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Kurzfassung: Die vorliegende Untersuchung untersucht die Auswirkungen
der Dauer eines Auslandsaufenthaltes von Studierenden sowie von arbeitsbezogenen Persönlichkeitsfaktoren und Charakteristika auf die interkulturelle Kompetenz und die Integration der Teilnehmer. Die Untersuchung erfolgte in Form einer korrelativen Querschnittstudie. Insgesamt 202 Probanden mit akademischer Ausbildung wurden untersucht. Es wurden die interkulturelle Kompetenz, Persönlichkeitsmerkmale und arbeitsbezogene Einstellungen gemessen, sowie demographische Faktoren des Auslandsaufenthaltes und die Integration in die Zielkultur. Es gibt einen positiven Zusammenhang zwischen der Dauer von Auslandsaufenthalten und kognitiver, motivationaler und verhaltensbezogener interkultureller
Kompetenz.
Aims: This study examines the relationship between the time, students spent abroad, personality traits and circumstances during this time with the student’s intercultural competence and integration performance in the target culture. Design and sample: The study had a correlative cross-sectional design. 202 academic subjects were surveyed. The average age was 22 years. There was one measuring time, to which 58 % of the participants stated that they have had a stay abroad. Measurements: Metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioural intercultural competence were measured with the Cultural Intelligence Scale. The personality traits involvement, discipline, social competence, cooperation, dominance and stability were captured with the "Bochum inventory for job-related personality description-6F". Work-related attitudes as patterns of behaviour and experience were measured using the "Work-related Behaviour and Experiencing Pattern 44" (Geman: Arbeitsbezogene Verhaltens- und Erlebensmuster; AVEM). In addition, the demographic factors and characteristics of stays abroad as well as the integration into the target culture based on the Sociocultural Adaption Scale were examined. The data was tested for relationships and differences by tests for mean differences, variance and regression analyses. Results: There was a positive correlation between duration and cognitive, motivational and behavioural intercultural competence. The motivational competence is higher in subjects who have no risk pattern in the AVEM. The different types of competence influence each other at diverse times. Moreover, the suggested structural equation model could be confirmed. This showed the effect of the AVEM pattern on intercultural competence, moderated by the stay abroad and the social competence.
The central aim of the investigation at hand is to deal with the problem areas of Human Resource Management, which arise by demographic changes and migration. The paper focuses on mutual relationships. Managers and human resource managers are considered as multipliers. Older employees, migrants and women are important potential. Therefore, following research questions have been investigated: Which competences are necessary to promote to recognise the potential of migrants correctly and to promote them? Do the multipliers have to be more sensitized for the issue diversity? Do they have to develop specific competences to make the system more permeable and to make the entry and promotion of migrants possible? Which competences should be promoted to increase the sensitivity for diversity? The questions were examined by a qualitative investigation to develop hypotheses for a quantitative study. Overall, 30 interviews with managers, human resource managers and diversity representatives of the large DAX companies were conducted. Furthermore, 17 employees with immigration background and 15 employees without an immigration background were interviewed. The data was transcribed and analysed by the qualitative content analysis according to Mayring (2010). Comparative analyses were made with single items with Likert Scales. The investigation of managers and employees is a highly diversified issue. Therefore, the main focus of the project lays on the problem areas, conflicts and competences of human resources managers in demographic-sensitive personnel management. In comparison, employees with and without an immigration background were asked. The results show an interesting field of tension between self-perception and perception of others and the assessment of the relevance of diversity attitudes and measures, competences and their implementation. Furthermore, a contrary perception regarding strains and stresses of person with and without immigration background is determined, which is developed in the consequences of migrations stress and experiences of discrimination. The results indicate the need of promotion of competences, especially regarding intercultural competence. A critical analysis of the results will be presented.
Sustainability is a growing megatrend in our society entailing an increasing importance of sustainable consumption. Consumers associate sustainable products with ecological and regional production including a high credibility. In order to take advantage of this trend manufacturers of sustainable foods must communicate the sustainability of their products via packaging and displays at the point of sale. The objective of this article is to examine how the design of display elements succeeds in conveying sustainability for a new organic juice. In addition, the perception of individual design elements of sustainable products is determined. To this end, a field study was carried out in a supermarket combining eye-tracking technology with a survey of 32 customers. At the entrance, customers were asked to buy a variety of the newly introduced "Emsländer" organic juice, and then participate in the survey. The results demonstrate that customers with a positive attitude towards sustainable food fixate individual display elements referring to sustainability components for longer and remember product features better. Hence, the positive attitude towards sustainable food results in a higher visual attention at the point of sale. These findings provide recommendations for the design of the display.
Background: We see a growing number of older adults receiving long-term care in industrialized countries. The Healthcare Utilization Model by Andersen suggests that individual need characteristics influence utilization. The purpose of this study is to analyze correlations between need characteristics and service utilization in home care arrangements.
