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Solution to the issue of process management in this article was created from the original results... more Solution to the issue of process management in this article was created from the original results of the quantitative research evaluating aspects of process management in context of company strategies in Czech enterprises which was carried out in 2006 with regard to the extension of its further utilization. Followed by the interest of the professionals in practice the research continued and was re-implemented in 2012, with the interviews completed in 2013. The main goal was to assess how the usage of process management components has changed, as well as the aspects of process management, i.e., comprehensive views and statements on the issues of the management of business processes, namely goals, factors, components, support and benefits of the process management in the Czech Republic. New trends in process control are shown, especially the importance of basic documents in BPM projects, processing internal control documentation and the emergence of new standards in the BPM especially in production companies. To meet the goals of this article a new methodology is proposed for comprehensive processing and evaluation of similar quantitative surveys applicable to analysing the use of process management in enterprises, based not only on descriptive statistics but also cluster analysis and statistical induction methods
Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy
Research background: Transport represents a dynamic element in the tourism system. In recent deca... more Research background: Transport represents a dynamic element in the tourism system. In recent decades, transport has been a subject of research mainly from the point of view of the sustainability of the economic systems and the environmental aspects. Purpose of the article: This study aimed to quantify the relationships between the selected indicators of road transport development and the expenditure of tourism visitors in the selected European countries in the context of the development of their competitiveness. Methods: The road transport indicators were applied in the research trajectories: density of road (DNST), hare of road infrastructure investment (SH INF), share of motorways (SH MWY), and indicators of visitor expenditure for business (BTS), leisure (LTS), domestic (DTS) and foreign (VEFS) tourism. In the first phase of the analyses, the countries of the European part of the OECD (N = 27; period of 2010-2018) were divided into two clusters based on the development index (HDI...
DOKBAT 2022 - 18th International Bata Conference for Ph.D. Students and Young Researchers
Tacitní znalosti představují významný zdroj účinného jednání manažerů. Jsou vytvářeny a rozvíjeny... more Tacitní znalosti představují významný zdroj účinného jednání manažerů. Jsou vytvářeny a rozvíjeny na základě zkušeností jedinců z řešení profesních situací, úkolů a problémů. Předložená publikace je jedním z výstupů řešení projektu GAČR č. 406/08/0459 Rozvoj tacitních znalostí manažerů. V jednotlivých kapitolách této monografie jsou uvedeny příspěvky spoluřešitelů projektu, které uvádějí odpovědi na základní otázky, na které jsme v našem výzkumu hledali odpověď, jsou tacitní znalosti v práci manažera skutečně důležité; jak se projevuje vlastnictví tacitních znalostí v práci manažera, v jeho rozhodování; za jakých podmínek ovlivňují tacitní znalosti rozhodování manažera? Jak jej ovlivní; co nebo kdo přispívá ke zformování tacitních znalostí a jakým způsobem, za jakých podmínek, do jaké míry; co nebo kdo může bránit zformování tacitních znalostí a jakým způsobem, za jakých podmínek, do jaké míry; jak lze sdílet tacitní znalosti mezi manažery; lze vyjádřit tacitní znalosti manažerů pom...
Economic crises are unfortunately a fact of life. Roughly a century ago, the world-renowned busin... more Economic crises are unfortunately a fact of life. Roughly a century ago, the world-renowned businessman, shoemaker Tomas Baťa, faced an economic crisis on a grand scale. In response, Baťa designed and implemented a unique model of social engineering that led a local economy to unsurpassed productivity and competitiveness. He incorporated the principle of value over money, the education and training of his workers and the young, and cooperative responsibility into his model. This article discusses recent developments in the economy of the Czech Republic and the link between the Czech economy, Czech employers and their future workers. Bata´s model of social engineering is identified as a possible way out of the current economic crisis. Research conducted on a sample of present-day employers in the Czech Republic demonstrates how little attention is paid to students, thus diminishing the prospect of competitiveness.
