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• „Ratio Generationis” – Aspects for responsible generational research

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  Huge amount of literature has been published in recent years on topic of generation research
  but of varying quality. There is a significant interest in the topic, although an increasing amount
  of contradictory and methodologically questionable results have come to light. People develop
  prejudices and beliefs based on popular media, which could be counterbalanced by scientific
  works, but there is a noticable amount of thorough criticism against them. It is still a question,
  whether generation is the proper response to certain phenomena or we have just „generated” it
  and most charachteristics are rather related to age or life span? Cautious research is complicated
  and lengthy, therefore many either choose to perform superficial research or to go so in-depth
  that does not allow answering problems and return to just individual differences. Some conclude
  by refusing the generational approach altogether. In these circumstances a kind of „responsible”
  generational research is to be suggested, which turns from dead ends to the scientific way and
  finally tries to find „ration in generations” keeping in mind all the criticism of the approach.
  I summerize cosiderations in my work to find this right direction.

• The linkage between motivation, work experience and sense of deadline-keeping in product development projects of those working in the automotive industry

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  Nikoletta Szendi

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  Nowadays, numerous new automobiles are being developed by various companies and their
  suppliers around the globe. On account of the reduction of the product’s economic lifetime and
  effects of the global market, n the automotive segments the time factor plays a key role in the
  successful implementation of the project and consequently in the sale of the product. The current
  study, focusing on human conditions, scrutinizes the behaviour of the members engaged in the project. It’s primary focus is not to reveal the hindering factors due to time-losses arising from
  the shortage of resources or inadequate planning. These conspicuous reasons and the demonstration as well as treatment of risk, belong to the scope of the board of project portfolio management, which operates well among larger project organizations. Each project member is taking
  an individual approach towards meeting deadlines, and their motivation about the execution
  of the given tasks also vary. Beyond the results found both in the professional literature as well
  as general research, I study whether the unique features of the actual automotive organizational projects can be identified or not. The ongoing research observes, based on the experience
  acquired from the automobile development project, motivation and adherence to deadlines, the
  composition of the team impacting work efficiency.