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  1. Article ; Online: Human Resource Management Strategy as a Small Business Competitive Advantage Tool

    Urban Jan

    SHS Web of Conferences, Vol 135, p

    2022  Volume 01017

    Abstract: The goal of a company’s HR management (HRM) strategy is to define its medium-term objectives in HRM and development as well as to specify the main management tools needed for their achievement. The HRM goals set by this strategy should be linked to the ... ...

    Abstract The goal of a company’s HR management (HRM) strategy is to define its medium-term objectives in HRM and development as well as to specify the main management tools needed for their achievement. The HRM goals set by this strategy should be linked to the company’s strategic business goals and respond in advance to its medium term HRM requirements dictated by both internal and external factors. Corresponding HRM measures and/or policies should be effective in terms of achieving HRM objectives, as well as efficient in terms of their costs and benefits relations. The purpose of this paper based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with small business owners focused on the importance of their HRM strategy for the competitive advantage of their emerging companies, as well as on relevant secondary sources, is to outline a particular methodology and the main characteristics of successful HRM strategies. The main attention is drawn to the linkage of the HRM strategy to the overall companies´ business strategies as well as their appropriate contents and structure.
    Keywords business strategy ; hr management strategy ; hr strategy goals and tools ; hrm swot analysis ; Social Sciences ; H
    Subject code 650
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher EDP Sciences
    Document type Article ; Online
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  2. Article ; Online: Are businessmen a benefit to public policy? And if so, what specifically can they offer?

    Urban Jan

    SHS Web of Conferences, Vol 92, p

    2021  Volume 02062

    Abstract: Research background: The closer interaction between business and government has, on a global basis, drawn attention to the “revolving doors” issue, i.e. the movement of persons between high posts in the public and private sectors. Purpose of the article: ...

    Abstract Research background: The closer interaction between business and government has, on a global basis, drawn attention to the “revolving doors” issue, i.e. the movement of persons between high posts in the public and private sectors. Purpose of the article: The main research question of this study covers the issue whether successful businessmen do or do not have better prospects for more effective political governance and economic policy making than career politicians or political professionals, and/or if politics and business require, for achieving their goals, similar or substantially different personal requirements. Methods: The survey was based on multidisciplinary qualitative comparative approach and literature research, covering historical, economics, management, and psychological views. This method corresponds the complex nature of the topics surveyed. Findings & Value added: The findings arrived to the conclusion that even a person successful in business may not necessarily have the expertise for effective public administration as well as sound public policy decisions. It showed that the opposite idea, coming often from businessmen circles themselves, fails to take into consideration that government, due to several reasons, cannot be operated like a business and many characteristics of successful businessmen do not fit well to high political posts, due both to their management style and “professional blindness” in terms of their approach to economic policy, e.g. international trade. Even though many management methods of successful companies can and should be taken over by the state/public administration, this goal can be achieved without the direct personal involvement of professional businessmen.
    Keywords suitability of politicians for high political posts ; limits of personal and managerial style of entrepreneurs in politics ; important personal traits of successful politicians ; economic blindness of entrepreneurs in politics ; Social Sciences ; H
    Subject code 320
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
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  3. Article ; Online: Factors of Entrepreneurial Success

    Urban Jan

    SHS Web of Conferences, Vol 91, p

    A qualitative multiple case study of new small businesses

    2021  Volume 01026

    Abstract: In most countries, small businesses represent a majority of firms providing close to fifty percent of the total employment. However, on average, more than half of new small-business start-ups usually fail within the first 5 years of operation. Therefore, ...

    Abstract In most countries, small businesses represent a majority of firms providing close to fifty percent of the total employment. However, on average, more than half of new small-business start-ups usually fail within the first 5 years of operation. Therefore, learning from the success of small-business owners who have sustained in business for at least 5 years can provide helpful insights not only for individual firms, but also for the continued growth of local economies which usually rely on small business to a great extent. The purpose of this case study based article was to explore common approaches, strategies and skills of successful business founders/small business owner´s that contribute to their sustained development. The article is based on a qualitative survey of sixteen, locally operating, small, retail and service-industry firms which, having successfully survived at least 5 years in business, continue to grow. The method of the survey covered semi structured interviews led with individual entrepreneurs and focused on identifying the crucial business as well as personal approaches and skills important for their market survival.
    Keywords small business ; business owner characteristics ; entrepreneurial skills ; leadership skills ; business planning ; networking ; market differentiation ; Social Sciences ; H
    Subject code 650
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
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  4. Article ; Online: Corporate Governance Mechanisms

    Urban Jan

    SHS Web of Conferences, Vol 61, p

    Their Strengths, Weaknesses and Complementarity

    2019  Volume 01028

    Abstract: By corporate governance mechanisms we understand both market and non-market processes, including corporate rules and measures that tackle, internally and externally, two corporate governance problems, i.e. the vertical governance problem that arises ... ...

