scholarly journals IMPROVEMENT OF BUSINESS COMPETENCES AT THE UNIVERSITIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 513
Author(s):  
Inese Spīča ◽  
Ernests Spīčs ◽  
Baiba Bērziņa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Further Development

Taking into consideration at the present business environment of the Republic of Latvia, as well as its geographical position and the historical backgroung, it is important to make use of these conditions for further improvement business competences at the universities of Latvia. The object of the present research paper is business competences, the subject of the research paper is analyses of the business competences on the higher education establishments in Latvia. The objective of the research paper is to study the integration process of students and academic staff representing Latvian higher education establishments in formation of business competences in Latvia, to elucidate the factors influencing the business competences, to develop proposals for improvement of business competences  in Latvia.. Research methods: reported analysis of business competences, higher educations establishments in Latvia, study of correlation between business environment factors and business competences, economic and statistical analysis of the universities results, economic experiment, study of public and non -governmental institutions data in Latvia. The present paper includes further development of study on the contents of business competences, factors influencing it, higher education theory and policy.  

scholarly journals BUSINESS COMPETENCES ESTIMATION AND DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Inese Spica ◽  
Ludmila Guzikova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Higher Education Organizations ◽  
Further Development

Taking into consideration at the present business environment of the Russia, as well as its geographical position and the historical background, it is important to make use of these conditions for estimation and further development business competences at the universities of Russia. The object of the present research paper is business competences, the subject of the research paper is estimation of the business competences of Russia and the development them in the study process at the higher education organizations in Russia. The objective of the research paper is to study the integration process of students and academic staff representing Russian higher education organizations in formation of business competences in Russia, to elucidate the factors influencing the business competences, to develop proposals for estimation and improvement of business competences in Russia. Research methods: reported analysis of business competences, higher education organizations in Russia, study of correlation between business environment factors and business competences, economic and statistical analysis of the universities results, economic experiment, studying of public and non -governmental institutions data in Russia. The present paper includes further development of study on the contents of business competences, factors influencing it, higher education theory and policy. 

scholarly journals JOB SATISFACTION OF ACADEMIC STAFF IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM OF SERBIA: A PILOT STUDY

2019 ◽  
pp. 429
Author(s):  
Agneš Slavić ◽  
Julija Avakumović ◽  
Nemanja Berber
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Education System ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Satisfaction Survey ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Job Satisfaction Survey ◽  
The Republic

In the turbulent business environment of today, the competitiveness of all organizations is primarily based on intangible resources. Due to global competition, the permanent actualization of employee competencies is imperative for the long-term survival of organizations. The higher education system bears a special responsibility in this process, as it provides an upgrade for the development of the previously obtained competencies of future employees. Higher education is the system focused on dual core functions of knowledge creation and knowledge transmission through the processes of research and teaching (Houston et al, 2006, 17). To ensure high-level competences in future employees, it is crucial for the higher education system (teaching staff) to provide students with the latest knowledge in their field. The job satisfaction of academic staff is reflected in the quality of teaching and communicating with students (Runhaar, 2017, 646-647). The aim of this paper is to determine the level of general and partial satisfaction of teaching staff at the institutions of higher education in the Republic of Serbia. The method implemented for determining the level of satisfaction, was Spector’s Job Satisfaction Survey – JSS (Spector, 1985), in the form of an on-line questionnaire. The pilot research was conducted in December 2018 and January 2019. The sample consists of 58 respondents - teachers from higher educational institutions in the Republic of Serbia. The results of general job satisfaction survey indicate that teachers are generally ambivalently satisfied with their job, they are neither satisfied, nor dissatisfied. The results of partial satisfaction show that teaching staff is most satisfied with the nature of their job.

An Empirical Investigation into the Influence of Knowledge Sharing Barriers on Knowledge Sharing and Individual Innovation Behaviour

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salih Yeşil ◽  
Bengü Hırlak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Further Development

Knowledge sharing barriers reduce the propensity of individuals to share knowledge and produce innovation behaviour. Thus, identifying barriers and their impact on knowledge sharing and individual innovation behaviour is a potential research area to study. Considering lack of studies in the literature, this study provides further evidence regarding the implications of knowledge sharing barriers in the workplace. Data was collected from eighty three academic staff in a higher education institution and analysed with Smart PLS. The results showed that organisation related knowledge sharing barriers are negatively related to knowledge collecting and knowledge donating. The result also indicates that individual knowledge sharing barriers have negative effect on individual innovation behaviours. There was no link found in this study between knowledge sharing and individual innovation behaviour. These findings provide empirical evidence to the further development of knowledge management and innovation research, and insights regarding how to better implement knowledge sharing and foster innovation behaviour in organisations.