Methods: 1,152 respondents answered the questionnaire regarding their integration of services in their current and future care arrangements. Care recipients with high long-term care needs answered the questionnaire on their own, the family caregiver assisted the care recipient in answering the questions, or the family caregiver responded to the questionnaire on behalf of the care recipient. They were asked to rank specific needs according to their situation. We used descriptive statistics and regression analysis.
Results: Respondents are widely informed about services. Nursing services and counseling are the most used services. Short-term care and guidance and training have a high potential for future use. Day care, self-help groups, and mobile services were the most frequently rejected services in our survey. Women use more services than men and with rising age utilization increases. Long waiting times and bad health of the primary caregiver increases the chance of integrating services into the home care arrangements.
Conclusion: The primary family caregiver has a high impact on service utilization. This indicates that the whole family should be approached when offering services. Professionals should react upon the specific needs of care dependents and their families.
Hintergrund und Fragestellung: Die Pflege eines schwerpflegebedürftigen Angehörigen stellt eine häufig längerfristige und in vielerlei Hinsicht herausfordernde Aufgabe dar. Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Kenntnis, der Nutzung und dem Potenzial von zwei Angeboten, die Erholungszeiten für Angehörige ermöglichen: der Tages- und der Kurzzeitpflege. Aktuell ist ein Anstieg der Nutzung dieser Unterstützungsangebote zu verzeichnen. Die Fragestellung ist, welches Angebot wie von Schwerpflegebedürftigen und ihren Familien angenommen wird und welche Faktoren die Entscheidung zur Nutzung der Tages- oder Kurzzeitpflege beeinflussen. Methode: Grundlage für die Analyse sind Primärerhebungsdaten aus dem Gesundheitsmonitor. Neben einer deskriptiven Analyse werden logistische Regressionen verwendet. Ergebnis: Jeder zweite Antwortende lehnt die Tagespflege ab, gleiches gilt für mehr als jeden Vierten in Bezug auf die Kurzzeitpflege. Die Kenntnis über die beiden Unterstützungs-angebote ist weit verbreitet. Das Potenzial beider Angebote übersteigt die bisherige Nutzung. Die Regressionen zeigen unter anderem, dass die Chance für die zukünftige Inanspruchnahme der Tages- und Kurzzeitpflege signifikant häufiger in den Pflegearrangements besteht, in denen der Gesundheitszustand des Angehörigen schlecht ist. Gleiches trifft für die bisherige Inanspruchnahme der Kurzzeitpflege zu.
Soziale Ungleichheit wird in Deutschland vor allem dann thematisiert, wenn es um Bildungschancen oder die Gewährleistung sozialer Grundsicherung geht. Politisch herrscht weitgehend Einigkeit darüber, dass in diesen Bereichen Handlungsbedarf besteht, um der Bevölkerung möglichst gleiche Lebensvoraussetzungen zu ermöglichen. Im Pflegesektor stehen entsprechende Überlegungen noch aus. Hier fehlt es an wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen zur Thematik. Der stetige Anstieg der Pflegebedürftigkeit wird eine Auseinandersetzung mit sozialer Ungleichheit in der Pflege jedoch notwendig machen, was die in diesem Beitrag vorgestellten Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Untersuchung auf der Basis von 16 Interviews mit Pflegekräften ambulanter Pflegedienste verdeutlichen. Das Ergebnis zeigt zum einen, dass sich viele pflegebedürftige Menschen zahlreichen Anforderungen stellen müssen, die allein kaum zu bewältigen sind und sie in eine sozial benachteiligte Lage drängen. Zum anderen nehmen ambulant Pflegende soziale Ungleichheit immer häufiger wahr, was sie nicht nur moralisch belastet, sondern auch ihren Arbeitsalltag negativ beeinflusst.
Report on visits in hospices located in Osnabrück/Germany and the Saint Cristopher’s Hospice in London/United
Kingdom; and present a discussion about the care mode. Methods: Experience report based on a post-doctoral research period
in Germany between November 2013 and October 2014, funded by the CAPES Foundation (Coordination for the Improvement of
Higher Education Personnel). Results: The structure, operation mode of the institutions and the main labor force were discussed,
especially the nursing staff and volunteers’ participation, the main care activities and challenges. These issues were very similar
at the hospices, highlighting the hospice responsible for spreading this moviment worldwide. Conclusion: The hospice may be
the place of death, but it provides a pleasant environment that preserves the person’s individuality and autonomy. It relies on the
participation of volunteers, dissemination of its idea and training programs, which ensure the strengthening of this movement.
