Current Issue : January-March Volume : 2023 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 5 Articles
Today, the business environment is highly competitive and faced with continuously changing technology. Globalization and the changing needs of customers contribute to the challenges of business organizations. To meet up these challenges, organizations need to properly and continuously train and develop their employees. As a result, this research looks into the impact of training and development on the performance of public hospitals in Abuja-FCT, Nigeria. The distribution of a structured questionnaire was required by a survey research design of a (5-point Likert scale). 353 from the total population of 2997 randomly selected employees in the Fourteen (14) general hospitals in Abuja-FCT, Nigeria. 305 questionnaires were filled out by the respondents. Hypotheses tests were carried out and they revealed that there was a major connection between orientation as a training and development method and patient waiting time....
Individuals with high organizational commitment protect organizational heritage, share organizational goals and remain in the organization in good and bad times (Batugal & Tindowen, 2019). So, this research intended to determine the level of organizational commitment and to determine whether the type of employment contract is a differentiator factor of the organizational commitment. Therefore, a quantitative and cross-sectional study was carried out based on the application of a questionnaire to the employees of a Public Higher Education institution, located in Trás-os-Montes region (Northeast Portugal). The questionnaire included the scales of organizational commitment of the three-dimensional model developed by Meyer and Allen (1991), namely, affective, calculative and normative. The administration of the questionnaire took place from October 22, 2021 to January 4, 2022 having obtained 105 responses. The results showed that the respondents' global commitment to the organization was moderate. Taking into account the three dimensions of the model, employees registered higher levels of affective commitment, moderate levels of calculative commitment and lower levels of normative commitment. Additionally, it was found that the type of employment contract was a differentiator factor of organizational commitment in only two of the three dimensions of the organizational commitment model, namely, normative and calculative. In fact, in the calculative commitment, employees with an uncertain-term contract registered higher levels of organizational commitment. On the contrary, in the normative commitment, employees with a fixedterm contract registered higher levels of organizational commitment....
Romanian undergraduate education system has undergone radical changes in the area of digitalization during the last years. Both Romanian authorities and private stakeholders contributed to this transformation. This paper has the goal to present an extensive overview of the most important measures in terms of digitalization that led to the system as it stands today. The research will divide the 32-year period of the post-communist regime in two distinct parts: the period before the COVID-19 pandemic arose (1990-2020) and the period during and after the pandemic (2020-2022). The paper will cover the public and private projects that were implemented in order to improve the level of technology integration and pupils’ development of digital skills. This study proved that digitalization has always been treated with priority by Romanian decision makers. Nevertheless, the number of implemented initiatives has not been enough for a complete and sustainable technologization of the system. The sudden shift from a face-to-face approach to a complete online one during the pandemic has shown the unpreparedness of the Romanian education system. This shift was extremely difficult both for pupils and teachers. Overall, the contribution of this study to the literature consists in the systematic overview of the main initiatives provided by public authorities and private stakeholders for the modernization of Romanian education. Moreover, the paper captures authorities’ attitude towards the process of technologization of the undergraduate education system....
Dalian is one of the famous coastal tourist cities in China, with a unique geographical location. This paper studies the development of marine cultural tourism in Dalian by means of literature analysis and data analysis. This paper holds that the existing problems of Dalian marine cultural tourism are as follows: Covid-19 impact; Serious pollution of marine resources; Weak brand competitiveness of marine cities; and missing talent. Combined with analysis and the author’s personal knowledge base, this paper believes that paying attention to marine ecological environment protection, excavating cultural resources and personnel training are helpful to break the barriers of Dalian marine cultural tourism, so as to promote the development of Dalian marine cultural tourism....
Taking into account the growing importance of tourism, there is an increasing number of studies on the area and, for this reason, its conceptualization has also undergone changes, influenced either by the development of the activity or by social, economic, environmental and structural changes that have taken place. One of the main changes in tourism is related to the increasing influence of social networks, both in terms of tourism demand and in the offer and promotion of tourist destinations. Currently, the widespread use of these virtual platforms, as well as their exponential growth, with the emergence of new social networks, are causing changes in the search for tourist destinations as well as in the promotion of the destinations themselves. This paper focuses on one of the most emblematic Portuguese tourist destinations, Serra da Estrela, the main national winter sports destination, aiming to understand a set of aspects related to the use of social networks as a search tool for tourist destinations, as well as what is the influence of the Internet and social networks in the choice of a tourist destination....
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