Gender Equality Provided by Active Action in Recruitment and Selection Process

THE AIM OF THE PAPER Despite all the efforts in relation to hiring women to workplaces, parity has not yet been achieved, and the gap between women and men is even wider when leadership roles are considered. Organizations are gendered, the human resource practices are outdated and are still structured around the ideal, male worker. The main objective of this paper is to critically review the recruitment and selection process (RSP) and provide active actions as practical recommendations, which will enable organisations to hire women into the workplaces. METHODOLOGY This research is an empirical study of large multinational organizations, identifying the key human resource policy intervention points in the RSP. MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS The outcome of the critical review is that the traditional RSP needs to be transformed and only this transformation – applying positive actions - will enable organisations to achieve gender equality at the workplace. The novelty of this paper is the empirical research of global organizations, based on which, the key intervention points of RSM were identified. The following active actions are proposed: embed employer branding and early talent attraction into the recruitment process; provide transparency of salary bands; apply of female quotas; use structured interviews; run diverse interview panels; and use explicit comparator method.

SDN-Enabled 3C Resource Integration in Green Internet of Electrical Vehicles

With the advocacy of green renewable energy, Electric Vehicles (EVs) have gradually become the mainstream in the automobile market. Due to the finite edge resources of the Internet of EVs, this paper integrates idle communication, caching and computational resources of EVs to enrich the available resources for vehicular task migration. Considering the limited capacity and resources of EVs, a distributed lightweight imitation learning-based efficient Task cOoperative migration Policy Integrating 3C resource policy, named TOPIC, is proposed to maximize the obtained quality of service. The experimental results based on the real-world traffic dataset of Hangzhou (China) demonstrate the QoS obtained based on the expert policy and agent policy of TOPIC is about 3 times higher than other representative policies.

Business Hybridization in the Financial Sphere Under the Conditions of Po St-Quarantine Economic Recovery

The article discusses the alternatives for financial institutions related to global business reshaping after pandemic waves during post-quarantine economic recovery. To select the most acceptable variant of business hybridization, the theory of generations was used, which allows us to determine the value orientation of different age group representatives and impose it on the financial institutions’ human resource policy during the transition to a hybrid form of business organization. On the basis of the integral spiral dynamics theory, a theoretical assessment of the correspondence of the corporate culture of organizations of different types to the options for the transition to a hybrid business is given. Various models of hybrid organizations in the financial sector have been developed and presented and their degree of compliance with the level of business development in Ukraine has been assessed. Sociometric analysis done on the representative sample in the well-developed business center of Ukraine reveals the possible approaches to the hybridization in the financial sphere with regards to age distribution of employees.

Environmental Factor in the Recent History of Interregional Relations between Russia and China

This article examines the problem of regional environmental policy and resource consumption as the key reason for the current state of the Russian regional economies, which are financially dependent on the Chinese domestic market. At the same time, the scale of the influence of Chinese business on the environment of Russian regions was studied from a scientific point of view as a direct consequence of this dependence. In this regard, a historical reflection of the bilateral regional relations of post-Soviet Russia and the PRC in the field of ecology was carried out, the main stages of Russian resource dependence on the PRC were highlighted, the assessments of Russian and foreign scientists regarding the problem were studied, the role of ecology as a factor determining the current development vectors of both interregional and interstate relations between the Russian Federation and the PRC was evaluated. In particular, the negative aspects of the widespread approach, so-called “complementarity of economies”, are considered as the main indicator of the erroneous regional eco-resource policy in Russian relations with the PRC, the consequences of which concern both the national ecology and the national economy.

Trade and Resource Sustainability with Asset Markets

Trade changes incentives to protect an open-access natural resource independently of its effect on the resource price. General equilibrium linkages cause resource policy to affect the price of privately owned assets regardless of whether they are used in the resource sector. In the closed economy, the asset market in our overlapping generations setting creates incentives for currently living agents to protect the natural resource. The interplay of the asset market and general equilibrium effects causes trade to reverse these incentives. Trade liberalization and the establishment of formal property rights are policy complements: the former makes the latter more important.

Yekaterinburg division of judicial and country affairs during the 1735–1740: structure of presence of the institution

The subject of this research is the Yekaterinburg division of judicial and county during the 1735–1740. Despite the fact that any institution of the XVIII consisted of chancellery and presence, attention is focused on the analysis of the composition of “judges” – presence of the division throughout six years of its existence. The goal of the article is to determine the dynamics of changes in the composition of judges of the institution, which revealed the peculiarities of human resource policy in the Ural local administration in the mid XVIII century. The research relies on the documentary sources stored in the State Archive of Sverdlovsk Region, primarily minutes record books of minutes of the division of judicial and country affairs for the indicated period that contain information on the composition of officials in panel sessions of the institution. In this regard, the methods of research have become the methods of source research. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that reconstruction of the composition of presence of the regional administrations of the XVIII century are virtually absent. For the most part, they pertain to the time of major judicial and administrative transformations of the first and last quarters of the XVIII century. The institutions vested with judicial powers that existed in the second and third quarters of the XVIII century usually are do not receive due attention. In the course of analysis of the documentary materials, the conclusion is made on instability in the composition of the division of judicial and county affairs. The members of the presence rarely met in full, and the seat of the “chief magistrate” often lied vacant. All members were military servants with regular assignments, which was unrelated to their work in the department. The clerks remained the main driving force in the judicial process.

Barriers and facilitators to cardiopulmonary resuscitation within pre-hospital emergency medical services: a qualitative study

Background Out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest is a common and fatal problem. Rescuing patients with this problem by pre-hospital emergency medical services is associated with various barriers and facilitators. Identifying these barriers as well as the facilitators in a qualitative and an information-rich way will help to improve the quality of performing the maneuver and to increase the patients’ survival. Therefore, the current study was qualitatively conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the cardiopulmonary resuscitation within the pre-hospital emergency medical services. Methods This qualitative study was conducted using a content analysis approach in Iran in 2021. The participants were 16 Iranian emergency medical technicians who were selected through a purposive sampling method. For data collection, in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted. For data analysis, the Elo and Kyngäs method was applied. Results The mean participants’ age was 33.06 ± 7.85 years, and their mean work experience was 10.62 ± 6.63 years. The collected information was categorized into one main category called “complex context of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation” and 5 general categories with 17 subcategories. These categories and subcategories include patient condition (patient’s underlying diseases, age, high weight, number of children, and place of living), dominant atmosphere in companions at home (companions’ feeling of agitation, companions doing harm, and companions helping), policy (educational policy, human resource policy, up-to-date equipment and technology, and do-not-resuscitate policy), performance of the out-of-organizational system (disorganization in the patient handover process, and cooperation of the support organizations), and conditions related to the treatment team (conscience, cultural dominance, and shift burden). Conclusions The results showed that the conditions related to the patient and his/her companions, as well as the organizational factors such as the policies and the out-of-organizational factors act as the barriers and the facilitators to the cardiopulmonary resuscitation within pre-hospital emergency medical services. Therefore, the barriers can be modified and the facilitators can be enhanced by taking various measures such as educating, human resource policy-making, upgrading the equipment, and considering appropriate management policies.