CONCEPTUAL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF PROBLEM-BASED AND PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION

The paper deals with conceptual students’ perception of problem-based learning and project-based learning in a higher education institution. Nowadays students have a different lifestyle, various opportunities to study and different learning habits, so traditional learning does not satisfy them. Teachers must look for more modern ways to transfer the information and to explain the topics and issues. And some of these ways are problem-based learning and project-based learning methods. The authors of the paper carried out the research, assessing the students’ point of view on these modern ways of learning. The research methods: literature analysis and comparative method, which allowed to clarify and to compare the differences of problem-based and project-based learning, and the questionnaire to get the students’ opinion about these methods used in a higher education institution

IMPROVEMENT OF OPERATIONAL PROCESSES BY ENSURING WORK SAFETY IN PRODUCTION

the article analyzes the improvement of operational processes by ensuring the safety of work in production. The problem raised in the research: how to ensure work safety by improving the company's operational processes in production? The object of work is the possibilities of improving operational processes by ensuring work safety. The aim of the work is to analyze the possibilities of improving operational processes by ensuring work safety in production. Job objectives: to analyze the possibilities of improving operational processes by ensuring work safety from a theoretical aspect; to investigate the possibilities of improving operational processes by ensuring work safety in the production company; prepare a plan for the improvement of operational processes by ensuring work safety in production. Research methods: analysis of scientific literature and other informational sources; data collection and systematization method; descriptive analysis method used to report research data; the summarization method is used to evaluate the results of the analysis; the research uses data analysis and observation method.After conducting the research and analyzing the measures applied in the operational processes, ensuring the safety of work in production, a plan for improving the operational processes was prepared and presented, which offers specific measures for increasing the efficiency of the processes and reducing the risk of accidents. The measures implementation plan is designed to solve existing problems in the company's operational processes, offering recommendations on how to reduce or completely eliminate accidents by ensuring work safety. The proposed plan will help minimize the risk of accidents at work by ensuring work safety in operational processes. The created plan for improving operational processes with measures by ensuring work safety and reducing the risk of accidents at work is universal and can be applied in other manufacturing companies that seek to improve operational processes by ensuring work safety

CRISIS DIAGNOSIS IN ANTI-CRISIS MANAGEMENT PROCESS IN A COMPANY

The relevance of the crisis situation diagnosis is confirmed by the diagnosis decisions designed and applied in the business practice, audit reports, bank assessment methods and company‘s own concernment. The aim of the research is to define crisis development stages and possible preventive means and to design the crisis diagnosis system in the anti-crisis management process in a company. The paper deals with four stages of crisis development: prodromal crisis (CP), acute crisis (CA), and chronic crisis (CC). Crisis resolution (CR) is the final goal of any crisis management. When a crisis is overcome, its performance stabilizes and a company starts to grow. Therefore, the main point in company’s management process is to notice the barrier when company’s performance starts going down, in order to foresee the result which can cause crisis situation in a company