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• Investigation of working conditions and risk factors for burnout of social and pedagogical professionals

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  Ágnes Győri

  Éva Perpék

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  44

  The study scrutinizes the relationship between professional working conditions and burnout among Hungarian social and pedagogical professionals. Despite the fact that burnout and occupational well-being have been extensively researched abroad among professional helpers – primarily health care workers –, no quantitative survey has been conducted in Hungary so far in the target group we examined. Another added value of our study is that, besides work and organizational factors revealed by previous burnout studies, it points to the role of client- and fieldwork-related difficulties in the prevalence of burnout symptoms. In our exploratory, crosssectional survey, 261 social and pedagogical specialists participated from Baranya County. Our results suggest that job and task matching problems, and difficulties related to the fieldwork and clients lead to emotional exhaustion of professionals and decreased work efficiency. Deficiencies related to work motivation cause loss of efficiency as well. The results also indicate that out of the three occupational groups involved in the research, professionals working in the field of child protection are most at risk for emotional exhaustion, and the symptom of depersonalization is most relevant to child protection and family and child welfare workers. In addition, we have shown that longer professional experience can be considered a protective factor in burnout symptoms. Our results can make an important contribution to the establishment of individual and organizational level training, support, development, monitoring and evaluation programs and/or policy-level guidelines and interventions that can improve the working conditions of professionals and reduce their risk of emotional, mental and physical strain.

• The situation of Roma education in Harghita county – attitudes of pedagogues

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  Judit Jakab

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  35

  The study presents the attitudes and behaviours of pedagogues, based on interviews with
  teachers working with Roma children which constitute the quotidian educational practice. In
  absence of institutional programs, infrastructural and personal conditions, the teachers need
  to find solutions for the given difficulties. They become the key figures of the integration process
  and hence their attitudes and approaches are determining from the point of view of Roma
  children’s school efficiency. The target audience of the research are composed by pedagogues,
  who teach in elementary schools in the Csiki Basin in Harghita county, where the rate of Roma
  learners exceeds 25 percents. Signalling the main directions of the national policy and the
  presentation of literature examining the Hungarian-Roma relationship in Szeklerland offer a
  broader framework for the interpretation of the subject.

• 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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  31

  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.