Kornélia Lazányi

Óbudai Egyetem · Institute of Management and Organisation

Whilst self-driving cars are not vehicles of the future, but technology that is already available, their acceptance and implementation is heavily limited. People consider them as technology that has a lot of risk—be it technological, IT related, or even ethical. The aim of the present paper is to enrich the existing body of literature of risk perce...

The twenty-first century is the age of no trust. People do not trust each other or the governments and institutions that are supposed to serve them. Lawyers are becoming an inevitable part of even the simplest transactions, since control is a proxy for trust, and external agents, third parties are often required to provide a balance between the con...

Safety and security are of increasing importance to all business ventures, but first and foremost for organisations operating as parts of critical infrastructure. Kinetic and cyber tools are being developed and employed, in order to decrease security risks that – in case of critical infrastructure organisations – would have far-fetched consequences...

The twenty-first century cannot be imagined without ICT and the excessive use of the internet. Even more so in our current state of (post-) Covid. People work, communicate, and live online. For this reason, information security is more important than ever. However, the awareness regarding ICT related security threats have not increased significantl...

While critical infrastructures have always been the most important parts of a nation’s economy, the threats that they are facing, when it comes to safety and security issues, has changed radically in the past decades owing to the rapid development of the applied technologies. Though processes are speeding up and the machinery is improving at a rapi...

Albania appears to provoke a new problem. The desire of young people to leave the country, as well as the strong focus on EU membership of the country as the greatest answer for their future and that of the country, has drawn academics to the topic. According to studies, young Albanians' trust in national institutions has fallen significantly. Base...

Research background: There are various forms of fiscal taxation of the financial assets. In recent times, the discussion about financial transaction tax in the EU is associated with finding the solution to problems due to great financial crisis. The European Commission has made some efforts to strengthen capital regulation and it has adopted the Di...

In the international literature, national cultures are still an evergreen topic. Even though - contrarily to previous decades’ civilizational focus - the attention has shifted to leveraging benefits of multicultural environments and experiences. According to Huntington, nations belonging to different civilizations will never be able to work togethe...

Emotional intelligence is at the heart of our research. Our aim was to examine the differences that exist between generations, based on the views of their representatives. In the theoretical portion we dealt with defining emotional intelligence and presenting it from the leaders’ aspect. Finally, each generation is introduced. In our paper we set u...

Europe is facing a new challenge – namely that of migration, and the negative attitudes stemming from the constant inflow of immigrants. Although France has historic experience with social inclusion and immigration issues, even there, the 2014 regional elections indicated mistrust towards immigrants. Present paper endeavors to analyze the phenomeno...

In every case of serious development that concerns the majority of society, it is vital to analyze the current social opinion on the particular service and to analyze the possible effects, that the elements of the system being developed, could have. This is no different, when it comes to smart cities, more specifically smart traffic systems, even i...

Migration flows, distrust in European institutions and transnational governmental ineffectiveness and low economic performance have become a favorable ground for the so-called populist governments that are widely using Eurosceptic and populist rhetoric today. Voters perceive traditional elite as powerless in front of contemporary socioeconomic prob...

The research presented in this study is focusing on upright managerial skills, considering the expectations towards the manager and ethical leadership behavior. The research, including quantitative and qualitative elements have addressed 3 countries (Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic). The questions of the survey focused on differences between upri...

Trust is the basis of social relations and the building block of every society. However, various societies have different levels of social trust, which is a consequence of various cultural dimensions’ as well as historic and economic variables’ interplay. The paper intends to explore the relation of social embeddedness and the level of interpersona...

Trust is an interpersonal phenomenon influencing social, institutional and even societal processes. Although various cultures can be characterised with different levels of trust, the members of various cultures cannot be considered identical regarding their levels of trust. Different generations have different levels of trust. What is more, the lev...

The business environment is determined by various obstacles the business owners have to deal with in the course of their work. This article aims to create a model of the quality of business environment, define the key determinants of this model, and quantify the correlations among the individual determinants in the area of small and medium-sized en...

