Regional Formation and Development Studies

In the analysis of leadership styles and their coherence the subject of leading the organization have been, is and will be valid at all times. Although there are quite a lot of scientific articles and books on leadership styles, but works of foreign researchers are often quoted. Unfortunately, Lithuanian scientists do not pay enough attention to new (relatively as transformational and transactional leadership styles have been begun to be analyzed in the end of last century) leadership styles, whereas a combination of leadership styles is not paid attention at all, stating a priori that it is better to use a combination of various styles. It certainly does not form serious approach to the current leadership style problem. The scientific problem is the lack of perception, identification and finding out style combinations in the field of leadership styles. The purpose of this article is finding out leadership styles set in Klaipėda progymnasiums through the analysis of leadership styles. The object of research is the leadership styles in Klaipeda progymnasiums. The research methods are analysis, synthesis and comparison based on the insights in scientific literature, which have been done in order to justify the eligibility of leadership styles chosen by the managers. Employees carried out individual questionnaires, while managers have been interviewed. To analyze, process, digest and graphically depict questionnaire data derived from quantitative research SPSS 18 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) software and Microsoft Office Excel 2010 program have been used.

This paper contains a pilot study on coastal values and potential means of determining and characterising them in the terms of coastal planning and management. The research case study took place in the coastal region of North East Latvia – in the municipality of Salacgriva. The municipality coast is very diverse: coastal access, landscape and the whole biogeography is changing very much along the whole 54 km, being also rich in various natural and cultural heritage assets. Such great coastal variety in the limits of one administrative territory does require very selective governance approaches and dynamic management to be realized by local administration, which has very limited necessary capacities of all type, alike other rural coastal municipalities in Latvia. Also, there is very limited coastal information as well as assessment/interpretation capacities. All this requires mandatory development of municipal coastal monitoring and information/science-policy interface, to be based on general System Analysis Framework (SAF) application, first, on social-ecological system approach, and, second, including necessary developments of stakeholder participation and bottom-up governance approaches and, at the first, developing of the public monitoring (citizen science approach, e.g., Eco schools alike public representatives, etc.) capacities and methodologies. There has been developed an initial proposal for a new and multi-thematic coastal core area monitoring and governance tool. Coastal resources were assessed using a coastal value-based prioritisation tool, which generates knowledge of the mutual connection among various social-ecological resources/assets along the shore. During the study, data was collected along the municipal coastline taking into account the elements characterising the beach and shoreline landscape, as well as the distribution of invasive plant species, algae and plants washed up by the sea, as well as waste created by people along the coast. This data was subsequently collated, described, and combined with separate conclusions made based on beach visitors’ interviews that were conducted along the entire Latvian coast as well as interviews of the Salacgriva municipality’s main stakeholder groups. Information was also obtained from the analysis of documents seeking to facilitate development of a multi-thematic coastal value prioritisation tool and to distinguish coastal management priorities that can be set as proposals to coastal governments for developing a sustainable and more integrated coastal management background.

This paper contains an assessment of the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Spain through administrative

Intensive international activity of banks caused by fairly recently lifted financial restrictions in many countries has been a subject of great scientific interest ever since. The article describes various short-term consequences of foreign bank penetration in the financial markets of some of the regions of the world. The authors pay specific attention to the reasons and modes of foreign bank entry in emerging market and transition market economies as well as to the differences in the impact of such entry on the stability and efficiency of financial systems and economies of the countries of Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Research methods: systemic, comparative and logical analysis.

Organizacinės kultūros teorija svarbi atliekant mokslinius tyrimus, siekiant gerinti vadovų supratimą apie darbuotojų elgesį organizacijoje. Straipsnyje išanalizuotos organizacinės kultūros vertinimo metodikos. Taikant sudarytą metodiką atliktas tyrimas UAB ,,Yazaky Wiring Technologies Lietuva“. Remiantis tyrimo rezultatais, nustatyta, kad organizacijoje mažiausiai dėmesio skiriama ritualų kūrimui ir taikymui, herojų vertinimui. Tačiau bendra analizė atskleidė, kad organizacinė kultūra yra stipri ir ji puoselėjama. Pateikiama rekomendacijų, kaip gerinti organizacijos organizacinę kultūrą.