Journal of Competitiveness, 2020
Prior literature has shown that corporate transparency is linked to a firm’s competitiveness. The... more Prior literature has shown that corporate transparency is linked to a firm’s competitiveness. The frequently noted vagueness and inadequacy of reported risk disclosures have been accompanied by calls for industry-specific studies. This paper aims to examine the disclosure informativeness of leading multinational automobile firms worldwide regarding firm-specific risks, namely company risk and company size. Applying a content analysis to examine the prevalent disclosure context in the automotive industry, we analyze and classify the annually reported risk statements of 34 multinationals quoted within the NASDAQ OMX Global Automobile Index. These corporations are headquartered in 10 countries, located in the U.S. as well as in the E.U. and in Asia. Based on an employed Wilcoxon signed rank test, our results show that automobile multinationals favor revealing fewer (more) forward-looking and bad-news risk disclosures as compared to past-looking and good-news risk statements. Our findin...
In the 2000s, Czech small and medium-sized enterprises faced competition in the new technologies ... more In the 2000s, Czech small and medium-sized enterprises faced competition in the new technologies and innovations associated with the implementation of the digital economy. Competitive advantages of the Czech economy based on cheap labor and low-cost production are in decline, and finding a new economic paradigm seems to be problematic. Our study has traced a significant degree of interaction between the structure of employee education and the sectoral classification of the company, with medium-high-tech, medium-low-tech and low-tech firms behaving differently from each other from the labor market perspective. Companies implement different strategies in terms of employee education as well as R&D. Thus far, Czech companies have focused mainly on the market follower approach, i.e., with little effort toward innovation. This conservative strategy brings lower risks but also lacks the high profit potential necessary to reach competitive advantages. In particular, the digitization of the midtech sector is crucial for the future growth of the Czech economy. The midtech sector possesses high potential for the development of new business opportunities if it can overcome its significant gap in the use of R&D, knowledge, and technology.
Solution to the issue of process management in this article was created from the original results... more Solution to the issue of process management in this article was created from the original results of the quantitative research evaluating aspects of process management in context of company strategies in Czech enterprises which was carried out in 2006 with regard to the extension of its further utilization. Followed by the interest of the professionals in practice the research continued and was re-implemented in 2012, with the interviews completed in 2013. The main goal was to assess how the usage of process management components has changed, as well as the aspects of process management, i.e., comprehensive views and statements on the issues of the management of business processes, namely goals, factors, components, support and benefits of the process management in the Czech Republic. New trends in process control are shown, especially the importance of basic documents in BPM projects, processing internal control documentation and the emergence of new standards in the BPM especially in production companies. To meet the goals of this article a new methodology is proposed for comprehensive processing and evaluation of similar quantitative surveys applicable to analysing the use of process management in enterprises, based not only on descriptive statistics but also cluster analysis and statistical induction methods
The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the current state of business cycle theory in strategi... more The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the current state of business cycle theory in strategic management in Czech enterprises and suggest a suitable implementation methodology of dynamic macroeconomics in practice. The need to include the knowledge of Czech market environment into business cycle forecast has been one of the driving forces behind this work. Another reason for having chosen this topic is connected with a minimum coverage of a proper know-how in Czech companies where strategic management forecasting is often neglected without any rational reason. The author considers application of macroeconomic theory of business cycle essential for the research of the implementation of key innovation. The dissertation will focus on describing and analyzing the implementation problems and subsequent utilization of business cycle theory. One of its outcomes should be the application on Czech conditions and also creation of the methodology of business cycle theory implementation in...
ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC, 2020
At present, public procurement processes and their efficiency represent one of the key determinan... more At present, public procurement processes and their efficiency represent one of the key determinants of public finance system. Many countries of the European Union work intensively on reforming public procurement processes. The main aim of public procurement is to create an open competition in order to achieve the most efficient use of public funds. The Slovak hospitals, that have been inefficiently managed in the long run, are the weakest segment of the healthcare system. Also, the public hospitals continue to generate substantial losses even if many reforms had been implemented to increase cost efficiency. However, medical debt consolidation did not help the hospitals to set optimal functioning of the economic processes in order to improve their management permanently. The primary aim of the study is to examine an impact of selected determinants on an efficiency of public procurement processes in the healthcare system of the Slovak Republic during the 2014 – 2017. The data were obt...
