scholarly journals Eventual integration or delayed transit: Interaction of residents in reception centres with their new environment in Serbia

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Nemanja Vukcevic
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Voluntary Response ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Level ◽  
Reception Centre

The purpose of our study was an analysis of reception centre residents? attitudes in the Republic of Serbia toward the state and the local population. Using a questionnaire, we tried to identify the differences in respondents? attitudes toward their new environment depending on their various socio-demographic characteristics. The survey was conducted in the spring of 2019 on a sample of 173 residents of centres using the PAPI method, face-to-face, and voluntary response sampling. The data obtained are the result of descriptive and inferential analysis and were processed by the SPSS statistical data processing program. Our statistical analysis showed that attitudes of reception centre residents toward their new environment may not correlate strongly with their mother tongue, knowledge of foreign languages, marital status, number of family members, number of minor children in the family, work status, or religion. Instead, it is more likely to depend on their level of education, age, nationality, and gender. Such results show us where we need to improve inter-action, especially among women, young people, and people with a low level of education. We can also suggest that, under favourable conditions, these three categories of reception centre residents will be the first to leave the Republic of Serbia, which they probably see exclusively as a transit country. At the same time, older people and people with a high level of education (most likely men) are more likely to integrate into their new environment in the Republic of Serbia. The more interaction they have with local people and institutions and the higher the quality of that interaction, the more likely they are to integrate.

Perceived trustworthiness in using B2B digital services

2019 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-607
Author(s):  
Heli Hallikainen ◽  
Saku Hirvonen ◽  
Tommi Laukkanen
Keyword(s):  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Technology Readiness ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Job Level ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Level

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the perceived trustworthiness of a B2B service provider relates to a business customer’s intention to use digital services from that provider. The study investigates whether perceived trustworthiness, composed of ability, integrity and benevolence, explains behavioral intentions equally among all business customer segments, and how characteristics such as job level, decision-making role, technology readiness age and gender moderate these effects. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on a model of trust transfer mechanism, the study explores how perceived trustworthiness established in face-to-face interaction influences the use of digital services in making B2B purchases. Hypotheses are tested using a sample of 1,866 responses collected from customers of four B2B firms. Findings Ability is the most influential on the customer’s intention to transact through digital channels, while the effects of integrity and benevolence show more variation. The effect of perceived trustworthiness on the intention to use digital services is remarkably stronger among senior and middle management, high-level decision makers, the younger age segment, men and individuals high in technology readiness, compared to other segments studied. Originality/value The study contributes to the scant research on B2B customer behavior in the digital environment and incorporates individual characteristics specific to the industrial domain.

scholarly journals Education And SMME Business Growth: A Gender Perspective From South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep Brijlal ◽  
Visvanathan Naicker ◽  
Ricardo Peters
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Support Programmes

Entrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly important source of employment for women in many countries. Policymakers and other stakeholders typically fail to differentiate between the needs of different SMME sectors when designing support programmes. Using survey data obtained from SMME owner managers in the Western Cape, this article attempts to identify whether the level of education and gender has an impact on business growth. A survey instrument in the form of a questionnaire was utilized to capture the data from 369 face-to-face interviews. The findings from this research reveal a positive relationship between the level of education of business owners and their respective business abilities to increase business growth. There were no significant differences between men and women in relation to business growth. The research has implications for policymakers seeking to understand the factors that influence business growth.

Quality of Life in the Republic of North Macedonia Seen Through the Human Development Indicators

2020 ◽  
pp. 428-451
Author(s):  
Elizabeta Djambaska ◽  
Aleksandra Lozanoska ◽  
Vladimir Petkovski
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Level

This chapter considers the trend of human development in the RNM, presented through the HDI. The special focus would be the links with the problem of poverty and inequality in the economy, regarding the data for the GINI, IHDI, GDI, poverty line, MPI, vulnerable employment, and youth unemployment. The research subject is the period from 2010 to 2017, using the secondary statistical data. Comparative analysis, with the countries from the CESEE countries, further improve the quality of the chapter. The RNM is a country with a high level of human development, and it is relatively equally distributed among the population. There is a difference in the distribution of the achievements of HD and an intermediate level of equality in the distribution between the genders. Income inequality expressed with the GINI index shows increase. The results confirm that there is no automatic link between the economic growth and human development. Income and gender inequality regress the quality of life in Macedonia. Growth in RNM in the past period has failed to produce the expected positive effects.

