Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Suzana Demyen Author-Name-First: Suzana Author-Name-Last: Demyen Author-Email: suzana_demyen@yahoo.com Author-Workplace-Name: West University of Timisoara Author-Name: Ion Lala Popa, Author-Name-First: Ion Lala Author-Name-Last: Popa, Author-Email: ioan.lala@feaa.uvt.ro Author-Workplace-Name: West University of Timisoara Title: Human Resource Performance Assessment and Disparities Regarding Reward System - Are They Determinants of the Emigration Phenomena? The Case of Romania ? A View from the Top Abstract: The phenomenon of migration is widely spread throughout the world, as long as more and more individuals choose to work abroad in the idea of gaining a better payment. Also the process of globalization and the decreasing of demographic aspects manifest their influence upon the evolution of business environment generally. We also witness a general gap between men and women in terms of payment, a salary difference through the whole Europe, but also a general gap between the wage levels among countries. The paper proposes an analysis of the current situation regarding wage gaps in Romania, the research being developed in mainly a qualitative one and the results are analyzed in accordance to the data provided by official institutions. Often, the way managers perceive aspects of organizational performance in general and HR performance differs from the results reflected by the economic and financial indicators. Therefore, it becomes interesting to perform a comparison of the results expressed in official reports, through a content analysis, but also by conducting own surveys. Classification-JEL: J61, J21, L25 Keywords: salaries; gender disparities; human resource management; emigration, performance assessment Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 1-13 Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-59 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-59?download=1 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:4:y:2015:i:1:p:1-13 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Celil Koparal Author-Name-First: Celil Author-Name-Last: Koparal Author-Email: ckoparal@anadolu.edu.tr Author-Workplace-Name: Anadolu University Author-Name: Nuri Çal?k Author-Name-First: Nuri Author-Name-Last: Çal?k Author-Email: ncalik@anadolu.edu.tr Author-Workplace-Name: Anadolu University Title: Hedonic Consumption Characteristics Related to Products and Services where Fashion Involvement Plays an Important Role, A Field Study from Eskisehir, Turkey Abstract: This study intends to find out the relationship between hedonic consumption and consumers? demographic and psychographic traits as within the scope of fashion goods and expensive services. A survey is applied to 1020 respondents selected via stratified sampling from Eski?ehir, a city of Turkey with 700.000 inhabitants. The respondents are required to answer 44 questions of which five are related to demographic characteristics of these respondents. The rest 39 are statements which are designed to reflect the hedonic consumption behavior of these people. The study consists of five parts. The first part is an introduction where the scope and the purpose of the study are concisely stated. The second part relates to the theoretical background of the subject matter and the prior researches carried out so far. The third part deals with research methodology, basic premises and hypotheses attached to these premises. Research model and analyses take place in this section. Theoretical framework is built and a variable name is assigned to each of the question asked or proposition forwarded to the respondents of this survey. 39 statements or propositions given to the respondents are placed on a five-point Likert scale where 1 stands for ?strongly disagree? and 5 represents ?strongly agree?. The remaining five questions about demographic traits as age, gender, occupation, educational level and monthly income are placed either on a nominal or ratio scale with respect to the nature of the trait. Ten research hypotheses are formulated in this section. The fourth part mainly deals with the results of the hypothesis tests and bivariate and multivariate analysis is applied to the data on hand. Here exploratory factor analysis reduces 39 variables to six basic components. In addition non-parametric biraviate analysis in terms of Chi-Square is applied to test the hypotheses formulated in this respect. The fifth part is the conclusion where findings of this survey are listed. Classification-JEL: Keywords: fashion involvement, life styles, materialistic thinking, hedonic consumption Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 14-39 Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-60 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-60?download=2 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:4:y:2015:i:1:p:14-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Szilvia Nyüsti Author-Name-First: Szilvia Author-Name-Last: Nyüsti Author-Email: nyusti.szilvia@educatio.hu Author-Workplace-Name: Educatio Non-profit LLC Author-Name: Veroszta Veroszta Author-Name-First: Veroszta Author-Name-Last: Veroszta Author-Email: veroszta.zsuzsanna@educatio.hu Author-Workplace-Name: Educatio Non-profit LLC Title: Institutional effects on Bachelor-Master-level transition Abstract: The results presented are based on the analysis of transition from higher education to work or further training. The study is focused on exploring determinants of BSc graduates? decision to continue their studies at MA level or to enter the