Management Qualities Research Articles

Managing Emotions and Quality of Life in Brain Injury Survivors and Caregivers

<h3>Research Objectives</h3> To determine the role time since injury (TSI) plays in emotion management and quality of life in brain injury survivors and caregivers. <h3>Design</h3> Retrospective analysis. <h3>Setting</h3> Post-acute Rehabilitation Hospital. <h3>Participants</h3> Fifty participants were included in the analyses. Participants were brain injury survivors and caregivers. <h3>Interventions</h3> N/A. <h3>Main Outcome Measures</h3> Primary outcome measures include the PROMIS ® Managing Emotions (SF-8) and Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI). <h3>Results</h3> Time since Injury significantly moderated the relationships between managing emotions and quality of life post injury for both brain injury survivors and caregivers. Combining survivors and caregivers in the same model results in a final model explaining 76% of the variance in QOL (F=15.271, p < .000). <h3>Conclusions</h3> Results of this model suggest that managing emotions can improve quality of life in both brain injury survivors and caregivers, perhaps supporting the importance of emotion regulation training, especially earlier in recovery. These results suggest that increasing emotional regulation training in brain injury survivors may positively affect their perceived quality of life, therefore, could possibly decrease other negative mental health difficulties such as depression. Based on these results, future research could look more into more effective ways to deliver clinical training to brain injury survivors working on managing their emotions. <h3>Author(s) Disclosures</h3> No conflicts exist.

Особистісні якості майбутніх менеджерів з персоналу в структурі професійної підготовки

The personal qualities of future personnel managers in the structure of professional training are theoretically substantiated. The author presented different perspectives of scientists on this issue, which granted grounds to scientifically prove the author's position. It is established that as a result of professional training future personnel managers acquire such personal qualities as: conceptual thinking – the ability to imagine the activities of the enterprise in general; efficiency and flexibility of thinking – the ability to quickly navigate in a new situation; organizational skills – the ability to organize, interest people; sociability – the ability to communicate, find compromises; intelligence – high mental abilities; ability to find an individual approach to each employee; demanding – the ability to weigh risk. It is proved that personnel management is one of the key tasks of the production process, because the effectiveness of this process depends on human resources, which generate innovative ideas using innovative technologies. The maximum profit at the enterprise depends on highly effective activity of the personnel, its proper professional training and qualification of human resources. Personnel management is a rather complex process, because personal relationships are a complex process that affects productivity, production, the internal climate of the enterprise.

Principles of quality and assortment management in the management of supplies of the industrial enterprise

Introduction. Due to the coronavirus pandemic and related constraints, the resilience of industrial enterprises relies heavily on the ability of managers to ensure timely and uninterrupted supply. The enterprise's activity in the economic system forces us to interpret any business entity as an open system, the logistics subsystems of which form the “blood system” of the economy. In conditions of increasing risks and the spread of procurement violations, violated with insufficient competence or, in some cases, illegal behaviour of logistics managers, a topical issue is the characterization of crucial properties of supplies – their quality and assortment. Current scientific works fully disclose the peculiarities of supply management at an industrial enterprise. However, we believe that the development of domestic industrial enterprises in a crisis, the prospects for their entry into the international arena depend on the ability of management to achieve not only the overall quality of processes but also to manage quality and assortment in the supply chain. The purpose of the paper is to generalize the principles of quality management and assortment in the supply chain of an industrial enterprise. Results. In the paper we conducted a theoretical study of the features of supply management. We summarized the principles of quality management and assortment in the supply management of an industrial enterprise, which included validity, complexity and consistency, ethics and integrity, sustainable development. As part of the study, we briefly described the challenges and prospects facing logistics managers of industrial enterprises in implementing and maintaining a quality monitoring system and assortment of supplies. Conclusion. We emphasized some of the semantic properties of the concepts of assortment and quality as characteristics of the supply and finally outlined some quality and assortment management principles in the supply management of an industrial enterprise. Such principles include scientific validity, complexity and consistency, ethics and integrity, and sustainable development. A promising area of further research is to characterize the key competencies of logistics managers needed to ensure a transparent and uninterrupted supply process.

