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Public servants’ decisions that are inconsistent with citizens’ interests can lead to the mistreatment of public servants. The purpose of the research was to found out how the HRM practices in public organizations are related to the perception of fairness (procedural and distributive justice), and how the positive and negative moods of public servants are related to the citizens’ mistreatment. The research was made in local government, public schools, health centres and hospitals. A total of 1,729 respondents answered all the questions. Reliability as the questionnaire’s internal consistency was measured by Cronbach <italic>α</italic> for each multi-item scale. Four linear regression models were built. The results show that HRM is positively and statistically significantly associated with the perception of procedural justice. Furthermore, public servants’ negative affect is positively and statistically significantly associated with all four dimensions of citizen mistreatment (ambiguous citizen expectations, dealing with a disliked citizen, citizen verbal aggression, and disproportionate citizen expectations).
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Citizens Mistreatment Among Public Servants in Social Public Services

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The purpose of this study is to substantiate theoretical foundations of the development of organizational and legal model of competency-based education as an important means of the transition to innovative economy-knowledge economy, digital intellectual economy. An important problem, as follows from the analysis, is that the current legislation in the field of education, its actual organizational and legal model does not provide necessary reproduction of social capital as a leading factor in the fourth industrial revolution. The main ways to solve this problem is the design of the content (the organizational model) of the sound academic background and its subsequent formalization – development of the organization and legal model of competency-based education. The proposed solutions to the problem, which will be presented to the leadership of education and science of Ukraine, can be useful also to the scientists from other European countries which have similar educational and cultural traditions.
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Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics

Organizational and Legal Model of Competency-Based Education as a Means of the Transition to Innovative Economy

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Tax procedures aim at collecting public finances to cover societal needs but also protect taxpayers. Hereby, a collision between transparency and privacy occurs. The goal of the research was twofold; to identify the relation between transparency and privacy in theory and legislation, and to detect gaps between law by the book and practice in tax matters in Slovenia as an EU Member State. Analyses are therefore based on qualitative research methods attributed to legal-administrative context. A combined approach is applied, including literature review, normative, dogmatic, sociological, and axiological methods. The findings reveal that several national statutes should be clearer to enable consistent enforcement. The results of both theoretical and empirical research suggest a constant search for a balance between transparency and privacy. Yet, the former is more emphasised over time as the letter to increase the rule of law, inclusiveness, and efficiency as the most salient governance principles in tax procedures.
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Tax Procedures Between Transparency and Privacy: Trends in Legal Regulation and Practice in Slovenia

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The main objective of the paper was to identify and explain the terms related to Industry 4.0 based on a review of foreign literature and then to interpret the results of the quantitative research. In the construction of the theoretical framework, the analysis, synthesis, comparison of scientific terminology from foreign scientific sources from recent years. Interpretation of the studied issues from the practical aspect was realised on the basis of the evaluation of the questionnaire survey. The object of the research were 29 enterprises participating in the metallurgical industry in Slovakia. The research results indicate that the respondents have partial information about Industry 4.0. Data evaluation also indicated that most of the respondents are applying Industry 4.0 in production. Industry 4.0 in metallurgical enterprises mainly optimise business processes. The use of smart sensors from Industry 4.0 technologies as well as advanced simulation is dominant in metallurgical enterprises in Slovakia.
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Key Challenges and Opportunities of Industry 4.0 in Metallurgical Industry in Slovakia

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The trade relations between Poland and China have been highly unbalanced. Taking into account the fact that standard trade flows do not reflect the real position of the economy in production links, it was decided to analyse the value-added flows. The goal of the study is to identify the intensity of the value added flows between the Polish and Chinese industries. Two hypotheses were stated: 1) as a result of the introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, the role of Chinese value added directed to Poland increased; 2) the role of Poland as a supplier of added value for Chinese production is gradually growing. The study utilizes the Inter-Country Input-Output Database in the output-input model. Results indicate that Poland has significantly worsened its position in global production links in relation to China in many industries and is still more dependent on value added coming from the EU than on the Chinese value added. The role of Polish value added in Chinese industries is low and has not increased since the BRI introduction. Moreover, it is difficult to conclude that the growing role of China in production links with Poland is the result of the BRI introduction, because no significant changes were observed after starting this strategy.
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Are We Transforming Towards More Balanced Relationships? Production Connections Between China and Poland in the 21st Century

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