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Family Forum ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 129-149
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Janowicz ◽  
Martyna Klimek ◽  
Piotr Krakowiak

Among various publications regarding end-of-life care in Poland there is one piece of important research that shows a difficult situation for family caregivers in end-of-life care in Poland, who often lack recognition and support and face a lonely struggle, especially in home care settings (Janowicz, 2019a). The Polish Government published documents in support of family caregivers for the first time in 2019, recognizing respite care and allocating money to some of them. Poland has successfully implemented British standards of hospice and palliative care, making it the best in Central-Eastern Europe; the same could be done in supporting carers in family settings (Krakowiak, 2020a). We have already learnt and benefited from the experience of the British organisation Carers UK, who have been operating successfully for more than 50 years and working towards inclusion of formal and informal care (Klimek, 2020). But how can we move forward in helping those who face loneliness and feelings of helplessness as family carers? We can learn from those who have already developed tools and created strategies supporting family caregivers. Exploring the educational strategies of supporting organizations from the UK, will help to point towards possible solutions to this social and educational challenge in Poland, helping to reduce the loneliness of carers in the home care settings. Most families still feel isolated, while most of our local communities do not support those who care, often for many months and years. Social educators and social workers need to tackle the questions of loneliness and isolation that many family caregivers face. First steps have been made and first publications issued, but more robust strategies and practical solutions are needed. Newest facts and figures from Carers UK documents and Best Practice In Supporting Carers by Carer Positive Employer in Scotland (2020) will help to show existing strategies used for and by employers. Among many existing initiatives this one regarding combining care and work could be very important to recognise the needs of working carers, sharing their job with the duty of constant care at home. Action is urgently needed in Poland, where many people do a full-time job alongside caring at home. Recognition of family carers’ needs by their workplace, support from employers and flexibility in working hours is still a rare exception, and it should be changed. The Covid-19 pandemic has fully exposed the problems of carers of dependent people around the world and also in Poland, especially difficult for those who combine care with work.


2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Somasundaram Jeganathan ◽  
Thanigaivelan Shanmugam

A paradigm shift has altered our world in practically every sphere and it can be attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic. Modern science and technologies have been called upon to redesign various processes in order to cope with this outbreak and the changes it has wrought. Even the world of education has been subject to severe disruption. To deal with the new situation, the students and teachers have been forced to change the way they customarily taught, learnt and interacted. The entire educational framework will have to be transformed from the traditional face-to-face or physical system to the virtual Moodle education system. The entire school system and higher education system in Sri Lanka are now called upon to confront these new challenges if they are to continue the learning and teaching processes. Fortunately, the higher education institutions have managed to find a quick remedy, by moving to online learning to overcome the difficult situation. Although many learning theories have been introduced to evaluate the learning processes in the physical classroom, the Gestalt learning theory is slightly different from the other theories. This is because the Gestalt theorists emphasize the need for whole perception, which can only be achieved by focusing on the entire learning process and making sense of things by thinking of them deeply. The process of thinking involved selecting, organizing, interpreting and creating meaning. This processing method is called ‘insight learning’. Hence, this study is an attempt to assess the feasibility of developing insight learning in virtual learning. The data was collected through Google forms, and the conclusion is based on the more than 700 responses received from undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Culture, Eastern University, Sri Lanka. The SPSS software was used to record and analyze data using factor analysis and descriptive statistics. The study shows that there are many factors that prove to be obstacles in the way of developing insight learning via an online learning system. Therefore, the study recommends some strategies to overcome these obstacles and adopt the new online learning process in the future.   Received: 31 October 2021 / Accepted: 9 December 2021 / Published: 3 January 2022


2022 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Erdinç Koç

It is obvious that COVID-19, which is one of the main agenda items of humanity, has an effect on global production facilities. It has been tried to create a roadmap for producers to overcome existing and similar crises with proactive solutions. The reflections of the global crisis on production are carefully examined in the study. The epidemic is not limited to a single country, but affects all parts of the world, leaving supply chains and manufacturers in a difficult situation. Just as the concept of the new normal for consumers has come to the fore, the necessity of adapting to the new norm by implementing certain technologies that have been emphasized in recent years is now more clearly felt for manufacturers. The pandemic process experienced and the difficulties and enablers that producers face/will face afterwards are explained in detail under the headings of human resource management, flexibility, sourcing, technology level, logistics.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-109
Author(s):  
Sushil Kumar Pant

