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А. О. Сусліков

Актуальність досліджень полягає в тому, що дивідендна політика виконує важливі завдання стратегічного розвитку корпоративного аграрного підприємства, є механізмом перерозподілу фінансових ресурсів усередині компанії та чинником інвестиційної привабливості на фондових ринках. Метою статті є поглиблення досліджень засад дивідендної політики в стратегічному управлінні ринковою капіталізацією корпоративних аграрних підприємств. У процесі дослідження було використано такі методи: монографічний, абстрактно-логічний, аналізу й синтезу, історичного й системного аналізу, узагальнення графування. Досліджено теоретико-методичні засади дивідендної політики в стратегічному управлінні ринковою капіталізацією корпоративних аграрних підприємств. Показано, що дивідендна політика істотно впливає на інвестиційну привабливість агрокомпанії на фондових ринках, певною мірою визначаючи ціну акції й ринкову капіталізацію. Обґрунтовано, що дивідендна політика корпоративних аграрних підприємств має здійснюватися на основі принципів стабільності, регулярності й планомірності виплат дивідендів, збереження ліквідності та врахування потреб капіталу для росту компанії. Встановлено, що основними функціями дивідендної політики корпоративних аграрних підприємств є сигнальна (інформаційна) функція, розподільча функція, стимулююча функція, організаційна функція, функція збереження ліквідності, функція збалансованості фінансової структури, функція регулювання внутрішнього фінансування. Теоретично показано вектор впливу на ринкову капіталізацію агропідприємства типу дивідендної політики й підходів до дивідендних виплат. Запропоновано стратегічне забезпечення дивідендної політики корпоративних аграрних підприємств. Показано, що основою ефективної дивідендної стратегії корпоративних аграрних підприємств є розвиток національного фондового ринку, трансформація й адаптація найефективніших моделей корпоративного управління, а також нормативне й інституціональне забезпечення дивідендної політики. Перспективами подальших розвідок є обґрунтування методичних засад оцінювання ефективності реалізації дивідендних політики корпоративних аграрних підприємств з урахуванням інвестиційних і фінансових ризиків їх капіталізації на фондових ринках.

Є. І. Охрімчук

Ця стаття присвячена дослідженню базових правил регулювання виробництва продукції Інтернету речей у Європейському середовищі. Метою дослідження є аналіз нормативно-правової бази щодо виробництва продуктів Інтернету речей в Європі для виявлення вимог, яким мають відповідати товари та послуги IoT, щоб бути допущеними на європейський ринок. Щоб повністю розкрити суть завдання, стаття складається з двох частин. По-перше, надається короткий огляд поточного нормативного контексту для споживачів IoT в країнах Європи, описуючи середовище, яке багато експертів на сьогодні вважають «недостатньо зарегульованим». Для огляду цього питання у першу чергу увагу зосереджено на основних вимогах, яких повинні дотримуватися виробники продукції IoT, сюди увійшли правила щодо авторського права, загальний регламент захисту даних, захист персональних даних користувачів, директива щодо радіообладнання та питання пов’язані з кібербезпекою. Також у першій частині дослідження увагу приділено ключовим стандартам які безпосередньо пов’язані зі створенням середовища, необхідного для існування технологій Інтернету речей. По-друге, у статті розглянуто два основних проекти законів, які мають на меті встановити більше вимог до виробників та споживачів продукції Інтернету речей. Це Закон про дані, який повинен усунути перешкоди для доступу до даних, одночасно забезпечуючи збалансований нагляд за даними для їх розробників та Закон про кібернебезпечність, метою якого є встановлення загальних стандартів кібербезпеки для підключених пристроїв і сервісів. Ці постанови є важливими для забезпечення конфіденційності, захисту даних і кібербезпеки в галузі Інтернету речей. Очікується що два цих положення до 2024 року стануть повноцінними законами і на цьому етапі країни-члени та виробники мають два роки, щоб адаптуватися до висунутих вимог. Нові технології Інтернету речей постійно розвиваються, так само постійно розвиваються нормативні акти. Тому важливо стежити за постійними змінами інструкцій і оновлень нормативних актів, щоб забезпечити відповідність бізнесу вимогам і, зрештою, уникнути непотрібних проблем.

