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Justice is a category that significantly impacts corporate performance. It has been shown in many scientific publications that it affects, among other things, the motivation and commitment of employees, shapes the atmosphere in the workplace and influences employee performance. However, research has yet to be done on the effect of justice on the effectiveness of temporary teams (set up for a limited time to solve a problem or carry out a project), even though such teams are now a common form of teamwork. This study is intended to fill an identified research gap. Its purpose is to determine whether justice affects the effectiveness of temporary teams in an organisation and, if so, whether all types of justice affect that effectiveness to the same extent. A main hypothesis was formulated: All kinds of justice (procedural, distributive, interpersonal and informational) have the same effect on the effectiveness of the temporary work team. The modified Colquitt scale was used. Differences in the impact between types of justice on the effectiveness of teams have been assessed using the U-Mann-Whitney test. The paper uses the results of a survey conducted among 110 managers from high – tech industry with experience with temporary teams. Based on their information, it has been established that justice has a significant impact on the effectiveness of temporary teams, and the importance of different types of justice varies. The most important in this respect is informational justice. Interpersonal and distributive justice is slightly less important (there is no statistically significant difference between them). Procedural justice ranked third. Based on the results of the research, it can be pointed out that managers should pay attention to the perception of fairness of temporary team members. Above all, they should take care of the communication aspects, including in particular, the sharing of crucial information with employees of this type of team.

The authors aimed to define the role of deontology in the implementation of sustainable development (SD) and show how consumers guided by the ethics of duty can become the initiator of common changes for SD. The article was prepared on the basis of qualitative research, and emphasizes that the concept of SD is strongly axiologically conditioned, and deontology plays a unique implementation role. The internalization of SD moral values is the key condition for the realization of sustainability both at macroeconomic and microeconomic level, i.e. enterprise management and consumer decisions. The authors indicate that in the market economy, in the era of globalization, the initiators of universal and evolutionary changes for SD may be consumers guided by the ethics of duty and supporting the sustainable consumerism movement. The article describes the main activities of the sustainable consumerism movement and the barriers slowing down its development.(original abstract)

The aim of this paper is to assess the set of indicators developed by the authors within the framework of the project "Regional value chains in the context of biodiversity and ecosystem services - based on the example of Czech-Polish-Saxon research project collaboration". The indicators can be used as a tool for evaluating the biodiversity performance of small and medium-sized food enterprises on a micro scale and for sustainability communicating in their value chains. After a short introduction and a literature review, the indicator set for agricultural businesses is presented. Based on qualitative surveys on selected farmers, this set was evaluated with the help of SWOT analysis elements. The survey results showed the weaknesses and strengths of the construction of the indicator set and also the opportunities and threats of its usage. Finally, recommendations for further research are presented, mostly connected with sustainability communication in regional value chains in food SMEs.(original abstract)

Tento článek představuje mezinárodní projekt ,,Regionální hodnotové řetězce v kontextu ekosystémových služeb a biodiverzity – na příkladu česko-polsko-saského projektu spolupráce”. Projektu se zúčastní partneři z České republiky, Německa a Polska, mezi jinými to jsou: NETSCI prof. dr. Kramer GmbH, Fakulta ekonomiky, managementu a cestovního ruchu v Jelení Hoře, Wroclavská ekonomická univerzita, Universita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, LANU (Saská nadace pro Přírodu). Projekt je podporován DBU (Německou federální nadací pro životní prostředí). Hlavním cílem tohoto projektu je podpora ekonomického rozvoje v příhraničních oblastech těchto tří zemí: České republiky, Polska a Německa, a prosazování hodnotových řetězců včetně ekosystémových služeb. Tato spolupráce přinese řadu ekonomických výhod, a to nejen pro jednotlivé firmy, které se projektu zúčastní, ale pro celou příhraniční oblast.

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