Abstract: The objective of a firm is to maximize wealth for stakeholders and to manage the relationship between leadership and technology, which is the key to developing and increasing organization efficiency. While balanced scorecards are used in many corporations to evaluate performance, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is widely used in organizations to increase competitive advantage and differentiate from competitors. This research provides factors which enable organizations to understand the importance of ICT and best utilize it to support their business. Therefore, organizational culture and leadership are the primary focal points of this research. A questionnaire was developed to collect information about the relationship among culture, leadership, ICT and organization efficiency. This research adopts multiple linear regressions as a statistical tool to analyse the collected data. The results shown that culture and leadership have no direct impact on ICT, but ICT impacts org

• Publication Date: 26-Oct-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-032-3-124
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Abstract: The EU Cohesion Policy is influencing behaviour of many companies in EU. According to the Europe 2020 strategy should the EU policies improve competitiveness of companies within EU and improve employment. The research question of this research concern what type of training highly improves employment in companies. The research is done on the European Social Fund assistance in the Czech companies within 2008 – 2011. The results show that training in internationally certified fields have highest impact on employment. On the contrary, soft skills training have only marginal effect, or even negative.

• Publication Date: 26-Oct-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-032-3-123
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