    Abstract By corporate governance mechanisms we understand both market and non-market processes, including corporate rules and measures that tackle, internally and externally, two corporate governance problems, i.e. the vertical governance problem that arises between shareholders and managers, and the horizontal governance problem occurring between shareholders themselves. Efficient corporate governance mechanisms, aligning various stakeholder’s interests, help to put the right managers in the right place, providing them at the same time with the right set of incentives and constraints. While some corporate governance mechanisms serving these goals, both internal and external from the corporation perspective, are more efficient in dealing with vertical corporate governance, other solve better horizontal governance issues. The main emphasis of the article is laid on the relative role and limits of market and non-market corporate governance mechanisms solving vertical governance problems as well their complementarity and substitution possibilities. Its method is mainly based on secondary analysis of case studies in corporate governance.
    Keywords Corporate governance ; Agency costs ; Public corporation ; Corporate performance ; Social Sciences ; H
    Subject code 650 ; 340
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
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  5. Article: Hand disinfectants and their activity against clinical isolates of Bordetella pertussis.

    Uttlová, Petra / Urban, Jan

    Central European journal of public health

    2023  Volume 30, Issue 4, Page(s) 230–234

    Abstract: Objectives: The aim of the study was to investigate possible emergence of resistance to disinfectants in Bordetella pertussis strains isolated from patients with whooping cough in the Czech Republic in 2014 and 2015.: Methods: In an EN1500-based ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: The aim of the study was to investigate possible emergence of resistance to disinfectants in Bordetella pertussis strains isolated from patients with whooping cough in the Czech Republic in 2014 and 2015.
    Methods: In an EN1500-based study, clean and dry fingertips of volunteers were always contaminated with one of the two clinical isolates of B. pertussis. Clinical isolates of B. pertussis were obtained from the National Reference Laboratory for Pertussis and Diphtheria, National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), Prague, Czech Republic. Dry and contaminated fingertips were immersed in 10 ml medium and then rubbed with the fingers for 1 minute. After that, the hands were treated with isopropanol 60% v/v or tested products, and then the fingertips were rubbed again into 10 ml of pure medium for 1 minute. The suspensions obtained were immediately diluted and plated on charcoal medium.
    Results: Ethanol-based product A and propanol-based product B showed bactericidal activity after 30 s of contact. The confidence interval limit for product A and B was 0.12 and 0.19, respectively. Quaternary ammonium compound-based product C was found to be ineffective after 30 s of contact. The confidence interval limit for product C was 0.62.
    Conclusion: Products A and B were assessed as effective against clinical isolates of B. pertussis in accordance with EN 1500. Quaternary ammonium compound-based product C did not comply with the requirements of EN 1500.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Bordetella pertussis ; Whooping Cough ; Hand Sanitizers ; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds ; Czech Republic
    Chemical Substances Hand Sanitizers ; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-30
    Publishing country Czech Republic
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1176053-9
    ISSN 1803-1048 ; 1210-7778 ; 0022-1732
    ISSN (online) 1803-1048
    ISSN 1210-7778 ; 0022-1732
    DOI 10.21101/cejph.a7141
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  6. Article: Environmental Attitudes in 28 European Countries Derived From Atheoretically Compiled Opinions and Self-Reports of Behavior.

    Urban, Jan / Kaiser, Florian G

    Frontiers in psychology

    2022  Volume 13, Page(s) 875419

    Abstract: People differ in their personal commitment to fighting climate change and protecting the environment. The question is, can we validly measure people's commitment by what they say and what they claim they do in opinion polls? In our research, we ... ...

    Abstract People differ in their personal commitment to fighting climate change and protecting the environment. The question is, can we validly measure people's commitment by what they say and what they claim they do in opinion polls? In our research, we demonstrate that opinions and reports of past behavior can be aggregated into comparable depictions of people's personal commitment to fighting climate change and protecting the environment (i.e., their environmental attitudes). In contrast to the commonly used operational scaling approaches, we ground our measure of people's environmental attitudes in a mathematically formalized psychological theory of the response process-the Campbell paradigm. This theory of the response process has already been extensively validated, and its relevance for manifest behavior has repeatedly been shown as well. In our secondary analysis of Eurobarometer data (
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    Publishing date 2022-07-05
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2563826-9
    ISSN 1664-1078
    ISSN 1664-1078
    DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.875419
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  7. Article: The COVID-19 crisis does not diminish environmental motivation: Evidence from two panel studies of decision making and self-reported pro-environmental behavior.

