Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ekrem Yasar Akcay Author-Name-First: Ekrem Yasar Author-Name-Last: Akcay Author-Email: ey_akcay@hotmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Hakkari Universitesi Title: POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF UK?S SEPARATION FROM EU Abstract: One of the major EU countries, the United Kingdom (UK), the EU has become a member after the first wave of enlargement. Historically Great Britain which opposed to the idea of a European Union, it has been in the economic and political interests despite efforts need to be a member of the Union. UK which became to member of EU, After UK?s application was rejected twice by Former French President Charles De Gaulle, took up a position the attitude towards EU integration by avoiding the problems inherent in the EU up to now. Recently leading to a referendum on EU membership in the UK, 52% of the people have voted to leave the EU. As a result of this situation, Britain's status will be determined according to Lisbon Treaty article 50. In this context, after England's departure from the EU, both in the the Union and in the UK what kind of changes, the advantages and disadvantages are problem of our study. Thus, with the departure of the UK from the EU, an evaluation will be carried out in the same way that economic troubles can be experienced and similar problems can be experienced in the EU, such as the separatist movements and the disintegration of the EU. In this context, it is aimed that the UK will face economic difficulties and the EU will face the danger of dispersal. Classification-JEL: Z00, Z19 Keywords: EU, United Kingdom, Lisbon Treaty, Separation from the EU, Referendum. Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 1-12 Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Year: 2018 Month: March File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1815 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1815?download=1 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:1-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonios Avgeris Author-Name-First: Antonios Author-Name-Last: Avgeris Author-Email: antoavge@agro.auth.gr Author-Workplace-Name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Author-Name: Achilleas Kontogeorgos Author-Name-First: Achilleas Author-Name-Last: Kontogeorgos Author-Email: akontoge@upatras.gr Author-Workplace-Name: University of Patras Author-Name: Panagiota Sergaki Author-Name-First: Panagiota Author-Name-Last: Sergaki Author-Email: gsergaki@auth.gr Author-Workplace-Name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Title: The 'Reciprocity' Game: A theoretical basis for measuring reciprocity in human socio-economic interactions Abstract: The Theory of Expected Utility is the central theory that describes the way individuals make a decision according to the classical economic theory. Despite the fact of that, experimental studies on individuals' behavioral attitude of the last 20 years have shown that this theory does not accurately represent human behavior from a descriptive point of view. On the contrary, these studies bear out that reciprocity is the motivational drive of human decisions. People have a reciprocal behavior if they praise and repay good deeds and punish unkind ones. On the other hand, they are rational if they make every effort to maximize the benefit and their utility. In this review paper, we present a theoretical framework of reciprocity's measuring through the experimental economics. In particular, we propose an experimental way of identifying the incentives under which the subjects make a decision. Are they motivated by other people's well-being or by material self-interest? For achieving this, Homo Economicus and Homo Reciprocans ''conflict'' amid two different games of Game Theory. These games (Ultimatum Game and Dictator Game) create a new one, which is called ''The Reciprocity Game'' and it is going to offer us an important theoretical basis for the empirical measurement of human reciprocity in the future. Classification-JEL: C72, C90, Z13 Keywords: Game Theory, Homo Economicus, Homo Reciprocans, Reciprocity, Social Economy Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 13-33 Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Year: 2018 Month: March File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1790 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1790?download=2 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:13-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Halil Ibrahim Cicekdagi Author-Name-First: Halil Ibrahim Author-Name-Last: Cicekdagi Author-Email: cicekdagi@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Social Sciences, Selcuk University, Turkey Author-Name: Tahir Akgemci Author-Name-First: Tahir Author-Name-Last: Akgemci Author-Email: takgemci@selcuk.edu.tr Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Selcuk University, Konya/Turkey Author-Name: Abdullah Y?lmaz Author-Name-First: Abdullah Author-Name-Last: Y?lmaz Author-Email: abdullahyilmaz@selcuk.edu.tr Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Selcuk University, Konya/Turkey Title: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL LOAFING BEHAVIOURS ON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE TYPE: AN EVALUATION ON SEARCH AND RESCUE EMPLOYEES Abstract: Disasters require readiness since they are cases which do not have a certain time to occur. Rapid intervention during and after disasters is vital in saving life. Being ready for every assist from the moment of the case is only possible when disaster employees make correct decisions. An effective disaster management includes all necessary efforts before, during and after disasters and they must prevent social loafing. Because their