Оleksandr Potii

Враховуючи кризову ситуацію, у якій на даний момент доводиться функціонувати підприємствам галузі медичних послуг, важливе значення має пошук додаткових джерел оптимізації їх діяльності. І в цьому процесі ключову роль відіграють усі зацікавлені у роботі підприємств сторони, тобто стейкхолдери. Отже, застосування стейкхолдерського підходу до управління підприємствами галузі медичних послуг в сучасних умовах є доцільним і актуальним. Мета дослідження полягає у розробленні теоретичного підґрунтя управління взаємовідносинами зі стейкхолдерами підприємств галузі медичних послуг з урахуванням ознак останніх та на основі співставлення теорії стейкхолдерів з суміжними теоріями менеджменту. У процесі виконання даного дослідження використані такі методи наукового пізнання: метод логічного узагальнення – для обґрунтування загальних та специфічних ознак стейкхолдерів у галузі медичних послуг; метод аналізу та синтезу – для визначення спільної наукової проблематики теорії стейкхолдерів та суміжних теорій менеджменту; графічний метод – для наочного подання результатів дослідження. До основних наукових результатів роботи відносяться: 1) обґрунтовані загальні та специфічні ознаки стейкхолдерів підприємств галузі медичних послуг; 2) визначена сукупність теорій менеджменту, які, разом із теорією стейкхолдерів, складають основне підґрунтя для подальшого удосконалення управління взаємовідносинами зі стейкхолдерами підприємств галузі медичних послуг; 3) запропонований перелік напрямів практичної імплементації теоретичних положень управління взаємовідносинами зі стейкхолдерами у медичній галузі. Практична цінність статті полягає у формуванні основ для ефективного управління взаємовідносинами медичних підприємств зі стейкхолдерами  з урахуванням зміни їх пріоритетності, активізації латентних стейкхолдерів та втрати деяких традиційно активних стейкхолдерів. Додатково дана робота сприятиме актуалізації пошуку нових шляхів оптимізації діяльності підприємств галузі медичних послуг в умовах кризи.

Tran, Hien Van

This study aims to understand and test the factors influencing the effectiveness of learning and teaching political economy among Vietnamese universities. Over 1500 students from different majors and different school years have taken part in this study. The data collected from questionnaires was analyzed by SPSS version 2016 and EVIEW 10. From this study, it can be said that learning motivations and teaching methods are the most important factors driving the success of teaching and learning the political economy. Furthermore, males seem to be more interested in studying this subject and getting a higher GPA compared to females. Students from higher school-year, by contrast, have lower levels of interest in studying this module, leading to the lower effectiveness in teaching and learning this module. Finally, while teaching methods and teaching quality are positively correlated with the dependent variable, the administration service and infrastructure negatively influence the teaching and learning objectives.

O. J. Oladiran, A. A. Bayewun, A. M. Aderogba

Construction wastes pose challenges to contractors and clients of construction projects globally, with significant negative consequences on the environment. This study investigates the environmental waste management practices (EWMPs) of contractors on construction sites. The objectives are to determine the level of awareness and adoption of EWMPs. The population of the study was construction professionals on sites in Lagos State, Nigeria. Random sampling technique was used to select 63 companies out of the 126 construction companies in categories C, D and E of firms registered with Lagos State Public Procurement Agency. The targeted respondents were construction professionals in the selected companies. Questionnaires were used to collect data from respondents. Descriptive statistics tools, including mean, percentage and frequency were used for analysis. The study's findings reveal that contractors are aware of about 28 out of the 47 EWMPs identified from literature. These include good site materials storage, ordering exact amount of materials and checking deliveries properly. It also reveals the strategies that are not used as belonging to material exchange/recyclers' association, polluter pays principle, usage of self-contained mini or mobile concrete crusher. It is concluded that although contractors are aware of 28 EWMPs, 26 EWMPs are used on construction sites which are 60% and 55%, respectively. It implies that awareness determines the usage of the EWMPs. The implication is that if the awareness of EWMPs is increased, the implementation among construction contractors will be improved. It is therefore recommended that professionals should increase their awareness and usage of neglected EWMPs. This can be achieved through construction firms, governments and institutions sponsoring training of professionals on EWMPs. Additionally, polluter pays principle and recyclers’ association should be enforced in project implementations. This can be achieved through government legislation and government regulatory policies for project procurements. Keywords: Awareness; Best practices; Construction sites; Nigeria; Waste management.

