Strategies of European Energy Producers. Directions of Evolution

The article presents an innovative method of analyzing energy companies’ strategies, which aims to identify the strategic orientation of the entities subject to the research and, thus, to initially define the directions of strategic changes in the analyzed sector. The aim of the research, the results of which were used in this publication, was to identify the features of energy sector companies’ strategies in the European Union in the period of sector transformation caused by the new climate policy. The analysis area is the energy sector, i.e., the sector whose fundamental strategic goal is energy production. The research used a critical analysis of the subject literature and desk research method with the use of the researchers’ own analytical equipment, developed for the needs of this analysis. It was assumed in the conducted research that the primary source of information in the empirical study, the information subject to subsequent analysis, was the analysis of official documents (strategies, financial reports, etc.) posted on the websites of the surveyed corporations. The research results indicate the dominance of the resource-based approach in implementing strategic postulates of the surveyed companies. Nevertheless, the operational activity focuses on the implementation of innovative solutions towards decarbonization and climate neutrality.

The use of logistics principles in the organization of local work

In the context of growing competition between rail transport and other transport types, there is a need to improve the transportation process. In modern conditions, railway transport is the main link in the logistics chain of moving goods from the shipper to the receiver. The efficiency of the railway transport complex can be improved by using logistics principles in the organization of local work on the network sections. In this study, we suggest ways to solve the problem of improving the quality of service for freight owners and the efficiency of organizing local work, which is relevant for railways. To make decisions aimed at improving the efficiency of the organization of local work, a procedure for determining the costs of organizing and promoting local trains was developed, taking into account the costs on maintaining the railway infrastructure. Not only the operational activity of the railways, but also the quality of transport customers service, compliance with the regulatory deadlines for cargo delivery, depends on the choice of the optimal option for organizing local car traffic into trains and their promotion along the section. The option is selected by comparing the costs for each of the possible options for organizing local car traffic into trains and moving them along the section.

Comparative and correlation analysis of experimental work on the formation of readiness to conduct intra-university quality monitoring

The problem of the formation of the teacher's readiness to conduct intra-university monitoring of the quality of students' education is considered. On the basis of the developed system for the formation of a teacher's readiness to conduct intra-university monitoring of the quality of student learning, it is currently a mechanism for managing this process. The article presents the materials of the correlation analysis of the results of experimental work on the formation of a teacher's readiness to conduct intra-university monitoring of the quality of student learning, considered as an integrative personality trait, a system-forming information-research, operational-activity, analytical, reflective and managerial components reflecting the level of knowledge and skills to apply methods, technologies and means of conducting intra-university monitoring of the quality of student learning, to assess the quality of mastering an academic discipline. Based on the materials of experimental work, the relationship between the components of readiness and between the dominant indicators in their structure is proved. In the course of a comparative analysis of the results of the ascertaining and formative experiments, a connection was established between the types of teacher's readiness to conduct intra-university monitoring of the quality of student learning, which proves its integrative nature, and their compensatory role was also revealed due to the dominant indicators. In the course of the implementation of the developed system, the teachers' need for solving innovative problems increased (an indicator of the managerial type of readiness). The results obtained indicate the development of all components of readiness in the process of professional development. The analysis carried out allows us to speak about the possibility of forming the types of teacher readiness to conduct intra-university monitoring of the quality of student learning due to the compensatory properties of the types of readiness.

The Training Setting as a Social and Liminal Space for Professional Hybridization

This article addresses the liminality concept as a way to explore a particular group context, relating to a training setting intended as a liminal space, and to highlight its potential to trigger evolutionary personal and organizational identity trajectories. Dealing with a contemporary uncertain, volatile, and ambiguous organizational scenario, people are asked for consistent and quick professional hybridization processes. This article refers to a case study related to an action research process aimed at a cultural transformation and nurturing organizational learning inside an extra-hospital Rehabilitation Center, challenged by a strong organizational reconfiguration and the creation of new functions and roles, among which the one coordinator, responsible for the operational activity to be managed within the units of the organizational context. This article also highlights both the main features that characterize a training setting as a liminal space and identifies the possible plots of professional hybridization paths that a training group as a liminal space can trigger and develop.