Administratie si Management Public, 2020
This article aims at anexaminationof the impact of the number of public procurement tenders in th... more This article aims at anexaminationof the impact of the number of public procurement tenders in the healthcare sector on the final purchase price. We used the data from 1544 public contracts related to the acquisition of health technologies for the years 2014-2017. The highest number of public contracts was reached at level of 501 in 2014, and the lowest number was 238 in 2017. The highest average value of estimated and final prices was found in 2015. The proportion of tenders submitted with only one tenderer was over 39 %. For the analysis, we used a generalized linear model and quantile regression. The results showed that, as the number of bids increased by one unit, the ratio of final and projected price on average would change 0.975 times, which means an increase in savings by 2.45%. Using quantile regression, we modelled the influenceof the explanatory variables on the individual quantiles of the explained variable instead of the conditional mean. The aim was to determine the impact of the number of proposals at everyovercharge level. As the order value of the quantile increases, the effect of offers on generating savings in public procurement is gradually decreasing. For more than 40 % of the most overpriced orders, the number of offers does not have a statistically significant effect on the size of the savings. With 25 % of the most economical orders with an increasing number of bids by one unit, savings of 4.77 % were achieved. However, increasing the number of procurement contracts to create savings in public procurement may develop differently over time. By applying the generalized linear model, we found that in 2014 the increase in the number of offers by one unit had an impact on the average increase in public procurement savings of 7.15 %. In 2015, this impact fell to 1.59 %. In 2016, the growth in the number of proposals did not have a statistically significant impact on the average increase or decrease in savings. In 2017, this value increased slightly above 1.96 %. Public acquisition processes will continue to be a critical pointfor the efficient allocation of public resources.
Change Management: An International Journal, 2013
Economic crises are unfortunately a fact of life. Roughly a century ago, the world-renowned busin... more Economic crises are unfortunately a fact of life. Roughly a century ago, the world-renowned businessman, shoemaker Tomáš Baťa, faced an economic crisis on a grand scale. In response, Baťa designed and implemented a unique model of social engineering that led a local economy to unsurpassed productivity and competitiveness. He incorporated the principle of value over money, the education and training of his workers and the young, and cooperative responsibility into his model. This article discusses recent developments in the economy of the Czech Republic and the link between the Czech economy, Czech employers and their future workers. Baťa's model of social engineering is identified as a possible way out of the current economic crisis. Research conducted on a sample of present-day employers in the Czech Republic demonstrates how little attention is paid to students, thus diminishing the prospect of competitiveness. © Common Ground, Martin Mikeska, All Rights Reserved
Contributions to Economics, 2016
Within the Czech Republic, the history of credit unions, savings and loan co-operatives and other... more Within the Czech Republic, the history of credit unions, savings and loan co-operatives and other types of credits and mutuals was very rich till the beginning of World War II. However, these days there are only a few “credit cooperatives/credit unions” left many of which are gradually changing under the Basel European regulations and the supervision of the Czech National Bank into banking institutions.
Export Date: 17 February 2015, Correspondence Address: Mikeska, M.; Department of Economics, Toma... more Export Date: 17 February 2015, Correspondence Address: Mikeska, M.; Department of Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic, References: Bata, J.A., Spolupráce: Výbor z článků a projevů v letech 1920-1936 (1936) Cooperation: Selection of Articles and Speeches in the Years 1920-1936, , Zlín: Tisk;
This article presents an original portal solution that begins to significantly contribute to incr... more This article presents an original portal solution that begins to significantly contribute to increasing the employability of universities graduates specifically Tomas Bata University graduates in the labour market. It is a portal Kariera.utb.cz, developed more than 6 years to streamline the flow of information and reciprocal communication in the labour market. Our goal in using the portal is also supporting the competitiveness of Czech firms and companies through the development of close cooperation between employers, educational institutions and students already during their studies. To this goal, we also provide multimedia support and we popularize the achievements of Czech industry towards all users of the portal Kariera.utb.cz. This solution is built as an open social network that includes a small labour market. This small labour market is focused on a specific segment of students and graduates, within which the reciprocal symbiosis of several basic functions of the interest gro...