labour force in the context of the ?Bologna-type? linear educational system introduced in Hungary in 2007. In our approach BA/MA transition is considered as an educational selection mechanism (Shavit and Blossfeld, 1993; Shavit et. al, 2007; Breen et. al, 2009) which is determined by several socio-demographic, meritocratic and institutional effects as it has been previously studied in the Hungarian context (Veroszta, 2013c). In the current study we focus on the institutional determinants of decision between further study or labour market transition. The main research question is that after controlling for several background variables (i.e. social composition of the student body, excellence of students, academic staff or faculties, marketability of training) how to identify the components of institutional effects on transition. During the study a number of indicators ? such as regional characteristics, institutional structure and training supply ? are considered as institutional background variables. The paper applies explanatory models in order to respond the research questions. Many of data of the Hungarian Graduate Career Tracking System was integrated into the model from different databases. The analysis of the institutional effects is based on the administrative dataset of the Hungarian Higher Education Information System (FIR) covering the entire population of BSc graduates in a given year. Other effects are operationalized as macro level variables, created from a number of parallel data sources and linked into pre-defined institutional and training subgroups. Some of these macro level variables come from online survey based graduate career tracking database, while others from the administrative dataset of the centralized Hungarian higher education admission system. Classification-JEL: Keywords: higher education, transition, bachelor, master, institutional effects Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 40-62 Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-61 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-61?download=3 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:4:y:2015:i:1:p:40-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Serdar Ornek Author-Name-First: Serdar Author-Name-Last: Ornek Author-Email: sedarornek@hotmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Kocaeli University Author-Name: Mehlika Ozlem Ultan Author-Name-First: Mehlika Ozlem Author-Name-Last: Ultan Author-Email: ozlemultan@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Kocaeli University Title: Gypsies as Victims of Crime of Crimes Abstract: Many groups such as Jews, Gypsies, Slavs or the homosexuals were labelled as ?undesirables? during the Nazi era. Jews Especially were presented as the enemy of the Aryan ?master race? according to the Nazi ideology. Even though gypsies continue to face public prejudices and discrimination today, this study will be focused on the situation and the rights of Gypsies before and after the World War II. Gypsies had full and equal rights of citizenship under the Weimar Constitution, but they were still subject to some discriminational laws. When Hitler took power in 1933, anti-Gypsy laws remained in effect. In 1939, 30.000-35.000 people known as ?Gypsies? were living in Germany and Austria. In Europe, the situation of Gypsies differed from country to country, depending on local circumstances. For example, in German-occupied Europe, Gypsies were killed, or deported to camps in Germany or eastern Europe. In Croatia, Serbia, Romania and also Hungary, thousands of Gypsies were killed during the 1940s. According to the United Nations Genocide Convention, ?Genocide is a coordinated plan to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group by killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions designed to bring about its destruction, preventing births within the group, or removing children from the group.? Many genocides have occurred throughout history, but the word Genocide began to be used from the 1940s. ?Genocide? became a part of international law, with the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide. This study will try to examine the Gypsies, especially the Roma, as victims of genocide, how they were treated during the World War II and what were their rights before and after the Nazi?s. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Genocide, Gypsies, World War II, Porajmos, United Nations Genocide Convention Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 63-71 Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-62 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-62?download=4 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:4:y:2015:i:1:p:63-71 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gabriela Palavicini Corona Author-Name-First: Gabriela Author-Name-Last: Palavicini Corona Author-Email: gabypalavicini@hotmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Tecnológico de Monterrey Title: Human security and «excluding inclusion»: The frontiers in the active and passive citizenship exercise Abstract: This article considers two current topics: citizenship and security, in relation with a phenomenon denominated here as «excluding inclusion» (Agamben, 2003: 38). The first topic emphasizes the active participation while the second one, conceived as human security, highlights the acceptance of oppression due to fear and/or insecurity, in accordance to diverse situations in which an individual can be involved. Thus, human security will be studied as one of the main elements required by the exercise