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New Way To Be A Chair Via Distributed Shared Model, Dennis Anderson Mar 2023

New Way To Be A Chair Via Distributed Shared Model, Dennis Anderson

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Being a chair in today's higher education is more stressful due to various issues related to enrollment, administration demands, and limited and shrinking resources. Chairs have to manage and juggle demands from all stakeholders including students, faculty, staff, and administration. This presentation is about how to meet these challenges by creating a shared management system that enables and empowers faculty in the department by giving them portfolios. This model moves away from chair centric model that one person holds all decision making power by controlling resources. Since my department moved to shared distributed chair model, the department productivity is higher …


Operational And Statistical Management In Relation To Determination Of Aerodinamic Resistance On Mining Lines, Shaqir Elezaj Oct 2020

Operational And Statistical Management In Relation To Determination Of Aerodinamic Resistance On Mining Lines, Shaqir Elezaj

UBT International Conference

When we talk about the mining works, which are in such a function, so that air currents pass through such aerodynamic lines, then we are dealing with the need to calculate the aerodynamic resistances in such aeration networks. Ventilation systems, in the broadest practical and technical sense, are nothing but a reflection of the aeration plans of the mine as a whole or of its individual parts in an appropriate schematic manner, which includes only those specific works through which it circulates. air, while other works are excluded. The ventilation network does not fully comply with the mining plans, because …


The Role Of Risk Management Departments In Banking Institutions, Enver Daci Oct 2020

The Role Of Risk Management Departments In Banking Institutions, Enver Daci

UBT International Conference

The topic of risk and risk management is a topic where the interest of academics, field professionals but also ordinary people has increased enormously. When this topic is dealt with in the banking system, the dominant element in the overall financial system of a country, then the interest rate is even higher, especially after the global financial crisis. In the case of the banking system, credit risk is one of the main risks to which the system is exposed. Over the last decades, loans have occupied the main weight among the assets of the banking system. Moreover, in recent years, …


The Impact Of Effective Management On Economic Growth, Ylber Limani, Florentina Musliu, Blerina Hoxha Oct 2019

The Impact Of Effective Management On Economic Growth, Ylber Limani, Florentina Musliu, Blerina Hoxha

UBT International Conference

Effective management implies truthful and satisfactory performance of management activities. A high performing productive management typically perform activities effectively and efficiently. Accordingly, companies and countries can be economically viable when the available human, physical, and financial resources are effectively and efficiently managed to ensure the economic growth and well-being. Growth is most powerful organisational device to compete and to sustain by creating profits and by providing prosperity. Nevertheless, the essential management principles alone, could not provide sufficient support to achieve and sustain the ultimate goal of growth and affluence. Therefore, deep focusing on management effectiveness is needed to achieve higher …


Logistics Support Issues In Disaster Operations, Vedat Shaqiri Oct 2018

Logistics Support Issues In Disaster Operations, Vedat Shaqiri

UBT International Conference

The purpose of this research is to identify issues related to logistics support in disaster operations. This was established based on the existing academic literature as well as through the case study of South-East Asia Tsunami event of 2004. Asian tsunami of 2004 pushed academics from logistics as well as practitioners of different subjects to increase their interest in disasters logis-tics. Despite a plethora of studies in the field of disasters, however, negligible attention has been devoted to the study of logistics issues related disaster relief operations. This study finds that a need for a more in depth examination of …


Why Do We Learn What We Learn? The Intersection Of Leadership And Learning In Aviation Environments, Kadie Mullins Aug 2017

Why Do We Learn What We Learn? The Intersection Of Leadership And Learning In Aviation Environments, Kadie Mullins

National Training Aircraft Symposium (NTAS)

Why do we learn what we learn? Teach what we teach? Train how we train? Largely, decisions regarding instruction and training in aviation environments are dictated by leadership. Industry CEOs beliefs on professional development, organization culture inspired by leadership, and the instructors’ personal leadership philosophies create specific learning schema while legislation, credentialing agencies, and public policies provide mandates surrounding licensing and certifications. This paper will explore the contexts and concepts in which learning and leading intersect and the impacts of those intersections on learner outcomes and instructional planning. Exploring pertinent historical, societal, philosophical, and psychological factors that guide instruction and …


Common Management Gaps In The Life Cycle Of Digitized Objects, Jocelyn Wehr Nov 2016

Common Management Gaps In The Life Cycle Of Digitized Objects, Jocelyn Wehr

Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management

Presented from the perspective of someone responsible for creating the digital objects that will eventually be included in a digital preservation program, this poster session will identify common issues that make the management and preservation of digital objects more challenging. Digital preservation needs to be talked about within the digitization workflow, because it takes a lot of work to produce the best digital objects possible. We are often focused on the immediate use of the digital objects and less focused on their long-term use. Even with best practices in mind, there is often an immediate need (patron orders, for example) …


“Managing A Department, Working With The School Dean And Staying Research Active.”, Valerie J. Watnick Mar 2016

“Managing A Department, Working With The School Dean And Staying Research Active.”, Valerie J. Watnick

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This session will consider and discuss the literature regarding academic chairperson/dean management styles, and best department management practices. The session will involve consideration of typical fictional scenarios potentially faced by department chairs and deans and brainstorming to flesh out management strategies that allow time for both a well-managed department and quality research by the department chairperson and other faculty. The program will involve interactive (fictional) fact-based exercises.


Transportation Management In Kosovo, Teuta Kryeziu, Besjana Kryeziu, Egzon Kryeziu Nov 2014

Transportation Management In Kosovo, Teuta Kryeziu, Besjana Kryeziu, Egzon Kryeziu

UBT International Conference

In this paper we are dealing with scientific management of transport in Kosovo The main aim of this research paper is how management made transport in Kosovo, management of roads, railway management, management of air transport. Kosovo roads categorization: international, regional, as roads are paved and asphalted for the year 2012 - 2013, international road is a public road that, with international act is classified road network of international, highways public road officially categorized as a Main Road , connecting two or more cities and which can serve as links with the neighboring countries, regional Roads public road officially categorized …


Educational Impact On Business And Management With Special View In Gjakova Municipality, Zymer Tafaj, Driton Imami Nov 2014

Educational Impact On Business And Management With Special View In Gjakova Municipality, Zymer Tafaj, Driton Imami

UBT International Conference

This work elaborates the topic of effects of education in business and management with special view in Gjakova municipality, businesses these that are experiencing periods of after war transition reflecting attitudes of owners and managers how they perceive effects of education in business evolution and sustainability of businesses that they are governing. This work elaborates the topic effects of education in business and management with special view in Gjakova municipality, also it is shown what is the effect of education in creating an effective management structure, also actions that are taken from managers for educating their staff in order to …


Quality Management In Public Sector; How Is The Qm Approach Employed In The Public Administration Of The Republic Of Kosovo?, Shkelzen Sopjani Nov 2012

Quality Management In Public Sector; How Is The Qm Approach Employed In The Public Administration Of The Republic Of Kosovo?, Shkelzen Sopjani

UBT International Conference

Quality Management as approach started to be rapidly developed and gained use in the early 1950‘s in Japan, while the result produced in Japan made the US organizations to embrace this approach and develop it further by introducing the ‗new‘ approach called Total Quality Management. Quality Management produced enormous results in the private sector; however, number of authors questioned the suitability of the Quality Management approach in the Public Sector1. Despite the hesitation expressed, many others see a little problem in adopting this approach in the government sector. Government of Kosovo made its priority the reform of Public Administration. In …