Conference code: 106715, Export Date: 17 February 2015, References: Alam, S.S., Abdullah, Z., Ish... more Conference code: 106715, Export Date: 17 February 2015, References: Alam, S.S., Abdullah, Z., Ishak, N.A., Zain, Z.M., Assessing Knowledge Sharing Behaviour among Employees in SMEs: An Empirical Study (2009) International Business Research, 2 (2), pp. P115;
The paper presents a statistical comparison of OECD member countries healthcare efficiency based ... more The paper presents a statistical comparison of OECD member countries healthcare efficiency based on chosen macroeconomics indicators. Such comparison is perceived as problematic due to numerous economic specifications of the countries under comparison. These countries historically consume a significant proportion of their GDP to ensure public health of their citizens. All present-day healthcare systems are based on the prerequisite of future prosperity, sustainable wages and demographic growth. These systems are efficient in the times of industrial development where long-term employment with high wages is reached. However, all OECD countries have recently found themselves in the economic stagnation, real wage slump and the demographic decline. Dropping income into healthcare systems along with the growing expenditures create high deficits of public and private finances. Such changes have raised a question of which of the present-day healthcare systems is economically the most efficient and sustainable in the long run. To compare chosen economic parameters statistical testing of the significance of differences among healthcare systems with one-way analysis of variance (one factor ANOVA) is used. When conditions for its use are not fulfilled (especially the homogeneity of variance), which is tested by Hartley test, an adequate non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test is applied. The paper suggests a conclusion that no major statistical dependence of the chosen macroeconomic aspects of various healthcare systems in the OECD countries exists
Solution to the issue of process management in this article was created from the original results... more Solution to the issue of process management in this article was created from the original results of the quantitative research evaluating aspects of process management in context of company strategies in Czech enterprises which was carried out in 2006 with regard to the extension of its further utilization. Followed by the interest of the professionals in practice the research continued and was re-implemented in 2012, with the interviews completed in 2013. The main goal was to assess how the usage of process management components has changed, as well as the aspects of process management, i.e., comprehensive views and statements on the issues of the management of business processes, namely goals, factors, components, support and benefits of the process management in the Czech Republic. New trends in process control are shown, especially the importance of basic documents in BPM projects, processing internal control documentation and the emergence of new standards in the BPM especially in production companies. To meet the goals of this article a new methodology is proposed for comprehensive processing and evaluation of similar quantitative surveys applicable to analysing the use of process management in enterprises, based not only on descriptive statistics but also cluster analysis and statistical induction methods
Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy
Research background: Transport represents a dynamic element in the tourism system. In recent deca... more Research background: Transport represents a dynamic element in the tourism system. In recent decades, transport has been a subject of research mainly from the point of view of the sustainability of the economic systems and the environmental aspects. Purpose of the article: This study aimed to quantify the relationships between the selected indicators of road transport development and the expenditure of tourism visitors in the selected European countries in the context of the development of their competitiveness. Methods: The road transport indicators were applied in the research trajectories: density of road (DNST), hare of road infrastructure investment (SH INF), share of motorways (SH MWY), and indicators of visitor expenditure for business (BTS), leisure (LTS), domestic (DTS) and foreign (VEFS) tourism. In the first phase of the analyses, the countries of the European part of the OECD (N = 27; period of 2010-2018) were divided into two clusters based on the development index (HDI...