This is a case study of a pioneering airlines company in the Nepalese aviation sector. The airlines came into full operation in 1997 by flying a brand new Beachcraft-1900D for a regular sightseeing to Mount Everest. When the airlines entered the field which was opened for the private sector by the government of Nepal in the early nineties, the country’s nascent aviation sector was in a state of take-off attracting a growing number of airline companies. Despite tough competition, the company expanded its fleet from a single aircraft to seven in number in 10 years of its operation. In 2008, the company purchased two ATR-42 aircrafts under the financial assistance of the International Finance Corporations (IFC/World Bank) and added a 70-seat ATR 72-212 in June 2010. With a range of aircrafts in its fleet, Buddha Air has today spread its wings to 13 destinations, including two international (1 seasonal and 1 charter flight) and 11 domestic destinations. After more than two decades of its service to the country’s civil aviation and tourism sector, Buddha Air was recognized as “the most successful airlines” for its sustained growth as well as for the safety and satisfaction of its customers. However, it had tackled with the price war in the face of higher cost of operations as a result of the increased number of airlines in this sector. Recalling the difficult situation due to the indiscriminate price competition, the Managing Director of the airlines, said that the pricing strategy was challenging and there was a strong urge for an unfair price competition from the rivals. “The low cost strategy as pursued by our competitors was not appropriate for our company as we had relatively higher cost of operation as we owned bigger aircrafts,” he said. While the price war remained a major hurdle in its operation, an attempt to venture into international flights was another challenge it encountered for the sustained growth of the airlines.


2021 ◽  
Vol LXXXII (5) ◽  
pp. 334-346
Author(s):  
Marzena Buchnat ◽  
Aneta Wojciechowska

Online education, introduced obligatorily during the COVID-19 pandemic, poses a great challenge for teachers, students and their parents. Children and adolescents with mild intellectual disability or with ASD, that due to their cognitive deficits need appropriate support, are in a particular difficult situation. The aim of the conducted research was to specify the possible problems of online education of students with mild intellectual disability and ASD in their teachers' opinion. The research consisted in answering the questions from an online questionnaire. 114 teachers teaching children and adolescents with mild intellectual disability and 114 teachers teaching children and adolescents with ASD participated in the research. The results show that according to the teachers the biggest problems of students with mild intellectual disability and ASD are: understanding and remembering new material, lack of contact with their peers. Students with ASD are characterized by significantly greater intensity of the occurrence of difficulties in the area of education than people with mild intellectual disability. Difficulties in both groups of examined children and adolescents oblige to appropriately support them in online education and cooperation with their parents.


