Eva Štefančič, Maša Kovač, Klara Zalokar, Vito Milošević, Marko Milanovski
{"title":"Prevention and Management of Stress Relating to Work","authors":"Eva Štefančič, Maša Kovač, Klara Zalokar, Vito Milošević, Marko Milanovski","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.48","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of the paper is to examine stress in the workplace, with a focus on researching stress related to age and sex. 22% of employed people in the European Union face stress. The consequences of stress are manifested in forms of sick leave, the avoidance of certain work tasks, inefficiency and reduced productivity, dissatisfaction with work and with themselves. If a person does not face up to their problems, it can lead to deep frustration, exhaustion and even burnout syndrome, which is easily expressed on a physical level in the form of psychosomatic diseases. There are strategies for overcoming stress at the individual and organisational level, however sometimes, despite these strategies and techniques, stress appears in all its forms and causes health problems, therefore it is necessary to seek medical and other professional help (psychologist, psychotherapist). The authors of this paper found that the level of stress among employees in organisations is high, women are more likely to experience stress in an ‘emotional way’, while men are more likely to suffer physical illnesses because of stress, and secondary school/university students are the most stressed.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114900705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health and Safety at Work in Times of Remote Work","authors":"Nomi Hrast, Simona Šarotar Žižek","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.46","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there have been upheavals and a change in the way work and tasks are performed. Employees and companies have had to become much more innovative and adaptable to be able to survive, despite the changes brought about by the global situation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, matters took a turn for the worse, as most companies carried out teleworking to ensure health and safety at work, while companies continued to provide a safe working environment. The personal responsibility of individuals is not only to ensure their own health but also to meet the requirements of health and safety at work, thus families had to adjust and adapt around work in such a way as to meet these requirements. In this paper, the authors describe three important components that marked work during the COVID-19 period: remote work, health and safety during teleworking, and personal responsibility. Through three main topics, the authors provide answers to questions about work that affects health and safety at work, while also covering the findings of statistics from the field of work performance and the importance of personal responsibility in ensuring health and safety at work during remote work.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116377303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainability Accounting and Reporting in the Post-COVID Times","authors":"Károly Szóka","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.14","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainability is a complex framework for companies to meet environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals together. The focus should be on achieving medium- and longterm goals, and the environmental and social impacts of corporate operations should also be examined. Sustainable accounting and green controlling are the support of the management of a sustainably managed company, which means the accountability of the management on the one hand, and the applicable asset system and reporting on the other. Following and reporting on sustainability goals is no longer a voluntary commitment for companies, rather it is compulsory for them to adapt. With effect from 2024, the EU standard on ‘non-financial reporting standards’ will come into force. The development of this EU investment classification system, known as the ‘taxonomy’, is being monitored by investors worldwide. The taxonomy, standards and implementation will certainly generate controversy. In this study, the author describes the importance, essence and content of sustainability accounting and green controlling, as well as the reporting obligation and its tools. The author also clarifies which parameters define the mandatory reporting framework and which are the most important elements.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122262809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Challenges of Funding and Conducting Scientific Research in PostCOVID-19 Georgia (Case of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia)","authors":"Ana Polodashvili","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.26","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to identify the main scientific challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia. The facts are based on the: statistics of budget allocation to science promotion and grant financing by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia and the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG). The major obstacles faced by the scientific community due to the pandemic are also described below. As expected, grants for scientific research were reduced during the pandemic. It is obvious that as well as financial problems, the pandemic has caused many other scientific obstacles. It is important to identify these problems and consider the SRNSFG’s approach to reducing them. By conducting research on this issue, the author of this report concludes that the pandemic caused both financial and logistical problems in the scientific community of Georgia. Regardless of the circumstances, the measures implemented in the Georgian education system have been positively evaluated by some international organisations, such as: Microsoft, UNICEF, and the OECD.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129238340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ranking of the Sustainability Goals (SDGs) Based on Individual Preferences","authors":"Anita Kolnhofer-Derecskei, György Hauber","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.11","url":null,"abstract":"Aligned with the three pillars of the sustainability model (social, economic and environmental aspects), the United Nations has declared 17 Sustainable Development Goals to promote sustainability development steps by all countries. These goals are for everyone; our environment requires active voluntary action from all of us. These sound like extremely important, crucial and urgent world-changing issues that will require cooperation among governments, international organisations and world leaders. It might seem impossible that the average person can make an effort or have any impact, especially in these extraordinary pandemic times. This study aims to discover subjects’ opinions and preferences on the SDG. Additionally, time and budget allocations are observed among the goals. The results provide a deeper insight into individual can-do attitudes. While voluntary and environment-friendly measures are also considered as core values. However, the question is whether economics or the environment will be underlined. This paper focuses on individual actions and beliefs. The aim of the research is to discover how and what people are ready to do for a better environment in the post-COVID era. Based on the results, an action plan can be stated that supports the achievement of as many of the SDGs as possible.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"606 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116209889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lúcia de Fátima Silva Piedade, Mariana Inácio Marques, João Caldeira Heitor
