Research background: The production and use of energy satisfies human needs, but also gives rise to a host of adverse environmental pressures, such as air pollution and waste generation. The issue of energy efficiency and climate chance resonates in the energy sector as one of the main producers of green-house gas emissions (GHG). While the European Union in general is doing well in reducing emissions and increasing the share of renewables, unfortunately, there are countries that are still far from reaching their goal. Purpose of the article: The paper is focused on the quantitative assessment of the link between the economic growth of the energy sector and the production of GHG emissions by the energy sector in V4 countries during the period 1995–2016. For this purpose, decoupling analysis will be realized. Methods: The decoupling of economic growth and the environmental pressures caused by this growth has a rich tradition within the sustainable development literature. The decoupling method was chosen for its ability to link economic and environmental indicators. Decoupling elasticity will be calculated with the aim of assessing the relationship between the economic growth of the energy sector (measured in GVA) and GHG emissions produced by the energy sector in V4 countries within the research period. Decoupling elasticity indicates different forms of the decoupling and coupling of the two variables. Findings & Value added: The results of the analysis suggest the prevailing strong decoupling of the economic growth of the energy sector and GHG emissions produced by the energy sector, which can be considered a positive trend. The findings of this paper are relevant for the government, state and public institutions and stakeholders in general, who play important roles in the preparation of programs, projects and policies to make energy generation, transport and use more efficient and environmentally sustainable.

Dynamic social and economic changes have created the need for the application of innovative teaching and learning techniques and approaches that would develop students' divergent thinking (problem solving ability) and mobilize their creative potential. Creativity becomes one of the basic managerial competencies. Therefore, managerial (higher) education is oriented to the creativity integration into teaching practice. The aim of this study is to examine students' perception of creativity enhancing activities, games and techniques applied on the on the course "Creative methods in management and managerial games (CMM&MG)" (part of the Master's curriculum at the Faculty of Management, University of Presov) which is primarily focused on the creative methods and techniques applicable in management practice. Primary data collection was conducted through a questionnaire survey among students attending the course in four consecutive academic years. Factor analysis was used for reduction of large set of observed variables. In the context of reduced factors, the attention was focused on the extracted factor "attractiveness of management techniques applied on the CMM&MG course". We found a strong correlation between items/variables within a factor of "attractiveness of management techniques applied on the CMM&MG course". Whereas the results showed a positive perception of the creative methods and techniques applied on the CMM&MG course, we consider the current setting of course to be correct and we believe that courses (developing creativity, divergent and convergent thinking) designed in this way are useful.

The presented paper deals with the regionalization of the electoral support of the Czech Pirate Party (Pirates) in regional elections using methods and techniques of spatial data analysis. The aim is to answer the question whether the territorial distribution of Pirate electoral support allows this party to participate in governance at the regional level and thus influence the form of regional policy in individual regions. The results of the analysis show that the spatial distribution of Pirates’ electoral support in regional elections differed quite significantly not only from the pattern found in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament and elections to the European Parliament, but also between individual regional elections. This suggests the current lack of anchorage of Pirates’ electoral support in regional politics, but at the same time, it may have its origins in the second-order character of regional elections and the candidacy of many local and regional entities in regional elections. On the other hand, the results of the regional elections in 2020 meant that the Pirates received seats in all regional councils, but especially in nine of the thirteen regions they joined the regional government (similarly to two years earlier when they joined government of capital city of Prague), gaining the opportunity to influence, with regard to its priorities, the form of regional governance in most Czech regions.

The political cycle and its impact of economy is usually monitored at the macroeconomic level. Nonetheless, abroad studies are emerging which analyzed the impact of the political cycle on economy on the level of territorial self-government. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the impact of the political cycle on  the financial management of municipalities on  a sample of 69 district towns in Slovak Republic in time period 2007-2017. The results point that to significant heterogeneity, whether at the level of individual towns or when comparing the results for individual years. As a result of the differences observed at the level of the political cycles, we analyzed the differences between the results in each year of each political cycle through CV-TOPSIS method. The financial management of the analyzed towns are very diverse and the increase of town´s expenditures is not always linked to the political cycle.

The claim that human resources or human capital is the most important and valuable asset of organizations is widespread and widely accepted. For this reason, one of the biggest challenges for organizations is to find the right employees with the necessary skills, high potential, and talent. However, the challenge for organizations is not only to find, but also to retain and to use the potential of talented employees. The main aim of this study is to identify the HRM practices which most significantly affect the retention and commitment of talented employees. Based on factor analysis, individual factors of HRM practices were identified. Through canonical analysis, the relationships between the identified factors of HRM practices, talent retention (the intention of talented employees to remain in the organization), and the organizational commitment of talented employees were identified. One of the most important results of the study is the identification of human resource management practices that are most strongly associated with talent retention and commitment.

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Introduction. The result of the global financial crisis is the process of transformation of banking supervision aimed at increasing the efficiency of banking risk management and improving mechanisms for dealing with various risk factors. The transformation of the banking surveillance system in the global aspect has defined a set of measures which are constantly monitored by international regulators. The improvement the supervisory methodology is mainly governed by the recommendations of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and currently involves introduction of new standards and approaches to regulating and supervising banks based on risk diversification, development of regulations and prompt application of measures to influence banks activities in case of excessive risk build up and increasing threats to the realization of systemic risk, implementation of internal control recommendations at banks aimed at identifying and minimizing the aggregate level of their risk, improvement of analytical rules and procedures and agreeing on intra-bank risk assessment techniques. Purpose. This paper presents the results of the possibility of using the cluster approach in the process of investigating the relationship between the ownership structure and risk profile of Ukrainian banks and, on this basis, improving their supervision.