scholarly journals FORÇA DE TRABALHO FEMININA: indicadores quantitativos de exclusão junto aos profissiona

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarete Panerai Araujo ◽  
Judite Sanson De Bem ◽  
Moisés Waismann
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Work Training ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Level ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
And Training

Resumo O presente artigo destaca de forma teórica e analítica reflexões sobre trabalho, formação e gênero que caracterizam um grupo de profissionais. Metodologicamente, a coleta de dados foi baseada na Relação Anual de Informações Sociais do ano de 2012 (RAIS) e apresentou resultados significativos. Os achados garantem uma reflexão sobre a discriminação e exclusão que estão presentes na amostra estudada de profissionais das ciências e das artes, apesar do grau elevado de educação e formação. Palavras-chave: Gênero. Formação. Exclusão. WOMEN'S WORKFORCE: exclusion of quantitative indicators to the professionals of sciences and arts Abstract This article highlights the theoretical and analytical way reflections on work, training and gender that characterize a group of professionals . Methodologically data collection was based on the Annual Social Information year 2012 ( RAIS ) and showed significant results . The findings ensure a reflection on the discrimination and exclusion that are present in the sample studied professionals of the sciences and the arts despite the high level of education and training. Keywords: Gender. Formation. Exclusion.

scholarly journals The current state of uranium legacy sites remediation issues in Uzbekistan

2022 ◽  
Vol 2155 (1) ◽  
pp. 012028
Author(s):  
BK Kuldjanov
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Local Population ◽  
International Community ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
High Level

Abstract The uranium production legacy sites in Central Asia are a source of high-level radiological risks for the population and the environment. This fact is recognized by the international community, which is taking measures to remediate the sites. A number of international and national projects have been implemented in the Republic of Uzbekistan, but there is no single source that covers their main results. The article provides a brief overview of the main international initiatives, the results obtained and the lessons learned. The list of necessary measures for the nearest future to recover the environment and ensure normal conditions for the local population is given. The obtained material can be used for planning and implementation remediation of other uranium legacy sites in Central Asia, as well as similar objects around the world.

scholarly journals Integration Potential of Migrants and the Host Society: Similarities and Differences (on the Example of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Ekaterina M. Arutyunova ◽  
Igor M. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Host Population ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Region Of Residence ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Republic ◽  
High Level

The article provides the analysis and comparison of the integration potential of the host society and migrants in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The analysis was carried out on the basis of two surveys: a representative survey of residents of the republic and a survey of labour migrants - immigrants from Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan). It is these categories of migrants that are most negatively perceived by the local population. The surveys were conducted in 2020. For a quantitative assessment of the integration potential, a set of questions-judgments was constructed, reflecting different parameters of this potential. Among them: the willingness of the host population to include migrants in their community and the corresponding judgment of migrants about their readiness to be included in the environment; judgment about the integration possibilities of migrants and the assessment by migrants of the acceptability of local standards of lifestyle, and others. Using the procedure of factor analysis, an indicator of the integration potential was formed. It was revealed that among migrants the share of people with a high integration potential is significantly higher than in the host community. This means that migrants assess the receiving environment and their own integration prospects higher than local residents. The high level of ethno-negative attitudes of the host community is accompanied by a low level of integration potential in relation to migrants. Such negativism is most often associated with a sense of cultural distance in the perception of migrants' behaviorur. At the same time, a pronounced focus on ethnicity in different contexts of social interaction is also associated with a low integration potential in relation to migrants and can be a source of the formation of stable xenophobic attitudes. The high level of integration potential of migrants is primarily associated with long-term plans for life in Russia and this region, as well as with the presence of a family (in the region of residence or in the country of origin). Thus, for local communities, the main criterion for assessing migrants is the degree to which their behaviorur corresponds to local socio-cultural norms, and for migrants, the key criterion for assessing the host society is a measure of the possibility of a safe and materially prosperous life in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and in Russia as a whole. Such a difference in assessment criteria can create additional obstacles for both parties to active daily interaction in different areas inhibiting the processes of mutual integration.