{"title":"The Contribution of Social Media on the Post-pandemic Recovery of Aviation and Tourism","authors":"Lúcia de Fátima Silva Piedade, Mariana Inácio Marques, João Caldeira Heitor","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.9","url":null,"abstract":"After almost two years of the global pandemic, it is time to understand how the aviation and tourism sectors are recovering. The context of this post-pandemic period could result in being one of the most complex scenarios in terms of attracting customers, hence it is a huge challenge. Therefore, the authors of this paper seek to discover whether the internet can help business to return to normal, and, if so, how social media can have an influence. The aim of this paper is thus to study whether – and if so, how – airlines are using social media to engage with customers to promote tourism. The methodologies used are a content analysis of Facebook and Instagram over a period of six months together with analyses of the posts. Only airlines that engaged with these two types of social media were considered in the study. Additionally, the authors analysed the monthly traffic reports during the same period to check the eventual influence of social media. In addition, the authors made a comparison between the post results and the air traffic evolution in order to understand whether there are any relationships between them.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120947210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jelena Erić Nielsen, J. Nikolić, Marko Slavković, Dejana Zlatanović
{"title":"How to Make Health Organisations More Agile During the Pandemic? Challenges of Managing Entrepreneurial Behaviour","authors":"Jelena Erić Nielsen, J. Nikolić, Marko Slavković, Dejana Zlatanović","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.37","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has put health systems around the world under the ultimate pressure, unseen in the modern age. The main purpose of this research is to investigate how to make health organisations more adaptable in the pandemic circumstances, more precisely how the internal organisational climate affects entrepreneurial initiative on a daily basis. Entrepreneurial initiative thrives in an organisation with an organisational culture based on values promoted by entrepreneurial management, highlighting the possibility of individual initiative, through appropriate compensation mechanisms, given the organisational context and time constraints. During the pandemic year 2020, we conducted a pilot study as part of more comprehensive research, in which data were collected from primary care health centers in Serbia. The Corporate Entrepreneurship Climate Instrument (CECI) was used in order to estimate and evaluate the internal environment and overall propensity toward entrepreneurship. The instrument encompasses five relevant determinants that influence employees’ entrepreneurial activities: management support, work discretion, time availability, rewards/reinforcement, and organisational boundaries. The value of the research is reflected in the creation of empirically and theoretically substantiated evidence about the relevance of these factors for creating a favourable internal organization climate, thus allowing a more flexible and creative health service.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125238938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ergonomic Arrangement of the Office Workplace","authors":"Stella Jaklin, Pija Kramberger, Katja Kostanjevec, Alin Klančnik","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.49","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of this paper is to introduce the importance of ergonomic design of the office workplace and its impact on employee health. The discussion is based on the knowledge that a properly ergonomically designed office has a posivite impact on individual health. Ergonomics is the interdisciplinary study of workloads and the search for relief when the workload causes discomfort or even exceeds the permissible limit. An ergonomically incorrect office can cause a number of accidents and health problems for individuals. The aim of ergonomics is to adapt work to the potential and needs of people in the workplace, to ensure their safety and health. It is important to know the correct positioning of the elements in the office space, i.e. chair, desk, screen, mouse, keyboard. Proper regulation prevents health problems and increases employee satisfaction, productivity and engagement. This paper should also trigger questions about how to increase the knowledge and uptake of ergonomics in the workplace.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128446247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strengthening Guests’ Perceived Value Through Restaurants’ Innovativeness, Creativity, Sustainability and Local Features","authors":"N. Basle, S. Lebe, B. Milfelner","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.34","url":null,"abstract":"This research deals with a rarely discussed topic: upscale gastronomy. The field is under-researched due to the restrictions imposed by restaurant owners who primarily do not allow researchers to have direct contact with their guests, thus assuring them an undisturbed, private atmosphere. Despite this fact, the authors of this study were successful in assuring partners within upscale restaurants (among them holders of Michelin stars and holders of other awards) who agreed to cooperate. The aim was to verify the relationships between innovativeness, creativity, sustainability and local features as important competences of upscale gastronomy. The reliability, convergence and discriminant validity of the scales were tested by using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The results confirmed that a) innovativeness and creativity could potentially be an important antecedent of the perceived sustainability of upscale restaurants, b) innovativeness and creativity also influence the level of included local features in upscale gastronomy, and c) if guests perceive a restaurant as more sustainable and more related to its local environment, they also perceive the upscale restaurant as having higher value. In this study, sustainability and local features played a mediating role in the impact of innovativeness and creativity on perceived value.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126509153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Views of Generation Z on Progression at Work","authors":"R. Šket, Z. Nedelko","doi":"10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.24","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the views of Generation Z in relation to progression at work. Based on a field survey of 113 business students. Generation Z members are encouraged to work hard, take responsibility and learn continuously as an appropriate way of increasing their chances of promotion at work. Their flexibility and intention to achieve to change their work environment if it does not suit them or does not allow them to achieve their goals. Difficult tasks present challenges that they want to overcome. Generation Z’s motivation is declining rapidly, therefore constant encouragement is important to improve satisfaction and help organisations to achieve their goals. Due to their specific characteristics and habits, this generation will play a key role in the future in helping companies achieve their goals and establishing or improving their reputation and visibility in society. Companies will need to offer their employees value for money, otherwise they will lose quality staff and be plunged into crisis.","PeriodicalId":217320,"journal":{"name":"6th FEB International Scientific Conference 2022","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130633290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}