Timea Juhász

This complex personality trait serves as the main topic of our paper due to the increasing prevalence of perfectionism as well as the rising demands from educational organizations. Our paper can fill a research gap by examining its definitions, models, components, and influencing elements (personality, gender, and immediate environment) in addition...

Background: Soft skills have a considerable influence on the personal and professional development of future employees, affecting employment opportunities and work success. Purpose: The aim of the empirical analysis described in this paper is to define the groups of key soft skills in the business context of Hungary and Serbia. The obtained results...

This paper explores the concept of place attachment, encompassing its meaning and representation among university students. It provides a comprehensive picture of place identity and place attachment among university students. The planned approach was to conduct a survey among students to examine their attachment to place from a green perspective. A...

After the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic our lives have been profoundly changed, including higher education, where a digital form has emerged as a result. This paper presents some of the results of nearly two and a half years of research conducted in two countries. The first objective was to analyse the experience of the transition to digital ed...

The study aims to examine similarities and differences in the way business students from different cultural backgrounds perceive soft skills based on Geert Hofstede’s cultural model. Four business universities in Jordan and one in Hungary were included in the study. Both samples included 313 respondents. The main reason for selecting business stude...

There is common agreement that we are facing a great transition, which poses a challenge for the labour market, too. The expending literature on soft skills reflects the restructuring of the competition factors, and several papers discuss the future of the labour market: what new professions may emerge and what new skills these jobs demand. However...

The purpose of the study was to examine the organizational strategy and tools of employee well-being, as perceived by employees. Although improving physical, mental, and social conditions of employees have positive impact on economic performance and competitiveness of organizations, little is known about how employee wellbeing appears in human reso...

In the 21th century the talented employees and their knowledge and skills are the most important assets of the organizations. In relation to graduated students of economics and management studies employers often value soft skills more than technical and professional skills. Therefore, higher education institutions have a significant role in the adv...

Bullying, harassment, and sexual harassment in the workplace are not new issues; they have always existed in various forms. Recent studies have highlighted their impacts on workers and their well-being at work. However, the perception of these problems differ across the United States, Europe, and Asia. These differences are reflected not only in te...

This article examines the key factors that determine the quality of life of business students and the extent to which they achieve a learning-life balance, including the individual characteristics that influence them, with a particular focus on the role of the family. The authors conducted a questionnaire survey of 1188 business students and univar...

Objective: The objective of our article is to analyse students’ knowledge, awareness, feelings and attitudes to the energy crisis, in particular, the rising price of electricity in Hungary to test whether students are aware of their electricity consumption and influenced by the opinion of their close relatives. We also examined how consumption awar...

A tudásátadás fontossága és tanulmányozása napjainkban a kutatások középpontjába került. A felsőoktatási intézmények e folyamat bástyái. Empirikus vizsgálatunk elméleti megalapozása során a bevett fogalmak tisztázását követően Magyarország egyik legnagyobb gazdasági intézményében végeztünk kutatást. A hallgatói tudástranszfer egyes elemeire fókuszá...

Cikkükben a szerzők a generációk fogalmát és jellemzőit, valamint a munkahelyi attitűdjeiket tárgyalják. A 2022-23-as primer kutatással választ keresnek arra a kérdésre, hogy az egyes generációk a munkaerőpiacon kivel dolgoznak együtt és kivel osztják meg a tudásukat szívesen. A megkérdezés az interneten keresztül történt, kvantitatív kutatás keret...

The study presents the results -focusing on the mentors- of a mentoring programme launched at the Faculty of International Management and Business at Budapest Business School. The basic aim of the programme was to provide a support programme for foreign students, who have recently been enrolled in the faculty as the number of foreign students has i...

University internship is the transition between higher education and the labor market. The study was motivated by the fact that research on the effectiveness of internships is on the rise in many countries but is less widespread in Hungary, especially from the students’ perspective. The aim is to determine how students in business education choose...

Már a világjárvány kihirdetésekor egyértelmű volt a közgazdászok, gazdasági elemzők és a politikai döntéshozók számára, hogy a világjárvány és a megfékezésére irányuló intézkedések gazdasági válságot fognak előidézni világszerte. A gazdaságon kívülről érkező válságokra nem volt felkészülve a világ, hasonló világjárvány csaknem száz évvel ezelőtt a...