Career Decisions of Indian Female Talent: Implications for Gender-sensitive Talent Management
(2020)
Purpose: Talent scarcity in emerging economies such as India poses challenges for companies,and limited labour market participation among well-educated women has been observed. The reasons that professionals decide not to pursue a further corporate career remain unclear. By investigating career decision making, this article aims to highlight (1) the contextual factors that impact those decisions, (2) individuals’ agency to handle them, and (3) the implications for talent management (TM).
Design/methodology/approach: Following a qualitative research design, computer-aided analysis was conducted on interviews with 24 internationally experienced Indian business professionals. A novel application of neo-institutionalism in the Indian context was combined with the family-relatedness of work decisions (FRWD) model.
Findings: Career decisions indicate that rebellion against Indian societal and family expectations is essential to following a career path, especially for women. TM as part of the current institutional framework serves as a legitimising façade veiling traditional practices that hinder females’ careers.
Research limitations: Interviewees adopted a retrospective perspective when describing their career decisions; therefore, different views might have existed at the moment of decision making.
Practical implications: Design and implementation of gender-sensitive TM adjusted to fit the specific Indian context can contribute to retaining female talent in companies and the labour market.
Originality/value: The importance of gender-sensitive TM can be concluded from an empirical study of the context-based career decision making of experienced business professionals from India. The synthesis of neo-institutionalism, the FRWD model and the research results provides assistance in mapping talent experiences and implications for overcoming the challenges of talent scarcity in India.
A recently published study of high temperature nitridation of iron chromium aluminum alloys (FeCrAl) at 900°C in N2–H2 has redundantly shown the formation of locally confined corrosion pockets reaching several microns into the alloy. These nitrided pockets form underneath chromia islands laterally surrounded by the otherwise protective alumina scale. Chromia renders a nitrogen‐permeable defect under the given conditions and the presence of aluminum in the alloy. In light of these findings on FeCrAl, a focused ion beam–scanning electron microscope tomography study has been undertaken on an equally nitrided FeNiCrAl sample to characterize its nitridation corrosion features chemically and morphologically. The alloy is strengthened by a high number of chromium carbide precipitates, which are also preferential chromia formation sites. Besides the confirmation of the complete encapsulation of the corrosion pocket from the alloy by a closed and dense aluminum nitride rim, very large voids have been found in the said pockets. Furthermore, metallic particles comprising nickel and iron are deposited on top of the outer oxide scale above such void regions.
Familienmitglieder sind zwar mit der fortgeschrittenen Brustkrebserkrankung von Frauen konfrontiert, jedoch sind sie auf andere Art und Weise betroffen, als die Patientinnen selbst. Die vorliegende Literaturstudie geht den Fragen nach, welchen Einfluss eine fortgeschrittene Brustkrebserkrankung auf das Familienleben hat, welche Bedürfnisse in Familien in diesem Zusammenhang entstehen und auf welche Ressourcen die Familien zurückgreifen. Die hier dargelegten Studien stellen die einzelnen Perspektiven eines – oder zweier Familienmitglieder dar, jedoch ist eine tiefergehende Reflexion über andere Personen, die an dem Prozess beteiligt sind, nur bedingt möglich. Allerdings verweisen die vorhandenen Ergebnisse darauf, dass die Krankheit eine dauerhafte Bedrohung für die betroffenen Familien darstellt. Der Umgang mit dieser Bedrohung in der Gegenwart und seine Projektion in die Zukunft, ist eines der wichtigsten Themen, mit denen sich die Familien konfrontiert sehen.
The accounting of small and medium enterprises is specific, compared to the accounting of large enterprises, for several reasons. First of all, lower business volume implies less demanding accounting in terms of less turnover and the number of accounts to be processed, lower financial reporting requirements, more favourable tax treatment is expected and the like. Practical experience in the years of application of EU-accounting directives, which represent the framework of financial reporting of companies at the EU level, pointed to certain difficulties or excessive administrative burden of small and medium enterprises in relation to the requirements for large companies and identified areas for improvement. The complexity of these regulations as well as problems in practical application have led to the need to develop and publish a revised single accounting directive (2013/34/EU). This Directive was primarily adopted with the aim of simplifying the accounting and financial reporting of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Today, it is common for small and medium-sized enterprises to go beyond the borders of one country. In the internationalization of business, SMEs face many challenges and potential barriers. First of all, it refers to financial, human and procedural barriers, but also to informational barriers related to regulations, rules and laws of other countries. Since the accounting and tax treatment of the same business transaction may differ between countries, it seems entirely justified to investigate whether there are differences in the regulation and regulation of the accounting system between the two countries. This paper compares the characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises’ accounting systems between two economically strongly connected countries, Germany and Croatia, which is the main goal of this paper. It is well known that financial reporting is a particularly important, final phase of accounting data processing. Namely, financial reporting system of these two countries is compared by using the method of comparison and classification analysis. The types and scope of financial statements have been defined and the content of financial statements that SMEs are obliged to compile and publish has been analysed. The paper pays additional attention to the analysis of similarities and differences between these two accounting regulations as well as current events in the implementation of the revised accounting directive into national legislation, especially in simplifying the financial reporting of the smallest, but numerically most represented micro enterprises. The important finding of the research show that some changes have been made but there is still room to improve accounting regulations for this segment of entrepreneurship.
