MODEL OF COMPETITIVE MAN AND BEHAVIORAL MAN IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN AN ENTERPRISE – AN INTEGRATED CONCEPTUAL VIEW

Objective: The aim of this study is to present the integrated author's concept of the Competitive-Behavioral Man. Research Design & Methods: The study is theoretical and conceptual in nature and was based on a study of the literature on the subject. Findings: The study presents the original concept of the Competitive-Behavioral Man. Implications/Recommendations: The concept of the Competitive-Behavioral Man can be used to improve human resource management and to support soft management and soft competitiveness. Contribution: Development of the proprietary concept of a Competitive-Behavioral Man who brings a different perspective on human resource management.

Urban lands for agricultural use: soft management of the ecology state

Agricultural lands occupy a special place in the structure of urban lands. There are horticultural and gardening associations on these lands. The “belts” of horticultural associations surround large cities and small settlements; dachas and vegetable gardens play the role of individual subsidiary farms and recreation areas. In Russia, the area of such lands is about 1.5 million hectares; in the Orenburg region - 18.7 thousand hectares. Studies show that horticultural ecosystems differ significantly from the adjacent urban and agricultural ecosystems in terms of the characteristics of soil and plant cover. The reason for this is private investment in the development of these territories, which needs to be managed. For the consistent development of these socio-ecological systems (SES), it is necessary to implement a soft management system. The purpose of creating and supporting of socio-ecological systems in the agricultural use zone and suburbs is the formation of a sustainable complex of natural and social conditions for gardening and recreation of residents; optimization of the belt of lands separating the city from agricultural land to reduce the impact of adverse environmental factors on urban ecosystems (wind restriction, fire safety, pests, etc.); use of these lands as carbon polygons for capturing and retaining of carbon dioxide.

Typological bases of delegation in the healthcare system

Corporate culture, loyalty and creative activity of medical workers are directly dependent on the management style. Today, the head of a healthcare organization has the opportunity to choose a management model that suits him, for example, such as the Harzburg model based on the delegation of authority and responsibility. The main idea here is that each employee gets a certain range of tasks and powers, within which they have the right to act independently and make decisions. The model pays special attention to soft management, i.e. human resources management skills and the art of interpersonal communication. The article describes a method for potentiating the power of the Harzburg model. Thanks to the typological platform, delegation takes on an acutely personal character and becomes a truly effective management tool that brings the quality and accessibility of medical care to the population to a suprasystem level.

Visitor responses to environmental interpretation in protected areas in vietnam.pdf

<p>Environmental interpretation is regarded as an effective soft management strategy for educating visitors and managing their impacts on protected areas. Only limited research has been conducted on visitors’ views on environmental interpretation in protected areas in the rapidly developing destinations of South-East Asia, with particular gaps in understanding different visitor groups. This article seeks to fill this gap in the context of Vietnam by examining visitor responses to services for environmental interpretation in one of the country’s largest national parks. The research employed Importance-Performance Analysis and subsequent motivation-based visitor segmentation based on 237 sets of pre and post-visit questionnaires distributed by the authors as self-complete questionnaires at the entry and exit gateway to the national park. The findings highlight that site interpreters were considered the most important service providers, while displays at the museum and videos were identified as important but low performing. A number of differences between motivation-based visitor groups as well as some culturally-anchored response patterns emerged which highlighted the need for park management to consider different visitor groups; not only in terms of their motivations to visit but also their cultural backgrounds when designing, investing maintenance funding, and evaluating interpretive services. </p>

Visitor responses to environmental interpretation in protected areas in vietnam.pdf

<p>Environmental interpretation is regarded as an effective soft management strategy for educating visitors and managing their impacts on protected areas. Only limited research has been conducted on visitors’ views on environmental interpretation in protected areas in the rapidly developing destinations of South-East Asia, with particular gaps in understanding different visitor groups. This article seeks to fill this gap in the context of Vietnam by examining visitor responses to services for environmental interpretation in one of the country’s largest national parks. The research employed Importance-Performance Analysis and subsequent motivation-based visitor segmentation based on 237 sets of pre and post-visit questionnaires distributed by the authors as self-complete questionnaires at the entry and exit gateway to the national park. The findings highlight that site interpreters were considered the most important service providers, while displays at the museum and videos were identified as important but low performing. A number of differences between motivation-based visitor groups as well as some culturally-anchored response patterns emerged which highlighted the need for park management to consider different visitor groups; not only in terms of their motivations to visit but also their cultural backgrounds when designing, investing maintenance funding, and evaluating interpretive services. </p>

The People’s Network: Soft Management with Satellite Business Television

Chapter 5 (keyword: narrowcasting) explores the development of private satellite networks to manage distributed workforces in the context of globalization and a “cultural turn” in popular management theories. The late 1980s saw the proliferation of industry-focused subscription channels (e.g., geared toward insurers) and internal “networks” housed by a single company (e.g., Hewlett Packard). Two case studies (Johnson Controls and Steelcase) show how businesses used television to target worker identity in a bid to usurp other modes of affiliation (the nation, class) within the unstable employment environment of the 1980s and 1990s. This is the other side of the multichannel era: the creative deployment of employees as niche audiences. At the same time that post-national consumer identities became lucrative as a means of gathering and selling audiences on the diverse products of flexible specialization, proper cultural management of worker identity supported companies’ profit-maximization strategies (often based in cuts to employees’ material welfare).

PROBLEMS OF AXIOM APPLICATION OF AGENTS BELONGING TO MULTIPLE MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS IN RESEARCH OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONALTECHNICAL SYSTEMS FUNCTIONING

The problems of functioning of organizational and organizational‑technical systems, which are proposed to be supposed as multi‑agent systems, are considered. One of the important subsystems is a control subsystem that performs soft management of rational agents that are locates simultaneously in the contour of several systems with different performance objectives. This property of agents is described by the presented axioms. Three levels of studied objects are distinguished: the level of the agent, the level of systems and the level of supersystems. The necessary and sufficient conditions under which the agent’s systems can exert significant influence on each other are analyzed. At the agent level, decision makers are considered, that is, agents belonging to the management subsystem that function in the real and virtual systems. It is shown that the goals of the virtual and real systems may not coincide. For the system level, statements are made about the use of system resources in the process of agent’s functioning, the definition of acceptable algorithms for achieving the goal is formulated and their properties, in which achieved two non‑coinciding goals are analyzed. The general algorithm of agent’s activity in relation to the system and the system in relation to agents is given. The criterion of the possible achievement of the goal for systems is given. At the level of supersystems, statements are given that are consequences of the assertions given at the system level, as well as a general criterion for achieving the goal for supersystems.