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This research aims to reveal the relationships between intellectual capital components and firm performances of banks operating in the Borsa Istanbul financial sector. Within the scope of the research, the data of the banks whose shares were listed on the stock exchange between 2008 and 2021 and whose data were fully accessible as of the first quarter of 2023, when the research was conducted, were analyzed. The data set was prepared as panel data. Six models were developed and tested within the scope of the research. While investigating the interaction between variables, correlation and regression analyzes were applied. As a result of the analysis; While there was no relationship between structural capital (ROA), one of the components of intellectual capital ROE), and return on assets, it was found to have a negative and significant relationship with return on equity. Another important finding of the research is that physical capital, among the intellectual capital components, affects return on assets and return on equity the most. The other component of intellectual capital, human capital, also affects return on assets and return on equity significantly and positively. Revealing the effects of intellectual capital components on ROA and ROE from firm performances will be important for making future decisions for both bank managers and bank shareholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health is critical to a country's human capital and economic development. By working more hours, earning more discretionary money, and investing more in human development, a healthy individual contributes more to his own and the country's economies. Health expenditures are those that are spent on the protection and promotion of one's health. Obesity is bad for people's health, health-care costs, and the economy. The high expense of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease put a pressure on health budgets as the number of people with a high BMI rises. Obese persons utilize health services more frequently, have more procedures, and fill more prescriptions than those of normal weight. Because of rising health issues such as obesity and metabolic illnesses, rising consumer expectations from life, and rising consumer knowledge of good nutrition, there has been a growth in the production and consumption of functional foods in recent years. As a result, customers have learned to anticipate that meals would provide them with more than just nutritional value. The purpose of this study was to look at the impact of fermented food intake and knowledge on health expenses as well as the economic impact of these expenditures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ensuring economic development is the main goal of developing countries. Today, the human capital factor has become very important factors in the development of countries. In this context education, which is an important element of human capital, and its effects on development are among the most investigated topics among economists. Thus, it has been proven with the many theoretical and empirical studies that education has positive effects on development. In this study were examined the role and effects of education on the development of the TRA2 region, which includes Turkey's Ağrı, Kars, İğdır and Ardahan provinces. As a result of the analysis covering the 2008-2018 period, it was determined that the correlation between increasing education level and per capita income levels to increase. These results strongly prove the importance of education for the development of both the region and the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship of human capital with economic growth is a research topic that has been frequently studied in recent years. Human capital contains a basic need indicator such as health. The high level of health of individuals who make up a society increases the economic development potential of that society. Health expenditures to raise healthy individuals and maintain their health levels are among the factors that increase the quality of human capital. The positive contributions of health expenditures to human capital constitute a serious resource for economic growth. This study examines the relationship between healthcare spending and economic growth for selected 17 OECD countries. In the empirical analysis conducted, per capita health expenditures and GDP per capita data were used for the mentioned countries in the period covering 1976-2017. Data for the health expenditure series has been compiled from the OECD official database. Economic growth data were obtained from the World Bank official database. The hidden cointegration relationship between the series was tested with the test proposed by Hatemi-J (2018). While the series did not have a long term relationship among themselves, a long term relationship was found between positive and negative shocks. In addition, the asymmetric causality relationship of the series was tested and a bidirectional causality relationship was detected between the negative shocks of the series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between abusive supervision and organizational citizenship behavior, and the moderating role of meaning of work, coworker support, and conscientiousness on this relationship. The data of the study were collected from 213 employees working in the retail sector. The results of the research showed that abusive supervision had negative effect on organizational citizenship behaviors; meaning of work, coworker support, and conscientiousness had a moderator role on this relationship. These conclusions are important both contributing to the development and diversification of the related literature and providing solutions in the management of the effects of abusive supervision for human resources managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2016, the tourism crisis realized in Turkey has had an impact upon hotel businesses, rendering notably Russian market-oriented service and obliged managers of the hotels to seek solutions to survive in the crisis. Hotel managers have taken a number of measures in an effort to increase the occupancy rates to reasonable levels and maintain their operating activities in the usual way. The aim of this study is to reveal the crisis management implementations of hotel managers during the most severe tourism crisis that Turkey faced for the last two decades. To that end, crisis management implementations of 112 hotel managers in Antalya, which were supposed to prevent hotels from adverse impacts of crisis, were examined by content analysis method. According to the findings of the study, implementations of "Marketing" (54.8%) are the most extensive measures taken by hotel enterprises in preparation for crisis followed by "Human Resource" (18.9%), "Cost" (14.2%), "Quality", (7.4%), and "Customer" (4.7%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of health expenditure and population over 65 years on economic growth in Turkey by using ARDL approach and estimation methods of FMOLS, DOLS and CCR over the periods of 1979-2015. In the study, endogenous growth model is used in order to relate human capital accumulation and health expenditure. Empirical results show that there are positive and statistically significant relations between per capita health expenditure and economic growth. However, emprical findings related to the effect of population over 65 years on per capita income do not seem to support similar results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of health expenditure and population over 65 years on economic growth in Turkey by using ARDL approach and estimation methods of FMOLS, DOLS and CCR over the periods of 1979-2015. In the study, endogenous growth model is used in order to relate human capital accumulation and health expenditure. Empirical results show that there are positive and statistically significant relations between per capita health expenditure and economic growth. However, emprical findings related to the effect of population over 65 years on per capita income do not seem to support similar results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent develeopments ongoing global economy triggered to international competitiveness. In this manner, as major component of knowledge-based economy and intellectual capital, importance of human capital increased. Particularly, developed economies that realize the situation, encourage life-long education and learning to add value their human capital. Investors in People (IIP) was developed in 1990 by the National Training Task Force, with expert input from stakeholders, to set out a national framework aiming to link the processes of setting business objectives with staff development to improve business performance. The framework indicators were developed from an examination of the internal practices of some of the UK"s leading companies. (Gloster et al., 2010, 1) In addition to cover corporate priorities and purposes in public services, companies, SMEs and other foundations, IIP focuses human oriented management strategy by increasing motivation, developing skills and shares corporate vision and values with all level of workers in UK. IIP assumes that high level of workers motivation leads to improve corporate performance. In this study, we aim to research corporate functions and potential benefits of IIP by examining the examples of world countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, many companies have been using several methodologies for obtaining alteration and improvement in their business processes and they have been allocating their resources for these methodologies. The main resources are human resources and required project budget for its facilities. Lean Six Sigma is one of the methodologies' which business world has mostly focused on in recently. Companies have assigned substantially resources for application of Lean Six Sigma project. However, this does not mean all lean Six Sigma projects will be successful at all for all companies. For some companies, Lean Six Sigma projects applications have not been successful. Therefore, companies have suffered from wasting time, losing money and loss of motivation. In this study, the reasons of failure in Lean Six Sigma project have been examined; the issues to be dealt with for successful projects have been investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]