By Hook or by Crook: Married Students’ Outlook in Coping Academic Stress

This study aimed to explore the views of married students in coping academic stress. The participants of the research consisted of 10 married students who are now enrolled in College of Teacher Education-Bachelor of Elementary Education at Quirino State University Main Campus. Employing a phenomenological analysis, it explored the opinions of married students in coping academic stress. Revealed in the study was they concurred in majority that in coping academic stress is someone who possesses time management, income generating, personal attributes and spiritual qualities. Time management was the first strategy that participants described to successfully fill the roles as married student. This held constant across the groups and within each group. The strategy of time management emerged as the “premier” and leading effective strategy for participants. Participants also identified generating extra-income, wise budgeting as various systems of support that helped participants, attitude and a strong religious belief or faith in God. These strategies which top the list in coping academic stress rendered substantial standpoints in developing policies and intervention program in academic performance of students.

Firm dynamics and employee performance management in duopoly markets

The effects of the Peter Principle (PP) on a hierarchical firm have been extensively studied, but existing firm models fail to capture real-world firm dynamics such as employee motivation and CEO characteristics. We thus extend an existing firm model to introduce the notion of employee motivation and a CEO agent with parameters for leadership and managerial qualities, and incorporate the vitality curve. Through our experiments, we show that a firm’s performance depends on the characteristics of the CEO agent, as observed in reality. We run simulations for a firm model under two hypotheses: when a firm is subject to PP and when it is not. We find that a non-standard vitality curve setting leads to an efficiency gain over the standard one. We also study the effects of PP on firms competing in Stackelberg and Cournot games. We find that there exists a possibility for a follower firm to overtake a leader firm in a Stackelberg game when the leader is subject to PP. In a Cournot game, we find that a firm that is not subject to PP produces more quantity and makes more profit compared to a firm that is.

Определение необходимых личностных качеств руководителя для обеспечения безопасного труда работников

Despite the constantly growing level of mechanization and automation of labor in industry and transport, the share of manual labor remains very significant in a number of the technological processes. Increased physical activity during manual labor often leads to non-compliance by the employee with labor safety requirements — because of the desire to avoid additional actions. In this regard, mandatory control by the manager is required, who himself must understand and comply with all the safety rules. Personal qualities of the middle managers have a significant impact on the efficiency of their activities in matters of occupational safety and health. In addition to constant monitoring of the actions of subordinates, the leader by personal example must confirm the need for strict compliance with safety requirements. First of all, the manager himself must maintain order at his workplace, comply with the internal labor regulations, be disciplined and competent in professional work matters. The manager should pay special attention to the state of the material and technical base of the unit, and take measures to improve it, including to minimize injuries when working with a faulty tool. Only by fulfilling all the listed requirements, the manager will have authority in the work collective, sufficient to implement his orders to comply with occupational safety requirements and ensure a high level of labor safety in the unit, which not everyone is capable of. To determine the required personal qualities of the leader, the study was carried out using the method of ranks based on positive experience and statistics of the work of linear track sections.

Service innovative work behavior in the hotel firms: The role of servant leadership and harmonious passion

ABSTRACT The current paper proposes to study the role of servant leadership in enhancing harmonious passion among employees, and further to ascertain if harmonious passion acts as a mediating mechanism linking servant leadership and service innovative work behavior (IWB). This study also recognizes the importance of creative self-efficacy as the boundary condition between harmonious passion and service IWB. Data were collected from employees working in four- and five-star hotels of Pakistan with a sample of 220 participants. Research findings provided justification for the mediating effect of harmonious passion for servant leadership-service IWB linkage. Furthermore, the relationship between harmonious passion and service IWB was strengthened to the extent that harmoniously passionate employees showed higher creative self-efficacy. Practitioners looking to enhance harmonious passion and service IWB can do so by developing the servant leadership qualities of managers. This paper carries value as the literature pertaining to harmonious passion is still small but increasing and enriches knowledge in understanding the role of servant leadership as reaping the service IWB benefits of harmonious passion among employees in the hospitality industry.

An analysis of quality liability insurance for prefabricated components using evolutionary game theory

Managing quality risks of prefabricated components is one of the challenges for prefabricated construction. The quality liability insurance for prefabricated components (QLIPC) is an effective approach to transfer such risks; however, limited research has been conducted on the development of QLIPC. This study introduces an evolutionary game theory (EGT)-based approach incorporating decisions from both government and insurance companies. In the EGT model, a payoff matrix under disparate strategies is constructed and the evolutionary stable strategies (ESS) are deduced. The simulation calculation is then carried out by MATLAB using virtual sample data to demonstrate the analysis. The results show that the government should act as the game promoter because the QLIPC can reduce governance cost and has significant social benefits. This research contributes a theoretical framework to analyze the QLIPC development using the EGT theory, and it could help the government develop long-term strategies for developing the QLIPC market.

