In this master thesis was analysed leadership theories application at non government organisations. In the theory part the notion of leadership, leadership and guiding was more widely analysed. There were five main theories based by relationships reviewed and used as a tool for the research part by analyzing results. Also the importance of relationships in leadership process was reviewed and non government organisations functions and leadership specificity in non government organisations sector was analysed. In the methodology part there were set goals, created models for research and the use of them in the research was backed. In the last part the results of the research were analysed in Vilnius archdiocese Caritas. The survey of workers and their executives was analysed to find out how expressed leadership theories are in non government organisations.
In this master thesis was analysed leadership theories application at non government organisations. In the theory part the notion of leadership, leadership and guiding was more widely analysed. There were five main theories based by relationships reviewed and used as a tool for the research part by analyzing results. Also the importance of relationships in leadership process was reviewed and non government organisations functions and leadership specificity in non government organisations sector was analysed. In the methodology part there were set goals, created models for research and the use of them in the research was backed. In the last part the results of the research were analysed in Vilnius archdiocese Caritas. The survey of workers and their executives was analysed to find out how expressed leadership theories are in non government organisations.
Each individual rational decision-making process decisions are taken on the basis of something. One or another decision process occurs two provisions egoistic and altruistic, which determines not only our choices, but also communities, while at the same time and the public. This creates inherent in individual and political connection. My paper dealt with value orientations exists in every individual and of the individual stock options depends not only on what purpose the individual will, but also means it will work. That is why I have chosen to examine the new era smart egoism theories. The very essence of selfishness is not a negative thing and personal incentives can achieve positive things for man and society. Such differences of our action orientation intersect each of us, in allowing everyday decisions making. Therefore, this theme deals with high school students the concept of selfishness is not only important but urgent. The investigation has found out senior pupils egoism understanding of the concept of causation of behavior, attitudes and securities provisions. The study participants were high school students from 17 to 20 years of age. Younger students were not selected due to the fact that their views may be influenced by adults or passing environment. This was important, because in the same society, living individuals can have completely different concepts. Be aware of other people's attitudes help us not only to individual contacts with other people, but also the common social life.
Each individual rational decision-making process decisions are taken on the basis of something. One or another decision process occurs two provisions egoistic and altruistic, which determines not only our choices, but also communities, while at the same time and the public. This creates inherent in individual and political connection. My paper dealt with value orientations exists in every individual and of the individual stock options depends not only on what purpose the individual will, but also means it will work. That is why I have chosen to examine the new era smart egoism theories. The very essence of selfishness is not a negative thing and personal incentives can achieve positive things for man and society. Such differences of our action orientation intersect each of us, in allowing everyday decisions making. Therefore, this theme deals with high school students the concept of selfishness is not only important but urgent. The investigation has found out senior pupils egoism understanding of the concept of causation of behavior, attitudes and securities provisions. The study participants were high school students from 17 to 20 years of age. Younger students were not selected due to the fact that their views may be influenced by adults or passing environment. This was important, because in the same society, living individuals can have completely different concepts. Be aware of other people's attitudes help us not only to individual contacts with other people, but also the common social life.
The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan poses a great danger to the Afghanistan state itself as well as for the neighboring countries. A decreasing interest from the United States of America, NATO and other key players due to a long war and other geopolitical challenges will leave Afghanistan with the minimum outer support for the future. The science of conflict resolution is offering a variety of theories that could lead endless wars and conflicts to an end. The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is challenging those theories, while the resolution is crucial for the Afghanistan people right now. But are those theories reflected in the current actions of the US, NATO and Afghanistan governments? And do those theoretical actions lead to a better future regarding conflict resolution?
The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan poses a great danger to the Afghanistan state itself as well as for the neighboring countries. A decreasing interest from the United States of America, NATO and other key players due to a long war and other geopolitical challenges will leave Afghanistan with the minimum outer support for the future. The science of conflict resolution is offering a variety of theories that could lead endless wars and conflicts to an end. The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is challenging those theories, while the resolution is crucial for the Afghanistan people right now. But are those theories reflected in the current actions of the US, NATO and Afghanistan governments? And do those theoretical actions lead to a better future regarding conflict resolution?
