This paper seeks to address the gap by reporting the results of consulting and research work of the author on the Hungarian civil service. Empirical evidence shows that the decentralized approach of the Hungarian civil service needs certain modification towards more efficient and less politics...

The HR practices of the former state-socialist countries have gone through significant changes. The analysis of the developments, built on the Cranet (2004) survey, intends to describe the similarities and differences found between 6 countries of the Central Eastern European region and the total...

The present study focuses on studying the perception of joint ventures, which have prevailed in recent years due to globalization, and in an effort to shed some light on the contribution of organizational and national culture to the performance of international joint ventures in which Israeli...

This article is written to call attention for management convergences. In this case we will focus on change management, we will show it briefly how change management developed over its fifty years period. We will classify today’s change management movements, and there we can see that in the...

Organizations of the different sectors of economy are characterized by a growing number of similar features. So, nonprofit organizations become in certain respect similar to business sector organizations. This is a phenomenon that brings for them opportunities, but also risks and challenges. In...

In the last decade of the 20th century knowledge has gained importance in the economy. This lead to the emergence of knowledge-based activities: knowledge-intensive organizations, and particularly knowledge-intensive services. These organizations function as external knowledge sources for other...

The paper is based on international research and on the ongoing research of the authors in the field of professionalization of nonprofit organizations. Desk research is supported by the analysis of the results of the pilot project of an organizational development programme in Hungary. The...