Zahra Mohammadi, Majid Esmaeilpour, Fakhreieh Hamidianpure

Nowadays, different businesses have to take various marketing strategies in order to get access to customers. Accordingly, evaluating the effectiveness of marketing activities has gained an utmost importance to ensure that the adapted measures are efficient. In this paper the effectiveness of marketing activities is looked into. This includes investigating the impact of entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation on the effectiveness of marketing through the mediating role of marketing capabilities. In terms of purpose, this was an applied research, and in terms of collecting data, it is a descriptive- survey study and of the correlational type. The statistical population of this study included 157small and mediate-sized companies in the industrial town of Bushehr. Convenient sampling was used in this research to have access to the members of society. To this end, 110 companies were selected as the samples of the study. In order to collect data, a questionnaire has been used. After collecting the required data, they analyzed by using Structural Equation Model (SEM) through Smart PLS software. Finally, the analysis of data indicated that each of the entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and marketing capabilities variables had directly and positively affected the marketing effectiveness.

Yahya Ahmad Sayuti, Ahmad Albattat, Anna Zahrina Ariffin et al.

In industrialized countries, about 30% of the population may suffer from foodborne illnesses each year. Ma-laysia has proven to be a country that has very serious focus on food, but the people do not care much about their food safety. Food safety and hygiene is usually explained as the multiple conditions and ways to pre-serve food quality, so that foodborne diseases and contamination is prevented. University students face with high risk because of their unsafe behaviors in consuming food. There have been many studies accomplished on comprehension, behavior and implementation towards food safety among food handlers. The current research desires to determine the current knowledge, attitude and practice status among students in Management & Science University (MSU) on food safety. The study framework focuses on testing the relationship between knowledge, attitude and practices and whether or not attitude will be a mediating factor towards practices on food safety among university students in MSU. Using a quantitative and descriptive method, a structured questionnaire was distributed among 430 respondents. The result of the study was analyzed using regression test and indirect method. The result shows that the students had a good knowledge, attitude and practice status towards food safety and attitude was a partial mediating factor in the relationship between knowledge and practice.

Sima Ghaleb Magatef , Raed Ahmad Momani

A study was conducted on the role of commercial advertisement directed to children for influencing parents’ purchasing decision. The study targeted parents, taking into account all demographic factors. The main objec-tive of the study was to determine the extent of commercial ads influencing on parents' decision either directly without children’s effect or with children effect. To achieve this, a random sample was selected from parents of children aged 2-14 years. 530 copies of the questionnaire were distributed, and 474 valid ones were retrieved, which represented for 89.43% of the sample size. After the collection of the questionnaires, the data were recorded and analyzed. The results show that there was an effect of independent variables (advertising campaigns) on the intermediary variable (children), as well as the effect on the dependent variable (parents’ purchasing decision). The results also show that the entry of the intermediary variable (children) on the model had a direct and indirect effect, but its effect was relative rather than total. So, there is an effect of the independent variables (commercial ads) on the dependent variable (parents’ purchasing decision) with or without the existence of intermediary. Based on the results of the study, the researchers recommended that organizations should design advertisements that target parents directly to convince them to make purchasing decision without their children mediation, and design other advertisements to target children because they can have influence over parents and can convince them to make purchasing decision. In addition, it is necessary for organizations to focus on the content of advertising messages, and to repeat them periodically, taking into account the renewal of content from time to time. They should also select effective ways to post their advertisements, especially on social media platforms in different times.