The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan poses a great danger to the Afghanistan state itself as well as for the neighboring countries. A decreasing interest from the United States of America, NATO and other key players due to a long war and other geopolitical challenges will leave Afghanistan with the minimum outer support for the future. The science of conflict resolution is offering a variety of theories that could lead endless wars and conflicts to an end. The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is challenging those theories, while the resolution is crucial for the Afghanistan people right now. But are those theories reflected in the current actions of the US, NATO and Afghanistan governments? And do those theoretical actions lead to a better future regarding conflict resolution?
The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan poses a great danger to the Afghanistan state itself as well as for the neighboring countries. A decreasing interest from the United States of America, NATO and other key players due to a long war and other geopolitical challenges will leave Afghanistan with the minimum outer support for the future. The science of conflict resolution is offering a variety of theories that could lead endless wars and conflicts to an end. The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is challenging those theories, while the resolution is crucial for the Afghanistan people right now. But are those theories reflected in the current actions of the US, NATO and Afghanistan governments? And do those theoretical actions lead to a better future regarding conflict resolution?
Public procurement is a relatively new practice of the institutions in public sector associated with the new ideas in public management: to take over the business management principles and adapt them to the public institutions, to save the state money, to efficiently distribute and promote public and private sectors. Institutionalism is described of the 19th-20th centuries, especially when the focus is on the social and economic development of the country, economic problems, appropriate solutions for the public and the private sectors in the search, without distinction between primary and secondary institutions, and analyzing them as a whole in the public procurement process. According to an independent economic institutionalism theory direction, the public procurement process can be understood as a set of institutions with an exceptional inter-relationship between purchasers and suppliers, as well as affecting the economic development of the country. The institute in the procurement process consists of: 1) the formal rules governing public procurement procedures, and informal relations between contracting authorities and suppliers, affecting both their mutual relations and their common agreements and economic development activities, 2) the coercive measures imposed to ensure public procurement procedure norms, sanctions and violence in defiance of state of the Republic of Lithuania procurement legislation. In the public sector, public procurement plays a dominant role in procurement services, law enforcement processes, health, social services, education, defense, transport and the environmental issues sectors, and therefore, to achieve public policy objectives and meet civil society needs in the public sector organizations in the procurement volume is much larger than in the private sector. Institutionalism allows the identification of self-formed purchasers and suppliers to separate the network of economic actors' public and private sectors, groups and organizations. In the relationship between individual behavior and analyses of these theories, new institutional economic theory is born. New institutionalism encourages looking at the practical and effective institutions in the procurement process, analyzing not under the ideal conditions of a theoretical model, and according to the public procurement law with the alternative, which allows to extend the micro-economic analysis. In addition to physical and technical limitations inherent in classical institutionalism theory, new institutionalism identified and further analyzed the institutional structure of the society. The institutional structure formed in economic circumstances reflects the situation in the procurement process, the state authorities of the contracting authority must be interested in a cost-effective and/or efficient purchasing, while suppliers (business organizations) – the maximum profit possible after the procurement. ; Straipsnyje analizuojamos institucinės ekonomikos teorijos ir jų dedamosios viešųjų pirkimų procese. Ypatingas dėmesys skiriamas institucijų ir jų veiklos efektyvumo viešųjų pirkimų procese išgryninimui. Mokslinės literatūros lyginamoji analizė leidžia daryti prielaidą, kad institucinė aplinka yra ekonomikos viešųjų pirkimų proceso organizavimo ir įgyvendinimo augimo pasekmė ar priežastis. Tinkamos institucijos užtikrina nuosavybės teisių apsaugą, žemą korupcijos ir biurokratijos lygį, teisės viršenybės principo įgyvendinimą, formuoja palankią institucinę aplinką ekonomikos augimui ir plėtrai. Efektyvi institucinė struktūra valstybėje sukuria paskatas rinkos dalyviams investuoti į fizinį ir žmogiškąjį kapitalą bei kurti novatoriškus produktus, kurie ilgalaikėje perspektyvoje turi tiesioginį bei teigiamą poveikį šalies ekonomikai.
