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• Leadership challenges in virtual environment: The importance of the synergism in ICT toolset and leadership development

  27-48.

  Farkas Eva

  Nagy Levente

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  10

  The companies connected to the global value chain inevitably and necessarily apply virtualized
  solutions in their work organization. As such, the appropriate implementation of the shoring
  strategies, the increasing competition and the supply-demand imbalance on the local market of
  the high-skilled workers, all puts the existing organizational and leadership practices to the test.
  The article aims to highlight the main challenges the virtual team leaders (VTL) are facing and
  some best practices that might widen the toolset of the modern VTL. The results are based on a
  case study of a multinational info-communication technology (ICT) service company in which
  experienced managers and leaders shared their strategies. The main takeaways of the empirical
  research are (i) the emphasis on the “early-adopter” behavior and the proper usage of the latest
  technology in the communication, (ii) the importance of the ability of building trust and setting
  common goals; (iii) despite that everyone is perfectly connected via the internet, the regular
  personal presence is still the most powerful leadership tool.

• Youth NGOs at home and abroad

  216-231

  Anita Kiss

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  9

  NGOs are now considered by social researchers to be a full member of society, and are increasingly visible in public awareness, media and vocabulary, which shows their growing influence and importance.
  Their numbers are constantly growing, and their services and activities are expanding. However, in addition to the wide range of tasks and services, there are common features of NGOs that make them a completely separate sector. Their mission is to serve the public and the community, without profit-making being their primary objective (Bányai 1997).
  The non-profit sector includes those organisations in society which operate as private institutions but in fact serve community purposes (Simon 1998).

  Since the range of activities of NGOs is very broad and it is difficult to draw conclusions from the whole, the focus of this short study is on youth NGOs.

• The Patterns of free time in secondary schools

  64-78

  Veronika Bocsi

  Klára Kovács

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  95

  The aim of this study is analyse the free time allocation in different types of secondary schools in Hungary. The use of free time is connected with social inequalities and the agglomeration of cultural capital so these patterns are rooted most of all in the social background. Besides, educational sociology involves an institutional effect in this field as well. Hungary has got a selective educational system and the different types of secondary schools refermainly to specific social groups so the differences in the use of free time can be significant. The database of HungarianYouth Research has been used during this analysis. This database is representative for regions, types of settlement, age and gender (N = 8000) and the subsample of secondary school students can be separated. Quantity of free time, places of free time, features of „screen time activites” and cultural activities have been analysed. Means, chi-sqare statistic, ANOVA-test, factor analysis and linear regression model were used. Our empirical finding scan show the different free time patterns of the subsamples (grammar school, secondary vocational school and vocational school).

• Familyplanning and labour market aspirations among youth in fosterhome

  87-109

  Gabriella Zámbó

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  24

  Several international and national organisations are concerned with the aspect of children. This
  essay examines a special group of children and youth who live in fostercare. Their future aspects
  are basically determined by the break away from their families. Even they area way from their
  familiesf or a short or a long time, becoming an adult is a complex process and many factors
  define their lives. Among these factors the environment of the fosterhome and the relationship
  with the biological family is essential. The essay focuses on two fundamental dimensions of
  becoming an adult: familyplanning and working. Although the desires about their future lives
  are quite diverse, the implementation is similarly difficult for each of them. Those who haven’t got the supportive background are hadicapped in many dimensions. In these cases the
  childprotection has a leading role. The essay attempt stogive an insight to these young adults’
  futureplans while it highlights the dimensions of familyplanning and working.

• Obstacles for women in career advancement

  65-83.

  Takacs Izolda

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  21

  Today the level of knowledge, qualifications of female are immensely increasing, but despite
  their skills there are still encounter obstacles in their careers, and women still appear to be
  underrepresented in top-level leadership positions. Many analysis findings indicated that there
  is a strong negativ relationship bertween the impact of the old traditions and women career
  developement.
  This paper attempts to identify all the obstacles and gender-related segregation of the
  labour market such as vertical and horizontal segregations and also raises awareness of that
  complex problem. Because there is a triple burden on graduate and leading women, work at
  home, their job and the struggle with the sexist working environment.