The history of the risk management profession shows increasing specialization within disciplines. In organizations this specialization is often institutionalized in different (sub)departments each one taking into account different types of risk. As a result the interrelations between these risks are neglected and therewith the question arises who will manage the specialists. Further, an invento...

First to be hit by the pandemic and last recover, travel tourism industry is considered one of most severely affected sectors. The paper tries highlight vulnerabilities GDP, employment related activities sector looking at it through a macro perspective using data from World Bank, International Labour Organization, United Nations Trade Organization and, Travel Tourism Council, in addition, subst...

This article compares the International Labour Organization (ILO) and European Union (EU) agendas concerning digital transformation of work, addresses possible policy gaps their implications for international EU labour law. It critically reviews current social acquis both institutions concentrates on key analogies between ILO’s Centenary Declaration Future Work some various regulatory initiativ...

there is an emerging consensus that caring and compassion are under threat in the frenetic environment of modern healthcare. enabling and sustaining compassionate care requires not only a focus on the needs of the patient, but also on those of the care giver. as such, threats and exhortations to health professionals are likely to have limited and perverse effects and it is to the organisational...

As most pregnancy-related deaths and morbidities are clustered around the time of childbirth, quality of care during this period is critical to the survival of pregnant women and their babies. Despite the wide acceptance of partograph as the central tool to optimize labour outcomes for over 40 years, its use has not successfully improved outcomes in many settings for several reasons. There are ...

The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented in scale, speed, and depth, has imbalanced destabilized national labour markets. This article highlights work of International Labour Organization (ILO), which since start pandemic made a signifiant contribution to analysing situation developing practical recommendations for restoration author examines key challenges facing governments t...

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Freedom of association operates as an organizational “meta-norm,” appreciated both as an independent value and as a touchstone for the institutional design of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Despite the renewed interest of the ILO in various aspects of the norm, its understanding of freedom of association lacks a comprehensive normative framework. This article presents such a conce...

A striking characteristic of Japanese factories is the extent of process control: from both the technical and the social viewpoint the labour and production system is controlled down to the very last detail. The characteristics of management and organization which underlie this are closely interwoven with Japanese culture. This explains why the work content. working conditions and working relat...

The pervasiveness of the entrepreneurial phenomenon attracts the attention on the determinants of the decision of becoming entrepreneur. As the entrepreneurial decision can be additionally conceived as firm entry, as a real business investment in the creation of a new business and as a career choice in favour of self-employment, the literature about entrepreneurship is integrated with industria...