Human resource management practices and functions have gained more strategic role in today’s competitive organizations. Traditional personnel management and human resources management activities are not enough to compete in the challenging environments. HR departments should become strategic...

The cost of capital is a discount rate, based on which discounted cash flow factor and residual value are determined. The cost of capital in literature is often found by the name of cost of capital or the opportunity cost of capital, which should provide a rate of return on capital that would be...

The importance of project management has been increasing in the face of the changing environment, new challenges, globalization and specialization in global economy. This means that the achievement of the final objective of a project on schedule and on budget becomes a key challenge for many...

The main elements of EUROPE 2020 strategy are smart and inclusive growth. The basis of those aims, wherewith they become attainable, is the competent quality of the performance of education systems, which constitutes an important part of knowledge management as well. Thus it becomes evident,...

In the quickly changing world the corporate activity is indispensable for the innovation. The flexibility, the ability to learn from each other is important in cooperation. Different cultures and functions give many advantages and opportunity for cooperation and these contribute to the...

Paper discusses on the background of literature on retail format choice Polish consumers behaviour and preferences for retail channel and format choice. Main results include comparison of perception maps created using multidimensional scaling with data coming from study conducted in 2009 and...

The aim of the first phase of present research was to identify a set of indicators to measure internal CSR performance of Hungarian medium and large size companies both from the processing industry and service sector. A set of performance indicators was developed through literature reviews, and...

A high unemployment rate is a typical European issue. During the ’80s and the ‘90s one tried to so solve such problem introducing labour market flexibility (due to the Neoliberals ideology). Though, social tensions had risen because of the uncertainty and the lack of securities flexibility...

Every employer wants employees who are motivated, satisfied, and engaged—or at least they think that’s what they are aiming for. Regardless, one knows that one wants them to be productive and effective. Employers make a fair attempt to measure levels of employee satisfaction, but their...

¸Increasing faculty workload is one of the primary sources of stress and job dissatisfaction. For a better balanced workload a source of precise and up-to-date information on activities carried on by faculty is needed. In this paper we propose a framework incorporating game design elements that...