Given that knowledge is one of the most important human resource values, the manner of its acquisition, transfer and development within an organisation is crucial. It should come as no surprise that given the link between knowledge acquisition and development in most spheres, several individuals wish to restrict their knowledge to themselves, as it...

The pandemic and the war have had a negative economic impact on the world economy. The current structure of the energy market poses a major challenge to national governments, businesses, and households alike, and new strategies need to be developed to focus on energy efficiency. Hungary has also been strongly affected by this situation, which has h...

One of the many factors that contribute to the success of an organisation is the use of professional information technology (ICT). The pandemic situation of recent years has highlighted the benefits of using state-of-the-art ICT. However, exploring the negative consequences is a less popular topic. The aim of this research is to identify the most s...

Purpose The article analyzes the challenges Slovak businesses and organizations are facing in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting human resource management solutions they apply. Design/methodology/approach The authors present a part of their research conducted in six Central Eastern European (CEE) countries. Based on timely data, t...

The majority of research on competitiveness is based on the analysis of quantitative data. There is significantly less research on the soft elements of competitiveness. This research aims to fill this gap in the literature. Starting from the national culture, the authors investigated the impact of trust characteristics of organisational culture on...

A munka és a magánélet egyensúlya a felsőoktatásban is fontossá vált, a növekvő hallgatói létszám, az elvárások növekedése és a változó szabályozó környezeti feltételek miatt. Ám az egyetemi szférában keveset tudunk a családbarát foglalkoztatásról. A cikk célja a családbarát foglalkoztatási szemlélet vizsgálata a magyar felsőoktatás területén. Enne...

Research in recent years has shown that IT-enabled companies have higher productivity than their competitors. The new and latest technological solutions enrich the range of tools available to workers, ensuring that information is always available, communication is easier, and customers are better served. At the same time, these opportunities also c...

BACKGROUND: Soft skills have become more necessary than ever in today’s labour market, and their development has become an increasingly key area for companies’ HR departments. Employees with the soft skills required for a given job can perform the tasks assigned to them more efficiently and successfully, therefore all those involved in the process...

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In 2021, a survey was conducted to map the willingness to share knowledge of several students studying at Hungarian universities. The authors of the study wanted to examine how students rate knowledge sharing in the organisation where they study, how open they are to share their knowledge, what informal forms of knowledge sharing exist in the educa...

This study presents the family support systems that operate in the Visegrad Group countries: Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. After the collapse of communism, all four countries faced difficulties regarding the willingness of the population to have children, which was due partly to financial problems and to a slow re-evaluation of...

This study presents the family support systems that operate in the Visegrad Groupcountries: Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. After the collapse ofcommunism, all four countries faced difficulties regarding the willingness of thepopulation to have children, which was due partly to financial problems and to aslow re-evaluation of trad...

Every year, the Faculty of International Management and Business of Budapest Business School attracts more foreign students from all over the world, who participate in face-to-face classes far from home. This year, the faculty has launched a Mentor programme, in the framework of which Hungarian and foreign students of the Faculty of International M...

A TANULMÁNY CÉLJA Ma már nem kérdés, hogy a tudás az egyik legfontosabb humán érték, amelynek megszerzése, fejlesztése, és megőrzése sokak számára nélkülözhetetlen. A tudás menedzselése alatt olyan tevékenységeket értünk, melyek célja az összegyűjtött ismeretek, a tapasztalatok, a szakértelem dokumentálása, rendszerezése, megosztása, továbbfejleszt...

The need for organisational trust as a prerequisite for successful market operation is an area of frequent research today. Our study has examined the thinking and behaviour of organisations operating in minority cultures that live in proximity to the motherland in terms of trust-based organisational functioning, with particular attention to the kno...

A világ nagyot fordult az elmúlt másfél évben. Magyarországon a koronavírus hamar elérte a felsőoktatást, a veszélyhelyzet kihirdetését követően a felsőoktatási intézmények a személyes jelenlétet nem igénylő oktatási módszertanra tértek át. A szerzők tanulmányukban az átállással kapcsolatos tapasztalatokat, az online oktatás erősségeit és nehézsége...