Being lonely is not only uncomfortable, but has its negative psychological, as well as physio-somatic side-effects. Therefore, it is important to be surrounded by peers, what is more, significant others, who provide support and through this create social capital for the individual. Humans are social beings; hence, social support has many forms and...

Innovations and constant change are inevitable parts of our everyday lives. It is not only because advanced technologies are more effective, but mostly because in the 21st century more and more realise that scarce resources – among them the safe and clean environment as such - necessitate a paradigm change and intense innovation. This revolution is...

Culture is a scheme of knowledge shared by a relatively large number of people. Hence, it is a collection of explicit as well as implicit patterns of behaviour. It makes the members of the culture feel, think act and react in a certain, predefined way, hence makes their actions predictable. The literature on cultures, especially that of national cu...

The middle and long-term slowdown in growth dynamics could bring serious social and political problems for V4 countries (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Poland) and Romania. It would threaten reaching benefits from potential of convergence process with the developed countries of the European Union. As a result, the V4 economies and Romani...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the approach to risks and risk management, as well as, the influence of selected factors to the risk management in small and medium-sized enterprises in the Czech Republic. This paper introduces the results of research conducted in 2015, at Tomas Bata University in Zlín. Data obtained through an on-line questionn...

While social embeddedness is vital for humans, not only from a psychological, but also on a somato-physiological level, — and hence has been excessively researched — it is very hard to define, what is needed to dispel the feeling of loneliness. The present paper endeavours to present the preliminary results of a research on how various forms of soc...

The economic significance of SMEs in the EU is very high, and in Hungary it is even higher, However, Hungarian SMEs' efficiency is below the average. What is more, according to SBA (2014) data they have even been decreasing in number as well as in number of people employed by them during and ever since the crisis. What is more, the death rate of Hu...

Entrepreneurs are the gale of creative destruction. They are the engines of the local economy and contribute to a country’s wealth to a great extent. Accordingly it is of utmost importance, to create – educate and motivate – young adults to become entrepreneurs and start their own enterprises. The article summarises the basic facts about the Hungar...

Despite of the studies on widespread biological effects of irradiation, surprisingly only little number of papers can be found dealing with its in vivo hemorheological impact. Furthermore, other studies suggested that low-dose irradiation might differ from high-dose in more than linear ways. On Balb/c Jackson female adult mice hematological and hem...

Emotional labour, as a self-contained field of research, is only three decades old. This study aims to summarize key findings from investigations of the last ten years in an attempt to provide a reference for interpretation of organizational emotions and the organizational aspects of emotional labour. It makes no secret of its aim being to call the...

Emotions are parts of organizational reality to an ever increasing extent. Importantly, they are not just tools in the hand of healthcare workers to achieve better physician / healthcare professional-to-patient interactions but intrinsic processes and characteristics with psychic, cognitive and somatic actions. For a thorough investigation of the i...

With the advent of holistic medicine in the second half of the 20th century, the range of behavioural patterns that are expected from healthcare workers has also changed. Nowadays, numerous references in literature put emphasis on the potential positive impact of personal interactions between physician and patient on the healing process and overall...

Az érzelmek társas létünk alapjai. Észlelési szűrőként működnek, befolyásolják tudatos döntéseinket, sőt néha döntenek is helyettünk. Gyakran kerülünk azonban olyan helyzetbe, amikor spontán érzelmeink, illetve azok kimutatása negatív következményekkel jár(na). Az elfogadható érzelmek köre kultúránként, nemenként, életkoronként más és más. Az élet...

This article presents a review of the 11th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe through the lens of global mobility. The conference was held in Pécs, Hungary in June, 2010 and the four authors who participated in the conference present their own narratives as agents of global mobility, examine t...

Burnout is an ever present part of the XXI. century. It is investigated predominantly in professions where communication and interaction with others are basic necessities. According to literature data, those of human services, - e.g. health-care, education … - are of greatest danger. However, not only teachers and lecturers may experience elevated...

