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Exhausted organisations, technostress - new challenges in the corporate world

Exhausted organisations, technostress - new challenges in the corporate world

What is technostress? Who is the AVICA leader? "New challenges and responses in organisations" - the Hungarian Psychological Review presents two volumes of Hungarian research on organisational and leadership psychology. When a lot of change happens simultaneously, it can exhaust organisations. How can resilience, motivation and loyalty be maintained? Júlia Sipos interviewed Edith Kiss Orhidea, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Organisational and Management Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, ELTE, currently Associate Dean of Education at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, and also an occupational psychologist, organisational development and coaching psychologist.

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Exhausted organisations, technostress - new challenges in the corporate world

Exhausted organisations, technostress - new challenges in the corporate world

What is technostress? Who is the AVICA leader? "New challenges and responses in organisations" - the Hungarian Psychological Review presents two volumes of Hungarian research on organisational and leadership psychology. When a lot of change happens simultaneously, it can exhaust organisations. How can resilience, motivation and loyalty be maintained? Júlia Sipos interviewed Edith Kiss Orhidea, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Organisational and Management Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, ELTE, currently Associate Dean of Education at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, and also an occupational psychologist, organisational development and coaching psychologist.

Generation Z in consultancies: how can they learn and what challenges do they face?

Generation Z in consultancies: how can they learn and what challenges do they face?

In our HR Subjective column, Berta Pospischek, Senior HR Business Partner at Deloitte, asks questions after answering from Botond Varga, Head of Regional Reward, Policy and Reward at VOIS
Redundancy, outplacement, staff turnover

No need to panic, but it's worth thinking about what would happen if you lost your job

Bad news has recently emerged about German car manufacturers. There are rumours of strikes, shutdowns and factory closures. Viktor Orbán has tried to calm the mood in Hungary, but HR Portal has asked industry players to find out whether the trouble could also catch up with the Hungarian subsidiaries of German car makers.

More than 60 thousand investment banking jobs lost this year

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the global investment banking sector this year, according to a Financial Times industry survey published on Wednesday.

Survey: a third of workers want to quit, employers don't even know

One in three workers are likely to quit in the next year, while companies expect it to be easier to retain colleagues in the current economic climate, according to an international survey of 17,000 employees and nearly 1,600 employers.

Thousands of people bailed out by the banks

The average number of bank employees has fallen by almost a thousand in three months. At the end of March, there were 39 499 employees in credit institutions, but at the end of June the number had fallen to 38 585.

HR - strategy

Focus on increasing efficiency and Generation Z - this is how Zsuzsanna Kiss, HR Director of Marriott 4 Budapest hotels, saw the year

Change management, integrating foreign workers, reducing staff turnover, making operations more efficient - all were among the challenges for 2024. And the focus for next year will be on intensive development, said Zsuzsanna Kiss, Marriott Multi-property Director of Human Resources, in our year-end HR Leadership Series.

The heroic leader is a thing of the past. What is the ideal leader today?

What is the ideal leader like in today's world? Is there one at all? Why are leaders not superheroes? How are expectations evolving, why is self-awareness becoming more important and why is it a turning point when the percentage of women leaders reaches 30%? We spoke to Barbara Stöttinger, Dean of the Leadership Academy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).

Leadership styles

There are many different categorisations of leadership style. These are rarely found in isolation, but more often in some combination. Here are the ten most common types. Which one does your boss fall into or which ones suit him?

I am a solution-focused person: interview with Zoltán Bán, the new HR Director of MOL

"My aim is to bring the learning approach into the bloodstream, to form a learning organisation" - Zoltán Bán, HR Director of MOL Hungary, who took office in March this year, told HR Portal. He said that he fully identifies with their employer branding message and he is also thinking in solutions. We also asked him what he thinks about the situation of succession, the cooperation between generations in the company, where the average age is 40, and where digitalisation is at.

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The missing knowledge must be provided at the workplace - this is how Mária Szüle, HR manager at BMW's Debrecen plant, saw the year

The recruitment team had to cope with a rapid and large-scale expansion: 100 dual students, its own health centre, summer camps for employees' children, in-house training to fill missing skills and qualifications. In our end-of-year HR Leadership series, we asked Mária Szüle, HR Director of the BMW Group's Debrecen plant, about what happened at BMW this year and what is planned for next year.

The heroic leader is a thing of the past. What is the ideal leader today?

What is the ideal leader like in today's world? Is there one at all? Why are leaders not superheroes? How are expectations evolving, why is self-awareness becoming more important and why is it a turning point when the percentage of women leaders reaches 30%? We spoke to Barbara Stöttinger, Dean of the Leadership Academy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).