The article attempts to assess the relevancy of rational choice theories to analyze contemporary foreign policy decision making and implementation. The questions: which philosophical paradigms are supposed by contemporary world order and international system? Does rational choice theories are compatible with dominant approach to international relations? What guidelines and capabilities does rational diplomacy analysis encounter? The precondition states that contemporary international system involves more unipolar than multipolar features and context of realism and provide with the best background for analysis. The article describes the developments of world orders, assesses the organisation of international system, evaluates links between neorealism and rationalism, and attempts to envisage the capabilities of rational choice theories to analyse diplomacy.
The article attempts to assess the relevancy of rational choice theories to analyze contemporary foreign policy decision making and implementation. The questions: which philosophical paradigms are supposed by contemporary world order and international system? Does rational choice theories are compatible with dominant approach to international relations? What guidelines and capabilities does rational diplomacy analysis encounter? The precondition states that contemporary international system involves more unipolar than multipolar features and context of realism and provide with the best background for analysis. The article describes the developments of world orders, assesses the organisation of international system, evaluates links between neorealism and rationalism, and attempts to envisage the capabilities of rational choice theories to analyse diplomacy.
Michel Houellebecq's Submission has been analysed as a novel of decadence in this paper. Referring to the works of Michel Winock, François Livi and Michel Onfray, it has been found that a decadent novel can be associated not only with the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Loűys, Jean Lorrain and others produced at the end of the 19th century but also at subsequent periods. Such characteristics of decadent writing as the threat of catastrophe, fundamental changes in society, nostalgia can be found in the analysed novel. François, the main character of the novel, an expert on Huysmans and a professor at Sorbonne University, supports Huysmans' ideas to some extent trying to find the link between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st century by comparing processes in society. Huysmans sought an ideal in the Middle Ages, while François travels to Rocamadour, famous for the statue of the Black Madonna, with a hope to find a spiritual revelation but becomes aware that the world of the past has gone forever. Changes in society made Huysmans leave the monastery, similarly, François gets frustrated as he loses his job when the Muslim Fraternity comes into power. Using the dystopian genre, Houellebecq depicts unbelievable changes in society – the new government proclaims Islam an official religion of France. Society is governed by new rules, the authority is concerned about two things – demography and education. Those, who refuse to convert to Islam, lose their jobs. Changes in society are even linked with geopolitical changes. Meanwhile Houellebecq reveals significant differences between the decadence of the end of the 19th and of the 21st century. Huysmans' decadence results in neuroses, a desire to seal himself off from the world in alcohol, drugs, etc., to surround himself with works of art, while François in Submission enjoys erotic pleasures, gradually becomes an alcoholic, he does not suffer like Huysmans' protagonist Des Esseintes. It can be stated that Submission is a decadent novel only at thematic level since aesthetic values, characteristic of the decadence of the 19th century, are left in the background. The only justification of François is that he speaks about his conversion to Islam hypothetically, it shows that he has not made up his mind to take this step.
Michel Houellebecq's Submission has been analysed as a novel of decadence in this paper. Referring to the works of Michel Winock, François Livi and Michel Onfray, it has been found that a decadent novel can be associated not only with the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Loűys, Jean Lorrain and others produced at the end of the 19th century but also at subsequent periods. Such characteristics of decadent writing as the threat of catastrophe, fundamental changes in society, nostalgia can be found in the analysed novel. François, the main character of the novel, an expert on Huysmans and a professor at Sorbonne University, supports Huysmans' ideas to some extent trying to find the link between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st century by comparing processes in society. Huysmans sought an ideal in the Middle Ages, while François travels to Rocamadour, famous for the statue of the Black Madonna, with a hope to find a spiritual revelation but becomes aware that the world of the past has gone forever. Changes in society made Huysmans leave the monastery, similarly, François gets frustrated as he loses his job when the Muslim Fraternity comes into power. Using the dystopian genre, Houellebecq depicts unbelievable changes in society – the new government proclaims Islam an official religion of France. Society is governed by new rules, the authority is concerned about two things – demography and education. Those, who refuse to convert to Islam, lose their jobs. Changes in society are even linked with geopolitical changes. Meanwhile Houellebecq reveals significant differences between the decadence of the end of the 19th and of the 21st century. Huysmans' decadence results in neuroses, a desire to seal himself off from the world in alcohol, drugs, etc., to surround himself with works of art, while François in Submission enjoys erotic pleasures, gradually becomes an alcoholic, he does not suffer like Huysmans' protagonist Des Esseintes. It can be stated that Submission is a decadent novel only at thematic level since aesthetic values, characteristic of the decadence of the 19th century, are left in the background. The only justification of François is that he speaks about his conversion to Islam hypothetically, it shows that he has not made up his mind to take this step.
