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We analyse labour demand and mismatch for educational traits in information and communication technology (ICT) occupations, taking into account the areas of education, occupations and skills in demand, and the supply of labour. We based our analysis on almost 40 million online job offers and a CAWI survey of people aged 18-65 in Poland. The analysis uses official classifications, and considers both job-related and transversal skills. To analyse an objective measure of mismatch, we compare job requirements stated in job offers to the declared characteristics of potential labour supply, and present demand and mismatch for skills across occupations. We also model a declared educational mismatch and its determinants, including educational profiles of surveyed participants. In order to further investigate the mismatches in ICT fields of education, occupations and skills, we compare them with the mismatches in other occupational groups. The analysis concludes with direct educational policy recommendations, including the Sectoral Qualifications Framework for ICT occupations in Poland. Our approach shows the complete educational characteristics of skill demands and skill mismatches.

The article features a dialogue between Eduardo Blanco-Munoz and Robert Pater on effective strategies for enhancing safety change mastery within organizations. Topics discussed include the importance of understanding human behavior in safety management, the role of leadership in influencing beliefs and actions, and the necessity of aligning organizational practices with communicated safety values.

The article focuses on strategies for enhancing injury prevention and safety culture in the workplace. It emphasizes the need for practical approaches to address persistent injuries and promote a positive safety culture. It outlines four key strategies: simultaneous strategy development, impactful transmission to change beliefs and actions, cultural ignition, and surround reinforcement.

The article explores the contentious debate surrounding the existence and significance of safety culture, emphasizing how beliefs shape organizational outcomes and delineating between advocates and deniers of safety culture's impact. It discusses a recent study evaluating the connection between safety culture and the safety and financial performance of numerous European companies, shedding light on the practical implications of embracing or rejecting the concept of safety culture.

There is an increasing need for analysing the demand for skills in the labour market. While most studies aggregate skills in groups or use available proxies for them, the authors analyse the demand by employers for individual competences. Such an analysis better reflects reality because companies usually require job candidates to have particular competences, rather than generally defined groups of skills. However, no method exists to analyse on a large scale which competences are required by employers. At a detailed level, there are hundreds of competences; thus, this demand cannot be measured in a sample survey. The authors propose a method for conducting a continuous and efficient analysis of the demand for competences of prospective employees. The method involves collecting online job offers and analysing them with data mining and text analysis tools. The authors use this method to analyse transversal competences in the Polish labour market. Their findings indicate that companies typically required only certain competences—especially ‘language and communication competences’—while neglecting others. The number of job candidate requirements was counter-cyclical. However, the structure of the competences demanded did not change during the analysed period.

Energy rules! That is, those best leaders who are intent on upgrading performance typically make it a rule to monitor and modify their organization's energies, especially when it comes to performing tasks as safely as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Purpose: In recent years classic financial market theory based on decision makers’ rationality has been challenged by repeated anomalies that became a ‘new normal’. As a result, what we witness today is a considerable turn to behavioral concepts that can shed a new light on choices made by market participants. The astonishing development of social media accelerated scientific validation of such concepts, since the media opened new and capacious ‘laboratory space’ for testing behavioral hypotheses. The main purpose of the article is to examine whether financial market professionals believe that social media content can be useful in achieving additional financial market returns and to investigate the factors behind this belief.

The article emphasizes ten considerations for upgrading safety culture within an organization. It encourages organizations to balance their view of safety culture, monitor trends, adopt a step-by-step approach, build trust and energize change, among other strategies, to improve safety culture effectively.