University Students’ Personal and Professional Development: The Socio-Cultural Environment Effect

AbstractTaking into account the role of socio-cultural environment in human development, the paper focuses on examining university students’ subjective evaluation of their local settings in the context of basic values realizability. Being one of the main factors of human behaviour and activity, basic values from this perspective can be viewed as an indicator of the socio-cultural environment potential. The study presented involved methods of exploring one's personal potential, career orientations and subjective evaluation of basic values realizability in the local settings. The results obtained are discussed in terms of university students’ personal and professional development

Development of Cost Analysis Process based on the Supply Chain Strategy

Abstract— This paper discusses the methodology of research and development costs analysis through the supply chain management. Peculiarities of costs formation at early stages of development life cycle are defined, aims and tasks of analysis, method of cost budget analysis in terms of responsibility centers, individual projects and cost items are disclosed. The supply chain management discipline suggests that information sharing is paramount when attempting to achieve cost reductions and quality improvements. Factors have been identified and impact of such factors on costs assessed. Special attention is devoted to the ratio between costs and results and to the ratio between costs and work duration. The analysis of plan and fact costs of separate projects is carried out in supply chain process and by examples of projects creation is considered. Besides that, the algorithm of average costs estimation through the determination of dependence between costs and work duration are presented by formula. The research identifies a theoretical model that can be used to explain the relationships and themes associated with supply chain costing and strategic decision making. Evidence suggests that there is some movement to implement managerial accounting techniques within these two industries to capture supply chain costing information. The results of this study allow to make decisions by supply chain managers for increasing of research and development work efficiency and for cost reduction

An educational technology for developing professionally-oriented EFL communicative competence: its acmeological potential

AbstractThis paper addresses the problem of creating effective educational technologies aimed at developing university students’ professionally-oriented EFL communicative competence in research-oriented higher educational settings. Two techniques (mini-research and individual educational trajectory), being actional components of the educational technology developed, were analyzed from the acmeological potential perspective based on the study undertaken. The study participants were undergraduates and master's students majoring in non-language-related fields