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The development of technologies, organizational changes and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused a significant increase in the use of remote work modalities. The objective of this research was to evaluate the working conditions of remote work modalities in Cuba. The telework/remote work questionnaire was applied to a total of 28,026 s and managers. The working conditions were valued positively teleworker and remote worker, and managers, elements related to: the clarity of the objectives to be achieved, the deadlines for completing their tasks and adequate communication with co-workers and managers stand out. The main difficulties with working conditions are associated with limitations in the speed and stability of the Internet connection, and access to the necessary computer means provided by labor organizations. Significant differences are evident in all working conditions with the exception of communication between bosses, and teleworker and remote worker [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication is a process of social production, exchange and negotiation of symbolic forms between actors, it is the stage where social practices take place. A society could not be thought without communication, that is, communication is constitutive of society. Universities require institutional communication to materialize all their main processes. Institutional communication as a transversal process in the functional processes of any institution, becomes an essential link for this type of organization. The objective of this article is to express the essential ideas that make it possible to define the components, stages, dimensions, relationships and principles that make up the institutional communication management model in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Pinar del River "Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo discurre sobre la minería del cromo en Moa, Cuba. Los autores comentan sobre la importancia de la comunicación en los procesos geológicos y mineros, y describen el concepto de la geoconservación. También se considera el desarrollo de las actividades minerías, incluyendo el avance territorial.

The communication is a process that happens in any type of organization and it also involves permanently, both the employees and the users. The carried out work propose a methodology constituted by 4 steps, which is based on the Decree 281, the Cuban Standards 3000:2007, the ISO 9001:2008 Standard, the continuous improvement and the function of managers as main agents of the communication inside an organization. This methodology allowed the definition of the first bases for the design of the managerial communication system in the Head Office of the Pharmaceutical Managerial Group QUIMEFA. Its implementation permits to verify the elements that still make the communication deficient and a plan is created in order to correct the current communicative situation, although it is suggested the need of searching a method that allows the application of the proposed measures effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors present their considerations about the role of the organizational values and their contribution to fulfilling the Mission within organizational management in a general sense, and particularly, in the tourist sector. Although the latter has as a prime objective to preserve and increase tourism workers' moral, it is not enough yet because they are not taken into account as important aspects in the achievement of goals, which may be considered one of the pushing engines in human resources efforts, as a guide in the organizational behaviour and as a vital element for the development of a single, strong and uniform culture aimed at achieving a Mission already determined by the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section presents an abstract of the article "Global Partnerships in Business Communication: An Institutional Collaboration Between the United States and Cuba," by D. Sapp, which appeared in a 2004 issue of "Business Communication Quarterly."