TRAININGS AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT AT TESCO IN SZEGED

One of the most important function of human resource management is doing the human resource planning (HRP). It means that effective HRP should result the right people doing the right things in the right place at precisely the right time. If HR-experts do not able to handle precisely this function a gap arises. The exact name of it is training gap. The essence of training gap that there is a difference between employee’s actual performance and employee’s desire performance. The main aim of training is to eliminate this kind of gap. In this paper I examine one of the multinational firms – this is TESCO in Szeged – how to eliminate the training gaps and how to do human resource development. I survey what kind of trainings and manager development does TESCO have.evaluation of employee performance, retail industry

Predicting the Future: Parental Progeny Investment in Response to Environmental Stress Cues

Environmental stressors can severely limit the ability of an organism to reproduce as lifespan is decreased and resources are shifted away from reproduction to survival. Although this is often detrimental to the organism’s reproductive fitness, certain other reproductive stress responses may mitigate this effect by increasing the likelihood of progeny survival in the F1 and subsequent generations. Here we review three means by which these progeny may be conferred a competitive edge as a result of stress encountered in the parental generation: heritable epigenetic modifications to nucleotides and histones, simple maternal investments of cytosolic components, and the partially overlapping phenomenon of terminal investment, which can entail extreme parental investment strategies in either cytosolic components or gamete production. We examine instances of these categories and their ability to subsequently impact offspring fitness and reproduction. Ultimately, without impacting nucleotide sequence, these more labile alterations may shape development, evolution, ecology and even human health, necessitating further understanding and research into the specific mechanisms by which environmental stressors are sensed and elicit a corresponding response in the parental germline

Social media and community volunteering

This seed project aimed to explore to what extent the transformative potentials of digital technologies, in particular social media, are being realised in relation to community volunteering. The project was funded by the Communities and Culture Network+ and Canterbury and Herne Bay Volunteer Centre was a project partner. The research explored how small non-profit organisations in the case study area of Canterbury district used social media for volunteering as well as how they have adopted the tools in general. The project also examined how audiences interpreted social media content about community volunteering. The following findings emerged from the study: • Resources, knowledge and perceived limitations are key factors that influence how and to what extent small non-profit organisations adopt social media; • Volunteering is not a key reason for using social media in small non-profit organisations, and if it is used for that purpose it is mainly seen as a recruitment tool; • Small non-profit organisations value social media for certain opportunities but they also see it as a source of additional pressure; • Audiences frame social media content about volunteering as advertisements. The research contributes to debates on the transformative potentials of social media especially in the context of community engagement and the non-profit sector. It also raises questions about how austerity measures and funding cuts in the third sector shape the adoption of social media in small NPOs

Local and community media in Europe. A comparative analysis of the media pluralism monitor data between 2020 and 2023

Local and community media have essential roles in a functioning democracy and in fostering inclusive communities. Over the past two decades, however, these sectors have encountered significant challenges due to digital transformation and economic downturns that have hindered their capacity to fulfil their political and social functions. This report offers a comparative analysis of key issues in local and community media across 27 EU member states and five candidate countries (Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey) based on data gathered as part of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) project by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the European University Institute between 2020 and 2023

The Tradeoff between Inflation and the Real Economy: Forward-Looking Behavior and the Inflation Premium

We use the inflation premium—the difference between nominal and real interest rates—as a proxy for expected inflation in the context of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve. Using data from inflation-indexed and nominal bonds we estimate a forward-looking Phillips curve for the United Kingdom over the period 1985-2004. The proposed model describes UK inflation dynamics considerably better than does the standard hybrid New Keynesian Phillips Curve under the assumption of rational expectations. In contrast with the findings in the rest of the literature we find that there still exists a tradeoff between inflation and the stance of the real economy, regardless of the empirical measure used. This relationship also persists in the period since the UK adopted inflation targeting as a framework for monetary policy.

Social media and journalism study 2013 - Sweden

This report is part of the wider 2013 social journalism study and reports specifically on Sweden. It suggests that journalists in Sweden are a moderately high user of social media, using it regularly for their work particularly for sourcing stories. Using cluster analysis the largest group is the Architects suggesting that journalism in Sweden is dominated by active social media users

Social media and journalism study 2013 - Finland

The 3rd annual Social Journalism Study, conducted by Cision and Canterbury Christ Church University, is charting the changes of how journalists and media professionals use social media for their work and in their communication with PR professionals. Since 2012 respondents show an increasing use of social media but in 2013 it is more evenly spread across all tools and the professional tasks journalists undertake in their work. Generally, views about social media are more positive and the perceived barriers are less. Unique to our research is the identification of ‘the Social Suspects’, a typology which groups journalists into five categories: Architects, Hunters, Observers, Promoters and Sceptics. These distinctive groups share certain behaviours and attitudes towards social media. In this report, we explore how Finnish journalists use social media, what factors influence their use, the knowledge they feel they have of the tools, and their attitudes about the impacts of social media on their working practices and their profession. This year’s study also looks at the role of social media in how PR practitioners and journalists communicate

Social Journalism Study 2013 - United Kingdom

The 3rd annual Social Journalism Study, conducted by Cision and Canterbury Christ Church University, is the latest instalment in our efforts to understand how journalists use social media for work and in their communication with PR professionals. Similar to previous years, the findings of this year’s study show that journalists are using a greater variety of social media tools and are increasingly reliant on social media for a variety of different tasks. Generally, views about the impacts of social media are positive, but journalists remain unsure whether these tools have made them more productive. Unique to our study is the identification of a typology which groups journalists into five categories according to particular patterns of social media practices and attitudes