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Daniela Sotirova
Business Ethics and Economic Citizenship
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Kristiyan Hadjiev
New Dimensions of Team Approach
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The article explores the philosophy of the team approach in a conceptually new way. It studies the strategic role of the team from a group dynamics perspective and justifies its importance in social practices. Various types of teams are analyzed in view of immediate results, as are the conditions necessary to transform groups into effective team structures. The principles used to overcome the internal organizational shortsightedness and risk minimization are thoroughly examined.
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Valentin Panayotov
Problem Areas in the Activities of Management Consultants
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The article reveals the main problem areas in the activity of management consultants. For successful implementation of consultancy projects, it is important to select consultants with the necessary competencies and qualifications. Emphasis is placed on the appropriate personal characteristics that have a great importance on cooperative working with the client. There are those whose importance is difficult to assess, but which can have a very deep impact on the outcome of counseling. These include the consultant's belief system, source of motivation, personal ethics, objectivity, honesty, and loyalty. It is very important that these qualities appear as early as possible in the communication between the consultant and the client
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Stanislava Stoyanova
Specifics of the Team Approach for Collection
of Management Decisions in the Modern Organization
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This scientific article examines the specific features and challenges of decision-making in terms of teamwork, and its main purpose is to present their role and influence in achieving efficiency in the management of modern organizations. It examines theoretical statements that describe the nature and some patterns of the decision-making process in the team form of activity, its stages and ambivalent characteristics. The emphasis is on the development of ideas about the role of the team in achieving effective management of organizations. After studying the above features, the basic factors influencing the efficiency in the process of making management decisions are derived.
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Kristiyan Hadjiev
Downsizing Strategy of Volkswagen Group
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During the time of dynamic change and complete transformation of the social environment and the objects to be managed, a crisis in governance appears inevitably. It is associated with the lack of organizational experience to work in this new conditions, ignorance of the dynamic processes that affect the decision making etc.
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Maya Lambovska
Utility Function (by von Neumann-Morgenstern) – an Instrument for Solution under Uncertainty and Crises
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This paper presents the possibility of using Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility function as a tool for choosing an alternative way for dealing with crisis in organizations operating in uncertain environment.
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Milka Bakyrdzhieva
Humor - a Means of Efficient Business Communication. Age, Gender and Cultural Differences
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Humour is considered a means for efficient business communication and a factor for successful business. It relieves the tension and stress, „breaks the ice”, leads to creative decisions, conveys inconvenient truths as skillful jokes, wins sympathy and trust when the jokes are directod to the speaker, „aikido”, etc. Everybody can learn how to joke. This requires some knowledge on the essence of humour, the main types of humour, the importance of humour, and especially on the existing age, gender, and cultural differences. With such knowledge and appropriate trainnig everybody shall know when, where, and how to use his sense of humour.