Sustainability assessments should be based on financial and non-financial indicators. To describe the financial situation of companies and to calculate the actual economic profit of a company, the Economic Value Added methodology appears as a suitable solution. The aim of the paper is to apply the Economic Value Added methodology to real-life corporate data and present the company’s value through a case study. This study is based on information that was gathered through an extensive literature review (research publications and research studies (documents) about sustainability, corporate social responsibility, Sustainable Value concept, and Economic Value Added (EVA) methodology; and the company’s financial statements with notes of the selected company) using Internet and research databases and the author’s own experience. Methods of analysis, comparison, selection, abstraction, induction, deduction, determination, and statistics were used. In addition to the positives, this evaluation method also has negatives, including limitations (problems) in measuring a company’s value.

A descriptive attribute or characteristic of an object is called dimension. In the area of Business Excellence, this concept is associated with national quality awards and Business Excellence models. The aim of the paper is to identify the Business Excellence dimensions, on the grounds of comparative analysis of selected national quality award models, including determination of relations between the Business Excellence and Sustainability. Cross-cultural comparison of Business Excellence core values in the analyzed excellence models/national quality awards will be helpful in identification of the Business Excellence dimensions. The main findings of this study are: The basis for achieving Business Excellence is to respect the core principles of TQM (Total Quality Management); Business Excellence dimensions can be identified based on core values; Business Excellence can be characterized through dimensions; there is a relationship between the Business Excellence dimensions and the Sustainability dimensions. This study is based on information that was gathered through an extensive literature review (research publications and research studies (documents) about the national quality awards and Business Excellence models using Internet and research databases (Web of Science, Scopus, EBSCO) and the authors’ own experience. Methods of analysis, comparison, selection, abstraction, induction, deduction, determination, and statistics were used. The paper is organized as follows: the methodology approach; the comparative review of the secondary data on Business Excellence core values in the analyzed models; discussion about the main findings, including the link between the Business Excellence dimensions and Sustainability dimensions.

The evaluation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) becomes the problem. The practice demonstrates that currently there are methods, standards and initiatives that allow evaluating this state. The question is which approach is the right one, because his choice may depend from the findings “whom and to what purpose the evaluation serves”, from the object and subject of the evaluation, as well as from the knowledge of current trends in the evaluation. The aim of this paper, based on an analysis, is to identify appropriate approach to evaluating the CSR of the company. The CSR concept is closely connected with ethical, environmental and social audit, sustainable development, management, philanthropy and various forms of donation. De facto, CSR offers a set of principles and values on which is possible to build a more cohesive society and to establish the transition to a sustainable economic system.

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University teachers are unique group of the employees working society-widely in each State. Improving the quality of university education, it is extremely important to pay attention to the definition of key personality competences that teachers should have and that would convey to their students through an effect of being conformed to. Purpose of study is to analyze and define the key personality competences of the university teachers, in conditions of the University of Žilina, Slovakia. The study presents the results of a sociological interview: through using a form of 3 controlled interviews with 27 teachers, we define the crucial personality competences of the teacher. In addition, the results of this qualitative searching we undergone to a quantitative survey – in the form of a questionnaire survey (which included 395 university students) were surveyed, how these competences should be defined from the viewpoint of the teacher and viewpoint of the students; we also surveyed what weight was assigned by students to the teachers’ personality competencies defined in previous qualitative research. The most significant conclusions of the research and all study consist in a definition of four clusters of the competence profile of teachers. These ones represent a unique breakthrough of the teacher's personal competences aimed at teacher oneself, i.e. self-reflecting, self-renewing, self- motivating, and self-developing personality competences, and the personality competences focusing on the others – students, i.e. inter-reflecting, inter-renewing, inter-motivating, and inter-developing competences

Not every Business Excellence model has an integral approach considering the environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainability. The aim of the paper is to review the selected Business Excellence Models and to introduce a proposal to improve this type of models as being applicable for the sustainability assessment. The models that were chosen are used as a basis for organisational improvement. The paper is based on information gathered through extensive literature review (research publications, research studies, documents about The Business Excellence Models) using Internet and research databases and the author’s own experience. Methods of analysis, comparison, selection and statistics are to be used. Although the models are based on similar principles, the differences are in the number and structure of the criteria, respectively, sub-criteria and in the sustainability assessment approach. Therefore, as key criteria in the area of self-assessment, we propose seven non-results criteria and criterion results. The proposed Model is discussed with the analysed models, based on the calculation of their mutual distances. The model, which is closest to the proposed model, is The Singapore Business Excellence Framework.