DOKBAT 2022 - 18th International Bata Conference for Ph.D. Students and Young Researchers
Tacitní znalosti představují významný zdroj účinného jednání manažerů. Jsou vytvářeny a rozvíjeny... more Tacitní znalosti představují významný zdroj účinného jednání manažerů. Jsou vytvářeny a rozvíjeny na základě zkušeností jedinců z řešení profesních situací, úkolů a problémů. Předložená publikace je jedním z výstupů řešení projektu GAČR č. 406/08/0459 Rozvoj tacitních znalostí manažerů. V jednotlivých kapitolách této monografie jsou uvedeny příspěvky spoluřešitelů projektu, které uvádějí odpovědi na základní otázky, na které jsme v našem výzkumu hledali odpověď, jsou tacitní znalosti v práci manažera skutečně důležité; jak se projevuje vlastnictví tacitních znalostí v práci manažera, v jeho rozhodování; za jakých podmínek ovlivňují tacitní znalosti rozhodování manažera? Jak jej ovlivní; co nebo kdo přispívá ke zformování tacitních znalostí a jakým způsobem, za jakých podmínek, do jaké míry; co nebo kdo může bránit zformování tacitních znalostí a jakým způsobem, za jakých podmínek, do jaké míry; jak lze sdílet tacitní znalosti mezi manažery; lze vyjádřit tacitní znalosti manažerů pom...
Economic crises are unfortunately a fact of life. Roughly a century ago, the world-renowned busin... more Economic crises are unfortunately a fact of life. Roughly a century ago, the world-renowned businessman, shoemaker Tomas Baťa, faced an economic crisis on a grand scale. In response, Baťa designed and implemented a unique model of social engineering that led a local economy to unsurpassed productivity and competitiveness. He incorporated the principle of value over money, the education and training of his workers and the young, and cooperative responsibility into his model. This article discusses recent developments in the economy of the Czech Republic and the link between the Czech economy, Czech employers and their future workers. Bata´s model of social engineering is identified as a possible way out of the current economic crisis. Research conducted on a sample of present-day employers in the Czech Republic demonstrates how little attention is paid to students, thus diminishing the prospect of competitiveness.
Journal of Competitiveness, 2020
Prior literature has shown that corporate transparency is linked to a firm’s competitiveness. The... more Prior literature has shown that corporate transparency is linked to a firm’s competitiveness. The frequently noted vagueness and inadequacy of reported risk disclosures have been accompanied by calls for industry-specific studies. This paper aims to examine the disclosure informativeness of leading multinational automobile firms worldwide regarding firm-specific risks, namely company risk and company size. Applying a content analysis to examine the prevalent disclosure context in the automotive industry, we analyze and classify the annually reported risk statements of 34 multinationals quoted within the NASDAQ OMX Global Automobile Index. These corporations are headquartered in 10 countries, located in the U.S. as well as in the E.U. and in Asia. Based on an employed Wilcoxon signed rank test, our results show that automobile multinationals favor revealing fewer (more) forward-looking and bad-news risk disclosures as compared to past-looking and good-news risk statements. Our findin...
In the 2000s, Czech small and medium-sized enterprises faced competition in the new technologies ... more In the 2000s, Czech small and medium-sized enterprises faced competition in the new technologies and innovations associated with the implementation of the digital economy. Competitive advantages of the Czech economy based on cheap labor and low-cost production are in decline, and finding a new economic paradigm seems to be problematic. Our study has traced a significant degree of interaction between the structure of employee education and the sectoral classification of the company, with medium-high-tech, medium-low-tech and low-tech firms behaving differently from each other from the labor market perspective. Companies implement different strategies in terms of employee education as well as R&D. Thus far, Czech companies have focused mainly on the market follower approach, i.e., with little effort toward innovation. This conservative strategy brings lower risks but also lacks the high profit potential necessary to reach competitive advantages. In particular, the digitization of the midtech sector is crucial for the future growth of the Czech economy. The midtech sector possesses high potential for the development of new business opportunities if it can overcome its significant gap in the use of R&D, knowledge, and technology.