Health-care workers are at extreme risk not only of psychological but somatic disorders as well. Present paper - while presenting the outline of the poor situation of physicians and health-care professionals - strives to enumerate circumstantial factors that induce the probability of negative physical and biological consequences as well as occurren...

Emotional labour is an essential requisite in most professions. It is present wherever performance of work involves interactions with colleagues and/or customers. Emotional labour produces multiple positive consequences for organizations, such as constant performance by employees, uniform image, and regular, satisfied customers. Of all effects of e...

The goal of this study was to investigate the local tumor blood supply parameters relative tumor blood volume (rTBV) and transfer coefficient (K(trans)) measurable with dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography (DCE-CT) in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) scheduled for radiation therapy (RT). rTBV and K(trans) were measured befo...

The mental and emotional state of the individuals have a strong effect on the course of their illnesses as well as the speed of recovery. Adequate quantity and quality of information and social support are a prerequisite for mental, and often for physical well-being. In our investigation at the DE OEC, we gathered data on the psychological and phys...

The psychosomatic consequences of emotional labour are numerous. However, the most often de-bated one is burnout. Employers, through enforcing emotional norms onto employees expose their employees to emotional exhaustion, and in the long run depersonalization. Nevertheless, not all levels of emotional labour are equally detrimental. Surface acting,...

A társas támogatás nem más, mint mások segítõ, vagy annak szánt megnyilvánulásai. Számtalan személyközi viselkedési mintázatot foglal magába, melyek a támogatott egyén pszichés állapotát és viselkedési outputjait hivatottak gazdagítani. A társas támogatás - a fogadó szempontjából - szükségszerû eleme a jól-létnek nem csupán szubjektív észlelési szi...

Western cultures support the notion that the ideal ‘professional’ behaviour for a leader is primarily rational and carefully controlled emotionally. The relationship of reason and emotion is often played out as one of mutual exclusion, and moreover as one representing hierarchy of leaders and followers. Power positions in most organizations are...

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the local tumor blood supply parameters relative tumor blood volume (rTBV) and transfer coefficient (Ktrans) measurable with dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography (DCE-CT) in patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) scheduled for radiation therapy (RT). Materials and Methods: rTBV...

Local failure is a significant issue following radiotherapy (RT) for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The aim of this study was to find out whether FDG-PET/CT is capable to predict tumor relapse location in patients with NSCLC, in particular to determine high risk tumors' subvolumes responsible for local failure. Ten patients with...

Stress is a perceived phenomenon. Hence it is determined by the individual‘s awareness of the situational factors, and his/her own resources. Present article aims to explore the territory of organisational stressors, since organisations are essential parts of one’s life-sphere. Protective factors and coping strategies are also enumerated, in order...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to measure radiotherapy induced changes in cervical cancer patients examined by means of contrast-enhanced dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI).

In the course of their everyday work health care professionals (HCPs) often have to change their true feelings. The literature labels this performance as emotional labor. This article is presenting data on the characteristics of HCPs' most endangered by the negative consequences of emotional labor. Our simple choice question survey was conducted at...

Health care professionals do not have emotional labour obligations in their employment contract. However, in everyday work it is often inevitable for them to change their true feelings. This is critically true for professionals treating chronic or cancer patients. The suitable emotional state of the treatment staff does not only influence the pract...

Oncologists and related health care professionals (HCPs) do not only have to follow professional protocols in their everyday work, but also have to communicate proper attitudes towards patients suffering from malignant diseases. This task is often a heavier load than the implementation of professional activities themselves. The present article is b...

The Soil Thematic Strategy of EU is seeking to (i) establish common principles for the protection and sustainable use of soils, (ii) prevent threats to soils, and mitigate the affects of those threats; (iii) preserve soil functions within the context of sustainable use; and (iv) restore degraded and contaminated soils to approved levels of function...