work is rescue life. This study aims that investigate of search and rescue persons? organizational culture and relation with the social loafing behavior. This studies main group is search and rescue team workers who work in Turkey. Survey questions were sent online and we had 341 valid questionnaires in return. The acquired data were analyzed with SPSS 15.0 statistical program. Research results explained that perceived organizational culture and solidarity affects to social loafing behavior perception. At the same times, which are part of organizational culture, it has observed that socialization has significant negatively effect on social loafing behavior. In the disaster and emergency service industry which is the corporately and group joint working are important, the businesses should compose social culture with improving their solidaristic and social personality, so they will obstruct undesirable attitudes like social loafing. Classification-JEL: C12, C83, M10 Keywords: Disaster and Emergency, Search and Rescue Persons, Social Loafing, Organizational Culture. Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 34-48 Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Year: 2018 Month: March File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1751 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1751?download=3 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:34-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jerome Dumetz Author-Name-First: Jerome Author-Name-Last: Dumetz Author-Email: jerome@clamart.net Author-Workplace-Name: Plekhanov Russian Economic University Author-Name: Jan Cadil Author-Name-First: Jan Author-Name-Last: Cadil Author-Email: jan.cadil@unicorncollege.cz Author-Workplace-Name: Unicorn College Title: Challenging the Masculinity index: The end of a cross-cultural myth Abstract: This article aims to review the coherence of the definition of the Masculinity Index, one of the most cited dimensions in cross-cultural management. The study challenges the claims supporting the design, the definition and ultimately the validity of the Masculinity Index that are the basis of it applications in management theory and practice. The paper is based on the empirical analysis of the MAS index utilizing a standard quantitative approach. The authors ran cross-section regressions with control variables for the applications of the index that could be quantified: According to Hofstede, high MAS Index countries have relatively higher defence spending, a relatively lower aid spending on poor countries, less gender equality at work and have higher share of women teaching small children and a lower share of women teaching at universities.The analysis did not validate those claims and therefore the hypothesis of the Masculinity index. The authors provide empirical proof of the lack of validity of the MAS index to compare national cultures, recommend abandoning the MAS index and instead using alternative instruments of gender equalitarianism. Classification-JEL: M14, O57, Z10 Keywords: Intercultural management, Cross-cultural management, Intercultural model, Masculinity/Femininity Index, Gender Equalitarianism Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 49-68 Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Year: 2018 Month: March File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1800 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1800?download=4 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:49-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Noel Packard Author-Name-First: Noel Author-Name-Last: Packard Author-Email: packarnoel@myvuw.ac.nz Author-Workplace-Name: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Title: Habitual Interaction Estranged Abstract: Marx?s alienation, dialectical materialism and stratification theory, provides a lens through which to explore an explosion of statistical studies regarding on-line interaction and possible Internet addiction (IA). Acclaimed authors Turkle, Greenwald and Foer, warn that consumer interaction in the digital world has risks that can be countered by individual responsibility and action. Their claims are juxtaposed to what ordinary, individual, cell phone and social media users self-report en masse about their on-line experience, documented in thousands of statistical and empirical studies. Marx?s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and Marx?s Theory of Alienation by Mészáros are used to explore what alienation looks like in a perpetuum mobile world. The analysis melds Marx?s alienation theory to findings, presenting a Marx inspired system of interactive appropriation and alienation. Regardless of how Internet users experience social media; or differing interpretations of addiction; or how researchers study internet usage; one undisputable fact emerges: this electronically mediated mode of production appropriates wealth from Internet users to enrich what appears to be a 1% class of telecommunication industry owners. Other conclusions are: Marx?s theories apply in a non-Machine epoch context, in which: the intangible electronic memory volunteered by telecommunication customers, who may risk Internet addiction (IA), is a free by-product of a system of appropriation exchanged for alienation, which is in a transitional mode, representing potential future surplus value. Given this, IA might help increase telecommunication industry profits, government contracts, money hoarding and turn over. The presuppositions of the paper are: 1) on-line communication is, according to statistics, normal, pervasive and potentially addictive; 2) statistical studies are a scientific cornerstone of sociological research; 3) studies discussed may, or may not, honestly represent what ordinary users of social media report; 4) Marx?s