Volume 84 (2020): Edizione 1 (December 2020)

The article discusses the possibilities of the resilience of organizations in the context of a learning organization and presents the results of a survey of the leaders of regional public organizations, on the basis of which the factors of the resilience of organizations are ranked according to importance. The study results have revealed that NGOs further away from regional centres tend to focus on routine management aspects, enabling the members of the organization to communicate and collaborate effectively, meanwhile the development of the members, an essential resilience factor, was not considered as highly important.

Some of the authors proposed that organisational factors play an important role in the context of employees’ workaholism. Therefore, the principal purpose of the paper is to systematically review the scientific literature on the relationship between leadership behaviours and employees’ workaholism.

The business world is changing due to the occupational climate and a large proportion of business executives that are bound to retire in the nearest future leading to an anticipated great loss of knowledge and performance. The paper seeks to evaluate job performance by considering the effect of mentoring on employee performance in the Nigerian service sector. Research focuses on finding out the level at which exposure, counseling, and role modelling affect employee performance in the Nigerian service sector.

The aim of this paper is to better understand the meaning of caring for employees at the organisational level as well as to disclose its relationship with the well-being of the organisation. It explores literature on caring for employees at the organisational level by integrating two research streams – the relational and morality perspectives. Building on the findings of this literature review, a number of propositions are proposed that associate the well-being of the organisation with many antecedent factors, i.e., strategic caring, perceived organisational support, disinterested organisational support, organisational caring, caring culture, caring climate and caring leadership. This paper contributes to the literature on the well-being of the organisational members at the level of the organisation.

This study aims to analyse Psychological Capital (PsyCap) and creative self-efficacy of students participating in the entrepreneurship program. The theory of the paper analyses the development and significance of concepts. Quantitative research focuses on finding out the levels of PsyCap and creative self-efficacy, comparing PsyCap data to a representative sample, comparing all results with the current job status and their entrepreneurial intentions.

Limited studies exist on the commitment of members to cooperative business organizations. This study assesses commitment in the cooperative organization and determines its relationship with members’ individual characteristics. Primary data collected covers information on affective, continuance and normative commitment of cooperative members, in addition to demographic characteristics. Analysis of the data shows that cooperative members are indifferent to affective, continuance and normative measures of commitment in cooperative organizations. Gender characteristics, level of education and years of membership are critical to obtaining commitment in cooperative organizations. Cooperative organizations are encouraged to consider the personal characteristics of members in a drive to elicit the desired level of commitment.

Both scientists and practitioners acknowledge leadership as a key predictor of success in organizations. Leaders’ values could be a significant criterion for the analysis of changes in leadership recently. This study aims to investigate changes in leaders’ values over time among Baltic countries. The results of the European Social Survey (ESS) showed that leaders’ values did not significantly change over time (from 2008 to 2016). However, the expression of values significantly differed between leaders of different countries.

The article aims to identify the importance of experience marketing dimensions for city residents’ and visitors’ loyalty. The theoretical part of this article analyses the concepts of experience and city marketing, city customers and their importance to the city, and distinguishes the main dimensions of experience marketing in the city. During the quantitative research, the impact of experience marketing dimensions on the loyalty of Kaunas city residents and visitors was determined. Also, using regression analysis the relation between the evaluation of experience marketing dimensions of Kaunas city residents and visitors and the behavioural and attitudinal loyalty was established.