Background
Against the background of a steadily increasing degree of digitalization in health care, a professional information management (IM) is required to successfully plan, implement, and evaluate information technology (IT). At its core, IM has to ensure a high quality of health data and health information systems to support patient care.
Objectives
The goal of the present study was to define what constitutes professional IM as a construct as well as to propose a reliable and valid measurement instrument.
Methods
To develop and validate the construct of professionalism of information management (PIM) and itsmeasurement, a stepwise approach followed an established procedure from information systems and behavioral research. The procedure included an analysis of the pertaining literature and expert rounds on the construct and the
instrument, two consecutive and comprehensive surveys at the national and international level, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses as well as reliability and validity testing.
Results
Professionalism of information management was developed as a construct consisting of the three dimensions of strategic, tactical, and operational IMas well as of the regularity and cyclical phases of IM procedures as the two elements of professionalism.
The PIM instrument operationalized the construct providing items that incorporated IM procedures along the three dimensions and cyclical phases. These procedures had to be evaluated against their degree of regularity in the instrument. The instrument proved to be reliable and valid in two consecutive measurement phases
and across three countries.
Conclusion
It can be concluded that professionalism of information management is a meaningful construct that can be operationalized in a scientifically rigorous manner. Both science and practice can benefit from these developments in terms of improved self-assessment, benchmarking capabilities, and eventually, obtaining a better understanding of health IT maturity.
Dieses Buch zeigt den Zusammenhang von zentralen Aufgabenfeldern einer agilen Unternehmensführung und einer strategisch gesteuerten internen Kommunikation auf. Die Autorinnen entwickeln die aktuelle Diskussion zur Managementfunktion der internen Kommunikation weiter, indem sie diese in das Konzept einer kommunikationszentrierten Unternehmensführung einordnen und zugleich Konzepte und Modelle anhand von Fallstudien veranschaulichen.
Mit der durchgängigen Theorie-Praxis-Reflexion schlägt das Buch eine Brücke zwischen reiner Praktikerliteratur und traditionellen akademischen Lehrbüchern. Es richtet sich gleichermaßen an Führungskräfte aus den Bereichen Unternehmensentwicklung, Recht und Compliance, Human Resources, Controlling und Kommunikationsmanagement sowie an Lehrende und Studierende dieser Fachrichtungen.
Der Inhalt
Einführung in die kommunikationsbasierte Managementlehre
Perspektiven der internen Kommunikation im Kontext agiler Unternehmensführung
Aufgabenfelder der Unternehmensführung und der Beitrag der internen Kommunikation: Ziele und Normen, Strategisches Controlling, Organisation, Innovationsmanagement, Change Management, Netzwerkmanagement, Krisenmanagement, Corporate Governance
Interne Kommunikation als Unternehmensführung: Ausblick auf die weitere Entwicklung
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation analysieren die Autoren die öffentliche Debatte um Chancen und Risiken von Big Data und diskutieren die konkreten Implikationen in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen. In einer repräsentativen Befragung vermessen sie das Wissen und die Einstellung der Bevölkerung zu Big Data. Im Ergebnis verhalten sich die Nutzer paradox, sorglos und besorgt zugleich. Gezeigt wird aber auch, an welchen Punkten die Bürger aufgeschlossen für einen neuen Umgang mit Big Data sind. Daten-Sharing, Open Data finden durchaus Akzeptanz, ebenso auch neue Muster für bestehende Branchen, jenseits der tradierten Vorstellungen.
Der Inhalt
Hindernisse und Lösungsangebote für eine Verständigung über den Umgang mit Massendaten
Big Data, Data Analytics und Smart Services rund um Wohnen, Gesundheit und Mobilität
Chancen und Risiken aus Sicht der Bürger
Big Data: Bürgerschreck und Hoffnungsträger!
Die Zielgruppen
Dozierende und Studierende der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Wirtschaftspsychologie, Soziologie, Jura und Digital Leadership
Praktikerinnen und Praktiker in IT, Versicherungswirtschaft, Politik und Journalismus
Die Autoren
Dr. Susanne Knorre ist Unternehmensberaterin und nebenberufliche Professorin für Kommunikationsmanagement an der Hochschule Osnabrück.
Horst Müller-Peters ist Professor für Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Technischen Hochschule Köln.
Dr. Fred Wagner ist Professor für Versicherungslehre an der Universität Leipzig.
Hedonism
(2009)