Investigating the role of competing wage opportunities in truck driver occupational choice

AbstractA perceived driver shortage causing difficulty in hiring and retaining qualified drivers threatens carrier productivity and profitability. Logistics literature concerning driver turnover has focused on three primary groups of factors contributing to the driver turnover: driver demographics, manager quality, and work environment. A key consideration, however, is that drivers have an outside option to work in other industry‐occupations. We leverage the Roy model of occupational choice to develop hypotheses regarding the effects of wages and tenure on workers’ occupational choice. To test our theory, we conduct a series of econometric studies on a panel data set we assemble from publicly available data sets. Our results show that relative wages strongly influence the choice of whether to drive a truck for a living. A particularly important finding is that the effect of relative wages varies significantly across industry‐occupations. In fact, contravening industry wisdom that wages are insufficient to attract qualified workers, wage elasticities are greater in trucking than in competing industry‐occupations, such as construction or retail. These results persist after accounting for a wage–tenure interaction. This indicates that the persistent “driver shortage” faced by the industry is the result of wages failing to keep pace with wage increases in competing industry‐occupations.

Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah Perempuan: Studi di SMA N 1 Ulu Musi, EmpatLawang Sumatera Selatan

The purpose of this qualitative study is to find out how the leadership role of a female school headmaster in rural areas that is in SMAN 1 Ulu Musi, Empat Lawang Regency, Sumatera Selatan Province. This study is a qualitative research with a case study approach. Data collection techniques with in-depth interviews, participant observation, and document study. The informant in this study was the principal of SMA N 1 Ulu Musi. The result of this study found when women become headmaster in senior high school, gender is not an obstacle to undergoing the task of being the highest leader in a school. In fact, the leadership and managerial qualities of women from a headmaster of SMAN 1 Ulu Musi have a number of advantages such as being independent, having good communication, being democratic, being able to face a number of challenges and being willing to work with the team. However, there are also some shortcomings of a female leader, especially at the principal of SMAN 1 Ulu Musi, which tends to involve feelings, order subordinates unevenly, and sternly. This article will also explain some of the challenges she faced while serving as headmaster, actions taken, and hopes for various parties for the progress of SMAN 1 Ulu Musi. The components that must be fulfilled by a school headmaster are personality, managerial, entrepreneurship, supervision and social. This research implies that female gender has its own advantages that can actually advance a school.

Management of Teachers’ Creative Activity Development

The paper justifies the management of teachers' creative activity development based on best practices described by Seit Kaskabasov. It analyzes and generalizes the theoretical positions of the modern state of the problem of teachers' creative activity development based on available psychological and pedagogical scientific research. It also contains the description of the creation and experimental testing of a creative activity development model applied to university teachers. The results of the study are recommended for practical use in universities to improve the effectiveness of the managerial qualities of the teaching staff.&#x0D; &#x0D; Received: 8 December 2020 / Accepted: 22 March 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021

Human resource development in plant pathology

Human Resource Development (HRD) is concerned with a process of developing skilful workforce with greater dedication besides possessing management qualities and training in technologies. It also deals with the innovative approaches in fields like agricultural sector and plant pathology in particular. Capacity building is discussed in this review with reference to plant pathology in general, vision of plant pathology in India, challenges in plant disease management, bioagents and their commercialization, endophytic fungi and microbes, fungal bioengineering and biotechnology, role of Trichoderma in disease and pest management, strengthening of biodiversity, disease symptom identification, population and plant pathology in relation to agriculture, plant health care programs, infrastructure development, waste management and other related aspects. Besides the above, HRD in relation to mushroom cultivation as an industry, commercial management of agriculture and industrial wastes and farmers issues are also discussed.

Leading and Working From Home in Times of COVID-19: On the Perceived Changes in Leadership Behaviors.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, managers and employees in many organizations suddenly are forced to work from home. Although working from home (WFH) is not a new phenomenon, it is new in its current scale and scope because of COVID-19. Against this background, we investigate the effect of WFH during the COVID-19 crisis on changes in leadership behaviors, and associated changes in perceived manager quality and productivity, at different hierarchical levels in organizations. Based on the literature, we develop two predictions in opposite directions. On the one hand, implementing WFH may force managers to show less direction and control and especially more delegation. On the other hand, research into the effects of exogenous shocks such as COVID-19, suggests that managers may become more controlling and delegate less. Consistent with the first prediction, we find that managers perceive they execute significantly less control and delegate more. Employees also perceive a significant decrease in control, however they perceive on average no change in delegation. Furthermore, and in line with the second prediction, employees of lower-level managers even report a significant decrease in delegation. Finally, our results show that increased delegation is associated with increased perceived productivity and higher manager quality. Together, these results suggest that in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, the effectiveness of WFH might be hampered by the fact that required changes in leadership behaviors, in particular in delegation, are difficult to realize in times of crisis.

