. In this way, the significance of the differences in arithmetic mean and the standard deviation of the individual motivational factors of the monitored sets at the significance level α = 0.05 were defined. The result of the analysis is a plan to create a group motivational program. The content of this program is a common motivational factor for groups, supplemented by employee-specific factors. Currently, businesses apply unified motivational programs based on two, three, or four main motivators. However, improperly designed and applied motivational programs have a negative impact on employees and do not motivate them to maximize performance. By implementing this method in wood-processing SMEs, the company’s performance can be increased, as the needs of most employees would be met.

A Study on the Roles of Teachers in CLT Classrooms by Metaphor Analysis

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach has been a well-recognized language pedagogy for decades in the world. While most of the research of CLT approach focuses on the nature of teaching and learning, teacher roles in CLT approach are less discussed and examined in the literature. The present study thus intends to look into the roles of teachers in a communicative English course through questionnaires. The questionnaires were distributed to a group of 103 university students who had learnt a communicative English course at the university for at least one year. Students were required to use metaphors to indicate how they perceived their English teachers in the CLT course by completing the stem “While learning the communicative English course, the English teacher of the course is (like) ________ because ___________.” After data were collected and later coded, categorized and analyzed, results showed that the roles of teachers in the communicative English course mainly fell into four groups: the cognitive category of providing knowledge, the affective category of interesting students with authentic learning materials and interactive learning activities, the managerial category of assisting, guiding, monitoring the learning processes as well as designing learning activities for the class, and finally the fourth group of mainly negative perceptions. The researcher holds that the role of providing and transmitting knowledge is a constituent part of the teacher role of CLT approach. Furthermore, the affective category and the managerial category unveil more inherent traits of CLT teacher roles and characterize more intrinsic features of CLT approach.

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The Problem of Employment Subordination of Senior Management in Economic OrganizationsSummaryThe subject of this study is to show the doubts and controversies that appear in the doctrine of labor law and judicial decisions in the interpretation of employment subordination of senior management in economic organizations.Taking into consideration the specificity of functions performed by senior management, the employment relationship of these employees is so much different from the typical standards that in the literature on the subject there has developed a view that there exists, in the case of the discussed category of senior managers, a not typical or even atypical employment relationship. This untypical nature is the reason why some institutions or requirements regulated in the labor law are not applicable to this group of managers, or lose their usefulness or even sense, as inadequate in view of the specific character of the managerial function. In relation to this issue, the most interesting appears the problem of interpretation of the employment subordination of senior management, taking into consideration the fact, that those employees, being on the top of the management hierarchy in a given organization, work in the condition of relative independence, being characterized by the absence of a superior and considerable freedom in the area of organizing own work in terms of time and place.The author of the article is critical of the multitude of the approaches to understanding the employment subordination of senior management. It must be remembered, that subordination is considered the most important (constitutive) feature of employment relationship, differentiating it from other employment relations (especially those of civil law character), and at the same time indicates the scope of use of employment relationship, also with regard to managers. This situation leads to blurring the differences, which are already vague, between labor law and civil law forms of employing managing personnel, creating a state of uncertainty about a lawful choice of one of the mentioned here in basis of employing senior managing personnel.

Assumptions to the model of managing knowledge workers in modern organizations

Changes in the twenty-first century are faster, suddenly appear, not always desirable for the smooth functioning of the company. This is the domain of globalization, in which new events - opportunities or threats, forcing the company all the time to act. More and more things depend on the intangible assets of the undertaking, its strategic potential. Certain types of work require more knowledge, experience and independent thinking, and custom than others. Therefore in this article the author has taken up the subject of knowledge workers in contemporary organizations. The aim of the study is to attempt to create assumptions about the knowledge management model in these organizations, based on literature analysis and empirical research. In this regard, the author describes the contemporary conditions of employee management and the skills and competences of knowledge workers. In addition, he conducted research (2016) in 100 medium enterprises in the province of Pomerania, using a tool in the form of a questionnaire and an interview. Already at the beginning of the analysis of the data collected, it turned out that for all employers it should be important to discern differences in the creation of a new category of managers who have knowledge useful for the functioning of the company. Moreover, with the experience gained in a similar research process previously carried out in companies from the Baltic Sea Region, the author knew about the positive influence of these people on creating new solutions or improving the quality of already existing products or services.

Long Memory Models for Financial Time Series of Counts and Evidence of Systematic Market Participant Trading Behaviour Patterns in Futures on US Treasuries

This paper propose to incorporate the family of Gegenbauer Autoregressive Moving Average (GARMA) models and a special sub family called the Autoregressive Fractionally Integrated Moving Average (ARFIMA) models into the mean functions of count distributions, including Poisson, Negative Binomial (NB), Generalized Poisson (GP) and Double Poisson (DP). These distributions display equi-, over- and under-dispersion features and the additional long memory structure enhances modelling flexibility. Furthermore, we define the error terms of the GARMA family under two different approaches, the parameter-driven and observation-driven approaches. To estimate these models, we adopt a Bayesian approach implemented using R package Rstan. Then Deviance Information Criterion is evaluated to select some best-fitting models to undertake forecasting of these different classes of long memory count time series. The models are applied to analyse 136 individual U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) time series of counts which are each related to trade volume for futures-only and futures-and-options crossed classified with four fixed income securities provided by the U.S. federal government: Treasury notes (T-notes) at 2, 5 and 10 years and Treasury bonds (T-bonds) at marturities of 20 or 30 year terms. These represent some of the most active futures contracts traded in financial markets. The analysis developed provides the first detailed study of this kind undertaken by market participant type according to the categories of reportables and non-reportables and sub-categories of positions of their trading behaviours categorised by the buy and sell sides of long-call, short-put and spread being the difference between long-call and short-put. Furthermore, we study the disaggregated reportables data according to the CFTC four categories of traders, namely, dealers, asset managers, leveraged funds and other reportables. The studies performed demonstrate particular long-memory structures are consistently observed in these highly liquid and important financial instruments and in particular demonstrate systematic forecastable patterns in trading behaviour and liquidity by market participant type, which is as yet not reported or identified in financial literature. Such findings are then directly used as forecasting tools to study further relationships between price discovery and price volatility dynamics.