The structure of professional readiness of future lawyers

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the structure of the professional readiness of future lawyers to work in law enforcement agencies, as well as to substantiate the conditions for its formation in the educational environment of the university: the social and personal significance of legal education and its relevance; students' awareness of legal education as a necessary component of their professional competency; integration, unity and complementarity of state and regional interests in the content and structure of legal education; educational and methodological support of the educational process in relation to the spheres of professional activity of subjects of legal practice; monitoring, which allows diagnosing the formation of general cultural and professional competencies of students, modelling and predicting the pedagogic process, making managerial decisions on its correction based on the obtained objective information. The structure of professional readiness of future lawyers is presented as a multifunctional system education, which includes motivational and value, cognitive, operational-activity, evaluative-reflexive components. Our research complements research on this issue, defines the essence of professional readiness and its structure. The study expands the range of ideas about the professional training of students at university as a whole; complements the theoretical understanding of training of future lawyers for law enforcement.

Content, Hierarchy, Intensity of Motives and their Possibility to be Implemented in Servicemen with Various Levels of Effectiveness of Service Activity

In accordance with the results of conducted research there were figured out the content, hierarchy, intensity of motives and their possibility to be implemented in servicemen with various levels of effectiveness of service activity. 8435 male servicemen participated in the research, they equally presented all the operational and territorial military unifications and units of the National Guard of Ukraine. Each unit proportionately presented officers as well as military personnel under contract who included the participants of hostilities and those who did not have such experience. Examination of various aspects of servicemen motivation was conducted with the help of the following the methods which were standardized being based on the Ukrainian selection “Close Questionnaire of Examining the Motivation of Professional Choice Made by Applicants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, “Questionnaire of Estimation of the Effectiveness of Military Tasks’ Execution by Servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine”, questionnaire on “Sense-Bearing and Life Orientations”, the methods of “Studying the Motivational Profile of Personality”, and “Locus of Control”. There was conducted the cluster analysis which gave the possibility to figure out six motivational types connected with the effectiveness of servicemen operational activity. Motivational types were located between the poles which were introduced by two dimensions: self-efficacy (autonomous and controlled motivation) and motivation of helping others (motivations of public service - selfishness).Those motivational types of servicemen were the following: motivated by public service, stagnant, prosocial, romantic, deficient, and dependent. Distinguished types included the content, hierarchy, intensity of motives and their possibility to be implemented.

System for evaluation of financial security of operational activity of oil-and-fat industry enterprises

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to develop a system for evaluation the state of financial security of operating activities of enterprises in oil-and-fat industry based on the coordination of the interaction of the main factors of influence and levels of its components. Methodology / approach. In the process of writing the article the following research methods were used: abstract-logical (at the systematization of scientific publications on the problems of management of enterprises in oil-and-fat industry, financial security of enterprises), grouping (by clustering enterprises depending on the obtained results), comparisons (by developing a model for assessing the degree of financial stability of operating activities of enterprises), coefficient (by developing a model for assessing the degree of liquidity of enterprises), formalization (by developing a matrix for diagnostics of the state of financial security of operating activities of enterprises), generalization (by formulating research conclusions). Results. In the process of research, the system of complex evaluation of degrees and levels of the main components of financial security of the operations activities of the enterprises in oil-and-fat industry was substantiated: a model for assessing the financial stability of operating activities and a model for assessing the liquidity of an enterprise. A diagnostic matrix for the financial security status of the operational activities of the enterprises in oil-and-fat industry was developed to define the security boundaries of the operation activity of enterprises. Approbation of the proposed system for assessing the financial security of operating activities on the materials of the selected group of enterprises in the oil-and-fat industry made it possible to analyze the dynamics of the state of the financial security of their operating activities. Originality / scientific novelty of the research is to develop tools for a comprehensive evaluation of the financial security of the operating activities of the enterprises in oil-and-fat industry. The method of determining the impact of the degree of financial stability and liquidity of the enterprise on the level of financial security of current activities was improved. For the first time, a nine-quadrant matrix of the state of financial security of operating activities of enterprises depending on the ratio of the degrees of the above factors was substantiated. Practical value / implications. The use of the proposed system of financial security evaluation of operating activities of the enterprise, according to the authors, can serve as an effective mechanism for managing the financing current activities of enterprises in oil-and-fat industry and become an informative tool for factor analysis in managing their overall financial security.