Pouya Zargar, Arman Sousan, Panteha Farmanesh

The huge growth in economies of Dubai during the past few decades requires a high level of leadership and management. Leaders who act as a mere management representative and are not able to perform in various styles cannot be effective. For a leader to show ineffectiveness means distrust, which lowers the satisfaction of a population in different aspects. Hence leadership and trust are topics that require further examination. This study tries to determine the interaction among servant leadership (SL) and job satisfaction (JS) while utilizing the trust degree in leader (TIL) as a mediator factor between leadership approach and level of satisfaction in job. The research was conducted on 260 employees in four different hotels in Dubai (Jood Plaza, Sadaf Delmon, Ibis International and Address hotel). Correlation analyses have shown a positive and significant relationship between (SI), (JS) and trust. There is a large gap in the literature when it comes to the direct relationship of (SL) and (JS) in general, and this research hopes to fill the gap and enhance the achievement process for managerial level.

Thi Kim Yen Pham, Duc Cuong Pham

Applying Roger's Theory of Diffusion Innovation (1962) and Davis's Model of Technology Acceptance (1986) [Davis, F.D. (1986). A technology acceptance model for empirically testing new end user information systems: theory and results. Doctoral dissertation. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.], this study examines the factors that influence the decision-making of the enterprises in application of balanced scorecard (BSC) in Vietnamese hospitality firms. An analysis of 315 hotel managers indicates that managers' perceptions of usefulness and ability to acquire new knowledge significantly influence the decision to use the balanced scorecard in Vietnamese hospitality firms. The paper contributes lessons to literature and some valuable experiences of the BSC application to reality for not only firms in Vietnam but also the other business units in other countries.

Azman Ismail, Wan Aishah Wan Mohd Nowalid, Azmawaty Mohamad Nor

Career guidance and counselling and its numerous services are meant to address issues bordering on career development, social changes and challenges. One of the modern challenges and threats to effective functioning, productivity and efficient service delivery in organizations is rapid changes in the 21st century, which needs to be addressed headlong. By addressing the duo problem of organizational development and the human aspect of organization, career administration considers as expedient, having proactive individuals who assist in moving the organization forward. Proactive personality professionals achieve several desirable individual and organizational outcomes: objective career success, career satisfaction, job performance and organizational citizenship behavior, job satisfaction, affective commitment, taking charge and voice behavior which often are the central concern of every organization. This study examines the relationship between the career administration and proactive behavior. Self-report questionnaires are utilized to collect data from employees working at an oil and gas firm in West Malaysia. The results of SPSS program presented two essential outcomes: first, job autonomy was significantly correlated with proactive behaviour. Second, transformational leadership was significantly correlated with proactive behavior. This result demonstrates that career administration does act as an important determinant of proactive behavior in the studied organization. Additionally, discussion, implications and conclusion are elaborated.

Felicetta IOVINO

New two hour schedule tariffs were introduced on 1st July 2010 by AEEG. They distinguish use of electric energy between night and daylight hours and Sundays and public holidays, creating three different price bands (F1, F2, F3), thus eliminating one hour schedule tariff for the vulnerable customers. This study is proposed to understand the basic research problem “How much Italian energy companies have implemented relationship marketing and what are the characteristics of their marketing policies”. We suggest this approach increases competition which is the aim of liberalization processes. In fact, according to the principle of the “conservation of relationship energy”, an Uppsala model, relationship energy cannot be destroyed and it can only be transformed and transferred to other relationships, manifesting itself in a variety of ways. So if relationship marketing is better implemented switching increases but trade relationships can be reactivated at a later time by social links which continue during the time. To answer that question we compare the data of three recent researches that analyze switching energy supplier in Italy, the UK and State of Victoria in Australia.

Mahtab Hajghasem, Payam Makvandi, Seyed Shahrooz Seyedi Hosseininia

This paper presents an implementation of system dynamics model to determine appropriate product mix by considering various factors such as labor, materials, overhead, etc. for an Iranian producer of cosmetic and sanitary products. The proposed model of this paper considers three hypotheses including the relationship between product mix and profitability, optimum production capacity and having minimum amount of storage to take advantage of low cost production. The implementation of system dynamics on VENSIM software package has confirmed all three hypotheses of the survey and suggested that in order to reach better mix product, it is necessary to reach optimum production planning, take advantage of all available production capacities and use inventory management techniques.

Cristina COTOCEL, Bogdan GRIGORAŞ, Constantin FLOREA et al.