The first computers were made as early as in the 20 th century, but the rapid development of digitalisation took place in the 21 st century. Nowadays, Industry 4.0 has created a network connection between man and machines. Without computers and the Internet, the world is unthinkable. Digitalisation is pervading every part of our lives. Whether at w...

This article was inspired by current events. The shopping craze generated by the coronavirus pandemic raised some questions that this article aims to answer by analysing a variety of suppositions. The coronavirus pandemic caused panic shopping amongst consumers, whose motivation for increasing the volumes of shopping revolved around ensuring a safe...

Összefoglaló. Jelen tanulmány célja annak vizsgálata, hogy a jelenlegi munkaerőpiacon a puha (soft) vagy a kemény (hard) készségek jelennek meg erősebb elvárásként a munkavállalók szerint. A kutatás eredménye rámutatott arra, hogy egyes puha készségek (például a rugalmasság, kommunikáció, csapatmunka) erősebb elvárásként vannak jelen a munkaerőpiac...

It is no question today that human capital is one of the most important corporate assets that employers need to manage wisely and in line with the company's objectives. Businesses are seeking to employ people with the skills that best match employers' expectations. In the past, companies focused primarily on hard skills, but today there is also a g...

It is no longer a question today that in many cases employees find themselves in a situation where either they or their environment believe that they have committed a misdemeanor or sin at work. The perception of sin can depend on a number of factors, such as the particular organizational culture, management, employee preferences, the degree of tru...

Az akadémiai tevékenységek szabadsága olyan általánosan elismert és tiszteletben tartott alapelv, amellyel kapcsolatban az exportellenőrzés fogalma és különösen annak korlátozó, tiltó és szankcionáló intézkedései nehezen értelmezhetők. A 21. század globális világgazdaságában azonban az akadémiai szféra mint szenzitív információk létrehozója, megosz...

This paper introduces the research team and its research results on soft skills. By making a clarification on the scope of soft skills and the literature approaches, our research focus falls on detecting how employees, mainly students of the future labour market, and employing companies, mainly those who sharply face the changing world, rank and ev...

The study presents the first experiences and results of the BEE Mentor Program, which started in September 2022 at the Faculty of International Management and Business of Budapest Business School, University of Applied Sciences with the guidance and support of lecturers from the Department of Languages for International Business. The aim of the pro...

Research on generations examine and analyse the similarities and differences between various age groups, and their opportunities for cooperation in the labour market, from various perspectives. According to the research, the behaviour and preparedness of each generation are different, the coordination and proper management of which poses challenges...

Abstract In our study, we examine the development of unemployment data in the Visegrád countries. The topicality of our study was given by the coronavirus disease, which was widening into a pandemic and a global economic crisis in 2020. In our research, we used the ARIMA modeling procedure using the database of the Organization for Economic Co-oper...

As the possession of soft skills is becoming an essential part of the basic skill set of entrants, it is undoubtedly essential to research and develop these skills. The purpose of this study was to examine how students studying at the largest agricultural university in Hungary perceive their soft skills to be in line with employers’ expectations, i...

Based on the responses of the surveyed companies and institutions, we analyzed what government measures help to solve the problems and tensions in the labor market. By our empirical research we aimed to look for the main triggers and the typical means of labor shortage and labor retention. We also examined what efficiency improvement plans and robo...

Tanulmányunk célja a COVID-19-járvány miatti korlátozások hatásának vizsgálata. Célcsoportunkat a hazai felsőoktatásban tanuló hallgatók jelentik, akiknek megszokott életét a járvány megelőzése érdekében meghozott korlátozó intézkedések egyik napról a másikra gyökeresen megváltoztatták. A szükség miatt sietve bevezetett online oktatás otthonmaradás...

For a long time, various companies and organizations have used traditional courts or other legal tools to resolve different complex disputes or problems. However, numerous influencing factors often interrupted this formalized problem-solving approach. In the countries of the former Eastern bloc, under the former Communist system, the Party often ac...

