CRISIS MANAGEMENT OF PRIVATE KINDERGARTENS IN CHINA UNDER COVID-19 EPIDEMIC SITUATION

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, private kindergartens in China have encountered a crisis of survival and development. Whether private kindergartens can successfully overcome difficulties is related to the development goal of preschool education and more children’s enrollment needs could be met in the future. In order to realize the sustainable development of private kindergartens, literature review and interview are adopted in this paper to analyze the practical difficulties faced by private kindergartens during the epidemic. The following suggestions are proposed from the perspective of kindergarten internal management: kindergarten principals should assume the responsibility of management, adopt a variety of ways to reduce the turnover rate of kindergarten teachers, and establish the crisis management system in response to outbreaks.

THE ROLE OF AGE AND GENDER IN GROUP DECISION-MAKING PROPENSITY

Increasingly, organizations are oriented towards groups to make decisions. This is because some contextual factors have undergone significant changes. Companies are operating in a competitive, dynamic and complex environment, having to face with unstructured and non-programmed decisions. Organizations are also oriented towards participatory processes in order to benefit from the important advantages that these processes offer. The main goal of the current research is to understand if there is a correlation between group decision-making propensity, age and gender. The motivation for the current research starts from the consideration that the degree of preference for group decision-making processes determines the contribution and commitment of the members, with important consequences on the decisions’ effectiveness. The processing and analysis of the collected data indicate that adults prefer group decision-making processes more than young people and women prefer group decision-making processes less than men.

CHALLENGES AND OPPORUNITIES TO TRANSITION INTO A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY IN LIBYA

Libya is an Oil- Based Economy as a large percentage of its GDP comes from oil and gas sector. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the challenges and opportunities for the transition to a knowledge based economy in Libya. The broader question in this research is firstly, what are the main challenges facing the transition into the knowledge-based economy in Libya? Secondly, what are the major opportunities for transition into a knowledge-based economy in Libya? The research methodology was based on a descriptive and comparative method of analysis. The contribution of this research is to fill the acute shortage in the Libyan literature by presenting a more comprehensive analysis and investigating the challenges and opportunities for the shift to a knowledge-based economy in Libya. The findings of this study indicate several obstacles for a transition to a knowledge-based economy in Libya such as political, social, economic, institutional, and organisational obstacle.

THE PLANNING PROCESS AS A MODERN FORM OF DIRECTING PROFITABLE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES AND CONSCIOUS COORDINATION

Planning was reaffirmed after the collapse of the neoliberal economic doctrine (at the beginning of this century). The relations between the plan and the market are complementary and non-exclusive. The market is also planned and market spontaneity is suppressed. The planning of all the levels is primarily present in the Eurasian economies that are not in crisis. The plan is also a creativity space.

MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS IN CHINA’S EDUCATION AND TRAINING INDUSTRY

After years of development, the number of education and training institutions has decreased but the market size has continued to increase. The reason is the rise of online education. The development trend of combining online and offline education needs to innovate the personal development of teachers. This paper studies the development trend of the education and training industry, draws inspiration from the development trend for the personal development of teachers, and builds a personal development model for teachers based on the iceberg model. It is intended to provide innovative suggestions for the development of teachers in the education and training industry.

THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC CRISIS ON SALES BUSINESSES – CASE STUDIES

The entire world is facing with the impact and consequences of the COVID 19 pandemic, what is reflected in various spheres of social life. In the conditions of the crisis management, companies are forced to adapt to the new situation in order to survive on the market. Sales companies have had to make changes in their former business; namely in their organization, logistics, retail supply channels that are now oriented towards the online sales without contact when delivering to customers. The Civil Protection Headquarters of the Republic of Croatia has brought a Decision by which are regulated the working hours and the method of work in the trade business during the Coronavirus epidemic, according to which it is obligatory for all stores to organize their work in compliance with general anti-epidemic measures and special recommendations of the Croatian Institute of Public Health. In the paper are listed and analyzed changes in the sales operations of the two companies due to the pandemic crisis; one company deals with the sale of agricultural machinery and the other with the sale of food products.

CORONAVIRUS CRISIS AND EU ANTITRUST – JUST TEMPORARY ADAPTATIONS OR LONG-TERM CHANGES?

The European Commission and the competition authorities of the EU member states responded to the coronavirus crisis with assurances about sufficient flexibility of their instruments. They enabled temporary cooperation between competitors to ensure the supply of essential medical products and services. At the same time, they warned against any misuse of the crisis for overpricing or other monopolistic practices. However, the crisis has also intensified long-term pressures for a fundamental adaptation of European competition rules. The first challenge is represented by Chinese state-backed enterprises as potential acquirers of weakened European competitors. The second source of pressure is the increasingly dominant role of global online platforms. Their role as an irreplaceable infrastructure for management, communication, counselling and distance learning was reinforced in the coronavirus crisis. The Commission and other experts are already discussing appropriate responses. This paper maps the discussion on possible EU responses to these challenges, and tries to show the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed solutions and on this basis to estimate the future development of EU antitrust in the post-coronavirus period.

THE DESIGN OF MIXED TEACHING MODE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION UNDER THE BACKGROUND OF INTERNET

This article objectively analyzes the main problems of distance education in vocational education under the current Internet background, and gives solutions to these main problems. By setting teaching goals scientifically and reasonably, adopting a mixed teaching model, designing a perfect teaching process and formulating a scientific course evaluation method, Internet distance teaching will achieve better teaching effects to make up for the shortcomings of traditional teaching methods.

NEW ROLE OF RELIGIONS IN THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT

The global pandemic produces rules that impose suffering on religions, which must reconsider their social role now. This entails the need to examine the rules of coexistence within societies, where Coronavirus phenomenon raises existential and religious questions. We need to look at the condition of the state of religious freedom – in the European context – referring to globalization in a climate of restriction of personal, social, and religious freedom. Complexity has undermined the role of states, the delimitation of competences regarding relations with religions. For them, building community and associations relations where religious freedom is expressed is fundamental. Believers are therefore bearers of specific interests. This particular situation calls for a new function for religions, focused on the value of the person who can lead to the common identity and guarantee «those values of social and community integration that seem particularly discovered today».

NAIVE BAYES CLASSIFIER, DECISION TREE AND ADABOOST ENSEMBLE ALGORITHM – ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

The purpose of the publication is to analyse popular classification algorithms in machine learning. The following classifiers were studied: Naive Bayes Classifier, Decision Tree and AdaBoost Ensemble Algorithm. Their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Research shows that there is no comprehensive universal method or algorithm for classification in machine learning. Each method or algorithm works well depending on the specifics of the task and the data used.