Straipsnyje analizuojama verslo verslui paslaugų specifika ir klientų aptarnavimo kokybės veiksniai. Siekiama įvardyti klientų aptarnavimo kokybę lemiančius veiksnius, jų svarbą kuriant ir diegiant aptarnavimo kokybės priežiūros sistemas; pateikiamas klientų aptarnavimo kokybės priežiūros modelis, apimantis penkias vertinimo sritis: (1) potenciali paslaugų teikėjų kokybė; (2) tiesiogiai aptarnaujančių darbuotojų darbo kokybė; (3) aptarnavimo proceso kokybė; (4) techninė kokybė ir (5) pasiekto rezultato kokybė. Daroma prielaida, kad siūlomas aptarnavimo kokybės priežiūros vertinimo modelis įgalintų verslo verslui paslaugų teikėjus visapusiškai užtikrinti klientų aptarnavimo kokybės priežiūrą.

Nepaisant gausių mokslinių tyrimų apie bendruomenes, jų organizacijas, egzistuoja poreikis ir toliau jas analizuoti, siekiant atsakyti į klausimą, kokią įtaką bendruomenių organizacijos, centrai (toliau – BC), jų veikla daro vietos bendruomenių gyvenimui, nes vien BC buvimas dar nerodo jo sukuriamos pridėtinės vertės. Straipsnyje siekiama ištirti, kokią veiklą vykdo bendruomenių centrai ir kokią įtaką jie daro Lietuvos vietos bendruomenėms. Atliktas kiekybinis tyrimas, apklausiant BC vadovus. Gauti rezultatai atskleidė Lietuvos BC veiklos ir jos pobūdžio sąsajas su vietos bendruomenės kultūriniais, socialiniais poreikiais, vietos tradicijomis, disponuojamais žmogiškaisiais, finansiniais, infrastruktūriniais ir kt. ištekliais. Rezultatai leidžia daryti prielaidas, kad BC veikia ir kaip socialinių tinklų vietos bendruomenėje plėtotojas, socialinės tapatybės, vertybių, tradicijų vienas iš formuotojų, be to, vykdantis ir neformalią socialinę kontrolę.

This article analyses the regional disparities of Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia). The investigation period (2004–2013) based on two very important moments for Baltic countries – accession to EU and the end of the EU funding period 2007–2013. It also analyses the change of socio-economic indicators such as the unemployment rate, the average gross wages and salaries and GDP per capita in regions of Baltic countries. The study aim was to determine regions where the unemployment rate is by 35 % higher than the national average and wages (salaries) are less than 75 % of the national average.

In recent years many countries have experienced stagnation or even decline in the amount of mortgage credits granted to households. The credit-granting process has become significantly complicated, less transparent and excessively time consuming. This study seeks to define the improvement opportunities for credit granting through creation of a simple, transparent and accountable framework of decision-making process. To achieve this purpose the authors used qualitative method – structured interview and graphical tools – decision tree. The developed framework makes it possible to identify areas of the credit granting that might have potential for considerable improvements. The empirical results of the study indicate that decision-making process in credit granting has considerable potential for improvements. The developed framework is supposed to help commercial banks to improve the quality and efficiency of the decision-making process in the credit granting and reduce cost of credit granting process. This is possible to achieve by cutting down the duration time of alternative solutions with negative outcome – credit denial. This research introduces a valuable framework of transparent and accountable model of decision-making process in the credit granting. The authors have found that the introduced framework is suitable not only for commercial banks but also for a wide range of organizations having similar complicated and multiple staged decision-making processes.

The article presents a survey on Klaipėda district residents’ attitude towards corruption. It is necessary to evaluate the level of corruption in a particular local area because understanding the incentives for corruption and self-dealing is a precondition for making progress. Citizens’ perceptions are important for local governments where citizens have more direct impact on political representation and service provision in their communities. The research revealed that Klaipėda district residents’ attitude towards corruption is negative and the population is aware of the harm caused by corruption. The respondents rarely face the forms of corruption practices. Most respondents think that excessive bureaucracy and the complexity of the legal framework, which is constantly changing, contribute to prevalence of corruption. Most respondents have given bribes to medical personnel. The respondents assume that the most effective anti-corruption means is the inevitability of punishment, as well as giving publicity to corruption acts. When faced with corruption, residents would turn to law enforcement bodies and use anonymous helpline.