Author(s):  
С.В. Хусаинова ◽  
М.В. Федоренко ◽  
Г.Ф. Шакирова

В интенсивно развивающемся обществе и введении в обучение специальных автоматизированных технологий используемых при проведении занятий значительно облегчает учебный процесс. Цель статьи заключается в нахождении взаимосвязи личностных и регуляторных характеристик выявленных при построении обратной связи в учебном процессе для актуализации продуктивного поведения. Для нахождения вдохновляющего триггера продуктивного поведения авторами выявлен принцип обратной связи, определяющий форму информационного взаимодействия, контроль которого осуществляется системой приемов, направленных на его участников для оценки результатов и последующей их коррекции. Раскрыта сущность проявления саморегуляции заключающейся в функционировании регуляторных процессов планирования, программирования, моделирования и оценки результатов, а также регуляторно-личностными свойствами в установлении взаимосвязи между волевой саморегуляцией и склонностью к продуктивному поведению. Предложено рассмотрение построения обратной связи в формате сильно-структурированной среды (ФГОС, информационные платформы, удаленные формы обучения во время пандемии) оказывающей влияние на проявление стабильных и регуляторных характеристик обучающихся. Доказано, что введение дистанционного образования в вузе в постоянном формате приводит к повышению уровня нейротизма у 30% обучающихся и у 70% проявление отношения к дистанционному обучению как к трудной ситуации. Статья предназначена для исследователей в области автоматизированных технологий, педагогам, педагогам-психологам и аспирантам. In an intensively developing society and the introduction of special automated technologies used in teaching classes, it greatly facilitates the educational process. The purpose of the article is to find the relationship between personal and regulatory characteristics identified when building feedback in the educational process to actualize productive behavior. To find an inspiring trigger of productive behavior, the authors identified the principle of feedback, which determines the form of information interaction, which is controlled by a system of techniques aimed at its participants to assess the results and their subsequent correction. The essence of the manifestation of self-regulation is revealed, which consists in the functioning of regulatory processes of planning, programming, modeling and evaluation of results, as well as regulatory and personal properties in establishing the relationship between volitional self-regulation and the propensity for productive behavior. It is proposed to consider the construction of feedback in the format of a highly structured environment (FSES, information platforms, remote forms of education during a pandemic) that influences the manifestation of stable and regulatory characteristics of students. It has been proven that the introduction of distance education in a university in a permanent format leads to an increase in the level of neuroticism in 30% of students and in 70% of the manifestation of an attitude towards distance learning as a difficult situation. The article is intended for researchers in the field of automated technologies, educators, educational psychologists and graduate students.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Litvinenko ◽  
Renat Totoev

Today in the context of a difficult situation related to the distribution and use of drugs, there is a need to review the practical application of preventive measures in the anti-drug sphere. The separation of departments and the ineffectiveness of the impact on the situation with narcotic drugs from the executive authorities require the improvement of joint activities. The authors show that the coordination of forms of interdepartmental interaction contributes to the targeted fight against illicit drug trafficking and their use. The article analyzes the forms of interdepartmental interaction in the field of drug control and suggests ways to improve them. For this purpose, based on the experience of different regions in interdepartmental cooperation in the fight against drugs, the main forms and priority areas of such interaction were studied.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-267
Author(s):  
Lubоv Lipych ◽  
Оksаnа Khilukhа ◽  
Myroslava Kushnir ◽  
Ivаnnа Mаtviichuk

Topicality. Thе predisposition to сrіsіs sіtuаtіons of hotеl enterprises, whісh are thе mаіn іnfrаstruсtural сomponеnt of the hospitality industry in Ukraine, іs hіghеr, сompаrеd to othеr types of economic activity. Thе сurrеnt сrіsіs сondіtіons, саusеd by СOVІD-19 pandemic, wаr іn Eаstеrn Ukrаіnе аnd thе decline of thе fіnаnсіаl аnd есonomіс systеm, led to the case that most hotel enterprises are in a very difficult situation, and some of them are even on the verge of bankruptcy. The necessity to adapt quickly to the changes and to offer the consumers new approaches to business development, innovative methods and technologies of service delivery, new services and new products in compliance with all safety standards and appropriate quality requires from hotel еntеrprіsеs to form an effective anti-crisis management system. Thе aim and methods. The aim of this аrtісlе іs to develop the recommendations for thе anti-сrіsіs mаnаgеmеnt systеm improvement of thе hotеl еntеrprіsе, taking into account the stage of its life cycle, the index of diversification potential, and the level of the system of anti-crisis management development. To achieve this aim such methods are used: theoretical generalization, analysis and synthesis; statistical; economic and mathematical modeling, and graphic. Rеsults. Іt іs еstаblіshеd thаt the еffісіеnсy of the hotеl enterprise ovеrсomіng thе сrіsіs situations dеpеnds on іts аbіlіty in quick adaptation to new operating conditions and moving to thе provіsіon of nеw advanced sеrvісеs or thе іntroduсtіon of the nеw typе of асtіvіty. Durіng thе сrіsіs mаny еntеrprіsеs аrе dеvеlopіng the strаtеgy of dіvеrsіfісаtіon, whісh саn bе an еffесtіvе tасtісs for some short tеrm, or morе fundаmеntаl strаtеgy for thе mеdіum аnd long tеrm pеrіod. Thе hotеl enterprises are forced to rеnеw the sеrvісеs аnd produсts, dіstrіbutіon сhаnnеls, dеlіvеry mеthods аnd mаrkеtіng strаtеgy сonstаntly, thеrеforе, the dіvеrsіfісаtіon of their асtіvіty should bе a pаrt of thе anti-сrіsіs enterprise mаnаgеmеnt systеm. Conclusions and discussions. The effесtіvе anti-сrіsіs mаnаgеmеnt provides thе nееd to dеtеrmіne thе lеvеl of its systеm dеvеlopmеnt, thе аssеssmеnt of thе іndеx of thе hotеl еntеrprіsе dіvеrsіfісаtіon potеntіаl, thе formаtіon of the mаtrіx of dіvеrsіfісаtіon strаtеgy сhoісе аnd thе mесhаnіsm for іts іmplеmеntаtіon. Thе prасtісаl sіgnіfісаnсе of this rеsеаrсh іs in the anti-crisis management system, bаsеd on thе dіvеrsіfісаtіon strаtеgy, whісh аllows to mаkе аdеquаtе dесіsіons on strаtеgіс plаnnіng of thе hotеl enterprise activity іn сondіtіons of іnstаbіlіty.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelica Maria Sanchez-Riofrio ◽  
Nathaniel C. Lupton ◽  
Segundo Camino-Mogro ◽  
Álvaro Acosta-Ávila

