Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences RSS feedThis is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.

Roadmap to Entrepreneurial University – Case study
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Ilie Mihai Taucean, Ana Gabriela Strauti, Monica TionAbstractThe paper discusses the entrepreneurial university as a trend in the development and transformation of higher education institutions (HEI). The debate is about the different possible approaches to entrepreneurship for HEIs, the reason, relevance and the importance of an entrepreneurial university, which are the entrepreneurship components and what are the mission, objectives, strategies needed to become an entrepreneurial university. A case study of a university is consi...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Using Six Sigma DMAIC to Improve the Quality of the Production Process: A Case Study
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Monika Smętkowska, Beata MrugalskaAbstractOver the last two decades there has been a growing awareness of the need to improve quality in the industrial sector. This paper presents how to implement the DMAIC cycle as an element of continuous improvement in practice. In order to achieve it, the problem of quality and quality improvement is widely discussed. Based on the recognized problem in the organization, an analysis with the application of DMAIC is done. The propositions of improvements, which can be implemented in the organiz...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

EMS Exploratory Analysis in Order to Improve its Integration Quality through Fractal Design
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Ionuţ Viorel HerghiligiuAbstractThe organizations’ need to satisfy consumers’ demand often generates various environmental negative impacts caused by delayed responses to different environmental issues. Therefore it is necessary that this relation between organizations and environment be effectively managed. This can be done only by implementing and integrating an Environmental management system (EMS). Likewise analyzing this issue through another perspective, the EMS can be considered as a hierarchical management system – ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Quality Management in Cloud Services using Remote Assistance – a Literature Review
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Unguraş Dorian, Mirabela GasparAbstractCloud computing is today's edge of ICT, being present in quite all fields of economy, society and human life: education, medicine, industry, communication, etc., offering services and applications that are used daily by everyone connected to the internet. The quality of these services is a cutting subject for all stakeholders. This paper synthesizes some relevant researches focusing on quality management approaches in software services using remote assistance as tool and cloud as support of ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Defining Strategic Quality Directions based on Organisational Context Identification; Case Study in a Software Company
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Mirabela Luciana Gaspar, Sorin Gabriel Popescu, Mihai Dragomir, Dorian UngurasAbstractIn a dynamic business environment, the organizational approach on quality should include its ability to adapt to the continuously changing requests of this environment. The changes brought by ISO 9001-2015 international standard require, from the companies that want to implement it, an effort of knowing and integrating the new philosophy promoted by this version in the organization's business processes and in its quality management system. The pr...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Competitive Challenge of Controlling
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Valerian Laval, Petru ŞtefeaAbstractThe complexity of today's business increases and, correspondingly, the requirements for decision support increase. A traditional supplier of top management decision support is the controlling function. However, when controlling struggles to meet the increased requirements, the influence of controlling on top management decisions can get marginalized and eventually vanishes. This paper analyses this observation based on recent surveys and statistics and suggests solutions to master the “compet...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Study on the Policy of Renewing Product Testing Equipment to Enhance Competitiveness
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Andreea Bejinariu, Adrian Mateescu, Corina DufourAbstractThe paper aims to analyze the need for change management strategy development in case of an organization wishing to replace its existing test equipment (software products) with newer and more advanced products. This has a positive impact both from the financial perspective and in terms of quality improvement of the product if the change situation is analyzed in the context of a related investment project implementation. With the increasing level of product complexity, there ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Is the Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) a predictor for the Cultural Intelligence (CQ)?
This study identifies and measures the intensity between OCB (including its components) and Cultural Intelligence (CQ), links. The results obtained, highlight the existence of some influences of the OCB components, on CQ, but the intensity of the influences is weak. In this situation, OCB can’t be considered a CQ predictor. Research limits– Our study research are available only on the analysed sample. To increase the results applicability, we consider as necessary an extension of the sample, by including foreign students that learn in the Romanian academic environment. Practical Involvement– Our final goal is to boat...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Assessment of the Dynamics and Structure of the Romanian Social Economy
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Mihaela Brindusa Tudose, Bogdan RusuAbstractThe current paper contributes to the debate on social economy by highlighting the significance of the legal framework in the correct assessment of the structure and dynamics of the social economy of a country, providing evidence for Romania. The study presents the real dimension of Romanian social economy in the light of the new laws in the field and reveals the social enterprises’ profile. Findings show that, two years after the legal framework of the social enterprise and one year af...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Are National Cultures Changing? Evidence from the World Values Survey
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Mirabela-Constanţa Matei, Maria-Madela AbrudanAbstractThe aim of this paper is to analyze from a quantitative standpoint the stability of the concept of ‘national culture’. In this respect, we analyzed whether significant changes in people's perception have occurred in the past 25 years in different national cultures. A longitudinal study based on data provided by World Values Survey and European Values Survey was conducted. 13 countries were selected. One of the main research findings is that some national cultures are more ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Peculiarities of the Adherence and Identification as Components of the Organizational Culture of Modern University
This article is devoted to the results of the study on the adherence and identification as components of the organizational culture of the modern university. The empirical data obtained by the authors of the article on to the survey of the employees and students of the university proves that the organizational culture of the modern university has distinctive features in different groups of employees and students, and is characterized by different levels of the adherence and identification. Thus, the high level of the adherence and identification is formed in the clan and adhocratic culture, and the domination of the bureau...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Responsible Management and Challenges of Inclusion in Multicultural School Environment in Slovenia
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Nada Trunk Širca, Valerij Dermol, Anica Novak Trunk, Aleš TrunkAbstractEducation is a vital part of any social cohesion agenda because educational outcomes affect all dimensions of the social cohesion triangle (social inclusion – social capital – social mobility). In this paper, we are focusing on the integration of Roma and migrant children in schools and the activation of youth to help as volunteers. Although diversity is an opportunity to make schools more inclusive, creative and open-minded, inequality in education is hi...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Maximizing the Value of a Company through the Financial Decision using the Genetic Algorithms Method
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Monica Bogdan, Cristina Feniser, Florin LunguAbstractAt the level of an economic entity, a manager is confronted with three main categories of decisions: investment decisions, financing decisions and profit allocation decisions. The first category of decisions is closely tied to financing decisions.Financing decisions do not just represent allocation of capital, but it is also a useful activity in a certain segment of the market, using material resources and hiring human resources in order to obtain superior results.Financing deci...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Study of the Tax Wedge in EU and other OECD Countries, Using Cluster Analysis
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Claudia Florina Radu, Cristina Fenişer, Klaus Bruno Schebesch, Florin Fenişer, Florin Marian DobreaAbstractOur paperwork seeks to analyze the difference between the labor cost and the net wage (representing labor tax wedge) in correlation with the unemployment rate and employment rate, as the idea that a high labor cost produces distortions in the labor market is widely accepted. With this purpose in mind, we used the hierarchical cluster analysis on a sample of 41 countries (being about OECD and EU countries). Following this an...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Implementation of the Comfortable Investment Environment on the Basis of the Effectiveness Assessment of the Corporation
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): I. Kapkaev, D. SorokinAbstractThe issues of formation of corporate control and management have always been at the center of studies by both theorists and representatives of the real sector of economy, which is due to the importance of the corporate sector for the national economy. But on the other hand, the constant interest in the topic is fueled by the contradictions and dualism in theoretical works. The article is proposed as a review paper devoted to the research problems of the efficiency of the corporation's capital concentr...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research