Michel Houellebecq's Submission has been analysed as a novel of decadence in this paper. Referring to the works of Michel Winock, François Livi and Michel Onfray, it has been found that a decadent novel can be associated not only with the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Loűys, Jean Lorrain and others produced at the end of the 19th century but also at subsequent periods. Such characteristics of decadent writing as the threat of catastrophe, fundamental changes in society, nostalgia can be found in the analysed novel. François, the main character of the novel, an expert on Huysmans and a professor at Sorbonne University, supports Huysmans' ideas to some extent trying to find the link between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st century by comparing processes in society. Huysmans sought an ideal in the Middle Ages, while François travels to Rocamadour, famous for the statue of the Black Madonna, with a hope to find a spiritual revelation but becomes aware that the world of the past has gone forever. Changes in society made Huysmans leave the monastery, similarly, François gets frustrated as he loses his job when the Muslim Fraternity comes into power. Using the dystopian genre, Houellebecq depicts unbelievable changes in society – the new government proclaims Islam an official religion of France. Society is governed by new rules, the authority is concerned about two things – demography and education. Those, who refuse to convert to Islam, lose their jobs. Changes in society are even linked with geopolitical changes. Meanwhile Houellebecq reveals significant differences between the decadence of the end of the 19th and of the 21st century. Huysmans' decadence results in neuroses, a desire to seal himself off from the world in alcohol, drugs, etc., to surround himself with works of art, while François in Submission enjoys erotic pleasures, gradually becomes an alcoholic, he does not suffer like Huysmans' protagonist Des Esseintes. It can be stated that Submission is a decadent novel only at thematic level since aesthetic values, characteristic of the decadence of the 19th century, are left in the background. The only justification of François is that he speaks about his conversion to Islam hypothetically, it shows that he has not made up his mind to take this step.
Michel Houellebecq's Submission has been analysed as a novel of decadence in this paper. Referring to the works of Michel Winock, François Livi and Michel Onfray, it has been found that a decadent novel can be associated not only with the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Loűys, Jean Lorrain and others produced at the end of the 19th century but also at subsequent periods. Such characteristics of decadent writing as the threat of catastrophe, fundamental changes in society, nostalgia can be found in the analysed novel. François, the main character of the novel, an expert on Huysmans and a professor at Sorbonne University, supports Huysmans' ideas to some extent trying to find the link between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st century by comparing processes in society. Huysmans sought an ideal in the Middle Ages, while François travels to Rocamadour, famous for the statue of the Black Madonna, with a hope to find a spiritual revelation but becomes aware that the world of the past has gone forever. Changes in society made Huysmans leave the monastery, similarly, François gets frustrated as he loses his job when the Muslim Fraternity comes into power. Using the dystopian genre, Houellebecq depicts unbelievable changes in society – the new government proclaims Islam an official religion of France. Society is governed by new rules, the authority is concerned about two things – demography and education. Those, who refuse to convert to Islam, lose their jobs. Changes in society are even linked with geopolitical changes. Meanwhile Houellebecq reveals significant differences between the decadence of the end of the 19th and of the 21st century. Huysmans' decadence results in neuroses, a desire to seal himself off from the world in alcohol, drugs, etc., to surround himself with works of art, while François in Submission enjoys erotic pleasures, gradually becomes an alcoholic, he does not suffer like Huysmans' protagonist Des Esseintes. It can be stated that Submission is a decadent novel only at thematic level since aesthetic values, characteristic of the decadence of the 19th century, are left in the background. The only justification of François is that he speaks about his conversion to Islam hypothetically, it shows that he has not made up his mind to take this step.
