This chapter intends to explore the learning and development needs of Generation Y (Gen Y) as adult learners at the workplace. Gen Y is the current and dominant cohort of workforce. Managing Gen Y effectively and efficiently has puzzled many organizations. Gen Y workforce poses great challenges...

Managing infrastructure projects remains challenging, and especially large infrastructure projects are often criticised for cost overruns and time delays. With the help of controlling, a peculiarity of German-speaking countries, project management and thus project performance can be improved...

For a growing number of employers, understanding the needs and expectations of employees, especially those of Millennial generation, is crucial. The purpose of this research is to determine the gap between expectations and reality in the Latvian job market with a major focus on generational...

This chapter presents a systematic review of the literature about gamification studies in organizational behavior and human resources management that have been done so far. Although gamification became popular in the last decade, it is questionable whether it meets business goals or not. It is...

Professional burnout has been a growing problem not only for employees but also for their organizations, affecting the organizational costs as well as employee health and well-being. This chapter is based on the job demands-resources model of burnout which consists of two dimensions: exhaustion,...

Empirical papers on association between physical activity (PA) and professional burnout (PB) and work-related hazards (WRH) in a population of different working adults are still limited. The aim of this chapter is to characterize the level of habitual physical activity of academics working at...

Literature studies confirm that family-owned enterprises do pay attention to their stakeholders. This chapter explores the phenomenon of project risk culture in micro- and small businesses, which are owned by families. Special attention has been directed to the relationship between project risk...

The chapter aims to define and analyze the preconditions for attending to the global business social networks (BSNs) and to discover attitudes of business managers for participation in open-source business social networks (BSNs). The data for analysis are found by deep interview techniques...

The dynamic capabilities approach is nowadays one of most influential schools in management theory, and this approach calls for systematic reorganizing of company resources and processes due to changing competitive environment. In this chapter, we contribute to emerging knowledge on dynamic...

The aim of the study is to assess the role of English-language capabilities in leveraging career of a scholar whose first language is other than English and who faces challenges connected with contemporary expectations towards European scholars concerning publishing in top-tier English-language...