Purpose Worldwide, Ecuador is one of the countries with the most entrepreneurial activity from micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). However, the effect of adopting the US dollar (dollarization), over which the central bank has no control, combined with being mainly an exporter of primary products, as well as strategic currency devaluation by neighboring economies, has created a difficult situation, especially for Ecuadorian women’s MSMEs. This paper aims to study the relationship between female ownership and Ecuadorian MSMEs’ financial, economic and social outcomes. Design/methodology/approach The authors compile a near-population panel of 617,804 firm-year observations representing an unbalanced panel of 112,917 MSMEs during the 2007–2016 sampling window. Panel (fixed effects) regression is used to test the hypotheses concerning the antecedents to firm financial performance, economic and social outcomes. Cox proportional hazards modeling is used to assess the impact of antecedents on firm survival. Findings First, firms providing more social benefits (e.g. employment and higher wages) have higher survival rates. Second, female ownership is negatively related with microenterprise financial performance, but positively associated with small-enterprise financial performance. Third, female-owned enterprises tend to provide higher wages per employee for all firm sizes. Fourth, although female-owned microenterprises are less efficient, they tend to provide more for their employees and possibly communities, through the economic stimulus they provide, in terms of the size of the financial outcomes. Originality/value This paper shows that, although this is a “man’s world,” women are learning earlier, developing faster professionally and overcoming stereotypes to focus on activities that generate both economic performance and social outcomes. Governmental policies that have contributed to MSMEs’ growth and women’s participation are identified. The findings suggest ways to improve and support both the creation of more women-owned MSMEs in emerging countries, such as Ecuador, and the survival of existing male- and female-owned MSMEs.


Author(s):  
Irina O. Kuvaeva ◽  
Alexandra M. Strelnikova

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of the pandemic and coping behaviour. Two groups of participants are the following – the recovered respondents (n=57) and those who have not had a new coronavirus infection (n=57). The concept of the pandemic in psychological interpretation is a mental model that reflects objectified and subjective-evaluative characteristics and affects the choice of copings in a specific difficult situation. Based on the expert work, the relevant objectified and subjective-evaluative characteristics of the pandemic concept were identified. The conceptualisation of the pandemic is diagnosed using a directed associative experiment (the stimulus included the word “pandemic”), the pictographic technique and the “Ways of Coping Questionnare” by Richard S. Lazarus and Susan Kleppner Folkman. It was revealed that youth understood the pandemic as a global restriction caused by a viral disease, accompanied by negative emotions and coping by individual means of protection/distancing. The recovered participants considered the pandemic as a long viral disease a person suffers in isolation accompanied by fear, horror, loneliness, fatigue. Women who had been ill conceptualised the pandemic in emotionally-coloured characteristics and more often searched the social support than men (p=0.036). Men interpreted the pandemic as a widespread treasonous disease. The resource of the individual protective equipment, positive rethinking and social support in overcoming a specific difficult situation (the COVID-19 pandemic) is shown.


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