Today, nurses required additional technical skills to use new technology and apparatus (e.g. imagistic apparatus, scanners or screenings, etc.) but also, abilities to perform specific duties to their profession (e.g. calculating drug dosages, medication administration, gastric tube insertion,...

The aim of this paper is to present an opportunity for improving leadership in sustainability and/or management for sustainability by green skills/competencies development in the case of Romanian managers. Through the designed training and certification program, managers will develop their...

In this paper we analyse the possible effects of social media on both, individuals and the society as a whole. First we illustrate the current situation of social media in terms of facts and figures before we deepen selected aspects of new forms of virtual interaction. With a specific focus on...

In any organization, proper management is the key to success. This concept is critical from the largest multi-national corporation to the smallest family-owned business. Understanding the principles and elements of management is necessary for any organization to survive a globalized economy....

Despite the fact that over the recent years, a rapidly growing body of research has focused on human capital development, we still know little about factors that arouse employees’ motivation to undertake development activities. The study investigates the role of positive orientation in...

The systematic improvement of the quality of life is one of the key objectives of the EU’s cohesion policy for 2014-2020. The condition for the policy implementation is to improve the competence potential of human resources. This process can be smoother with the use of information and...

In this article we focus on and estimate the development of two key competences: self-initiative and entrepreneurship among high school pupils in their final year within the Savinja region. It is important that the approach and the method of learning in schools enable the acquisition of these...

This position paper presents an outline for a research programme for the lectorate in Differentiated Human Resource Management (DHRM) of the Centre of Applied Research (CAREM), part of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. It addresses the theme of ‘learning and...

The organizations analyzed in the paper, are public serving nonprofit organizations. Empirical evidence is based on the (earlier and present) research of the research team of the University of Pécs Hungary. Earlier research involves the European Capital of Culture project, the recent research,...

The development of lifelong and lifewide learning dimensions represents the key element for the promotion of a learning society through the access to new and improved basic skills for all, innovation in teaching and learning, guidance and counselling and the possibility of learning in structures...