THE ESSENCE AND STRUCTURE OF EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FORMATION OF PARTNERSHIPS OF ADOLESCENTS

The successful formation of partnerships of adolescents is conditioned by certain factors and elements of educational environment, contributing to the formation of motivational-value, cognitive and operational-activity components of personality development of children of this age category. The peculiarities of the influence of this environment have a certain specificity associated with the conditions of formation of its structural components. Due to the action of these elements of the educational environment, certain age characteristics of adolescents are formed, which are necessary to ensure the effective principles of partnership, which will affect personal development and further development of academic achievement. Taking into account the importance of considering the theoretical aspects of determining the characteristics of the educational environment of adolescents, which determines the formation of their partnership, the study of this issue is considered relevant and will ensure the development of scientific thought. The purpose of the article is to systematize the approaches to defining the essence of the concept and structure of the educational environment of adolescents as a sphere of development of their partnership. Research methods applied: a systematic approach, which is used to systematize the provisions of scientific views related to the evaluated issues; comparative method used to compare the approaches of scientists. The study presents a systematization of approaches to defining the essence of the concept and structure of the educational environment of adolescents, which contributes to the development of their partnerships. It is proved that the main essential features of the concept of educational environment of adolescents, which contributes to the development of their partnerships include: structural feature (in the interpretations of the authors, mainly determined by reference to certain components of this phenomenon), performance feature (emphasis on areas of influence - behavior, development of value beliefs, etc.), organizational feature (indication that the subjects of the environment provide active assistance in the development of certain skills, qualities of adolescents), subject-oriented feature, which involves the formation and development of the educational environment of adolescents in the context of subject-subject direction (humanistic approach ). The composition of the conditions for the formation of this phenomenon is determined, which include general categories, in particular: objective, specially (artificially) created, static, dynamic. The interpretation of the studied concept is formulated, which is based on taking into account the list of basic essential features and categories of conditions of formation of the educational environment, which promotes the development of their partnership.

PERANAN SISTEM INFORMASI AKUNTANSI DALAM PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN MANAJEMEN PADA PT. ABADI MEDAN JAYA JAPARIS

The role of information systems is very important for companies to be able tosupport every operational activity and assist in the decision-making process. Therehave been many companies that use information systems to support their businessprocesses so that by using this information system, the company's competitiveadvantage can be achieved. The formulation of the problem in this study is how therole of accounting information systems in management decision making at PT.Abadi Medan Jaya Japaris ?. The research objective is to identify and analyze therole of accounting information systems in management decision making at PT.Abadi Medan Jaya Japaris. This study uses simple linear regression analysis,determination test and t test, with the help of the SPSS version 20.00. Based on theresults of hypothesis testing, it shows that t count > t table, namely 18.905>2.03951, then H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted, which means that the accountinginformation system variable has a positive and significant effect on the decisionmaking variable at PT. Abadi Medan Jaya Japaris. Which means that theaccounting information system plays an important role for management in makingdecisions at PT. Abadi Medan Jaya Japaris. In addition to the determination test,it is known that the percentage of the relationship between variable X accountinginformation system and variable Y is used. The determination test is used todetermine the influence of the accounting information system on decision makingof 0.920 or 92% while the remaining 0.08 or 8% is influenced by other factors thatare not researched in this study

Evaluation of ECMWF model to predict daily and monthly solar radiation over Indonesia region

Solar radiation forecast is a pivotal information needed in the operational activity of large-scale solar energy production. In this study, the reliability of SSRD (surface solar radiation downward) forecast from the 51 ensemble members in the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium Range Forecast) long-range forecast to predict daily and monthly radiation in 5 climatological stations in Indonesia is evaluated. The global horizontal irradiance (GHI) data from the solar radiation observation network from January 2018 – December 2020 are used in the quantitative evaluation of the SSRD forecast. Post-processing methods are applied to the model output, namely the bilinear interpolation method and the empirical quantile mapping to reduce consistent biases in the model output. The evaluation was carried out for different cloud covers based on the calculation of clearness index (k_t). The cloud condition affects the performance of the model, where the highest correlation value is achieved during sunny days (0.18 – 0.65) and the lowest correlation happens in overcast days (0.05 – 0.35). Models also tend to underestimate radiation when the sky is clear and overestimate it in cloudy days, based on negative MBE values during clear days (-0.47 kWh/m2 – -1.29 kWh/m2). The spatial averaging method did not necessarily improve the accuracy of the forecast, but the empirical quantile mapping method provides better accuracy, which is indicated by a values (mean error ratio) lower than 1 in most stations. Information about the influence of cloud cover on model performance can be used in future application of the model output and the bias correction process carried out in this study can be applied to reduce bias in the model.