Kvalita života občanov - výzvy, determinanty a riešenia

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Eliška Župová

University textbooks are dedicated to the theoretical issues of sociological aspects for the needs of students in the study program of public administration and the study program of European public administration.

The publication's first chapter focuses on the attention of sociology from the perspective of its subject and its relationship to other scientific disciplines. The second part consists of chapters two to five and is dedicated to the history of sociology and the most significant figures in sociology from its inception to the present, as well as the developmental directions of classical and contemporary sociology. The third area addresses systematic sociology.

From a range of sociological topics, paradigms, and problems, this part of the publication is structured to provide students with fundamental knowledge from selected sociological aspects for their studies.

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Viktória Adamov Kráľová - Peter Molitoris -Viktória Ferková - Frederika Fogašová

According to the legislation, the municipality is considered as an entity that is obliged to provide information to the public by making information available upon request or by actively publishing information. The methodological manual entitled "Mandatory disclosure of information at the municipal level" defines the procedure, identified problem areas and recommendations/examples of good practice in the process of making information available upon request. The presented manual also draws attention to legal regulations and information with which municipalities come into contact most often and which, according to their wording, are required to be published.

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Michal Jesenko - Jana Volochová - Martina Kantorová - Miroslav Fečko

Collection of contributions from 8th annual conference of the international doctoral conference "Theory and Practice of Public Administration", which took place on February 17, 2023 online through Microsoft Teams under the auspices of the Faculty of Public Administration of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. The conference was attended by 32 doctoral students from the Slovak Republic, Ukraine, and African countries. The conference allowed the participants to present the results of their scientific research activities in the field of public administration. The conference participants were divided into 4 sections according to the topic of their contribution. In the political science section, the participants presented contributions thematically focused, for example, on the solution of green issues in the Slovak Republic or the influence of the political culture of the inhabitants of the Slovak-Ukrainian border on local and regional political processes. The social section provided a space for presenting contributions and discussing, for example, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized groups in the Slovak Republic. In the economic section, participants presented contributions from, for example, the field of waste management or the impact of employing foreigners on the economy of the Slovak Republic. The legal sections dealt with, for example, the topic of current changes in public procurement, the activities of VÚC councils or the protection of personal data of minors in the online space.

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Verejná správa ako poskytovateľ verejných služieb sociálneho štátu - využitie zahraničných skúseností pre reformy v Slovenskej republike

Stanislav Konečný (ed.)

Veľká väčšina týchto publikačných výstupov je pre domácich čitateľov pomerne ľahko dostupná či už v printovej alebo elektronickej podobe. Keďže však viacero kľúčových publikovaných výstupov je pre slovenských čitateľov z rôznych dôvodov menej prístupných, rozhodli sme sa ich v tomto zborníku reprintovať aspoň niektoré z nich v ich slovenskojazyčných verziách. Keďže všetky tu reprintované texty prešli pri svojom pôvodnom vydaní riadnym recenzným pokračovaním, nebolo už potrebné ich slovenskojazyčné verzie znovu recenzovať. Pri každej z publikovaných štúdií preto uvádzame bibliografické údaje jej pôvodného vydania, vrátane mien recenzentov, vedeckých redaktorov a pod.

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Darina Koreňová

This university textbook is primarily intended for students of the Faculty of Public Administration of the Pavel Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. It can also be a relevant source of information for students of other faculties or departments with a focus on public administration, public finance, and public sector economics.The textbook can be not only a teaching material for higher education, but also as a useful tool for the professional public. Employees of state administration and local self-government, non-profit and private sector entities can use the knowledge from it in everyday practice.

The textbook is divided into seven chapters. The aim of the textbook is to clarify in a comprehensible way basic concepts such as fiscal federalism, fiscal decentralization, local government budget, its revenues, and expenditures.The textbook explains to the reader the financing of important areas of the economy, such as education, health, and transport.

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Stanislav Konečný

The goal of this monograph is to interpret the context of the emergence of public policy theory and the basic parameters of its subject matter—public interest, actors, and tools—as well as its methodological equipment.

The publication is also a response to the current state of development of public policy and its theory in our context, compared to its development worldwide. Today, when there is not only a very developed theory but also practice of public policy abroad, making it accessible to our readers in its full scope in the form of domestic production is almost impossible, also due to the quantitative parameters of our domestic authorial potential.

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Michal Jesenko (editor) - Eva Mihalíková - Darina Koreňová

Public Administration and Society is a scientific journal publishing scientific academic articles, contributions to discussion and reviews having the content orientation on the theory and practice of Public Administration. The mission of the Journal is to publish significant results of the scientific scholarly researches regarding the area of public administration and related disciplines which are connected with the study profile and scientific bias of our Faculty. The Scientific Journal is issued in electronic version.

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Michal Jesenko - Jana Volochová - Andrea Košíková - Patrik Fajak

The methodological manual is thematically focused on the identification and analysis of key problems of self-government of "small" municipalities in selected areas. We specified the basic areas: financing of municipal competences, waste management and its financing, management of municipal waste. Subsequently, attention is paid to the creation of appropriate strategic solutions to the identified problems through a methodological manual, while maintaining the basic principles of public administration. The result of our identification and subsequent analysis of selected problems is to offer possible solutions and point out the justification of the need to solve selected problems of self-government, which can be used in practice and offer possible solutions to correct the negative situation.

