Specific features of entrepreneurial departments management in Russian companies

The topic is considered to be relevant due to the fact that entrepreneurship is necessary for the businesses survival and development worldwide, including Russia, and today some Russian companies are adapting their economies to the more developed economic standards. The entrepreneurial format adoption is an important stage of development for possible changes and growth in the future. The aim of this research work is to analyze some approaches to the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, to determine some specific features of entrepreneurial departments, including in the context of the Russian business space, and to study specific characteristics of these departments management in Russian companies. The main methods used in the study are the theoretical materials analysis, as well as the analysis of statistical data in the study area, the method of expert judgments, the survey method. The research work included the study of Russian entrepreneurship experience, specific features of entrepreneurial departments. The specific features of the Russian entrepreneurship were identified during the own diagnostic research, as well as some entrepreneurial difficulties caused by the entrepreneurship. Identified due to this research peculiarities of Russian entrepreneurship and difficulties of this phenomenon development in the Russian business space will allow to develop the Russian entrepreneurial business model based on its specific characteristics. On the basis of the obtained data a special mechanism can be created for the support and development of intra-entrepreneurship departments within the overall entrepreneurship management mechanism in Russian companies, where the full range of necessary organizational and economic conditions, as well as the possibilities for entrepreneurial results assessment will be presented, combined with a complete list of tools to facilitate the emergence and development of intrarepreneurship in companies. © 2016 Troshina et al

Environmental risk to health of the population

Researches of the last years in the field of ecological epidemiology and the analysis of risk for health allow to claim with confidence that the polluted environment is one of the important factors defining changes of a state of health of the population. Expert opinions on the scale of this influence differ considerably now. These estimations vary from small shares of percent to several percent, reaching in some cases 30-50%. An attempt to elaborate economic approaches to a risk assessment to health of the population has been made in this work. The main reason which demands development of special approaches for an assessment of an environmental risk is that quantitative estimation of risk for health from environmental pollution is difficult to be realized. As a rule, population is affected by the whole set of the polluting substances from the atmosphere, drinking water, food, etc. For effective risk management it is necessary to assess and compare diverse risks caused by action of various pollutants coming to an organism in different ways. The stated methodical materials give an idea of possibility of the stage-by-stage multilevel risk analysis at the solution of environmental problems. Further comparative analysis connected with definition and comparison of various dangers can be done by means of the results received at a risk evaluation stage. © 2016 Anopchenko et al

Organizational Model of Regional Socio-Economic Territorial Management

The problem of accounting risk management of socio-economic development of territories has several aspects. Along with the relative novelty of the scientific development management, risk management tasks in industrial urbanization have not yet received sufficient methodological support. This article defined directions and tasks of captive insurance mechanism at the regional level, disclosed the peculiarities of captive insurance companies proposed mechanisms for its effective functioning. As a result, the study proposed a model of regional organization of risk management, the essence of which is to combine units monitoring organization and functional environment, to analyze the factors and assess the level of risk, as well as reference and methodological information. It is recommended to account for the industry-specific risk organizational structure of management and identify characteristics of the information flows three-component scheme of risks. Keywords: Model, Regional Management; Socio-Economic Risk; Risk Management; Insurance Mechanisms JEL Classifications: G22; L14; R1

Innovative approaches to increasing the student assessment procedures effectiveness

The relevance of the investigated problem is determined by the need to improving the evaluation procedures in education and the student assessment in the age of the context of education widening, new modes of study developing (such as blending learning, e-learning, massive open online courses), immediate feedback necessity, reliable and valid assessments. The purposes of the article are multistage adaptive measurements validation and testing for increasing the student assessment procedures effectiveness and getting immediate feedback, reliable and valid assessments. Multistage adaptive measurements mentioned above are based on modern test theory Item Response Theory (IRT). The main research methods are math models and measurements on the basis of IRT models, mathematical-statistical methods (descriptive statistics, Bayesian models and maximum likelihood method) and the systematic analysis of the developing practices for student evaluation during the assessment procedures, opinion polls and questionnaires of learning process participants at university. The article presents validation and results of multistage adaptive measurements application, description of adaptive measurement algorithm (leading to the increase of effectiveness in student assessment procedure due to the selection of optimal task difficulty for each student, creating a situation of success during computer-based test session with the tasks accomplishable at individual pace, increase of assessment accuracy and cutting of labor input. Multistage adaptive measurements, as one of the innovative approaches increasing the student assessment effectiveness, admit of individualization principle, actualization in education and getting immediate feedback for improving learning process and the content of education. Multistage adaptive measurements can be applied in blending learning, massive open online courses and e-learning. The article can be of interest for teaching staff and experts in developing the effective methods of learning outcomes assessment. © 2016 Dorozhkin et al