Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis, 2021 (vol. 24), issue 2
Gamification as a Sustainable Tool for HR Managers
Anuj Kumar, T. Sowdamini, Sanjay Manocha, Purvi Pujari
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2021, 24(2):1-14 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2021.0031799 
The competition in the business field is increasing continuously. The COVID-19 pandemic brings more challenges for organizations. The human resource managers in the organizations face challenges of retention of employees, maintaining mental peace, handling anxiety, fulfilling job demands, and handling the motivation level of the employees. Daily new challenges are coming to the surface. Creativity and innovation have been the need of the hour for since long. COVID-19 pandemic is demanding more creativity and innovations from the organizations and their HR managers. A detailed literature review has been done by taking into cognizance various aspects...
Lifelong Learning as the Key Competency for Industry 4.0
Julie Čermáková, Michal Houda, Ladislav Rolínek
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2021, 24(2):15-23 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2021.0041066
Pressure in most companies requires employers to implement new strategies for the development of competencies through employee lifelong learning, taking into account ethics in the conditions of Industry 4.0, which is a topic presented in the theoretical introduction of the paper. The article aims to identify the characteristics influencing the development of lifelong learning with regard to ethics in the conditions of Industry 4.0. To meet the objective of this article, a hypothesis was formulated to determine the statistical significance of particular characteristics of the key competency of lifelong learning. The results of the ANOVA test for the...
Consideration on Ethical Education
Viera Bilasová, Gabriela Platková Olejárová
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2021, 24(2):24-33 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2021.005833
The present paper responds to the current ethical challenges facing education. The authors consider the issues, methods and challenges associated with the innovation of current ethics education. It is expected to effectively contribute to raising young people's moral awareness and ethical literacy including also economic literacy and its ethical aspects. The authors emphasize the importance and humanistic mission of ethics education which requires philosophical anchoring. This is based on the development of reflective thinking, which both strengthens students' intellectual, psychological and moral growth and helps develop their own desire to learn...
The Effect of E-Training on the Performance of Employees in Small and Medium Scale Enterprise amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Emmanuel Selase, Michael Avenorgbo
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2021, 24(2):34-48 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2021.0065161
The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of E-training on the performance of employees in SMEs amid COVID-19. The article identifies how SMEs have carried out the training and development functions in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study establishes a scientific base for e-training and employee performance and lays the foundation for empirical research in the area of e-training and development. The study adopted quantitative approach in achieving the objective of the study. With regards to data collection, the study conducted a survey to collect data from the employees of the various SMEs. Both descriptive and inferential analyses...
Chain of cycle of money
Constantinos Challoumis
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2021, 24(2):49-74 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2021.0071613
This paper researches the chain of the cycle of money. It is scrutinized the aspect of the application of the cycle of money with and without the enforcement of financial savings and/or the escaped financial savings. This work supplied the minimization and the case of maximization of the cycle of money. Consequently, it has declared the chain of money. Thus, scrutinized the case that there's a lack of the enforcement financial savings and in the end the case that there have disregarded the escaped financial savings. Therefore, exists an evaluation that stands at the application of the general public region and the application of the out of control...
The problem of corruption in the contracting out of public services - the case of Slovakia
Beáta Mikušová Meričková, Marek Majerík, Michal Lendvorský
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2021, 24(2):75-90 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2021.0081729
Corruption finds room for its proliferation precisely where there is extensive, opaque and little controllable regulation by the state. In this context, it is the role of the rule of law to apply the principles of legal (enforceability) accountability in the context of corrupt behaviour and the drawing of consequences. The level of rule of law in this area affects the risk of corruption in public service procurement processes. The main goal of the study is to demonstrate the problem of corruption as the threat of the rule of law by the results of qualitative analysis of the legal framework defining corruption and of the methods of public procurement...