Leisure and Wellness Perceptions of Tourism Workers in Work-Life Balance

In this study, the concepts related to leisure and wellness perceptions will be discussed in order to provide the work-life balance of tourism workers. With a descriptive analysis, it will be discussed how leisure time evaluation and wellness perception contribute to the work-life balance of tourism employees as strategies to cope with work and non-work problems. The fact that the work-life balance of tourism employees is at an optimum level is of great importance for the tourism industry where business factor and service quality are critical. Factors such as uncertainty environment, low labor morale, and high turnover rate constitute the general business life characteristics of tourism employees. As a result, the effect of leisure and wellness perceptions of tourism employees on coping with these factors and establishing work-life balance will be discussed in the light of related literature.

Digitalization of Work and Human Resources Processes as a Way to Create a Sustainable and Ethical Organization

Remote and hybrid working models and accelerated digitalization of the human resources processes were introduced in most organizations worldwide as a consequence of the COVD-19 pandemic. This digital revolution at the workplace was forced by extraordinary circumstances, thus its impact had not been anticipated before. This motivated the authors to study the new work reality. The research was based on a hypothesis that the digitalization of work and the human resources processes, approaches organizations to the sustainable development ideal. Sustainability is here understood as maintaining a balance between economic, environmental, and social factors. The authors analyzed the impact between the digital processes and the way of working on the following areas: CO2 emissions, creating plastic waste, saving energy, creating a gender-diverse and inclusive workplace. To verify the hypothesis, the authors used their own original and desk research. The original research was conducted within a Berlin-based tech startup between March 2020 and August 2021. Additionally, the authors ran surveys among international startups and scale-ups. Based on their findings the authors concluded that there can be a positive correlation between digitalization and increased organizational sustainability. This result is significant not only for the human resources specialists but can indicate a direction for a general business strategy.

The Archae System Revisited: The Records of Indebtedness to Medieval Jews

This article examines on document acknowledging debt to Maruna, a Jewish woman, to John of Kent that was deposited in a chest in Canterbury in 1264. Using this document, the article examines what can be learned about the archae system in thirteenth-century England from the perspective of the documents which were produced there. A series of chests (Lat. pl. archae) were established across England following the introduction of the Articles of the Jewry (1194), which regulated the production, use, and storage of the records generated by Jewish moneylending activities in medieval England. Additionally, the Articles of the Jewry required that more general business transactions, such as the sale and purchase of property, also be recorded at the archae. This paper considers not only the legal and administrative structures which governed the production of such records but also how these systems manifested themselves within the documents which produced at the archae. Finally, it will consider the role that ritual and gender had to play in such transactions and the documents which recorded them.

Transforming the Generative Pretrained Transformer Into Augmented Business Text Writer

This study uses transformers architecture of Artificial neural networks to generate artificial business text for a given topic or theme. The implication of the study is to augment the business report writing, and general business writings process with help of Generative pretrained transformers (GPT) networks. Main focus of study is to provide practical use case for GPTs models with help of big data. Our study model has 355 million model parameters and trained for three months on GPU enable devices using 2.3 billion text tokens(is available as open-source data now). Text tokens are collected with help of rigorous preprocessing, which includes; shortlisting of Subreddits of Fortune 500 companies and industries, listed on US-based social news aggregation online portal called "Reddit". After shortlisting, millions of submission of users during the five years, are parsed to collect the URLs out of it. 1.8 million working URLs are scrutinized. Business text is parsed, cleaned, and converted into word embeddings out of URLs. The result shows that both models; conditional interactive and random sampling, generate text paragraphs that are grammatically accurate and stick to the given topic.

Architectural style spreads its wings: New Zealand Architecture in the 1880s

The 1880s was a period in New Zealand of economic depression. It caused "unemployment, family distress, ragged children and exploited women workers, general business collapse, a crash in the property market, a ten-year banking crisis, bankruptcies and unstable ministries." But despite this Hodgson identifies this period in New Zealand's architectural history as one when: "Architectural style ... started to spread its wings and this period contains some fine examples of building design which was definitely out of the mainstream."

Georgia Tax Policy Directions in Value Added Tax (VAT) and Expected Results of Reforms

The research aims to review the direction of Georgia's economic policy, in particular, the reforms implemented in the field of tax policy in value added tax (VAT). For this purpose, the method of comparing the legislative records, as well as the analysis of official statistical data and their generalization are used, as well as the research I conducted (the results of a survey of entrepreneurs) on several reforms in value added tax. The current result of the major reforms in this tax is an indicator of positive dynamics. This study will allow stakeholders (as well as entrepreneurs) to evaluate the effectiveness of tax policy, which is reflected in both statistical information and international rankings. The general business environment following the reforms and the regulatory norms of value added tax (VAT) in Georgia will be analyzed. This will be the basis for observing the dynamics of the positive indicators of the reforms carried out, and at the same time to take into account the influence of environmental factors during the assessment.

ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN INDICATORS OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF ENTERPRISES PRODUCING TRUCKS ACCORDING TO ACCOUNTING DATA

The modern system of accounting and management accounting includes a set of methods for analysing and evaluating the analysis of the financial condition of an enterprise. A comprehensive analysis of economic activity is a system of special knowledge related to the study of economic processes that develop under the influence of objective economic laws and factors of an objective order. Comprehensive analysis is of great importance in strengthening the financial condition, increasing the liquidity of assets, their solvency, searching for reserves for economic growth, efficiency in the use of resources, and in general business processes. The transformation of accounting, which is being carried out as part of the restructuring of the economy to market track, has once again brought to life such an important element of analytical work as financial analysis. The effectiveness of enterprise management is largely determined by the degree of its organization and the quality of information support. Analysis of financial statements in the framework of a comprehensive analysis of economic activity consists in the application of analytical tools and methods to the indicators of financial documents in order to identify significant relationships and characteristics necessary for making any decision. It serves to transform data so numerous and varied in our computer age into necessary and always scarce information. The business analysis process is described differently depending on the task at hand. It can be used as a preliminary screening tool when choosing a direction for investment or possible options for a merger of enterprises. It can also act as a forecasting tool for future financial conditions and results. Comprehensive analysis is also applicable to identify problems in the management of production activities. It can serve to assess the performance of the company’s management. And most importantly, financial analysis allows you to rely less on guesses, premonitions and intuition, to reduce the inevitable uncertainty that is present in any decision-making process. Financial analysis does not eliminate the need for business sense but provides a solid and systematic foundation for its rational application. Reporting analysis in the process of a comprehensive analysis of the economic activity of an enterprise is a process that aims to assess the current and past financial condition and results of the enterprise, while the primary goal is to determine estimates and predictions regarding the future conditions and activities of the enterprise.

TOWARDS A CLASSIFICATION OF FAMILY-OWNED CONSTRUCTION FIRMS IN GHANA

The Ghanaian construction industry predominated by family-owned construction firms has established its dominant impact on economic development, albeit unstructured. This literature review is to dissect extant literature bringing out the uniqueness of the sector and attempt a classification for family-owned construction firms in Ghana. Anchored in a value-free axiological tradition in which the classification criteria of family-owned construction firms can be obtained by objective means set out in the framework, this study was undertaken by an extensive literature review from journals databases, textbooks, and relevant reports and citations. The review began with searches using “AND” and “OR” operators to search abstracts, titles, and a keyword with no restriction placed on the article's date of publication. Content analysis was done of the articles and with lots of information on family-owned businesses, very few on family-owned construction firms. Existing frameworks on the classification of family-owned businesses formed the basis of this framework. The key findings indicate that small and medium-sized family firms predominate the construction industry. The physiognomies of family-owned construction firms also contribute to their proliferation and overarching importance within the sector. The novelty of this study is that it merges information from the general business and construction industry and carves criteria for which family-owned construction firms can be identified and classified. For academia, the paper contributes to the stream of knowledge on what constitutes family-owned construction firms whilst exposing the lack of research in this constituency. It also serves as the foundation upon which future research can be conducted in the field of family-owned construction firms. For practitioners and policymakers, the paper offers insights into how to identify family-owned construction firms to be able to distinguish them for targeted support to grow the economy. Future research should be targeted at examining the growth and sustainability of family-owned construction firms. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0885/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Searching for a Tide Table for Business:

The article investigates the methods and conceptions of statistical inference used in business forecasting in the United States and in Europe in the 1920s. After presenting the methods and arguments used by the members of the Harvard Committee on Economic Research in the first years after its establishment in 1919, the article explores the far-reaching changes in method and conviction from 1922 on. The members’ realization that the future evolved differently than predicted prompted them to give up their hope for mechanical means of forecasting and to revoke their calls for the employment of the mathematical theory of probability in economics. Instead, they established an extensive correspondence with economic and political decision-makers that allowed them to base their forecasts on “inside information.” Subsequently, the article traces European attempts to adopt the Harvard Index of General Business Conditions in the early 1920s. Impressed by the seemingly mechanical working of the Harvard index, European economists and statisticians sought to establish similar indices for their countries. However, numerous revisions of the Harvard index in the mid-1920s cast doubt on the universality of the index and the existence of stable patterns and led European researchers to pursue different paths of investigation. The article complicates the larger history of statistical inference in economics in two meaningful ways. First, it argues that statistical inference with probability was not the long-sought solution for the problem of objectivity but a long-contested, and repeatedly discarded, approach. Second, it shows that these contestations were often triggered by deviations between forecasts and the conditions actually observed and by this means argues for the importance of the historical context in the history of economics.

Consumer behavior-focused training in retailing education: Too much of a good thing?

Consumer behavior training that was extensively delivered in the tertiary vocational schools of business had been expected to sufficiently equip students with deep knowledge in marketing and sales. This was true when students were dealing with general business environments, but it was dubious when it was implemented in a certain field of business, such as retail business. Retail business, predictably, had a unique characteristic in its business decisions. Students in the marketing program of a tertiary vocational school in their final year were the object of the study. Employing the non-parametric tools to assess student knowledge in consumer behavior and its association with retailing decisions mastery, it was found that student mastery in consumer behavior did not associate with better knowledge in other five retail business decisions (determining the composition of goods, spotting locations, pricing, profit strategy, and store management). The article also provided a brief explanation that specific knowledge in consumer behavior did not always in line with the required knowledge in the retail business. It was also suggested that to elaborate whether one specific knowledge of business practices had a valuable feature was, first, by determining its overall decisions relating to it. Then, the second, establishing series of analyses to assess whether the decisions have any relation with the college’s courses or training of a field of study. Comprehension of the process might help the vocational schools to equip students with the right required knowledge and skills for a certain field of business.