Constructivist E-Learning for Staff Engaged in Coninuous Professional Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 146-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roisin Donnelly ◽  
Ciara O’Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Continuous Professional Development ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Constructivist Practices

Professional development for academic staff in e-learning is currently a priority for higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland, as lecturers experience increasing demands to incorporate e-learning into their teaching practice. This chapter reports on the design and implementation of a blended module in e-learning for the continuous professional development of such lecturers. In it the co-authors (who designed and developed the module) discuss the effectiveness of exposing lecturers as online students in order to experience first-hand the advantages and disadvantages of e-learning. It argues that a constructivist, collaborative interaction can provide the scaffolding for lecturers’ future journeys into e-learning and into constructivist practices within their own teaching. Although this approach is still in its infancy, important outcomes were achieved in terms of influencing lecturers’ thinking and approaches to both their own and to their students’ learning.

INNOVATIVE MARKETING DIRECTIONS IN LATVIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inese Spica ◽  
Baiba Berzina ◽  
Ernests Spics
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Marketing Management ◽  
Marketing Metrics ◽  
Environment Factors ◽  
Marketing Effectiveness ◽  
Marketing Process ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject

Marketing is a perspective area in different branches. Since modern marketing is customer-oriented, i.e.aimed at finding out and satisfaction of customers demand, it is important to investigate the status of innovative marketing of Latvia during the recent years.The object of the present research paper is marketing, the subject of the research paper is analysis of the innovative marketing of Latvia.The objective of the research paper is to study the marketing process of innovative areas in Latvia and innovative marketing problems, to elucidate the business environment factors influencing the innovative marketing effectiveness, to develop proposals for solving problems and for innovative marketing management mechanism by making use of relationship between these factors in investigation of innovative marketing directions.The tasks advanced in order to reach the objective:1) to identify the concept of innovative marketing,2)to carry out analysis of the business environment factors influencing innovative marketing,3)to study different experience in mangement of innovative marketing and the possibilities of their accomodation to the innovative marketing of Latvia.Reserch methods are reported analysis of innovative marketing, business environment, marketing management, study of correlation between innovative marketing and business environment, economic and statistical analysis of the business environment results, innovative marketing metrics.

Universities of Dagestan in the Final Period of the USSR Existence (1985-1989)

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
Arsen S. Ibrahimov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
It Flexibility ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The One ◽  
Educational Market ◽  
Further Development

This article considers the state policy towards the transformation of higher education in Russia on the example of universities in the Republic of Dagestan. Higher education in the Republic of Dagestan in the 21st century has passed a period of profound changes, and there are still disputes about the ways of domestic education further development, forms and methods of increasing its competitiveness in the world educational market. In these disputes, the key element remains the assessment of Soviet educational standards and the historical heritage of Soviet higher education. At the beginning of the 1990s, higher education in the Republic was, on the one hand, a fully developed system of education, in terms of quantitative and qualitative indicators. On the other hand, it was characterized by conservatism, narrow specialization, dogmatism, isolation from the constantly changing needs of society and the economy, and standardness. These shortcomings were already evident at the end of the Soviet period of Russian history. One of the important components of the policy of acceleration and perestroika proclaimed by M. S. Gorbachev and his colleagues became the attempt to carry out a deep transformation of higher education, giving it flexibility and a strong connection with the urgent needs of the national economy. The study of higher education policy in 1986-1990 is relevant today as an example of the first conscious attempt by the political leadership to transform higher education in the direction of serving the interests of the changing economic system. The positive and negative elements of the experience of 1986-1990 should help in shaping and implementing higher school reform in our time.

scholarly journals Foreign Trade of the Republic of Belarus in the International Business Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (44) ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Hrechyshkina ◽  
Maryia Samakhavets
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
International Business ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Further Development

AbstractThe aim of the paper is to assess the current state, problems and prospects for the development of foreign trade in the Republic of Belarus in the international business environment. The evaluation of foreign trade indicators is based on information from different sources and on comparative economic analysis research methods. Our results indicate the export-oriented economy of the Republic of Belarus, and its dependence on the state of foreign markets and the international business environment. The identified problems in the development of Belarusian merchandise exports are due to the orientation towards primary products, and to poor diversification of products and geographical destination. Particular attention is paid to the internal and external factors restraining exports from the Republic of Belarus. Further development requires the full use of the Belarusian export potential and the implementation of measures to promptly resolve the export difficulties on international markets that stem from internal and external factors.