Возможности интегрированного электронного портфолио в совершенствовании управленческих компетенций, руководящих кадров вузов

This article discusses about the development of management skills and leadership potential of the higher education institutions and these establishments play an important role in improving the quality of education, effective organization of scientific and innovative activities in the country. The introduction of an integrated electronic portfolio provides for the formation of an effective management system in higher educational institutions, self-assessment of the level of independent development of professional and personal qualities of management and teaching staff, improvement of the professional and managerial competence of personnel, based on statistical and variable programs aimed at the need for the development of professional and managerial competence of personnel, thus it becomes possible to define differentiated forms of professional development.

ФОРМУВАННЯ SOFT SKILLS У МАЙБУТНІХ УЧИТЕЛІВ ПОЧАТКОВОЇ ШКОЛИ

The article deals with an important problem of soft skills development for future primary school teachers. The theoretical basis of the work rests on the scientific researches of the meanings of the soft skills of primary school teachers done by different authors and organizations. The purpose of the article is to reveal the relevance of the formation of soft skills of primary school teachers in the New Ukrainian School and emphasize its importance. It is found that soft skills of future primary school teachers are divided into the individual qualities of education seekers, which include the following aspects: the ability to make decisions and solve problem situations; set tasks and formulate goals clearly; positive thinking and optimism; and customer orientation of educational services end result. Besides, communication qualities of the future primary school teacher include the ability to formulate thoughts comprehensibly, express personal position; to communicate with parents, students and colleagues; to cope with management; to interact with various types of people; to arrange and moderate meetings; to listen to and take into account all points of view; to respond reasonably, on time and politely; to prepare high-quality presentations, reports and speeches; as well as to take into account the intercultural andinternational characteristics of education seekers, colleagues and parents. Morover, managerial qualities include the ability to work in a team, to unite and motivate theteammates, to anticipate and prevent risks, conflicts and manage time efficiently. The results of theoretical researches of the importance of soft skills development forfuture primary school teachers of the New Ukrainian School were implemented with the students of Nizhyn Gogol State University (specialty 013 Primary Education).

Assessing the impact of multiple drivers of land sensitivity to desertification in a Mediterranean country

Experiencing climate changes and increased human pressure, Mediterranean regions are considered representative hotspots of desertification. However, relatively few studies have been devoted to quantify the individual impact of different factors shaping land sensitivity to desertification in these contexts. Our study contributes to this deserving (positive and normative) issue with a diachronic analysis of the impact of multiple drivers of desertification risk on six indicators of land sensitivity based on the Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) approach. Indicators (average and maximum ESA score, coefficient of variation and normalized range in the ESA scores, share of ‘fragile’ and ‘critical’ areas in total landscape) were calculated in 777 rural districts of Italy at three time points (early-1960s, early-1990s, and early-2010s). Multivariate models were used to determine the impact of 12 predictors (climate, soil, vegetation, and land management quality) on each indicator of land sensitivity. Results of the analysis identified two non-redundant dimensions respectively associated with the average level of land sensitivity and its intrinsic variability across space. Impacts of climate and vegetation qualities on the level of land sensitivity were high, decreasing over time, and more intense respectively in Northern and Southern Italy. Impacts of soil and land management qualities were moderate, increasing over time, and involving almost all the country's area. Our study emphasizes the role of context-based measures promoting sustainable land management. The ‘local’ dimension proved to be crucial in any strategy of risk mitigation undertaken at disaggregated spatial scales.

ПЕДАГОГІЧНІ УМОВИ ФОРМУВАННЯ ПРОФЕСІЙНО-ЗНАЧУЩИХ ЯКОСТЕЙ МАЙБУТНІХ МЕНЕДЖЕРІВ ОСВІТИ

Стаття присвячена аналізу педагогічних умов, що впливають на формування професійно-значущих якостей менеджерів освіти. Проаналізовано поняття “педагогічна умова” з позиції філософії, психології та педагогіки. Схарактеризовано класифікаційні групи педагогічних умов. Уточнено поняття “педагогічні умови”, котрі розглядаються як сукупність причин, обставин, будь-яких об’єктів, що впливають на функціонування і розвиток будь-якого об’єкта (педагогічної системи, цілісного педагогічного процесу). Встановлено, що процес формування професійно-значущих якостей майбутніх менеджерів освіти може бути продуктивним за умови проєктування та впровадження комплексу педагогічних умов.