Leadership styles

There are many different categorisations of leadership style. These are rarely found in isolation, but more often in some combination. Here are the ten most common types. Which one does your boss fall into or which ones suit him?

I am a solution-focused person: interview with Zoltán Bán, the new HR Director of MOL

"My aim is to bring the learning approach into the bloodstream, to form a learning organisation" - Zoltán Bán, HR Director of MOL Hungary, who took office in March this year, told HR Portal. He said that he fully identifies with their employer branding message and he is also thinking in solutions. We also asked him what he thinks about the situation of succession, the cooperation between generations in the company, where the average age is 40, and where digitalisation is at.

Performance evaluation

Privacy, good atmosphere, supportive environment - these are Hungary's most attractive workplaces

In addition to a basic salary, privacy and a supportive and supportive environment are important when choosing a job, according to the eighth edition of PwC's Labour Market Preference Survey. Almost a third of workers plan to change jobs in the next year. The Most Attractive Workplace of the Year Award went to Mercedes-Benz.

Mr. Irrelevant and co: what can HR learn from the American football job fair?

What HR professionals can learn from the world's most watched job fair, the NFL Draft at the end of April, when American football teams select their top college recruits. The weakest club gets first pick. The last player standing is named Mr. Irrelevant. In the past, he has had more than one career. Written by István Tamás Papp, HR expert.

Generation Xers know: if you don't learn, you're finished

Age discrimination has always been a problem in the labour market, but the coincidence of mass redundancies, economic uncertainty and rapid technological change is particularly affecting Generation X.

Is the beginning of the year a time for redundancies?

While the rate of resignations at the beginning of the year can vary, in many companies 25 per cent of resignations occur during this period, after the payment of year-end bonuses, according to a summary by Comline Budapest, one of the largest training companies based in Hungary. In most cases there are several factors behind a termination, but the beginning of the year is the real job-changing season in most industries. Fatigue from previous years, inadequate year-end recognition - whether in the form of a bonus or just a 'good word' - or rethinking career paths and goals can be behind resignations.

Telework

Monday to Friday in the office - like the "good old days"?

Is the mandatory return to the office a form of "quiet dismissal"? Working from home is so valuable to employees that they may even perceive the measure as a pay cut. At Amazon, it was announced in mid-September that all employees would have to return to the office full-time. Many companies have moved in this direction recently, the question is how will the trend continue? What can help flexible working to work effectively. Diána Ehlers, member of the Hungarian Telework Association, thought further about the developments.

Recruitment advantage if a company can offer a home office

What are the challenges facing HR and recruitment? Do we need a special mindset for Generation Z? Is a female leadership quota in companies a good thing? These and similar professional questions were discussed at the recruiTECH recruitment conference by Magda Bába-Szabó, HR Director of Generali Biztosító and Anett Bognár, HR Manager of KPMG Delivery Network with recruitment expert Gábor Toldi.

More and more companies are deciding to eliminate the home office

While on average 22% of workers in the EU work from home or in hybrid working arrangements, the figure is only 10% in the EU.

The 4-day summer working week at PwC is coming, but you have to work late

Another 4-day working week project! 280 employees of PwC Hungary's audit business will work from Monday to Thursday over the three summer months. True, there are no free 13 Fridays off. The 104 hours will have to be worked off later, when the workload is heavier.

HR - strategy

The heroic leader is a thing of the past. What is the ideal leader today?

What is the ideal leader like in today's world? Is there one at all? Why are leaders not superheroes? How are expectations evolving, why is self-awareness becoming more important and why is it a turning point when the percentage of women leaders reaches 30%? We spoke to Barbara Stöttinger, Dean of the Leadership Academy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).

The missing knowledge must be provided at the workplace - this is how Mária Szüle, HR manager at BMW's Debrecen plant, saw the year

The recruitment team had to cope with a rapid and large-scale expansion: 100 dual students, its own health centre, summer camps for employees' children, in-house training to fill missing skills and qualifications. In our end-of-year HR Leadership series, we asked Mária Szüle, HR Director of the BMW Group's Debrecen plant, about what happened at BMW this year and what is planned for next year.

Leadership styles

There are many different categorisations of leadership style. These are rarely found in isolation, but more often in some combination. Here are the ten most common types. Which one does your boss fall into or which ones suit him?

I am a solution-focused person: interview with Zoltán Bán, the new HR Director of MOL

"My aim is to bring the learning approach into the bloodstream, to form a learning organisation" - Zoltán Bán, HR Director of MOL Hungary, who took office in March this year, told HR Portal. He said that he fully identifies with their employer branding message and he is also thinking in solutions. We also asked him what he thinks about the situation of succession, the cooperation between generations in the company, where the average age is 40, and where digitalisation is at.

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