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Denisa Rovenská

The textbook focuses on development of professional competencies and analyzes fields such as communication, leadership, goal setting, decision making, time management, teamwork, conflict and conflict strategies and stress management. Particular chapters offer a summary of information needed to build a theoretical framework of the competencies along with various tasks or activities that should motivate to transform gained knowledge to practical level. The professional competencies need to be developed and maintain in practical level, because this is the only way how to spread potential of knowledge and become truly competent in professional and private life, as well.

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Gabriela Kravčáková a kol.

The second revised and extended edition of University textbook Organizational Behavior is the work of an international team of authors. University teachers of two Slovak universities and two Czech universities are the authors of this book. Problem areas of organizational behavior and its processing comprehensively was the intention of the authors. University textbook is complemented by 10 chapters, other chapters are significantly revised. University textbook is thematically divided into five parts. The first part treats the issue of organizational behavior as a discipline. Organizational behavior is theoretically defined, there is indicated the subject matter of the discipline, relationship with other sciences, historical and scientific foundations of organizational behavior. There are also presented knowledge about formal organizations and bureaucracy. Final of the first part is dedicated to social science research and social audit in organizations. The second part is called Individual aspects of organizational behavior and there are included themes as personality, work and its role in human life, job satisfaction, work motivation and loyalty of employees. This part is complemented by the issue of personality, competency and power of manager and career issues. Interpersonal interaction and group processes in an organization is the name of the third part of the book. It includes the chapters as working group, team and team roles, leadership and its impact on human personality, communication, performance management, friendships and loneliness in the organization. This section was complemented by the issue of interculturar communication in the international organizational context, conflicts in the workplace and workplace misbehavior. Fourth, complemented part is called Resources and means of ensuring employees and there are included themes such as external and internal mobility of workers, personal marketing, and unemployed as a potential source of workforce and talent management. The fifth part is called The organization as a culture and organizational dynamics. Authors included topics such as organizational culture, social responsibility of organizations and added the themes ethics on workplace, change management and radical change – reengineering. University textbook presents current theoretical knowledge and also the results of relevant research. Contents of chapters are complemented by practical examples of organizations. There are included questions for reflection and tasks at the end of each chapter. Tasks that help students and professional public apply the theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems. This University textbook comes with support KEGA no. 013-UPJŠ 4/2013 titled Organizational Behavior - University textbook for the compulsory subject of the new study program.

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Michal Jesenko (editor) - Eva Mihalíková - Darina Koreňová

Public Administration and Society is a scientific journal publishing scientific academic articles, contributions to discussion and reviews having the content orientation on the theory and practice of Public Administration. The mission of the Journal is to publish significant results of the scientific scholarly researches regarding the area of public administration and related disciplines which are connected with the study profile and scientific bias of our Faculty. The Scientific Journal is issued in electronic version.

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Taťjana Búgelová - Gabriela Kravčáková (eds.)

Nekonferenčný zborník vedeckých prác nazvaný Hodnota duševnej práce pre organizáciu a spoločnosť je výstupom výskumného grantu VEGA č. 1/0865/08 s názvom Determinanty, kritériá a hodnotenie duševnej práce. Zborník prezentuje výsledky výskumu, teoretických poznatkov a skúseností z praxe zameraných na problematiku hodnoty práce a hodnoty ľudského kapitálu. Vedecké práce sú tematicky zamerané na hodnotu práce a rozvoj ľudského kapitálu, na rolu a úlohu aktérov participujúcich na tvorbe ľudského kapitálu a jeho hodnote, na procesy determinujúce hodnotu ľudského kapitálu, na jednotlivca v procese práce, na spoločenské a organizačné normy a pravidlá determinujúce hodnotu práce a tiež na možnosti merania a oceňovania hodnoty práce a ľudského kapitálu.

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Viktória Bobáková a kolektív

Koncepcia, východiská a perspektívy rozvoja územnej samosprávy v SR sa zaoberá moderným riadeným územnej samosprávy, aby boli občania spokojní s územnou samosprávou, ukazuje perspektívy do budúcna a moderné riadenie v koncepcii starostov.

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Stanislav Konečný

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Peter Molitoris

Hlavným cieľom predkladanej publikácie je podrobiť kritickej analýze možnosti využitia konsenzuálnych prostriedkov alternatívnych riešení sporov v oblasti verejnej správy, konkrétne v oblasti individuálnej rozhodovacej činnosti správnych orgánov - v správnom konaní.

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Ondrej Mitaľ - Veronika Nováková(eds.)

Recenzovaný zborník príspevkov z vedeckej konferencie doktorandov, ktorá sa uskutočnila dňa 17.2.2016 v priestoroch Fakulty verejnej správy UPJŠ v Košiciach, Popradská 66, 040 11 Košice.

​Obsah zborníka tvoria príspevky účastníkov konferencie Teória a prax verejnej správy: Vedecká konferencia doktorandov uskutočnenej 17. februára 2016 na pôde Fakulty verejnej správy Univerzity Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach. Celkovo je v zborníku 29 príspevkov, ktoré sú podľa ich obsahového zamerania rozdelené do politologickej, právnej a sociálno - ekonomickej sekcie. Účastníci konferencie predstavovali príspevky rozmanitých aktuálnych odborných tém spôsobom obohacujúcim súčasnú teóriu a prax verejnej správy. Jednotliví autori do svojich konferenčných príspevkov zároveň zahrnuli mnoho dôležitých postrehov, názorov, skúseností a poznatkov. Všetky publikované príspevky poskytujú priestor pre hlbšiu kvalifikovanú diskusiu.

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