A közgazdaságtan alapfogalmai közül talán a versenyképességgel foglalkozik a legtöbbet a szakirodalom. Ezt az egyes szerzők különböző szempontokból vizsgálják. Viszonylag ritkán foglalkoznak azonban a sport és a munkahelyi verseny közötti közvetlen kapcsolattal. Jelen munka egy saját kérdőíven alapuló kutatás keretében elemzi a kérdést. A szerzők a...

Competitive pressures at the workplace have already become standard issue. Participation in rivalrous situations and related attitudes are influenced by several factors, out of which a few can be traced back into childhood. Aspiration and over-ambitiousness surround our everyday lives from childhood: there is an intensive rivalry for good grades in...

Absztrakt Napjainkban a munkaerőpiac egyre magasabb szintű digitális kompetenciával rendelkező munkavállalókat igényel. A piac igényei konkrétak, de kérdés, hogy a leendő munkavállalók vagy a munkaerőpiacon már aktívan jelen lévők mennyiben tudják teljesíteni ezt a követelményt. A felsőfokú végzettséggel rendelkezők körében 2019-ben felvett online...

Studies measuring workplace trust in connection with leadership style and leader responsibility have become more and more important in recent years. Interest in the subject has been rising along with the recent introduction of knowledge management systems (KMSs), which has shown to be one of the most important factors of competitiveness. The aim of...

A tudásmegosztás problémája a tudásmenedzsment-rendszerek kutatásának kezdeti fázisától számtalan vizsgálatnak adott teret. A tudásmegosztás eszközeinek sokszínűsége elsősorban a formális megosztási lehetőségek területén indukált kutatásokat, ugyanakkor kevesebb figyelem jut az informális tudásmegosztás módszereinek. A kutatás célja kideríteni, mil...

Purpose We explore the effects of three organizational variables (country of origin of the multinational company (MNC), the timing of entry into the European Union and the mode of establishment of the MNC subsidiary unit) on the human resource management (HRM) practices being pursued by subsidiaries of large MNCs operating in selected countries in...

Napjainkban a generációk közötti hasonlóságok és különbségek vizsgálata fontos kutatási téma a menedzsment oldaláról. Jelen kutatás célja, hogy az azonos és eltérő jellemzőket feltárja a legfiatalabb generációk között és megválaszolja a kérdést, hogy a munkáltatók miképpen tudják a hasznukra fordítani az eltérő sajátosságokat. A kvantitatív vizsgál...

A Multidiszciplináris Kihívások, Sokszínű Válaszok folyóirat 2020/1. száma

There is an increased demand for education in our society. The expectations of employers and the economy in general have also changed; knowledge is fast becoming the driving force behind labour market competitiveness. Seeing these tendencies, we had to ask ourselves how the most involved group, the students see their situation. How do they see the...

The issue of work-related stress has been addressed by researchers for a decade, while less interest in the issue has been shown by company executives. In spite of the known effects of work-related stress, not sufficient attention is devoted to it by the top management. A case study was applied in our research to investigate the stress level of emp...

Human capital and its development are the key elements of a knowledge-based economy. The basic pillars for this development are the healthy mental and physical development, teaching, and education of youth. A good question to ask is to what extent the young are aware of the important features of lifestyle, which will make it possible for them in th...

Nagy problémát jelent maga a fluktuáció jelenléte a szervezetek életében. A fluktuáció számít a humán erőforrások egyik fontos teljesítményindexének. A fluktuáció emelkedése olyan történésekre, problémákra és hibákra következtet, amelyek egy szervezet jövőbeni sikeres és effektív működését merőben gátolják. A fluktuáció kezelésére, ezért a gyakorla...

Employee turnover is a current challenge of human resource management in organizations. Staff turnover is regarded as a key performance indicator for Human Resources departments, and a serious rise in its level points to events, issues or problems which may severely hamper the successful and efficient operation of any organization. Hence, in such c...

Napjainkban szinte mindenütt ki vagyunk téve a versenyhelyzeteknek. Már kiskorunktól kezdve arra nevelnek minket a családunk, a barátok, a tanárok, az ismerősök és néha az ismeretlenek is, hogy próbáljunk a legjobbak, a legokosabbak, a legügyesebbek lenni. Az életünk szocializációs lépcsőfokain azt tapasztaljuk, hogy a jó eredményeket jutalmazzák,...