Relationship between Teachers’ Attitudes about Principals’ Communicational Jobs toward School Size, Level of Teachers’ Education, Workload and Gender

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Željko Burcar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
School Size ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

The aim of this research is to examine teachers’ attitudes about principals’ communicational job. Secondary aim is to examine whether number of shifts, number of students, teachers’ level of education and teachers daily and weekly workload predict teachers attitudes about principals’ communicational jobs principals perform. Sample consists of school teachers (N=80) that covered ISCED 1, 2 and 3, educational level from the Republic of Croatia. Sample is intentional and occasional, and present experienced teachers suitable for this type of research. The scale constructed for this research has been extracted from the scale for principals’ role estimation constructed by Burcar (2010). Findings show existence of principals’ communicational jobs in the schools as informing, reporting and verbal communication. Gender differences in the scale exist and in the subscale for verbal communication as well. In the prognosis toward principals’ communicational jobs the level of teachers’ education has statistically significant but negative predictive value.

scholarly journals The Revolt of French Soldiers Against the Failing Immigration Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Jan Eichler
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Security Levels ◽  
The Republic ◽  
High Level ◽  
Young Immigrants

The article is about the revolt of French soldiers against the failing immigration policy of their country. It explains its rational causes at the historical, geopolitical as well as security levels. It analyses its three main acts since 2013 until today and presents their key actors: the high level generals and politicians. These acts are presented as historical accidents. The article shows that French soldiers refuse to be silent face to face big stakes, especially on the field of defence of the Republic against the growing violence of young immigrants. The text continues with the analysis of two manifests of French soldiers from spring 2021 that evoke the threat of the civil war in France and the role of the Armed forces in such a scenario.

scholarly journals MEASURES TO PRESERVE THE ECO-BALANCE OF THE TERRITORIES AND DEVELOP ECOLOGICAL TOURISM: IN SEARCH OF PARITY

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-85
Author(s):  
L. N. Talalova
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Road Map ◽  
The Republic ◽  
High Level ◽  
Museum Display ◽  
Cultural Monuments

Between the strategies for preserving the eco-balance of territories and the development of ecotourism there is a “twilight zone”, measures for the development of the latter may run counter to the former. On the example of the Republic of Tajikistan, based on relevant ratings, the author analyses the mechanisms for implementing a balanced approach to the problem (the result is the entry into the international ecotourism market, the creation of infrastructure). The paper considers the reasons that prevent the Republic of Uzbekistan from achieving similar results, studies tactics on specific examples. National parks are losing cultural monuments due to economic activities and tourism constitute the basis of socio-economic development of the territory with the diversification of the rural economy and provide jobs for the local population, and yet actualize raised in the article the problem of museumification of landscapes –conversion of natural objects in the objects of the Museum display. The study showed that the inclusion of several cultural objects in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019, the adoption of specific measures for their conservation (Road Map – 2020) will allow the Republic of Uzbekistan to transform areas with a high level of landscape and recreational potential into centers of regional ecotourism, and with regard to cultural monuments, this will be minimal losses. 

Degendered leadership in the UAE: breaking the glass ceiling

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 1185-1197
Author(s):  
Abhilasha Singh
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Level

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate experiences of women working at managerial positions to develop a degendering of leadership. Design/methodology/approach The study was based on interview-based approach to investigate the work experience of a group of around 35 women from a total of 15 different institutions. Face-to-face and semi-structured interviews were conducted to study the leadership experiences within the organizations, unlike the positivist frame that make sense of their association to power structure. The results were analyzed through thematic analysis. Findings The results showed that the gender of a leader is inconsequential, where men and women are treated equally. The working-women at managerial posts have depicted high level productivity and performance in their work. The career advancement of women requires increased commitment and motivation. These factors are significant as they are likely to pose a significant impact on their ability to respond to the environmental influences. Originality/value These findings helped to understand the reasons regarding under-representation of women at managerial positions and gender segregation.

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