Solution to the issue of process management in this article was created from the original results... more Solution to the issue of process management in this article was created from the original results of the quantitative research evaluating aspects of process management in context of company strategies in Czech enterprises which was carried out in 2006 with regard to the extension of its further utilization. Followed by the interest of the professionals in practice the research continued and was re-implemented in 2012, with the interviews completed in 2013. The main goal was to assess how the usage of process management components has changed, as well as the aspects of process management, i.e., comprehensive views and statements on the issues of the management of business processes, namely goals, factors, components, support and benefits of the process management in the Czech Republic. New trends in process control are shown, especially the importance of basic documents in BPM projects, processing internal control documentation and the emergence of new standards in the BPM especially in production companies. To meet the goals of this article a new methodology is proposed for comprehensive processing and evaluation of similar quantitative surveys applicable to analysing the use of process management in enterprises, based not only on descriptive statistics but also cluster analysis and statistical induction methods
The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the current state of business cycle theory in strategi... more The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the current state of business cycle theory in strategic management in Czech enterprises and suggest a suitable implementation methodology of dynamic macroeconomics in practice. The need to include the knowledge of Czech market environment into business cycle forecast has been one of the driving forces behind this work. Another reason for having chosen this topic is connected with a minimum coverage of a proper know-how in Czech companies where strategic management forecasting is often neglected without any rational reason. The author considers application of macroeconomic theory of business cycle essential for the research of the implementation of key innovation. The dissertation will focus on describing and analyzing the implementation problems and subsequent utilization of business cycle theory. One of its outcomes should be the application on Czech conditions and also creation of the methodology of business cycle theory implementation in...
ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC, 2020
At present, public procurement processes and their efficiency represent one of the key determinan... more At present, public procurement processes and their efficiency represent one of the key determinants of public finance system. Many countries of the European Union work intensively on reforming public procurement processes. The main aim of public procurement is to create an open competition in order to achieve the most efficient use of public funds. The Slovak hospitals, that have been inefficiently managed in the long run, are the weakest segment of the healthcare system. Also, the public hospitals continue to generate substantial losses even if many reforms had been implemented to increase cost efficiency. However, medical debt consolidation did not help the hospitals to set optimal functioning of the economic processes in order to improve their management permanently. The primary aim of the study is to examine an impact of selected determinants on an efficiency of public procurement processes in the healthcare system of the Slovak Republic during the 2014 – 2017. The data were obt...
Administratie si Management Public, 2020
This article aims at anexaminationof the impact of the number of public procurement tenders in th... more This article aims at anexaminationof the impact of the number of public procurement tenders in the healthcare sector on the final purchase price. We used the data from 1544 public contracts related to the acquisition of health technologies for the years 2014-2017. The highest number of public contracts was reached at level of 501 in 2014, and the lowest number was 238 in 2017. The highest average value of estimated and final prices was found in 2015. The proportion of tenders submitted with only one tenderer was over 39 %. For the analysis, we used a generalized linear model and quantile regression. The results showed that, as the number of bids increased by one unit, the ratio of final and projected price on average would change 0.975 times, which means an increase in savings by 2.45%. Using quantile regression, we modelled the influenceof the explanatory variables on the individual quantiles of the explained variable instead of the conditional mean. The aim was to determine the impact of the number of proposals at everyovercharge level. As the order value of the quantile increases, the effect of offers on generating savings in public procurement is gradually decreasing. For more than 40 % of the most overpriced orders, the number of offers does not have a statistically significant effect on the size of the savings. With 25 % of the most economical orders with an increasing number of bids by one unit, savings of 4.77 % were achieved. However, increasing the number of procurement contracts to create savings in public procurement may develop differently over time. By applying the generalized linear model, we found that in 2014 the increase in the number of offers by one unit had an impact on the average increase in public procurement savings of 7.15 %. In 2015, this impact fell to 1.59 %. In 2016, the growth in the number of proposals did not have a statistically significant impact on the average increase or decrease in savings. In 2017, this value increased slightly above 1.96 %. Public acquisition processes will continue to be a critical pointfor the efficient allocation of public resources.