    Urban, Jan / Braun Kohlová, Markéta

    Journal of environmental psychology

    2022  Volume 80, Page(s) 101761

    Abstract: The literature shows that threats unrelated to environmental problems can shift attention away from these problems and affect pro-environmental behavior. It is not clear whether the COVID-19 crisis that started in 2019 had any uniform effect on pro- ... ...

    Abstract The literature shows that threats unrelated to environmental problems can shift attention away from these problems and affect pro-environmental behavior. It is not clear whether the COVID-19 crisis that started in 2019 had any uniform effect on pro-environmental behavior and decision making. In two preregistered panel studies conducted before and during the first COVID wave (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-20
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 0272-4944
    ISSN 0272-4944
    DOI 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101761
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  8. Article: The COVID-19 crisis does not diminish environmental motivation: Evidence from two panel studies of decision making and self-reported pro-environmental behavior

    Urban, Jan / Braun Kohlová, Markéta

    Journal of environmental psychology. 2022 Apr., v. 80

    2022  

    Abstract: The literature shows that threats unrelated to environmental problems can shift attention away from these problems and affect pro-environmental behavior. It is not clear whether the COVID-19 crisis that started in 2019 had any uniform effect on pro- ... ...

    Abstract The literature shows that threats unrelated to environmental problems can shift attention away from these problems and affect pro-environmental behavior. It is not clear whether the COVID-19 crisis that started in 2019 had any uniform effect on pro-environmental behavior and decision making. In two preregistered panel studies conducted before and during the first COVID wave (n1 = 206, n2 = 164) and before and during the second COVID wave (n3 = n4 = 260), we found that the crisis had had no uniform effect on pro-environmental behaviors, environmental attitude, nor on the behavioral costs of general pro-environmental behavior. Analysis of one specific pro-environmental behavior, the choice of environmentally friendly delivery of products, revealed that the general preference for green delivery services and heightened preference for green delivery services among people with higher attitude levels remained unchanged by the COVID-19 crisis. Thus, if the COVID-19 crisis has had any effects on pro-environmental behaviors, these effects are probably fragmented, specific to certain population segments, and not visible in the short-term perspective.
    Keywords COVID-19 infection ; attitudes and opinions ; behavior ; clothing ; decision making ; journals ; people
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-04
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article
    ISSN 0272-4944
    DOI 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101761
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  9. Article ; Online: Human Resource Management in SMEs in the Czech Republic – Specifics and Key Requirements

    Caha Zdeněk / Urban Jan

    SHS Web of Conferences, Vol 73, p

    2020  Volume 02001

    Abstract: A frequent problem regarding human resources management in SMEs is that established rules are not followed. This is because managers either do not fully understand the rules or the importance thereof, or because of a lack of professional support or ... ...

    Abstract A frequent problem regarding human resources management in SMEs is that established rules are not followed. This is because managers either do not fully understand the rules or the importance thereof, or because of a lack of professional support or rigorous control by a human resources department. Another reason is that not all SMEs have personnel specialists or HR managers at their disposal, as a consequence of which the control and advisory role falls under the responsibility of line management. The solution to this conundrum may be the adoption of a personnel manual, a document that summarises best practice regarding human resources management based on the experience of professionally managed and financially prosperous small companies. This can be understood to represent a user-friendly methodological guide for the successful implementation of personnel management activities in SMEs by line managers, a guide which includes clearly defined methodological, control and advisory tasks and functions.
    Keywords human resource ; management ; requirements ; smes ; Social Sciences ; H
    Subject code 650
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
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  10. Article ; Online: False precision of mass domain in HPLC-HRMS data representation.

    Urban, Jan

    Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences

    2016  Volume 1023-1024, Page(s) 72–77

    Abstract: The term precision of a value describes the total number of significant digits that are used to express that value. False precision is presented in data, where the sampling and chosen data file format coding return values with extra non-valid digits. The ...

    Abstract The term precision of a value describes the total number of significant digits that are used to express that value. False precision is presented in data, where the sampling and chosen data file format coding return values with extra non-valid digits. The proper precision in value thus depends on so-called magnitude in digital data coding. The presence of the false precision is file format dependent. The amount of dataset points could be decreased by removing false precision (where it is present) to almost 10% of the raw measurement without loss of information.
    MeSH term(s) Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/standards ; Computational Biology ; Databases, Factual ; Mass Spectrometry/standards ; Reproducibility of Results
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-06-15
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1180823-8
    ISSN 1873-376X ; 0378-4347 ; 1570-0232 ; 1387-2273
    ISSN (online) 1873-376X
    ISSN 0378-4347 ; 1570-0232 ; 1387-2273
    DOI 10.1016/j.jchromb.2015.11.044
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