The agricultural production and agro-industrial sector are two major industries, the performance of which has an impact on the living standard of the population in different countries. The high quality of production in the agro-industrial sector determines both the availability of food for the population and the food security of the country. Taking into account that the most developed countries and countries with the transitive economy have already overcome the problem of food deficiency, and that still this problem exists in developing countries, this article suggests using a traditional tool for the quality management (Deming Cycle or PDCA), complemented by a strategically oriented approach. The main findings of the article are as follows: Firstly, the problem of food sufficiency is solved in the global economy in a different way; the majority of population in developing countries does not have access to good quality food. This has a negative impact on their vital activities, as well as on the overall socioeconomic development of such countries; Secondly, the use of complicated management tools for steadily improvement of the production quality in the agro-industrial sector of developing countries is not always feasible from scientific and practical points of view. The complication of the tools does not involve the solution of the problem; Thirdly, a traditional quality management tool, known as the Deming Cycle or PDCA, has a significant potential for use even now. This article provides a strategic approach to the use of the Deming Cycle (PDCA) to solve the problem of deficiency and low availability of good quality food supplies in developing countries.
Language and culture co-study issues have a permanent tendency to be interpreted from the view point of socio-cultural competence. In this regard, a foreign language teacher faces the problem of creating pedagogical conditions for the effective development of linguistic and socio-cultural competencies of students in order to acquire the ability to use a foreign language in the process of intercultural communication. As one of the ways to solve this problem, the authors of the article suggest using authentic proverbial material in the process of teaching a foreign language. The authors believe that the national culture and modern language trends are most fully and vividly manifested in the paremiological units of the language, which include Proverbs and anti-Proverbs. Their use at different stages of learning a foreign language will become an additional source of background knowledge about the country of a target language and contribute to the evaluation of students’ language and speaking skills. With the help of experimental and diagnostic training, the authors are trying to prove and justify the effectiveness of using authentic proverbial material in the process of teaching a foreign language to secondary school students of the 9th grade. The analysis of empirical data has shown that indicators of socio-cultural and linguistic competence development are the abilities of students to interpret adequately background information and use a set of language tools for intercultural communication. Participants of experimental diagnostic testing objectively improved the indicators of the level of training and demonstrated the abitity to use background knowledge fluently.
Saturation of developed markets opens opportunities for food retailers to enter emerging markets. Due to this, there is active expansion of the largest network retailers of international level in emerging markets. Like in many emerging markets, modern formats of trade have been developed in Russia, such as supermarkets and hypermarkets. The major purpose of this article is to substantiate the practical value of the EVA concept in assessing the performance of food retailing enterprises. Quantitative methods of analysis of industry sectors and enterprises are applied to identify the trends in development of the Russian FMCG (Fast-moving consumer goods) retail market. Scientific value of the work lies in the development of the method for assessing the economic EVA profit, which was applied in practical assessment of performance of food retailing enterprises. The results obtained during the study revealed that only three of the five companies under study use the owners' invested funds efficiently. The other two large FMCG retailers use investment capital inefficiently, which has led to a drop in the market value of the enterprises. Practice of international companies that apply such an indicator as EVA to assess their performance indicates the expediency of its calculation in the assessment of the investment of network retailers in expanding the commodity-producing infrastructure in emerging markets.
The aim of this article is to describe, explain and understand the problems of effective state ownership administration in modern Russia. The author discusses the need of qualitative institutional transformations in the system of state ownership management due to modern conditions of innovative processes in the economic system. The main direction of the state policy concerning the implementation of state ownership administration (including the current process of privatization) is qualitative improvement of public administration. The overview of Russian experience in active introduction of results-based management into the authorities' activities has revealed a negative concern in the existing management system: introduced productivity indicators are generally used as the instrument of control or reporting instead of management. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an effective monitoring and evaluation system of state ownership administration that can promote remedial action for the weak elements of the civil service management system.
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