Change Management: An International Journal, 2013
Economic crises are unfortunately a fact of life. Roughly a century ago, the world-renowned busin... more Economic crises are unfortunately a fact of life. Roughly a century ago, the world-renowned businessman, shoemaker Tomáš Baťa, faced an economic crisis on a grand scale. In response, Baťa designed and implemented a unique model of social engineering that led a local economy to unsurpassed productivity and competitiveness. He incorporated the principle of value over money, the education and training of his workers and the young, and cooperative responsibility into his model. This article discusses recent developments in the economy of the Czech Republic and the link between the Czech economy, Czech employers and their future workers. Baťa's model of social engineering is identified as a possible way out of the current economic crisis. Research conducted on a sample of present-day employers in the Czech Republic demonstrates how little attention is paid to students, thus diminishing the prospect of competitiveness. © Common Ground, Martin Mikeska, All Rights Reserved
Contributions to Economics, 2016
Within the Czech Republic, the history of credit unions, savings and loan co-operatives and other... more Within the Czech Republic, the history of credit unions, savings and loan co-operatives and other types of credits and mutuals was very rich till the beginning of World War II. However, these days there are only a few “credit cooperatives/credit unions” left many of which are gradually changing under the Basel European regulations and the supervision of the Czech National Bank into banking institutions.
Export Date: 17 February 2015, Correspondence Address: Mikeska, M.; Department of Economics, Toma... more Export Date: 17 February 2015, Correspondence Address: Mikeska, M.; Department of Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic, References: Bata, J.A., Spolupráce: Výbor z článků a projevů v letech 1920-1936 (1936) Cooperation: Selection of Articles and Speeches in the Years 1920-1936, , Zlín: Tisk;
This article presents an original portal solution that begins to significantly contribute to incr... more This article presents an original portal solution that begins to significantly contribute to increasing the employability of universities graduates specifically Tomas Bata University graduates in the labour market. It is a portal Kariera.utb.cz, developed more than 6 years to streamline the flow of information and reciprocal communication in the labour market. Our goal in using the portal is also supporting the competitiveness of Czech firms and companies through the development of close cooperation between employers, educational institutions and students already during their studies. To this goal, we also provide multimedia support and we popularize the achievements of Czech industry towards all users of the portal Kariera.utb.cz. This solution is built as an open social network that includes a small labour market. This small labour market is focused on a specific segment of students and graduates, within which the reciprocal symbiosis of several basic functions of the interest gro...
Conference code: 106715, Export Date: 17 February 2015, References: Alam, S.S., Abdullah, Z., Ish... more Conference code: 106715, Export Date: 17 February 2015, References: Alam, S.S., Abdullah, Z., Ishak, N.A., Zain, Z.M., Assessing Knowledge Sharing Behaviour among Employees in SMEs: An Empirical Study (2009) International Business Research, 2 (2), pp. P115;
The paper presents a statistical comparison of OECD member countries healthcare efficiency based ... more The paper presents a statistical comparison of OECD member countries healthcare efficiency based on chosen macroeconomics indicators. Such comparison is perceived as problematic due to numerous economic specifications of the countries under comparison. These countries historically consume a significant proportion of their GDP to ensure public health of their citizens. All present-day healthcare systems are based on the prerequisite of future prosperity, sustainable wages and demographic growth. These systems are efficient in the times of industrial development where long-term employment with high wages is reached. However, all OECD countries have recently found themselves in the economic stagnation, real wage slump and the demographic decline. Dropping income into healthcare systems along with the growing expenditures create high deficits of public and private finances. Such changes have raised a question of which of the present-day healthcare systems is economically the most efficient and sustainable in the long run. To compare chosen economic parameters statistical testing of the significance of differences among healthcare systems with one-way analysis of variance (one factor ANOVA) is used. When conditions for its use are not fulfilled (especially the homogeneity of variance), which is tested by Hartley test, an adequate non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test is applied. The paper suggests a conclusion that no major statistical dependence of the chosen macroeconomic aspects of various healthcare systems in the OECD countries exists