Competitions have always been a part of our lives. Even at school, and later, at work, we have had to fight for recognition and fight to be the best. All of this, day after day. This report explores people’s approach to competition in organisations of various sizes, and their approach to what the effects of this are. The authors believe that people...

A humánerőforrás iránti kereslet igen erősen megváltozott az elmúlt évtizedben és átrendeződött a munkaerőpiac keresleti és kínálati oldala egyaránt. A 2000-es évek első évtizedére a munkaerő túlkínálat volt jellemző globálisan, ezzel szemben napjainkat a munkaerőhiány jellemzi. A közép-kelet-európai országokban a 90-es években végbement kedvezőtle...

Napjaikban a munkavállalók egyre bátrabban vállalják fel és nyíltan beszélnek arról, hogy a munkahelyükön milyen lelki terror éri őket. A mobbing jelenség már több évtizede ismert a management kutatások körében. A kifejezés az etológiából került át a szervezeti vizsgálatokba és a kutatók számos szempontból elemezték a munkahelyen történő lelki zakl...

A tanulmányban bemutatott kutatás a jó vezetői tulajdonságokat keresi, összefüggésbe hozva a leaderrel szembeni elvárásokkal és az etikus vezetői viselkedéssel. A kvantitatív és kvalitatív elemeket is tartalmazó kutatás 3 nemzet vizsgálatát célozta (Magyarország, Csehország, Szlovákia). A tanulmányban bemutatott kérdőíves kutatás kérdései között a...

Knowledge transfer is strategically important for general sustainability of business, and this contribution aims to provide some insights into one specific area – the complexity of human resource management in foreign-owned subsidiaries – especially in the light of longitudinal empirical research undertaken in 2011-2013 and 2015-2016. Knowledge man...

A szerzők dolgozatukban speciális nézőpontból vizsgálják a szervezeti bizalmat, mivel feltételezéseik szerint a bizalomnak a tudásátadásban és megosztásban kritikus versenyképességi tényezőként kiemelkedő jelentősége van. A szerzők a vizsgálatokat nemzetközi összehasonlításban végezték, és széles körű hipotézisrendszert állítottak fel, melynek egy...

Ahogy azt az innovációs mozgalom atyja, Schumpeter (1950) már a múlt század közepén jelezte, az üzleti életben az innováció a piaci siker kritikus eleme. Jól ismert típusai (termék, technológia, piacok fejlesztése) mellé mára a szervezetek sikeres működését és növekedését segítő új mentális és üzleti modellek jelentősége is felzárkózóban van (Tidd...

The aim of this study is to get to know the career concepts of women in Hungary. The public opinion is to expect double sets of obligations of women; they need to take part in the traditional family role, while parallel women have to be active on labor market. The question is whether these processes have got any effects on women's career. In 2017,...

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...

Currently, insults at the workplace can affect anyone. Mobbing refers to often repeating psychological terror, which lasts at least half a year and comprises of an act or series of acts that take place at least once a week, and for those who have to endure it, can cause psychological and physical symptoms. In the present year, in addition to last y...

Recently work­life balance has become a focus point for both individuals and organizations. There is an increasing number of employees believing family responsibilities and work commitments important to balance. Both employers and employees have begun to consider the problem of creating work­life balance and solution possibilities of this problem i...

A karriertervezés függetlenül attól, hogy női vagy férfi munkaerőről van-e szó, igen fontos menedzsment kérdés. Mind a dolgozókat, mind a munkáltatókat érinti, hogy milyen szakmai pályafutás lehetőségeket tud biztosítani, avagy felkínálni egy foglalkoztató a munkavállalóinak. Kérdés azonban, hogy van-e különbség a nők és a férfiak között a tekintet...

A survey was conducted to gain information about typical and atypical patterns of employment among unemployed, students of higher education and companies. The research was geographically restricted to the Slovak-Hungarian border region, to Komárom-Esztergom (Hungary), and Révkomárom (Komarno)-Párkány (Šturovo) (Slovakia) areas. A questionnaire surv...