This article is an analysis of how the overall Romania targets relate to EU development strategy Europe 2020 on each of the five major objectives set by the European Commission. The main objective of this document is to study development indicators presented by our country by 2013 compared to those assumed by the other EU countries. Based on this analysis and Relating to the observations and recommendations made by the EU for 2015 will pursue active management plans to achieve the 2020 targets set by Romania on the five major objectives of development. According to data available on 15 March 2014 and presented in the National Reform Programme 2014 of the Government Romania's chances to reach the targets are quite low, reducing the difference between the current and proposed situation may be possible through the development of a management focused on strategic diagnostics of each target both internally and externally its environment .

Hossein Ebrhaimzadeh Asmin, Fereydoun Agdam Bibabaie, Majid Davodi et al.

One of the most important issues in urban planning programs is to allocate necessary spaces for educational applications. Selecting appropriate locations for training centers increases students' mental capabilities. Suitable location for the establishment of educational facilities is the first fundamental step for development of educational systems. The selection of optimal sites for educational facilities involves numerous parameters and it is essential to use multiple criteria decision making approaches to make wise decisions. This paper presents an empirical investigation on facility layout planning for educational systems in city of Birjand, Iran. Using fuzzy GIS as well as analytical hierarchy process (AHP), the study determines the most appropriate candidates for training centers.

Narges Shahi, Ali Haroun Abadi, Hadi abooei mehrizi

There is an increasing need for enterprise architecture in numerous organizations with complicated systems with various processes. Support for information technology, organizational units whose elements maintain complex relationships increases. Enterprise architecture is so effective that its non-use in organizations is regarded as their institutional inability in efficient information technology management. The enterprise architecture process generally consists of three phases including strategic programing of information technology, enterprise architecture programing and enterprise architecture implementation. Each phase must be implemented sequentially and one single flaw in each phase may result in a flaw in the whole architecture and, consequently, in extra costs and time. If a model is mapped for the issue and then it is evaluated before enterprise architecture implementation in the second phase, the possible flaws in implementation process are prevented. In this study, the processes of enterprise architecture are illustrated through UML diagrams, and the architecture is evaluated in programming phase through transforming the UML diagrams to Petri nets. The results indicate that the high costs of the implementation phase will be reduced.

N. Herzberg, A. Meyer

Shirindokht habibzadeh, Sofia heidari kamroudi, Asieh Ramezany et al.

During the past few years, there have been some changes on traditional training methodologies in the world, specially, in elementary schools. Many schools have decided to perform their assessments in elementary schools based on qualitative methods compared with traditional quantitative techniques. This paper performs an empirical investigation to find out whether the new evaluation technique has been able to improve student teacher’s cognitive abilities and skills on evaluation of academic achievement practices. These student-teacher people taught at elementary schools while they also were studying at university. There are two types of questionnaires: The first one measures cognitive capabilities in four categories including levels of learning and educational objectives, designing paper and pencil test, functional test design and analysis and interpretation of results. The second test is associated with measuring functional skills in the evaluation of academic progress. The information were analyzed based on t-student test as well as two-way analysis of variance. The result of t-statistics was significant only for the last item, analysis and interpretation. In addition, the results of ANOVA test have indicated that there were some differences on cognitive capabilities between two methods of assessments but gender did not make any meaningful difference on functional skills.

Ali Akbar Aminbeidokhti, Seyyed Abdollah Heydariyeh, Jalil Abedini

Structure analysis plays an important role on increasing the efficiency of banking industry. A change in structure of business in this industry could change the profitability, significantly. The proposed study of this paper aims at structural analysis and comparative advantages for a governmental bank in a province of Semnan, Iran called Melli bank. The proposed study considers the effectiveness of four saving plans including current, loaned with no interest, short and long term based in three periods. It applies the change of location-share model, which includes provincial growth influence, structural growth and competitive growth as the determinant variables in saving rate. Findings indicate the disproportionate growth of saving rate in the Melli bank toward the other banks of the province in every 3 terms of the study. The research results show that short time saving in 2001 and 2004, loaned without interest and short term savings in 2001 and 2008, loaned without interest and long term savings in 2004 and 2008 had negative structural changes which indicate that the combination of discussed saving wasn’t desirable, but other savings benefits of desirable combination.