of democracy, devoted to its basic principles. In this sense, a democracy needs some givens to exist. Therefore, human security reinforces an active citizenship or even a critical citizenship, whereas an «excluding inclusion» provokes a lack of citizenship, or even a limited one as a result to the prevailing conditions of being marginalized. This provokes that both variables are considered as mutually exclusive, with direct consequences in the participation and involvement in the decision making process from a State. Hence, the guiding research question will be: How to constitute true active citizenship in the midst of pseudo-inclusive processes? As a hypothesis to solve this query, we would propose that: There is a positive proportional relation between security of any kind and the rise of participation and development; thus, the absence of security, specifically of human security brings to those who undergo it, to allow acts of «excluding inclusion». As a consequence, they become less active or participant. In this sense, is the latter type of inclusion an unavoidable obstacle in the construction of citizenship? Does human insecurity firstly drive to the acceptance of «excluding inclusion», and then to its consequential lack of security, that finally develop a vicious cycle? How to reconcile democracy, human insecurity, and a kind of inclusion that differentiates between the citizen who is currently constructing its economic, social and political community from a citizen who is considered as vulnerable and, therefore, as someone who could be sacrificed? These are also some questions to be considered in the paper. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Human security, citizenship, kinds of citizenship, ?excluding inclusion?, security Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 72-86 Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-63 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-63?download=5 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:4:y:2015:i:1:p:72-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aya Mohamed Safwat Author-Name-First: Aya Mohamed Author-Name-Last: Safwat Author-Email: aya.safwat@fue.edu.eg Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Future University in Egypt Title: Corporate Social Responsibility: Rewriting the Relationship between Business and Society Abstract: The relationship between business and society has witnessed a dramatic change in the past few years. Globalization, ethical consumerism, environmental concerns, strict government regulations, and growing strength of the civil society, are all factors that forced businesses to reconsider their role in society; accordingly there has been a surge of notions that tries to explain this new complex relation between business and society. This paper aims at accentuating this evolving relation by focusing on the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It differentiates between CSR and other related concepts such as business ethics and corporate philanthropy. It analyzes the different arguments in the CSR debate, pinpoints mechanisms adopted by businesses in carrying out their social responsibilities, and concludes with the link between corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Business Ethics, Corporate Philanthropy, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Development Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 87-99 Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-64 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-64?download=6 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:4:y:2015:i:1:p:87-99 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tom Sander Author-Name-First: Tom Author-Name-Last: Sander Author-Email: Stud.tom.sander@fh-kufstein.ac.at Author-Workplace-Name: University of Latvia Author-Name: Phoey Lee Teh Author-Name-First: Phoey Lee Author-Name-Last: Teh Author-Email: phoeyleet@sunway.edu.my Author-Workplace-Name: Sunway University Author-Name: Biruta Sloka Author-Name-First: Biruta Author-Name-Last: Sloka Author-Email: biruta.sloka@lu.lv Author-Workplace-Name: University of Latvia Title: The use of Social Network Sites for the Employment Seeking Process Abstract: Social networks are becoming more and more important in employment seeking process. The importance of social networks in this respect has been researched also in academic research worldwide and discussed on scientific conferences. The aim of the paper is to analyse the experience of the use of social network sites (SNS) with empirical results of 28 interviews with employment seeking individuals to identify the behaviour of employment seeking individuals and to identify further information regarding the employment seeking process in SNSs. In addition is an objective of the paper to falsify the dimensions of Sander / Teh. That the framework of the dimensions can be used to investigate SNSs and to describe the social capital theory of SNSs (Sander & Teh 2014a). The importance of real social networks are presented in many papers but the perspective of the employment seeking individual in SNSs needs further and deeper research. Classification-JEL: Keywords: social network sites; employment seeking process, social capital theory Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 100-108 Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Year: 2015 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-65 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-65?download=7 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:4:y:2015:i:1:p:100-108