A munka és család összehangolása fokozottabb figyelmet kap a társadalomtudományi kutatásokban. Sokáig a vizsgálatok elsősorban a kisgyermekes nők helyzetével foglalkoztak, ám későbbiekben a kutatók hamar felfigyeltek arra a tényre, hogy nemcsak a nőknek, de a férfiaknak is gondot okoz e két terület összehangolása. Mint ahogy Bencsik-Juhász (2012) í...

Napjainkban a karrier kérdése egyre inkább a munkavállalók munkahely-választásának fókuszpontjába kerül. Egy adott munkáltató melletti döntés esetén sokat jelent, hogy a foglalkoztató milyen karrierkilátásokat tud biztosítani az adott dolgozó számára. A férfiak esetében a karriertervezés egyre hangsúlyosabb kérdéssé válik a szervezeti HR életében....

The question of reconciliation of work and family is getting highlighted in social studies. For a long time, a lot of studies concentrated on young mothers; however, researchers have realized that this problem proves difficult to men as well. As Bencsik-Juhász write: ”As the actual labor market primarily employs and caters for men, with all the inh...

This chapter shows how SMEs can compete with multinational companies. This chapter was written on the basis of practical research results. In this research, Hungarian and Slovakian SMEs were investigated from the view of a knowledge-based economy. The question was how they can face future challenges. The researchers wanted to know how SMEs handle t...

The current study inspects the relationship among ethical leadership, organizational culture and job satisfaction with the mediating role of an organizational commitment in private educational sector of Islamabad, Pakistan. For this study data is collected through a survey of 210 employees of the education sector of Pakistan in October, 2016. The d...

Today, atypical employment, such as flexible forms of employment, has gained more important substantiality within work science researches. As a result of the economic crisis, the flexible employment form has appeared as an alternative solution, as it has cost reducing effects. The authors examined how the different companies-operating in the Hungar...

The economic crisis started in 2008 had a significant negative impact on employment in most sectors. During the research authors sought the answer to the question which employment systems were applied for overcoming the crisis at companies in Budapest and Békés County. To examine this, the authors compiled the questionnaire in co-operation with the...

At present, more and more researches deals with the characteristic features of generation Y and generation Z. As it is about the present and future generations, corporate success and the competitive operation are determined by the behav our of these generations in the long-run. Researches justifies that there are significant differences between the...

Employment is today one of the crucial questions, since the crisis started in 2008, its impulses expressed their impacts among others in the labour market. A series of job losses and cost reductions induced greater rationalization and flexibility of employment. One of the features of that is the fact that the perception of atypical employment has r...

Napjainkban a pályakezdők munkaerő-piaci helyzete az egyik legkérdésesebb. Gyakran e társadalmi csoport elvárásai és képességei nem igazán találkoznak a munkáltatók elvárásaival, és ez is az oka annak, hogy a pályakezdők munkaerő-piaci elhelyezkedése sok problémát és feladatot vet fel. Ez volt az egyik indoka annak, hogy a 2013-2014-es évben egy ké...

The question of knowledge management has become a highlighted issue in the companies' everyday life. Knowledge itself is the most important capital of organizations, and acquiring, developing and preserving it means a lot of tasks and requirements for the companies. The complex activities of the knowledge management system appear with different pri...

Hungarian organizations have to solve a lot of problems when their female employees take maternity leave and mothers may stay at home, with their child, for up to three years. During this long period of time, organizations have to organize her substitute, and, more importantly, they also have to insure that her knowledge stays relevant to the organ...

ABSTRAKT The aim of the study is to provide a comprehensive overview about atypical forms of work and introduce their occurrence on both sides of the Slovak-Hungarian border, in Komárno-Komárom region. We present the four main groups of atypical forms of employment, their characteristics and their occurrence in the border region. The questionnaire...

The economic crisis has forced companies to make certain decisions - decisions which affect organisational operation, long-term strategy and corporate culture alike. It is not surprising, of course, that employment is an area most deeply affected by the crisis – in fact, to its very foundation - so foreshadowing new, flexible solutions and a reappr...