scholarly journals Factors influencing knowledge sharing amongst higher education academics at a university in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Twum-Darko ◽  
Lee-Anne Lesley Harker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Factors Influencing

The aim of this paper is to explore the factors influencing knowledge sharing amongst higher education academics, using the actor-network theory (ANT) as a theoretical lens. Knowledge sharing in higher education is not institutionalised, therefore knowledge is not always captured nor systematically stored and organised. This leads to a lack of retention of valuable institutional know-how, inefficient work processes and reinventing the wheel. The research questions revealed social, process and technology factors as affecting the formation, growth, stability, and institutionalisation of knowledge sharing in a network of aligned interests. ANT was utilised in conjunction with historical and contextual analysis, tracing the development of the explicit sociotechnical conditions within which to enable sharing of knowledge amongst academics. The study was qualitative in nature, employing an interpretive case study methodology. Semi-structured questions were used to interview eighteen academic staff members as actors from a University of Technology in South Africa, exploring the factors inductively. Culture and management support emerged as the most important social factors. Management is identified to hold a significant position in influencing the uptake and sustainability of knowledge sharing. Factors of technology and processes are centred on facilitating opportunities to share and ensuring effectiveness and efficiency. Knowledge sharing strategies should adopt a blend of personal interaction and technology-based approaches. A general framework of factors influencing the formation, growth and institutionalisation of knowledge sharing was developed to inform knowledge sharing strategies in higher education. Recommendations are made in light of these factors for implementation by higher education managers

scholarly journals SPECIALISTS’ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN ECONOMIC SECTOR IN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND IN PEDAGOGICAL THEORY

2019 ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
Kateryna Binytska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pedagogical Theory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Practical Recommendations

The article deals with the problem of specialists’ professional training in economic sector in the Republic of Poland in pedagogical theory. The article is considered problems of specialists’ professional training in economic sector in the Republic of Poland in pedagogical researches domestic and Polish scholars. The author generalizes that in modern pedagogical studies considerable attention is paid to the peculiarities and conditions of professional training of the future economists; the author pays attention to the factors influencing the professional training of the specialists’ professional training in economic sector. It is revealed that domestic scientists actively conduct scientific comparative-pedagogical researches on the problems of training of the specialists’ professional training in economic sector in Ukraine and the Republic of Poland. It is emphasized that the subject of scientific researches of Polish scientists is: the problems of methodology of professional training at the universities of the country; general principles of training of the future specialists of the economic branch in the context of the needs of Polish financial institutions. It is noted that despite the considerable number of pedagogical studies of domestic researchers on the problems of development of specialists’ professional training in economic sector in the Republic of Poland, in the context of the needs of the modern economy, it has not become a holistic solution. In particular, there are tendencies for the development of specialists’ professional training in economic sector n the Republic of Poland, in line with the requirements of the single European higher education area, outside the attention of scientists. Features are highlighted specialists’ professional training in economic sector in higher education institutions of the Republic of Poland. It is generalized that modern scientific researches on the problem of professional training of specialists in the field of economics in the Republic of Poland is a significant theoretical advancement and practical recommendations.

scholarly journals Monitoring of Educational Institutions Information Resources in the Republic of Belarus as a Tool for Implementing Policies in the Field of Export of Educational Services

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
A. B. Belsky ◽  
A. V. Lipovich ◽  
A. P. Moskalenko,
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Normative Basis ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Criteria For Evaluation ◽  
Further Development

The article considers the issues of monitoring of the educational institutions official websites in the Republic of Belarus, beginning with the 2018 interms of its influence on the potential of services export in education. Special attention is paid to a state and development of information resources of higher education institutions. Regulatory legal acts and other documents forming a normative basis of monitoring are analyzed. The organization of monitoring processes of the education institutions websites is considered in the manual regime as well as using the  utomated information system for auditing education institutions information resources in the Republic of Belarus, assessment of their state and relevance is also considered (AIS Monitoring). The criteria for evaluation of the websites included in monitoring are presented and their comparison at the manual and automated way of realization is carried out. The analysis of monitoring results of the education institutions official websites in 2018 including that realized within trial operation of AIS Monitoring is produced. The correlation between the growth in the number of foreign students in higher education institutions and indicators for monitoring of information resources is assessed. The results of a quantitative assessment of the dependence of the growth rate of the number of foreign students at Belarusian universities on the level of compliance with the requirements for the informational content of official sites in terms of the list and cost of services provided in the form of a regression model are presented. Recommendations for further development and improvement of monitoring processes of information resources are formed.

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