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Improving employee performance is one of the main levers for companies to achieve their goals. The detachment of work from place is a growing trend, affecting the performance levels of both employees and employers. The purpose of this research was to assess job satisfaction in telework conditions, based on areas considered decisive and evaluated by specific items. To this end, an opinion questionnaire was created, the information was processed with correlation analysis and regression analysis. This study showed that job satisfaction in telework is associated with higher skills, autonomy, and a favorable organizational climate, but also with a higher level of emotional exhaustion generated by constant access to work, as well as the lack of relationships and mentoring. We found a statistically significant positive link between competencies, autonomy, organizational climate, and job satisfaction. Significant differences were observed in the perception of job satisfaction with respect to the gender dimension, as well as between employees of various age categories.
Monica Aureliana Petcu; Maria Iulia Sobolevschi-David; Adrian Anica-Popa; Stefania Cristina Curea; Catalina Motofei; Ana-Maria Popescu. Multidimensional Assessment of Job Satisfaction in Telework Conditions. Case Study: Romania in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8965 .
AMA StyleMonica Aureliana Petcu, Maria Iulia Sobolevschi-David, Adrian Anica-Popa, Stefania Cristina Curea, Catalina Motofei, Ana-Maria Popescu. Multidimensional Assessment of Job Satisfaction in Telework Conditions. Case Study: Romania in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8965.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMonica Aureliana Petcu; Maria Iulia Sobolevschi-David; Adrian Anica-Popa; Stefania Cristina Curea; Catalina Motofei; Ana-Maria Popescu. 2021. "Multidimensional Assessment of Job Satisfaction in Telework Conditions. Case Study: Romania in the COVID-19 Pandemic." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8965.
The introduction of quality, performance, and social responsibility systems in organizations that are open to learn and wish to permanently improve their activity ensures the sustainable development of those organizations. The purpose of this research is to investigate the characteristics of these three systems in order to identify the common impact areas and the existing interrelations, which would be able to facilitate an integrated approach and create an understanding of equifinalities at the organizational level. Moreover, such an integrated approach highlights the role of economic and financial analysis in the assessment of the quantifiable aspects and the direction in the assessment of the non-quantifiable ones. Through this, we intend to obtain a possible configuration for an integrated quality–performance–social responsibility approach applied to 11 entities in different Romanian health resorts recognized for their natural healing factors. The research was structured on two levels: one addressing the phenomenological approach and one dedicated to the application of the European Foundation for Quality Management. The research presents economic and financial data that are the processed results of a social survey regarding customer satisfaction as well as information from reports provided by internal and financial audit missions. The conclusions of our results reveal three distinct situations: low quality, reduced performance, and stakeholder dissatisfaction; low quality, high performance, and partial stakeholder satisfaction; and appropriate quality, high performance, and adequate stakeholder satisfaction.
Monica Petcu; Maria Sobolevschi-David; Stefania Curea. Configuration of an Integrated Quality-Social Responsibility-Performance Management System in the Hospitality Industry. Case Studies: Balneary Tourism Romania. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7303 .
AMA StyleMonica Petcu, Maria Sobolevschi-David, Stefania Curea. Configuration of an Integrated Quality-Social Responsibility-Performance Management System in the Hospitality Industry. Case Studies: Balneary Tourism Romania. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7303.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMonica Petcu; Maria Sobolevschi-David; Stefania Curea. 2021. "Configuration of an Integrated Quality-Social Responsibility-Performance Management System in the Hospitality Industry. Case Studies: Balneary Tourism Romania." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7303.
The European Union’s environmental goal by 2050 is to become the first climate-neutral continent in the world. This means specific efforts for diversifying the energy mix and investing in low-carbon energy. Our study investigates the nexus among carbon emissions, energy consumption and mix, and economic growth in a modified framework that includes the contribution of inward foreign direct investments and international trade to lowering air pollution. We have used a two-step approach to explore in more detail the links between these variables in 24 EU countries over the period 1995–2018, followed by a panel VECM analysis. Our results indicate that there is a unidirectional link between economic growth and CO2 emissions, which should imply a decoupling of environmental improvement measures from the pace of economic growth. We also find bidirectional causal relationships between low-carbon energy shares in consumption and CO2 emissions, as well as between low-carbon energy share in consumption and GDP per capita, which confirms both pollution haven and the halo effect hypotheses for FDI on gas emissions. However, in the long term, FDI, exports, and imports have positively impacted the reduction in CO2 emissions; therefore, stronger EU investment and trade integration should be promoted to improve the quality of the environment.
Alexandra Horobet; Oana Popovici; Emanuela Zlatea; Lucian Belascu; Dan Dumitrescu; Stefania Curea. Long-Run Dynamics of Gas Emissions, Economic Growth, and Low-Carbon Energy in the European Union: The Fostering Effect of FDI and Trade. Energies 2021, 14, 2858 .
AMA StyleAlexandra Horobet, Oana Popovici, Emanuela Zlatea, Lucian Belascu, Dan Dumitrescu, Stefania Curea. Long-Run Dynamics of Gas Emissions, Economic Growth, and Low-Carbon Energy in the European Union: The Fostering Effect of FDI and Trade. Energies. 2021; 14 (10):2858.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandra Horobet; Oana Popovici; Emanuela Zlatea; Lucian Belascu; Dan Dumitrescu; Stefania Curea. 2021. "Long-Run Dynamics of Gas Emissions, Economic Growth, and Low-Carbon Energy in the European Union: The Fostering Effect of FDI and Trade." Energies 14, no. 10: 2858.
Our study addresses the link between ownership concentration and corporate performance in the manufacturing sector in the European Union in an economic environment stressed by the global financial and sovereign debt crises. This is, to our knowledge, the first attempt to tackle differences between companies with different origin-countries in EU from the perspective of ownership concentration and corporate performance in a period marked by the adverse impact of the global financial crisis. Ownership concentration is measured by the number of shareholders and the percentage of their individual and collective holdings, while performance is measured by accounting-based and market-based indicators. Our results, based on a detailed and methodical statistical analysis, show a clear division between Western and Eastern companies in terms of ownership concentration and performance, with an impact on businesses’ recovery patterns. Overall, there is a positive link between ownership concentration and corporate performance in the case of Western companies, but not for Eastern-based companies. Moreover, ownership concentration has supported business recovery in EU, but particularly for Western companies. On the other hand, our results suggest that market investors’ assessment of corporate performance is disconnected from business fundamentals and do not acknowledge the role of ownership concentration (either beneficial of detrimental) for performance assessment.
Alexandra Horobet; Lucian Belascu; Ștefania Cristina Curea; Alma Pentescu. Ownership Concentration and Performance Recovery Patterns in the European Union. Sustainability 2019, 11, 953 .
AMA StyleAlexandra Horobet, Lucian Belascu, Ștefania Cristina Curea, Alma Pentescu. Ownership Concentration and Performance Recovery Patterns in the European Union. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (4):953.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexandra Horobet; Lucian Belascu; Ștefania Cristina Curea; Alma Pentescu. 2019. "Ownership Concentration and Performance Recovery Patterns in the European Union." Sustainability 11, no. 4: 953.