A BOOK REVIEW OF PROF. NAMDEVRAO JADHAVS SHIVAJI THE MANAGEMENT GURU

Prof. NamdevraoJadhavs Shivaji the Management Guru is the book divided into twenty-two precise chapters which, mainly deals with the concept of management, its features its principles functions and skills of manager and management functions like planning, decision-making, leadership, motivation and few other aspects of management. This book presents ChhatrapatiShivajiMaharaj as the Management Guru. It focuses on ShivajiMaharajs life along with the success of Swarajya. It also produces a number of examples that how ShivajiMaharaj applied and used various concepts, principles, theories, functions and techniques of management and found to be a pioneer of some innovative things in management. The book teaches useful lessons of managerial skills, leadership qualities and way of success to the youths.

Contemporary Quality Management Control Chart

Quality always has been an integral part of virtually all products and services. It is continuously meeting exceeding customer and supplier needs, requirements and expectations in all aspects. However, our awareness of its importance and the introduction of formal methods for quality control and improvement have been an evolutionary development. This article present Core concepts of contemporary quality management Quality Control techniques Control Chart to measure, analyze and control quality by continuously monitoring, controlling and managing process maintaining sampling to continuously Improvable targets by continuously producing and offering services within low and lower Percentage Defectives in meeting exceeding customer and supplier needs, requirements and expectations. Sampling, Sample size and sample numbers of Proportion of population covered with sampling Rational sub group, are two basic for quality monitoring and control to manage quality of products as well as services within Continuously improving tolerable number and/or Percentage Defectives. To monitor the quality characteristics of a process, appropriate Control chart used in quality management capable of showing the evolution over time of the behavior of the quality characteristics and detecting situations that seem to present certain anomalies must be used. Thus, This Article deals with the application of selected Quality Management and propose Control chart based on Sample size and sample numbers of sampling Rational sub group and Proportion of population covered with γ% Confidence of sample size n to monitor process using number of defectives, through which we can achieve continuous quality improvement. In this paper, Control chart involves using statistical and mathematical techniques were used to measure and analyze the variation in processes intent to monitor product quality and maintain processes to fixed targets. this article show how to use proposed control charts to monitor discrete data and present the assumptions behind the charts, their application, and their interpretation to measure, analyze and control quality by monitoring and managing quality maintaining processes to continuously Improvable targets to manufacture a product as designed within low and lower Percentage Defectives. The advantage of these tools is that they can identify the effects of the processes that cause unnatural variability in processes that result of Defectives and poor quality in offering services within low and lower Percentage Defectives in meeting exceeding customer and supplier needs.

ASSESSMENT OF PERSONAL QUALITIES OF MANAGERS AS A FACTOR OF IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE COMPANY

Domestic and foreign practical experience shows that the successful operation and competitiveness of enterprises is determined not only by the amount of material and financial resources available to them, but also, to a decisive extent, the human resources of these enterprises. High efficiency of enterprises is determined by the high level of human resources development, associated with a set of professional knowledge, skills, abilities, and motives, as well as personal qualities. Employee efficiency is understood as a complex interconnected system of labor productivity, measured by numerical indicators of profit, income, level of participation in work, etc., and satisfaction as a psychological and motivational determinant of activity. The personality of the manager plays an important role in the management and operation of the organization. New economic conditions require managers of the future to be creative, well-informed, and innovation-sensitive, able to make the best use of resources and ensure the efficiency of the firm using entrepreneurial thinking, in addition to the ability to make decisions and take responsibility for them. A successful manager always achieves his goals. This article analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the development of personal qualities of managers in terms of their impact on the efficiency of the company. The essence of professionally important qualities of managers is revealed, the author's interpretation of understanding of efficiency of work is offered, conditions of successful professional activity of the manager depending on formation of his psychological qualities are defined. Analysis of the results of the study showed that the most significant among these qualities are sociability, high intelligence, emotional stability, and dominance, as well as low anxiety and normativeness. It was found that a successful solution to the problem of professional functioning is impossible without the development of these qualities.