theories and methods are part of sociology?s cannon and 5) Internet addiction (IA) is considered a global problem, although it lacks official medical etiology and researchers across disciplines (communication, psychology, medicine, to name a few) disagree about what causes it. Classification-JEL: Z13, L96, D12 Keywords: alienation, Marx, Internet Addiction (IA), social media, telecommunication, cell phone, AI Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 69-94 Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Year: 2018 Month: March File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1788 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1788?download=5 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:69-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jana Marie Safrankova Author-Name-First: Jana Marie Author-Name-Last: Safrankova Author-Email: jana.safrankova@vsrr.cz Author-Workplace-Name: College of Regional Development and Banking Institute- AMBIS a.s. Author-Name: Martin Sikyr Author-Name-First: Martin Author-Name-Last: Sikyr Author-Email: martin.sikyr@cvut.cz Author-Workplace-Name: Czech Technical University in Prague, Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies Title: A new generation on the labour market and challenges faced by current human resource management practice Abstract: The goal of the paper is to define challenges of current human resource management practice in terms of dealing with the potential shortage of qualified and motivated people on the Czech labour market and in connection with the emergence of a new generation of economically active people from among university students and graduates. Achieving the goal of the paper is based on both the analysis of available scientific literature, academic journals, and statistical data focused on human resources, labour market and higher education as well as the results of the authors' questionnaire survey focused on students of selected Czech universities and their motivation to study at university and their expectations about the future career. The questionnaire survey was conducted by authors from September 2016 to March 2017. The respondents were full-time and combined bachelor's and master's students. The relevant data were obtained from 994 students. The data analysis was based on the calculation of relative frequencies (as a share from the total number of respondents) and the evaluation of the dependence of responses on age (students aged 29 or less and students aged 30 or more) using contingency tables and chi-square tests of independence. The results support the suggestion that from the perspective of potential shortage of qualified and motivated people on the Czech labour market employers should apply a positive approach to the employment of young people and apply proven strategies, policies and practices in talent, performance, knowledge, and diversity management to create appropriate and attractive employment opportunities for young people. Classification-JEL: I23, J21, M12 Keywords: human resources, human resource management, labour market, work force, employment, higher education, university students, Czech Republic Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 95-111 Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Year: 2018 Month: March File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1644 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1644?download=6 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:95-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luca Salvati Author-Name-First: Luca Author-Name-Last: Salvati Author-Email: luca.salvati@uniroma1.it Author-Workplace-Name: Sapienza University of Rome Title: Mediterranean landscape, desertification and the population-economy nexus: permanent assessment and implications for mitigation policies Abstract: The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines ?desertification? as a ?reduction or loss of the biological and economic productivity? resulting from land use mismanagement, or a combination of processes, such as soil erosion, deterioration of soil properties, and long-term loss of natural vegetation. Landscape Degradation (LD) is hence an interactive process involving multiple factors, among which climate, land use, and population pressure play a key role. Joint biophysical and socioeconomic aspects are the main factors negatively impacting the vulnerability of natural and agricultural land especially in Mediterranean-type ecosystems, and their interaction may become extremely complex over space and time, resulting in typical patterns of landscape degradation, molded by increased population density. In order to identify vulnerable areas and quantify the intensity of the associated environmental risk, understanding spatio-temporal trends (together with current status) of landscape degradation is a key issue both from ecological and policy perspectives. Diachronic studies may contribute effectively to policy implementation providing a knowledge base to environmental monitoring and conservation practices. In fact, they would allow, on the one hand, to identify degraded areas needing substantial intervention initiatives for biodiversity and landscape protection; on the other hand, they allow a permanent monitoring of the evolving landscape processes in the perspective of global changes. Classification-JEL: R14, R58, J11 Keywords: Soil, Climate, Anthropogenic pressure, Southern Europe. Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 112-124 Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Year: 2018 Month: March File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1821 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1821?download=7 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:112-124